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Widening Your Prayer Calm can act as a springboard to the most expansive kind of prayer. Yancey uses the model of Jesus, who prayed in the garden Gethsemane immediately before his trial and crucifixion. He notes that Jesus' first statement is "Let this cup pass from me." Observes Yancey: "He's basically saying, 'Get me out of this!' " Yet he quickly moves into a stage of calm. "By the end of the night, he's the calmest person there. He's told God, 'If this cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done.' " The final stage...
...choice feminism. The slogan “women deserve better choices than abortion” inundates the FFL’s Web site, along with an exhortation to pregnant women: “Abortion is not the only way out: you have choices.” The latter statement links to a manual describing how to legally force the biological father into fulfilling his child support duties, and how to utilize financial assistance programs such as Medicaid and subsidized housing. These proposed solutions fail to seriously address the root economic and social reasons that lead women to seek abortions. Advising...
...Early last month, in response to increased attention garnered by member Sarah Palin’s nomination to the Republican presidential ticket, FFL issued the following statement: “…[W]e are not anti-choice. We are pro-life…” FFL’s positions against not only abortion, but contraception as well. restrict pregnant women’s choices to one: the choice of having a baby. Although FFL wants to pander to both sides of the debate, its absolutist pro-fetus stance makes the choice for women, rather than allowing...
...statement on the state senate floor, Obama explained his rationale for opposing the bill. "Whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal-protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a child, a 9-month-old child that was delivered to term," he said. "That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it would essentially...
...choice groups, because they did not believe it would have any legal impact on abortion availability, which is generally governed by state law. "There was never any federal abortion law," explains Sutherland. "So when they passed that law, it did not change anything. It was just a statement...