Heidi Crawford

[Jelly 果冻糕 @jellyjellycake]

how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??

cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.

goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.

monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???

birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.

there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.

squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.

and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???

your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???

the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.

I’M SORRY?????

we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@AJamesMcCarthy This is Holly...

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@UpTambourine Definitely NOT dumb. Sounds fabulous!!

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@naomirwolf Omg...

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@goneers I agree with you... How about fixing health insurance so that my husband and I don't have to pay over $1000 a month just to have minimal, lousy insurance that covers almost nothing. That would be a good start for me... 😮‍💨

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@SineadWatson91 Bless you!!!!!! 💙

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@DrJoelGator Yeah, but on myself!!! I usually don't even get bites, and now I get them and they itch for weeks!!! 😡

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@WallStreetApes Good grief. 😡

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@Alec_Zeck 😲😲😲

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@doogadoo11 Thank you!!!!

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@Thin_r3d If it was between adopting them and knowing they'd die, millions of women would have taken them! 💔

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@MattInformed Good grief, I had never thought about this issue before now. This is extremely concerning...

[Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner]

Abortion culture paved the way for the Lindsay Clancy phenomenon.

For decades, our culture has taught women a grotesque contradiction: your child’s life is sacred when someone else takes it—but disposable when you decide you don’t want it.

That contradiction has consequences.

A mother can legally abort her unborn child. Yet in many jurisdictions, if someone attacks a pregnant woman and kills her unborn child, that death can be treated as a separate homicide.

Why? If that child is a human life when someone else kills him, he doesn’t magically become less human when his own mother wants him dead.

A life is a life. Its value cannot depend on whether its mother wants it or who is responsible for ending it.

And I think that contradiction helps explain something deeply disturbing about the reaction to Lindsay Clancy.

If Lindsay had strangled three children who belonged to someone else, virtually no one would be romanticizing her, identifying with her, or flooding social media with sympathy for her.

But because they were her children, suddenly people talk as though motherhood gave her some unique claim over the lives she took.

It didn’t.

Cora, Dawson and Callan did not belong to Lindsay Clancy. They were human beings with lives and value entirely separate from hers.

And once a society decides that the most defenseless human beings among us—the preborn—can lose their right to live based on someone else’s wishes, we shouldn’t be shocked when our moral clarity about other vulnerable lives begins to erode too.

The standard has to be consistent:

Children do not become more or less human based on whether they’re wanted.

Their lives do not become more or less valuable based on who kills them.

And motherhood does not confer ownership over a child’s life.

Protect the vulnerable. All of them.

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@Stand_Up_Girl You will never be sorry for having your baby. They are the greatest gift we could ever receive. Please give your baby a chance at life. He or she deserves their life no matter how scary it may seem. 💙💙💙

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@AConcernedPare2 Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@SamFisher10k Mine too. What a horrible thing for a person to do. I could never be friends with anyone who would even consider just abandoning an animal. Please give the kitty a happy home somehow. 💙

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@P1RU Yay!!!! Keep up the good work!! I rescued 2 feral cats and now they won't leave me alone. If I sit still, they're on me. They love to be loved!! 😻

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@thee_goated_one @ZEClinch I have 3 in mine.... Isn't that normal? 😂😂

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@ZEClinch You're probably right. That's a winner there!!

[Heidi Crawford @aerofan87]

@MattDevittWX Oh boy. I can barely keep up now!!! They empty my feeders in no time flat. I'm going through more sugar than a bakery!!