Norma McCorvey, or "Jane Roe" of Roe v Wade

Most people know that Roe v Wade is the case that legalized abortion. Some people know the details of the case, and even fewer know anything about the woman named "Jane Roe" who made the case happen. "Jane Roe" is a woman named Norma McCorvey. I read her book Won By Love a few years ago, and right now I'm in the middle of I Am Roe. Both are incredible reads, but I don't think one should be read without the other. I would definitely recommend them. The life of the woman who became "Roe" is really remarkable, and something that should be taken into account when looking at the abortion movement as a whole.

Definitely go read the books. McCorvey's life is heartbreaking at times; she needed the love of Christ but could only find drugs, alcohol, and one night stands. Won By Love tells of how she came face-to-face with the love that she desired, and in the most unlikely place imaginable: the young daughter of a pro-life advocate who worked next door to McCorvey's abortion clinic. Through the love offered by the people who should be her worst enemy, McCorvey met Christ and eventually became pro-life. I don't think I've ever read a more moving testimony of God working in someone's life.

One Third.

"At current rates, nearly one third of American women will have an abortion." That's four women in this Starbucks.

That was the final push I needed to finish chapter 1. It's about 5 pages long and desperately in need of a title and a good edit, but it's done. So much love is needed in this broken world, I pray God will use this chapter to help.

Unashamed Narrow-Mindedness

Urge Me Not to Use Moderation!

This was originally posted in April, 2011 on http://beccafrench.tumblr.com/post/4298250320/urge-me-not-to-yse-moderation. 

From “For Immediate Abolition” by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, addressing slavery. 

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not a cause for severity? I will be as harsh as the truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her baby from the fire into which it has fallen—but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.” 

Urge me not to use moderation when speaking of the murder of 115,000 children a day. 

Urge me not to use moderation when speaking of the devastation of 115,000 mothers’ and families’ lives a day. 

Urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. 

Abortion ended another 115,000 innocent lives today, and devastated even more. Will you be a voice? 

(Cite: Biblical Worldview Rhetoric I, by Shauna K. Howat)