A Down syndrome diagnosis is not a reason for abortion. The lives of all children are precious, regardless of disability. We must end the normalization of abortion after fetal testing.
Discussing abortion as if it’s the right of a mother is the wrong conversation. I’d like to tell you a story about how I became “pro life”
If you’re not an active pro abortionist & are passively pro choice, hopefully, this post is for you.
Growing up I was passively pro choice. I knew it was never going to be for me, but I believed the hype that it doesn’t affect me, so it’s not my fight.
My mind was drastically changed in 2020. I married my lovely wife Ashley in 2019. We decided to have our first child together right away. It took a couple months but eventually we got it right. At the beginning of the “pandemic” we were delighted to find out my wife was carrying our daughter, Rylianne.
7 months in, my wife wasn’t feeling good. She felt pain all around her body when she was moving around. She was struggling to use the restroom & she rapidly gained a bunch of weight.
She drove herself to the hospital & I met her there. They quickly brought her in, checked her blood pressure 250/150. That’s… really high. The nurse pulled out the Ultra sound gear, and put it to her belly.
Silence…..is all we heard. For minutes that felt like an eternity, she searched for the heartbeat of our daughter to no avail. I’ll never forget the look Ash gave me. It was a hopeless plea, as if I could reassure her… tell her everything will be ok, that our daughter is fine.
We sat there, holding hands, coming to grips with the fact that we had lost our daughter. There was nothing I could do to help.
Turns out Ash developed HELLP syndrome, the advanced stage of pre eclampsia. Days later after the Dr’s stabilized Ash, she gave birth to our stillborn daughter.
We held her, told her we loved her, and that we’ll see her in the next life. The wound in my heart created that day may never heal. To this day it still hurts, but I have learned to deal with the pain.
My point in telling you this is that I know my daughter was alive. She kicked, she listened, and for the short time she was here on this earth, she felt the love and warmth from my wife while residing in her womb.
I can now, never deny the humanity of those residing in the womb. The zinc spark at fertilization, is the first sign of life we can detect. I believe that’s when we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights that we, as a good and moral people, should absolutely recognize. They’re humans, and we should treat them as such, because not all of us can make it long enough to withstand the world outside the womb.
Since the 1960’s when abortions have become legal, over 3,000 babies are terminated daily. A genocide that we can’t see, that we can’t hear because the crying souls of the babies have no ability to speak for themselves. Somebody should. We should.
For a happy ending to this dreadful story, my wife and I were able to try again. We were blessed to be granted the ability & opportunity to have another child, & I thank God everyday for that.
Raylan was born in 2022. Ash once again developed HELLP syndrome but this time, we caught it. Raylan was born a bit early but at 5lbs 5oz & healthy, we couldn’t be happier.
The only way to change this debate about pro choice or pro life, is to recognize when human rights begin, and it begins at fertilization. That’s when we should recognize the right to life we all enjoy today. That’s the only way to save 3,000 American lives that get aborted daily.
God Bless You All & God Bless America
*below is the photo of Rylianne’s nursery she never got to use. A hopeful dream that never came to fruition.
Funny thing about armored bulldozers. The Army has them too. In 2003 a village just south of Balad, Iraq managed to put an RPG through one of our Bradley’s & kill SSG Panchot. They had been a constant problem, but this was the final straw.
In response, we triple stranded their village, placed concrete barriers everywhere, fougassed the fields to deny concealment, & called for all of the village Sheikhs to sign an agreement to keep control of their people. The ones who didn’t, we gave 10 minutes to collect their belongings & bulldozed their house. That village never attempted an ambush again.
Don’t worry, we consulted JAG first & Rumsfeld signed off on it.
Since it’s Killdozer day, it sparked a memory.
The Media Only Loves Us When We’re Dead: Part II
I’m not done with this "reporter" yet. And I won’t stay silent while the media drags warfighters who bled for this nation and are now trying to make it better.
I’ll be honest, I’m ashamed I didn’t look deeper into the story of @SeanParnellUSA sooner. The GWOT cuts too close to my own scars, so I looked away from the broader history. But not anymore.
Media scrutiny isn’t new. Even George Washington was mocked in print. But the latest attacks on Sean Parnell say far more about the press than they do about him.
So pause and remember where you were on June 10, 2006.
1. The most popular song was Hips Don’t Lie.
2. The top movie was Cars.
3. And Sean Parnell was leading 39 men through a mountain ambush by over 250 enemy fighters. He was wounded three times, and stayed in the fight. By the end of that deployment, 85% of his platoon had been wounded.
Funny how you only get one Purple Heart for taking three hits in one battle, but a thousand paper cuts from the press for doing nothing wrong.
So let me get this straight: guys like him are good enough to fight your wars, bury their friends, and carry the silence of it all for the rest of their lives, but not good enough to help fix the institutions that failed them?
Who better than them?
You think you're criticizing one man. But behind every name you recognize is a platoon’s worth of warriors you never will. Quiet. Steady. Carrying the same resolve that got them all home. And whether you realize it or not, the hopes of a generation of warfighters rest quietly on his and @PeteHegseth's shoulders.
You forget: the fire that forged these men didn’t burn them up, it tempered them. And here’s the part you never seem to learn:
If you keep mocking the warriors who came home and tried to lead, don’t act surprised when fewer of them show up next time. Why would they?
Or maybe that’s the media's goal? But it won't work.
Because in this country, it seems the only time the media honors them... is when they’re coming home in a box draped in the American Flag.
***Please share this widely to counter the harmful "media" narratives that exist to malign warfighters who bled in battle and are trying to make a difference.***
Reminder: The Economist’s new DC Bureau Chief @shashj has not only pissed off half of NATO with his anti-western race baiting. He also managed to piss off India’s defense minister.
@SergioGor, can we please pull this hack’s visa before he ignites another international incident?
🚨BIG UPDATE🚨
After fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, Karmelo Anthony tossed the knife and tried to blend in with a group of people, and then fled the scene, according to prosecutors.
Austin Metcalf’s final words were “I’ve been stabbed” and he fell down the bleacher steps.
Austin’s brother Hunter rushed to his aid.
In the opening statement, Bill Wirskye Collin County First Asst. District Attorney told the jury the knife Anthony brought was prohibited.
Wirskye also said, “This case has nothing to do with race, this case has nothing to do with self defense…The facts of this case are simple, there are as simple as this killing was senseless…That video tells the story, that video shows the murder, then you’re going to hear from numerous eyewitnesses who were there.”