Planned Parenthood ~ Vision 2025

I don't go to the planned parenthood website too often because it just makes me angry... but here is a list of their goals, I think it is good to know what their intentions are. The following sugar coated goals will have very deadly implications if they are met.

Vision 2025 ~ Goals

1. Planned Parenthood will ensure that sexuality is understood as an essential, lifelong aspect of being human and that it is celebrated with respect, openness, and mutuality.
2. Planned Parenthood will ensure access to reproductive and sexual health care for all.
3. Planned Parenthood will secure passage of laws and policies, including state and federal constitutional amendments, that guarantee reproductive freedom for all.
4. Planned Parenthood will ensure worldwide implementation of a human rights and well-being agenda as currently expressed in the Cairo Agreement, with the U.S. fulfilling its financial commitment and implementing those principles in the U.S.
5. Planned Parenthood will control a successful, diversified media company that creates and distributes the most popular, critically acclaimed health and sexuality programming.
6. Planned Parenthood will be the model for embracing diversity and expanding the decision-making power base of its stakeholders.
7. Planned Parenthood will be a significant catalyst for the development and universal dissemination of new reproductive technologies.
8. Planned Parenthood will be an authoritative voice on bioethical standards related to reproductive health and sexuality.
9. Planned Parenthood will build the largest donor and citizen activist base of any social movement in this country.
10. Planned Parenthood will be acknowledged as one of the 10 best places to work and volunteer.

“What happened to our respect for life?”

Wichita, Kansas—On June 23rd, as stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the floor of a convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman, police said.

The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.

"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."

…It took about two minutes for someone to call 911, he said.

Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.

…The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.

It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car accident.

Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams told the newspaper…"This is just appalling, I could continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"

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Frankly, though this is very sad—I am not too surprised that the shoppers stepped over her—this is the kind of world that we live in today. People do not value life anymore. Just look at how our mainstream culture has found it a woman’s “right” to abort her innocent unborn child—and the rest of us just stand by in silence as 400 humans are sucked from their mother’s womb everyday in the USA-land of the free, home of the brave. It sounds graphic but it is true. We should all be ashamed.

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "
~ Mother Teresa

Happy 59th Birthday to the Legionaries of Christ!

I was just reading from the book Christ is My Life – an interview with Fr. Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi. I have been reading this book off and on for about four months (I am a slow reader).

Anyway, it just so happens that today I was reading about the granting of the nihil obstat to the movement (the Catholic Churches “stamp of approval”). After being granted the nihil obstat Fr. Macial recalls:

"Overjoyed, I returned to Spain and from there traveled to Mexico to speak with the new bishop of Cuernavaca… His excellency and I decided to go ahead with the canonical establishment and scheduled it for June 29, the feast of St. Peter and St. Paul. On Sunday June 13, while celebrating the Eucharist, I received a strong motion from God to do the canonical establishment that very day. I spoke with His Excellency, who agreed on condition we had an official Latin version of the Document of Establishment. The apostolic protonotary of the Archdiocese of Mexico City…very kindly helped me write out the Latin document even though he was in bed with a fever. Once we had fulfilled this requirement, that evening (Sunday, June 13, 1948) the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ was juridically born. Up to then we were nothing in the Church. Then and there a new religious congregation was born in the Church. I made my religious vows in presence of Bishop Espino y Silva. He then named me general superior of the congregation, and gave me authority to name the general council and receive the vows of the members."

What a special gift! Previously ignorant of this day- Our Lord had me read this beautiful story of the movement's birth---on it’s birthday!

I couldn't help but laugh...

Thoughts during Adoration

If a person is truly passing on the love of Christ to those around them, then also will they pass the desire of turning away from sin to face the Gospel Truth. Accepting the Truth is never easy because it requires us to look at ourselves and recognise where we fall short and where it is necessary for us to change. When we are at a crossing point where we see truth and recognise it as such--but refuse to change, we will make no progress towards Christ. This refusal is very painful for the soul. Therefore, successfully sharing Christ with a person who is in need of change (and most of us are) should begin them on a journey of sacrificing and reforming their lives to reflect the Truth of Christ.

Bird of Paradise

This bird is funny...

My pet chicken

I have a pet chicken. She has turned out to be a wonderful pet...

"Why do you have a chicken?"

Good question, I thought you might ask me that. Well- a few years ago my grandparents introduced me to a documentary called "The Natural History of the Chicken." It was very interesting and uncovered many injustices of the chicken industry in the US. Aside from that- there was a woman featured in the movie who had a chicken for a pet. It was a beautiful white Silkie Bantam and she dressed her pet in a diaper so that it was able to walk freely around the house. This tickled my interest. Ever since I watched this movie, I thought that it would be fun to have a pet chicken.

So last spring my desire to have a chicken grew and grew. I found myself going to farm stores on my lunch breaks in search of a Silkie chicken. I told Andrew that I wanted a chicken. He didn't get it and looked at me as though I were crazy. "Where are you going to keep it?" he asked. I then pitched the idea of the chicken wearing a diaper and living inside the house with me. Then I knew he thought I was crazy. So that was were my dream ended... or so I thought.

To my surprise, on our one-year anniversary, Andrew had two little chicks waiting for me in my room after we got home from our dinner. I freaked out!! That was the best present! I was so shocked that he got me chickens... I still am. The chickens lived in a box for a while- then Andrew and I built them an indoor chicken coop. Then I discovered a wonderful place called chickendiapers.com This website is awesome! You send in the measurements of your chicken and this lady sews a diaper for you. And the diaper works SO well. With this diaper your chicken can roam freely and their poop falls in this little sack.

In June of 2006, one of my chickies was taken from this world. While grazing in my yard, a hawk took the life of little Agatha = (

Ever since that day, I took the other chicken (Dymphna) under my wing and we have grown so close. She is now almost a year old and lives with Andrew's parents. She comes to my house sometimes for slumber parties though =)

Here is some videos of her: