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For eight years during the 90’s I was one big lactating mass of motherhood.
I started nursing Allison in Jan of 92 and did not stop until eight years later when Andrew turned 3 in the fall of 99.
I have always been a diligent journal writer and some of my best stuff has been written while in the throes of new mother sleep deprivation. Most of the content for my first three books was captured from my personal journals written during those early years mothering my older children. It sort of became a running joke in my journal that I would begin the entry by writing, “I should be washing dishes right now, but I feel like writing.”
I can promise you reader, the dishes did eventually get done, but I am so grateful that I had the focus back then to lay housework aside every once in a while and share what was in my heart in the pages of those journals.
This morning I awoke at four am and found myself feeling the same old tug, to go to the computer and start typing…
When Andy, the baby in the above picture, was three, I weaned him on his third birthday. I had weaned Jeff at the same time and for consistencies sake, decided to stop on September 7th, 1999. Three weeks after the wean I had this burst of emotional, mental, and physical creativity hit my body and mind like a tornado of renewal and force. It was real and I realized how much of my own energy and essence had been invested into my children during those eight years of on demand, baby led, LLL Style, breastfeeding.
As the energy hit the Holy Spirit whispered, “NOW it is time to write Jen”. I had experienced many spiritual promptings during those years that I was supposed to write about Mothering and continually felt frustrated that I did not have the time or energy to write anything more than a few paragraphs every couple of days.
I began with my first book A Mothers Journey. Every morning I would wake up at four am, sneak down to the basement where our family computer was stashed and start typing. I would type for an hour or two until the children woke up and then I would begin my day of mothering. I found that I was able to edit with the family around, but I could not find the mental energy to type unless if it was quiet and I was alone undisturbed…
Thus began my writing adventures. I feel like I should insert here that I am not a writer. I don’t have any training in writing and make many grammatical and speling errors in my books and blog posts. I also don’t have much time for editing and perfecting of books and posts. All of my books, blog posts, and comments on the internet are riddled with typos and a general smashing of the English Language. And my ability to communicate has constantly been questioned by those English Teacher trolls who generally have nothing to add to a debate beyond, “Hey Jenny Hatch, you suck as a writer because you mispeled a word.” I usually ignore these people as a waste of my precious time, but it does get annoying, they seem to think that those of us sharing on the web have to pass some certified test of grammer and syntax and word usage and editing and punctuation!!!!! if we don’t we are somehow not worthy to rite or share our thoughts on the web. Rong! We Mom Bloggers are just as able and willing to add decent web Kontent to the Marketplace of Idears as anyone in the werld.
As the years passed and I found myself engaging more and more on the web, I really questioned the amount of time spent debating, writing, and posting. Was this important? Should I deep clean the bathroom more often? I justified my time spent on these endeavors by thinking about how much my words would have meant to new Mama Jenny Hatch when I was getting started in my mothering. Back in the 80’s I had to spend copious amounts of time at the local library doing research and requesting inter library loaned books to find the information that I was seeking about Natural Mothering.
The web had not been thought of and blogging was a distant dream hidden in shadows. Whenever I typed those heartfelt posts and books, I always thought of the young mom surrounded by medical insanity who was being told to ignore every instinct towards what was natural and healthy by everyone around her. I wrote for her and for her children.
This past summer I took a huge blogging break to spend more precious time with my oldest daughters who were preparing to leave home for College. I had the thought, I will spend more time on my blog when Ben starts third grade. I have invested 22 years into my family and although we had homeschooled him last year, I was determined to “get my day back” and have hours and hours to spend perfecting these little happy homes on the web known as The Natural Family Blog and Blogging Mothers Magazine.
Life sometimes demands something different.
Last week Ben stopped attending our local elementary and is now home. And I once again find myself in the roll of homeschooling Mother. Our local school was not a good fit for him and we lost our slot at the Charter when he pulled out last year. So many conflicting thoughts swirling around in my head. The main thing I find myself mourning is just the luxury of time alone, time to think, time to enjoy the quiet and a less hectic day. Its not like spending time with an eight year old is one big neverending morass of pain and suffering, but it will “rob” me of hours that could have been spent in more creative pursuits, like the ultimate three minute You Tube, or the most hilarious spoof on hospital birth every created that goes viral in less than eight hours, and the most enlightening and inspiring post ever conceived on the joys of Orgasmic Birth.
I can see these posts and videos in the distance….waving at me, but an eight year old needs his mom, and now my boys at Seminary will be walking in the door in about fifteen minutes and they will be wanting breakfast, and a pile of laundry and dishes is calling to me from the corners of the house…..”Jeeeennnnnnyyyy, come wash me, come clean me, come organize me…..” And I have to relagate blogging back to the shadows of my life as I FOCUS on the needs of one of the most precious people in my life.
It is now 6:39 am. Time to stop typing and time to start Mothering. I’ll be back, but no promises about ANYTHING. If I miss a month or two publishing the magazine, or I don’t post for a couple days…you will know that I am helping with a Saxon Math lesson, going on a field trip to the mountains, or visiting a museum with my son. And what I really think about it…who cares if I spend five hours a week blogging instead of fifteen hours or twenty or thirty? How many times can you zing the medicos for the dismal way they do EVERYTHING??? Wether I say it in thirty words or six hundred, the message is the same.
Grab your Sovereignty Mama, and NEVER let it go!
Gotta make some oatmeal….
Last night I gave my audition tape to the director of the Broomfield Choral Festival. I’m trying for the Soprano solo in movement 5 of the Brahms Requiem.
It wasn’t a very professional audition. I hardly rehearsed with my friend Karen who accompanied on the piano, and we only did the first two pages of the Aria. I figured the director is good enough that he could tell whether or not he wanted to hear more from me from those few bars of singing, and I didn’t want to waste his time by auditioning the whole thing.
That solo is six minutes and sixteen seconds long and the soprano soloist carries pretty much the whole movement. I will be thrilled to get the chance to sing it if he asks me to do it. But if not, it felt good to audition for something again. It has been a long time since I tried for any performing opportunities.
Paul and I sang with the Colorado Mormon chorale a couple years ago for the christmas season, and the first year of our marriage in 1988 we sang with the Detroit Mormon Concert Choir. Both were Christmas concerts, my all time favorite music, as all of the music is about BIRTH!! And for this birth junkie, to have the world’s most glorious music written about the Unassisted Birth of the Savior of the world is fun to sing!
The Colorado Chorale did Rutter’s Gloria with the Boulder Brass. I have missed singing with a good quality group these past few years. Not that our ward choir is anything to sneeze at, we do a good job and occasional solos and duets are available, but it is nice to sing with a symphony orchestra something BIG!
I used to torture myself by reading the audition notices every week in the newspaper. I stopped doing that when we went digital and gave up our subscriptions to the local papers. Recently I found myself putting my theatre resume together, and I planned to get a head shot taken and go audition for a group that performs during the day called Imagination Makers.
The Imagination makers professional troupe mostly does shows for local school groups, the pay is good, and it was something I potentially could have fit into my life. But I really want to have another baby, and am hoping to get pregnant this fall, so I put my resume away and told myself “I’ll be back”.
One of the things I learned from theatre in my youth is that even if you don’t get the job, it is always a good thing to audition just for practice, so I have no fear of auditioning for anything. I did not audition for the troupe though as I was pretty sure I could land the job, but I did not want the stress of having to make a decision between baby and acting.
But a choir….now that is something I can fit into my life, especially since the rehearsals and performance are in the next town and I know several of the people in the choir and can carpool. Anyway, it is definitely doing something powerful to my soul to be a part of this requiem right now.
I am experiencing a profound healing of my heart every time I sing it. I went through a nasty cleanse last week, just toxins oozing from my skin. In my prayers
I asked Heavenly Father what was bringing up all this new distress and he said the music was helping me to purge another layer of debris out of my body. While this is never fun, it is always pain with a purpose. I can feel my energy centers harmonizing and balancing as I sing this piece of music. I mean balance in a way that my body has NEVER been balanced before. And I have done loads of energy work to line everything up over the years. There is a balancing power in this music, it is profoundly working its way into my heart and soul and I can feel it opening up a new chapter in my life.
My daughter Michelle captured a few clips from our performance, I am standing in the upper left corner of the group on the end.
MY THOUGHTS ON THE GERMAN REQUIEM:
I know classical music as much as any other amatuer singer. The main type of music I have performed has been classical and Mormon Sacred Music.
I have also performed jazz, barbershop, sang in a couple rock bands (even did some grungy punk in my college days), and I love to sing pop solos and R & B.
I have probably performed Mozart more than anyone other composer over my life span, and was a part of some beautiful classical concerts with my high school and BYU choirs. I have performed portions of the Messiah, contemporary composers etc…
BUT….I have never heard Brahms German Requiem.
This is a mystery to me. How could I get to be 38 years old and never hear this piece of music, never sing a movement from it??
Never read the text???
Never know that it even exists???
I set a goal two weeks ago to listen to the requiem and rehearse it at least once a day. I have not quite made that goal, but I have listened to it almost every day, and I have sung it through about eight times now. I’ve listened to and sung the soprano solo about fifty times. I’m listening to the sixth movement right now as I type.
“DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING???”
This master work of musical art was written for birthing mothers! I am absolutely convinced of it. I am also convinced that a healing energy is contained within the text, music, words, rhythm, creshendo, decreshendo, harmony, use of every musical trick under the sun including fugue, aria, relaxed unhurried delivery, seemingly crazy dynamics, gradually increasing tempo with a final triumphant spitting of the text….an almost nah nah na nah nah…..”Death….WHERE is thy STING????”….ha ha ha, you can’t get me… big ol raspberry right in the eye.
Can’t touch ME! With a final solemn resolution of the text and the music in the 7th movement.
I feel waves of spiritual glory wash over me every time I sing it, every time I listen to it, and every time I think about the message of the text.
When I made the concious decision to put my musical endeavors on hold for a time to focus on being a mother in 1988, it was very difficult to give up the applause. I was addicted to it. Every three months or so I was in a show or musical performance from the time I was a child. Quite often I had parts that were the funny character rolls and I really enjoyed making people laugh.
When I met and married my husband, we decided to jump right into family life and conceived our first daughter soon after our wedding. That first year of our life together was one of the happiest of my life.
I was blissfully happy this year and so excited to be a mother. Just a few short weeks after the birth of our daughter, I found myself in a manic state that gradually evolved into full blown psychosis, where I was hallucinating and awake in a dream state for over a month.
Why did this happen? How could my life have so quickly blown to bits? I have spent 18 years researching psychosis and have come up with about ten different triggers (and I had them all at the same time) for why this happened to me. Sexual Abuse sets the stage and other life factors manipulate the mind…I believe the heart of it was simply sleep deprivation. We moved to another state when our daughter was six weeks old, in the dead of winter, and the stress of the move combined with our relocation to a place where we had no friends conspired to set me up for a complete breakdown. I also had some demons from my past that were haunting me during this vulnerable time.
When the happy and joyful parts of my theatrical life stopped in 1989 and I fell into the abyss of depression after being gang raped in the mental hospital, I determined then that part of the blackness I was feeling was simply from a lack of artistic beauty in my life. (The rapes were so traumatic I had no memory of them for twelve years).
I had become so accustomed to feeling that amazing high mix of adrenaline and performance excitement that to have it just stop was a real bummer. In fact I found myself in a depressed, suicidal state that was about as opposite as any joyful high I had yet experienced in life. That good ol law of opposites kicked in really hard.
I remember this year as the time in my life when I didn’t sing.
I did not realize then that the pinnacle creative artistic moment for any mother was to give birth unhindered and with empowerment alone and in harmony with the glory that is available to all, if they only make the decision to grasp this possibility.
Our bodies were designed in the image of our Heavenly Parents and every time we engage in procreative activities like Sex, Birth, and Breastfeeding exquisite, orgasmic JOY is the potential for every Mother on the planet today.
It is only our ignorance about our bodies and the current lies and assumptions that block us from experiencing this hormonal bliss with our husbands and children. (I read once that the Big Pharma Fraud who convinced millions of women that eating horse piss in the form of Premarin, (Pregnant Mares Urine), would balance their hormones, bragged that he could get the American Mother to eat encapsulated Horse Shit if he had the right marketing campaign)…but I digress.
It’s not like husbands and children stand after a meal and with thunderous applause ask for an encore dessert. So much of a womans life is negativity. “do I really have to eat that??” “where is my dress?” “Mom, you forgot….” “But I don’t want to go to bed…”
What I have learned from mothering my little ones is that I only have those babies with me for an instant and then they are grown and off to their own interests and agendas.
Paul and I have always sung to our babies when they were small. We have a repertoire of about ten favorite lullabys that we have used over the years with our children. A clear favorite of all of the children has been the Angel Lullaby from My Turn on Earth. But they also loved Brahms lullaby as well as a variety of primary songs and hymns that we have used to lull them to sleep.
Benjamin has been unique. He wants the same song every night. Even now, on the nights we sing to him he wants I am a Child of God. He calls it “TCHildofDod” and when he asks for the song, he’ll say really fast, like it is one word “tchildofdod”.
We have this fun exchange that we go through at night. I’ll ask him if he wants a lullaby. He thinks about it for a second, and then he says…”yes”, and I’ll ask him which one he wants, and then he pretends to be thinking, and then really fast he’ll say “tchildofdod.” It is his special song.
My prayer is that after hearing it hundreds of times sung to him while he was in the womb and as an infant and toddler, when he hears it in the future, it will “sing” to his soul and remind him of his parents who love him more than life itself, and would do just about anything to help him and keep him safe.
When I was expecting Benjamin I memorized all of he verses of Come Thou Fount and sang them to him over and over while I was pregnant.
Recently I was editing some film footage online and the acapella version of me singing that song came on the computer. He stopped what he was doing and looked at me, was quiet for a second and then said, “turn it up”, so I did.
He had twinkle come into his eyes and he gently said, “I love Come Thou Fount”. At that moment I knew that his spirit remembered me singing it to him while he was in my womb, and it was a sweet and sacred moment for us to share.
I’ve often wondered if I’ve lost anything precious by giving up a music career in exchange for singing lullabys. At times I have honestly wished for the track I was on with musical theatre. But, those sublime moments with my family! I just don’t know that I would have experienced anything like that performing the great works on the various stages of America. I won’t claim that I have had those highs every day or even every week, but I have had them often enough, and with enough regularity that the dark sides of family life that we have experienced have melted away amidst the joy.
I spend alot of time thinking about Zion. One heart, one mind…
Come with rejoicing and singing unto Zion.
If Joseph Smith did nothing else with his life, simply teaching the Saints about the concept of Zion and teaching them some of the ways to achieve it was one of the crowning achievements of his life. The requiem speaks eloquently about Zion. I once read that Joseph Smith believed the Luther translation of the Bible to be superior to the King James Version.
This is interesting to me considering that Lara Hoggard, who translated the German text in the new 1997 English version of the Requiem (that we are singing at the September 10th concert) claimed that the old English versions were highly inaccurate and he went to great efforts to make the text align with Brahms original german version which was based on the Lutheran Bible.
The text is similar to the King James scriptures that I have studied from my youth….
Here are the King James versions of the lyrics that are used for the text of the Requiem:
Matthew 5:4
Psalm 126:5-6
1 Peter 1:24
James 5: 7-8
1 Peter 1:25
Psalm 39:4-7
Psalm 84:1, 2, 4
And the text from the Soprano Aria:
John 16:22
You now are sorrowful,
grieve not; I will again behold you,
and then your heart shall be joyful,
and your joy shall no one take from you.
Ecclesiastes (sirach) 51:35 -(Aprocryphal text)
I suffered for a little time,
toil and labor were mine,
and I have found, at last, comfort.
Isaiah 66:13
I will give you comfort,
as one whom his own mother comforts.
Hebrews 13:14
1 Corinthians 15:51-54, 55
Revelation 4:11
Revelation 14:13
I have an interpretation of these scriptures that is a little different than some might expect.
First a quick story. I met a woman named Wanda on the internet years ago. She had joined an unassisted birth group looking for information on home birth. She had given birth to two very premature babies and at the time I met her, was on the road to recovery herself, trying to find out why her body had such a difficult time holding on to her babies. She was also suffering from multiple chemical sensitivities and a variety of other horrible symptoms. Wanda was determined to learn what had happened to her and her daughters and make things right.
She investigated all sorts of information and was very open to a variety of healing modalities. When I was in contact with her she was doing various cleansing diets, liver flushes, and had moved all chemicals out of her home and out of her diet. I had shared with her some of the healing miracles I had experienced with Young Living Essential Oils and so she invited me to fly back east to teach a one day seminar on the oils.
We had lots of time to chat before and after the seminar and just before I left we were talking about the prophecies for the end times. I shared with her my view that one of the greatest sorrows families could experience were the betrayals of the Medical Profession. She detailed to me more of what she had felt and experienced with her daughters in NICU care for weeks on end, and the various trials they had experienced as a family. The highly paid monopolistic know nothing conglomerate of drugs and surgery that is practicing on woman and babies all over the world is leaving a damaged residue in its wake. I shared with her my belief that many of Isaiahs prophecies were about modern childbirth.
For example, I told her about Isaiah 54 and 3rd Nephi 22 and how I believed that Isaiah was talking about our generation of women. I shared with her my belief that the “singing that thou dids’t not bear” was for those women who have NOT had to experience Babylonian Chemical birthing. And that those scriptures were talking about mothers who had come to the other side of the babylonian nightmare, had claimed their sovereignty and had moved into joy and singing in Zion…”and then your JOY, NO ONE, NONE shall take from you.”
I missed the first crucial hour with my daughter as they were stitching up my belly and she was sent to the nursery after we had a c-section for a breech presentation. I demanded that they bring her to me the minute I was out of surgery, and immediately latched her onto my breast where she stayed firmly attached for most of the next four days of our hospitalization (I have often thought nursing Ally was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.)
The spirit testified to me then that what I was sharing with her was true. She also felt it, and we rejoiced together. I was not surprised to read an email a few years later announcing the birth of Liberty Love, a third daughter born at home to parents who had shaken free from the bonds and chemical nightmare they had suffered through with two previous precious daughters. Wanda was a mother who had walked the dark paths. And she went seeking, looking for some pearls of wisdom. What did she find? What did she learn? She learned what I did after I also took the time and effort to seek it out….Heavenly Father wants his children to experience exquisite joy and happiness around the births of our children!!!
Since the spiritual witness I experienced when I testified to Wanda about my interpretation of those scriptures, (many of which are part of this Requiem), I have become even more convicted in my heart that the chemicals are killing family life and connectedness. And we will never get to a Zion society if we don’t have some Zion FAMILIES first.
The proper hormonal connectedness opens up a window of opportunity. It lays a firm foundation that if the couple chooses to seize the opportunity, can be a lasting and firm foothold to build a Zion Family where husband and wife are of one heart and one mind.
Conversely, a Babylonian birth where mother is needlessly cut and chemically damaged, baby incarcerated for days, weeks, or months of NICU care, and father expected to pay all the bills has a devastating effect on family life. The strong foundation that is needed to build a fully connected family life is often damaged and broken and I believe contributes heavily to the current divorce rate and drug use of teens.
I sometimes observe mothers who have one child. Some of these women have a very sad countenance, or even look angry. A general feeling of rage is often fuming under the surface of her being, and her husband, if he is still around, sometimes has a spirit of guilt and shame about him. These women, I believe, are heros. When I get in close proximity to these mothers and can feel the hurt, I often wonder…”what the heck did they do to you and your child?”
What caused the fountains of life to dry up in your body, so that you either conciously chose NOT to have any more children, or your body made it impossible for you to conceive because the trauma was so bad?
Conversely, when I am around unassisted birthing mothers the joy that is radiating off of them is palpable. They describe the birth experience as “the most amazing event of my life”, “I would have twenty children if I could”, “babies are the greatest gift of life”, and “that was the most empowering experience I have ever had.”
Also, there is a very real sense of joy and jubilation coming from the baby. They engage my eyes and look so full of light. When I think of these babes compared to the NICU babies who are daily traumetized for weeks on end and have the life sucked right out of them by drugs and needless proceedures, I just weep in my heart for the unnecesary suffering.
As I rehearsed that Aria tonight, and I sang the words…”then your heart shall be joyful, and your joy shall no one, no one take from you.” I just screamed it out..”and then, you joy shall no one, NONE take from you”…and it was real, and it was powerful, and it was hope for the future.
The MAIN reason I got into UC birth was because the hospital staff always took my child away from me at the very moment I wanted to be with them the most. At the very moment of birth, all these busybodies were right in our face pulling on the babe, yanking out my placenta, messing with our bodies, and distracting us from the important and crucial work of CONNECTING.
I know I can fight my way to an undrugged birth in a medical environment. I did it two times. But why should I have too? Why should I be forced to go along with hospital policy, when all I want is to give birth and hold my baby in my arms….and NO ONE TAKE MY JOY FROM ME? And have no one distract me from the happiness that I worked nine long months for, and waited my whole life to do and to be.
The presumptuousness of those professionals who think they know best, The absolute PRIDE and arrogance of those who think they know it all, who think they are God’s gift to humanity, who think they are the all knowing, the all being, Godlike all powerful and all doing. THEY ARE NOTHING!! They KNOW NOTHING!! Just about everything they do is fear based and damaging. They cut families off hormonally right at the beginning of the harmony being a possibility. They shove their drugs into the veins of unsuspecting innocents, they cut and they break, and they damage, and they call it healthy and whole and it IS NOT!!
Taking a baby away from its mother and father causes sorrow. A sorrowful heart is the result of messy chemical births. And for what? Safety? So everyone else can feel comfortable? So the parents can relax and trust and know that all is well in Zion, yea Zion prospereth….and all the while the babes scream and shut down in autistic symptoms because they have NO WAY to cope and process what just happened to them. I know of no better example of “carnal security” than a mother and father who blindly trust the medical profession.
I believe Jesus Christ helped Brahms to write that Requiem to help heal the birthing women of the world. I believe he wrote it because he saw our day, he saw what we would be experiencing and he used the prophetic texts that described our day and proved to us that at some point the insanity would stop and one by one we would find our joy….and our JOY would lead us to Zion….and Zion should be what we as saints are working for and fighting for and living for.
What is the purpose of sealing families together forever if they merely tolerate and hate each other in this life? What is the purpose of teaching our children that family can be forever if we just mess with those connections right from the start? Is it possible that the scripture that talks about the whole earth being wasted at his coming is refering to babylonian birthing which disconnects and traumetizes the family at the very moment they are first getting aquainted?
When mother and child greet each other under a drug induced haze, perhaps that sets the pattern for them not being able to connect unless drugs are involved.
As I said, I believe the Requiem was written for our day, written to help heal the broken hearts, and written to give courage and strength to those families who are seeking for Zion. In the D & C it says that those who are not willing to raise a sword against their neighbors must flee to Zion for safety. And is it possible that the sword being raised against our neighbors is in fact a little knife used to cut open the belly of a mother during a c-section??? PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO FLEE TO ZION and get away from those swords!!!
Perhaps Zion is not so much a city as it is a place where mothers and babies can be bonded gently and naturally together, and instead of hating each other for the first five years of that child’s life, and then just barely tolerating each other for the rest of the time the child is in the home, and fleeing from each other when the child becomes an adult, Zion living is accomplished and enabled by Zion birthing and bonding. And then we sing, then we feel the joy, then we feel the connections, and we start to realize the potentiality of eternal living as happy families.
It takes a braveheart to learn the facts and then act on those truths. Parents who desire the best connectivity with children MUST take the time and effort to learn these facts, and then sorrow will flee. Blessed are they who are sorrowful, for they shall have comfort.
I’m excited to learn the outcome of the audition. I can think of few things I would rather do than sing those words, accompanied by a live orchestra at this particular time in my life. Actually, one thing comes to mind. I would love to give birth to another child more than sing that Aria. But if it be Heavens will, perhaps I can do both!
(NOTE: This post was first published on August 4th, 2006. Many people have been coming in to read this archived post, and today I updated it with new pictures and videos to “freshen it up”. It was one of the posts messed up the last time I was hacked.)
UPDATE: February 23, 2012
Baby Henry is HERE! Last saturday I did a New Family Photo Shoot with one month old Baby Henry! Enjoy.
Original Post:
My friend Jaime was kind enough to say yes when I asked if I could practice doing a photo shoot with her. We spent some time today at her home and various locations around town getting some nice pregnancy photos.
Tonight her husband Eric, who has been our Home Teacher for years, joined in the shoot and shared some of his amazing talent on the video. Thanks Eric and Jaime. So the business is officially launched.
If you need a Photography Doula for your upcoming birth don’t hesitate to contact me early in your pregnancy to schedule a shoot.
I have learned over the years that a great deal of moral confusion exists in the minds of many young Mormon Mommies regarding the whole abortion debate. It is nearly impossible for these pseudo feminists to go to the place in their brains that would require them to accept that a Genocidal Agenda exists around Planned Parenthood and the various Feminists arguments for abortion in our society. Just today Life Site News published an article sharing the fact that Planned Parenthood has claimed credit for “shaping” Obamacare.
January 9, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a recently released report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) claimed credit for helping to “shape” the Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama this past March.
“In the latter half of 2009 – in what will surely be remembered as a pivotal achievement – Planned Parenthood worked with its supporters across the nation to help shape and pass the Affordable Care Act,” wrote PPFA President Cecile Richards and PPFA Chair Valerie McCarthy, in a letter published as part of the organization’s 2009-2010 annual report.
The women credit their organization’s “tireless efforts” with the passage of a law that “expands care to millions of women and protects women’s access to essential reproductive care,” and promise their supporters “a promising new era of health care.”
According to many pro-life activists and religious leaders, however, what the “new era” touted by Richards and McCarthy promises is an end to conscience rights for Christian employers and health care providers, and an outpouring of government funding for abortion.
A 2010 statement released by the National Right to Life Committee details multiple ways that the legislation opened the door to such funding.
Supporters of the law, however, have denied that it allows for government funding of abortion services. In a statement released on the one year anniversary of the law’s passage, PPFA said that it opposes the Act’s abortion-related provisions, and would throw its weight behind an effort to liberalize those provisions still more.
According to Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, the recently released report confirms the need for a renewed effort to completely defund the organization.
“Despite an unprecedented effort by statewide and federal leaders to defund them, a wave of former employees willing to testify against them, and uniform agreement amongst Republican presidential candidates that they should be defunded, Planned Parenthood continues full-steam ahead,” she said in a statement. “They are unwilling to answer to the pro-life American majority that wants out of this business.”
American Taxpayers do not want our money being used to abort the children of America. And we are just one sneeze away from the economic conditions being in place for the government to start calling for forced sterilizations simply because we “can’t afford” the children. I am completely on board with the idea that society cannot afford to fund Single Motherhood. But I would hope that most thinking members of society would take the leap in their own minds and understand that an ideological undercurrent of thought around forced abortions and sterilizations is very much a part of the thinking of those who crafted Obamacare.
The main reason I chose the image of my feet stomping on the UN flag as the LOGO for Blogging Mothers Magazine is because of the UN Population goals of the Globalists. As Mothers we need to understand these issues and then seek for justice for our sisters around the globe, particularly in China, who have been brutalized around their fertility and the births of their babies.
To illustrate the moral confusion of some young moms I share a post from The Blogging Mormon Mom Rixa Freeze and her site Stand and Deliver who attempted to articulate her feelings around the difficult topic of Abortion this past week.
She Said:
Sometimes I come across a topic I want to know more about and start reading everything I can get my hands on. One recent interest was abortion providers. I wanted to learn why someone would choose this line of work given the violence and persecution they face. I first read Suzanne P. Poppema’s book Why I Am an Abortion Doctor, followed by Susan Wicklund’s book This Common Secret: My Journey As an Abortion Doctor. The writing in both books was so-so, but the stories were gripping. During my searching I also read a lecture by Dr. Garson Romalis, also titled Why I am an Abortion Doctor. I just finished the book Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us by Carol Joffe and am still wanting to read more….
…[Deep breath]
I remember reading a book during my graduate student years by a sociologist (or maybe anthropologist?) who spent time with both pro-choice and pro-life groups and explained the worldviews and values of both camps. I can’t remember the title but it was really interesting. Any more recommend readings on this topic?
Note to commenters: Keep it civil and on-topic otherwise I will employ the Almighty Delete Button.
* Dr. Wicklund mentioned that, ironically, one goal of abortion providers is to work themselves out of their job by helping women avoid unwanted/unplanned pregnancies in the first place. But the challenges are immense: lack of access to health care and contraception, partner sabotage of birth control (including threats of violence for using birth control), our hyper-sexualized yet hyper-prudish culture, etc
In the comment section I said:
Wow Rixa,
You are brave.
I am sad that you have drunk the universal health care koolaid. Obamacare is about to unleash a Chinese style of Health Care in America where Mothers are routinely sterilized after one birth and babies will be forced to be aborted. (Murdered).
I thought you would have been smart enough to see that.
The UN has been extremely vocal about their desire to set up the Chinese Model all over the world.
That being said I am all for Early Abortions being safe and secure for those women who have been the victims of rape and incest, as a survivior of both I would like to know that the option was available for others who may have conceived during the assaults. Thankfully I didn’t.
I want to challenge you to conduct some research on the depopulation agendas of the g
lobalists. It would be nice to have your strong voice speaking out for parental rights regarding how many children couples can have.Jenny Hatch
Sorry Jenny Hatch, I totally don’t buy that all. A) “Obamacare” isn’t universal health care and B) it is not at all going to mandate sterilizations or forced abortions. Whoever’s making these claims (Fox News anyone?) is just flat-out wrong.
I am not scared of universal health care and think it would do this country an enormous good by spreading the costs more evenly and allowing everyone access to services. I can say this because I have lived and worked in France and often used health services for the students we were responsible for. I am also married to a Canadian who longs to go back to his home country and have access to its health care system again. In both countries, you can buy into a private option if you wish. But most people stick with the public option. Anyway this is a whole different can of works. Not going there today.
And then I followed up with this comment
Rixa,
Just in case you or any of your readers were interested in learning more, here are a few links:
Underpopulation—The Real Problem
http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/972/underpopulationthe_real_problem.aspx
For those of you who believe this could never happen in the US, it already did:
Depopulation & Eugenics In America With Forced Sterilization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5f01RaUTw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Forum Post: Eugenics, are there people that want you dead?
http://occupywallst.org/forum/euogenics-are-there-people-that-want-you-dead/
quotes from eugenists in their own words:
Quotes by Advocates of Depopulation
http://occupycorporatism.com/?p=2083
Quotes from Eugenists:
If anybody you talk to wonders if there are people who would possibly consider depopulation, here’s a few quotes to throw at them.
“Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind”
Theodore Roosevelt…………………………………………………………………………………………..
“Malthus has been vindicated; reality is finally catching up with Malthus. The Third World is overpopulated, it’s an economic mess, and there’s no way they could get out of it with this fast-growing population. Our philosophy is: back to the village.”
Dr. Arne Schiotz, World Wildlife Fund Director of Conservation, stated such, ironically, in 1984:………………………………………………………………………………………….
“A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
Ted Turner, in an interview with Audubon magazine………………………………………………………………………………………….
“There is a single theme behind all our work–we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it….”
“Our program in El Salvador didn’t work. The infrastructure was not there to support it. There were just too goddamned many people…. To really reduce population, quickly, you have to pull all the males into the fighting and you have to kill significant numbers of fertile age females….” “The quickest way to reduce population is through famine, like in Africa, or through disease like the Black Death….”
Thomas Ferguson, State Department Office of Population Affairs………………………………………………………………………………………………
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill…. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider – Founder and Secretary, respectively, The Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, pgs 104-105, 1991……………………………………………………………………………………………
“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people…. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions.”
Stanford Professor ” Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb…………………………………………………………………………………………….
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it is just as bad not to say it.”
J. Cousteau, 1991 explorer and UNESCO courier………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today” and, “We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox.”
Dave Foreman, Sierra Club and co founder of Earth First!……………………………………………………………………………………………….
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
Mikhail Gorbachev……………………………………………………………………………………………
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991………………………………………………………………………………………………….
“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973.……………………………………………………………………………………………….
“Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries”.
Dr. Henry Kissinger…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac,” and “The elderly are useless eaters”
Dr. Henry Kissinger…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“World population needs to be decreased by 50%”
Dr. Henry Kissinger…………………………………………………………………………………………………….
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world’s population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. We’ve got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. You know, the bird flu’s good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine”
Dr. Eric Pianka University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert, showed solutions for reducing the world’s population to an audience on population control which gave him a standing ovation…………………………………………………………………………………………………
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.”
David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”
Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER…………………………………………………………………………………………………
“In South America, the government of Peru goes door to door pressuring women to be sterilized and they are funded by American tax dollars to do this.”
Mark Earley in The Wrong Kind of Party Christian Post 10/27 2008…………………………………………………………………………………………………..
“Women in the Netherlands who are deemed by the state to be unfit mothers should be sentenced to take contraception for a prescribed period of two years.”
Marjo Van Dijken (author of the bill in the Netherlands) in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/04/humanrights-women………………………………………………………………………………………………
“Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature”
Anonymously commissioned Georgia Guidestones……………………………………………………………………………………………….
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
Prince Phillip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund/WWF……………………………………………………………………………………………….
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club…………………………………………………………………………………………………
“The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes…………………………………………………………………………………………………
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg………………………………………………………………………………………………
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”
Obama’s Science czar John P. Holdren: From a book he helped write ‘Ecoscience’…………………………………………………………………………………………….
“The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining supercapitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control…. Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.”
Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviet UnionPhysicians for life: (site has quite a few links and stories about Obamacare and Abortion)
http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/1763/2/
And one more written by a christian doctor:
THE POPULATION CONTROL AGENDA – DEPOPULATION
http://wesdancin.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/the-population-control-agenda-depopulation/“It was not until I journeyedto Elberton, Georgia, stood within the dark shadows of the great Druid-like monument built there, and read the words engraved on the massive stone pillars of that structure that I finally came to accept the truth. At that point it became obvious that just as our Lord has given mankind Ten Commandments to guide our lives, so, too, those from “the dark side” have been given their instructions from the “one” they worship. The ten programs of the “guides” are inscribed in eight different languages on the four great granite pillars of the American Stonehenge. That message foretells a terrifying future for humanity, and explains why efforts to approach the AIDS epidemic from a logical point of view have been consistently thwarted.
One of the most difficult concepts for Americans to accept is that there are human beings dedicated to coercive population control and genocide. Many readers will acknowledge that our government is helping to finance the Red Chinese program of forced abortion, forced sterilization, infanticide, and control of the numbers of live births. Most readers will accept the fact that our nation is helping to finance the United Nations’ world-wide “family planning program,” a form of population control. Most rational men and women, however, find it impossible to believe that such programs are really part of a “master plan” to kill off large segments of the world’s population. I shall have to admit that I studied the politics of AIDS (HIV disease) for over a decade before I finally came to a horrifying conclusion. The real motivation behind efforts to block utilization of standard public health measures to control further spread of the HIV epidemic was “population control.” That was not an easy concept for me to acknowledge, despite the fact that I had long recognized that the twentieth century has been the bloodiest hundred-year period in all recorded human history.”
Sandi Patti How Great Thou Art
