Jennifer Williams – Indiana Midwife
“A midwife from Bloomington turned herself in to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department Friday afternoon as dozens of her supporters walked the grounds of the Shelby County Courthouse to protest the charges filed against her.”
Please remember, it is never the family who prosecutes these midwives. It is almost always an overzealous licensing board, backed up by the medical association who presses the charges.
Let Freedom Reign….Let Families choose whomever they want to have assist them with their birth. Let all the Midwives out of jail!!!
Jenny Hatch

I am part of the Fellowship of the Unashamed.
The dye has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made.
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
I won’t look back, let up, slow down, or be still.
My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure.
I’m finished and done with low living, small planning, smooth knees,
colorless dreams, tamed visions ,worldly talking, cheap giving and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need pre-eminence, position, promotions, plaudits or popularity. I don’t have to be right, first, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded.
I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk with patience, am uplifted by prayer and labor with power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven.
My road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, divided or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won’t give up, shut up, or let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, and paid up for the cause of Christ. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me.
And when He returns for his own, He will have no problem recognizing me. My Banner will be clear.
My Mom is serving as a Missionary in Korea right now with my Dad, and she sent this to the family. I thought I would share it here.
Jenny Hatch

So sad…
“While most of India’s religions condemn discrimination against women, there are a few temples in the state of Punjab that promise to help bring fewer women into existence. At the Bir Baba Mandir in Amritsar, couples eat flatbread and onions to ensure a boy child.
As a researcher for 20 years on female feticide, conducting field research in the highly educated state of Tamil Nadu, Sabu George says he has some qualms about The Lancet study. In particular, he feels that taking the figures from one year and projecting them backward 20 years just doesn’t square with the facts on the ground.
But while he believes The Lancet study may have exaggerated the number of female abortions in the past 20 years, it also might underestimate the exponential growth of female feticide into the futures.
“This is a much larger problem in the future,” he says. “Without strong pressure by civil society groups, we’ll be seeing 1 million female feticides every year within five years time, definitely.”
Jenny Hatch

Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld
“Stunned, shocked and appalled are American educators as they study the recent report from the National Center of Education Statistics, which reveals that only 31 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it. “It’s really astounding,” said Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association. “That’s not saying much for the remainder,” he added, meaning that 69 percent of our college graduates cannot read at or above a “proficient” level.
Absolutely appalled by the results of the survey was Mark S. Schneider, commissioner of education statistics, who remarked, “The declining impact of education on our adult population was the biggest surprise for us, and we just don’t have a good explanation. What’s disturbing is that the assessment is not designed to test your understanding of Proust, but to test your ability to read labels.”
The Boston Globe (Dec. 26, 2005) explained that the test measured how well adults handled basic reading tasks – such as figuring out costs per ounce of food items, comparing viewpoints on two editorials, and reading prescription labels. Of graduate students tested in 2003, 41 percent were classified as “proficient” in prose – able to read and understand information in short texts – down 10 percent since 1992. As for college graduates, only 31 percent were classified as proficient – compared with 40 percent in 1992. The results were based on a sample of more than 19,000 individuals 16 or older, who were interviewed in their homes. They were asked to read prose, do math, and find facts in documents.
Of course, this writer predicted the decline of literacy in America in my first book on the subject, “The New Illiterates,” published in 1973. In that book, I analyzed the methods of teaching reading in our schools and concluded that children subjected to the prevalent whole-word or look-say method would become reading disabled.
I had also discovered that this teaching method was invented by the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet back in 1830s as a means of teaching the deaf to read at his school in Hartford. He believed that this method could be adapted for use by normal children. And so, it was tried experimentally in the primary schools of Boston in the early 1840s, and the result was massive reading failure. The deaf-teaching method was thrown out of the schools, but was brought back by the progressive educators at the turn of the last century as a means of dumbing down the American people so that they could be easily led to accept socialism as a new way of life.
After confirming the damaging effects of look-say, I created an easy-to-use phonetic reading program for parents so they could teach their children to read at home and avoid the misery and frustration that the public schools were inflicting on millions of children. Thousands of parents took advantage of the program and have had great success in producing highly literate children.
In other words, my work and the work of the Reading Reform Foundation, which advocated a return to phonics in the schools, were available to educators for over 30 years. And, of course, I was not the first to draw attention to the reading problem. Today’s educators, in their self-induced amnesia, forget that Rudolf Flesch wrote his famous book, “Why Johnny Can’t Read” in 1955, a half-century ago! He explained what the problem was and told them how to cure it.
Thus, when educators tell us “we just don’t have a good explanation,” they are lying through their teeth. Not only are they aware of the teaching methods debate, but they do all in their power to keep intensive, systematic phonics out of the schools. And they shamelessly continue to be “puzzled” by the decline of literacy in America.
Having been on the front lines of the “reading war” since 1973, I can state categorically that we are dealing with a liberal-socialist teaching establishment that has its own social and political agenda that it has imposed on public education. Everyone knows that the public schools have been in the hands of the liberal left since the 1930s, and that the politically powerful National Education Association has a radical leftist agenda, which it promotes among teachers and teachers of teachers. The school curriculum, the teaching methods, the philosophy of education they promote is the cause of our literacy decline. And there is no one in state or federal government capable of doing anything about it.
That is why the homeschool movement continues to grow. More and more parents have come to the realization that the public schools are controlled by those who want to impose their social philosophy over the entire nation. It is now called “political correctness,” and it permeates every aspect of our lives.
The need for educational freedom is now greater than ever. A free society cannot survive without it. If you would like to help teach your own children to read at home, you can get my reading program by e-mailing me. And if you would like to join the movement for educational freedom, contact the Alliance for the Separation of School and State.”
Jenny Hatch