From Love, By Love, For Love

Tatiana, the Catholic athlete. Collehe sophomore, band-geek, runner, ESFJ, indecedive Gryffindor/Hufflepuff, lover of gluten-free everything. AMDG bro.

[oh-hey-catholic-mom-blog]

For the women who want to fight for women’s rights:

Learn about female circumcision (mutilation) here, and how you can fight to stop it.

Learn about forced abortions in America, and how you can help stop them here.

Learn about female homelessness due to domestic violence and how you can help, here.

Learn how you can help female victims of domestic abuse here.

Learn about sex trafficking and how you can help here. –This is an issue close to my heart because I have a sister who is involved in prostitution.

Learn how you can become a mentor for young girls, here.

Learn how you can help victims of sexual abuse who are close to you, here.

– Because change starts at home, it starts in our communities, and with those closest to us. You can flood the streets in giant vagina costumes, waving vulgar signs, and flashing every bit of skin you have in protest, but just like the pro-lifers are always told, “if you’re so worried about abortion, why don’t you adopt”, if you’re so worried about women’s rights, don’t leave it to the government to “fix the problem”. Get out there and do the dirty work. Get your hands in the muck. Go out and spill your blood sweat and tears with the real victims.

[fiftythreecrimes]

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” -Fred Rogers Donate to the ACLU

[micdotcom]

Hundreds rally in NYC to protest Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration

[just-shower-thoughts]

All pro-lifers should be forced to adopt children from the foster care system so they know what it is like to raise an unwanted child

[something-so-magic]

As a person who is pro life and has numerous family members who are foster parents, this pisses me off to no bounds. Most of the children in foster care are still legally connected to a member of their biological family and therefore cannot be adopted. This my mean that their parent is in prison, does not currently make enough money to support themselves and their child, or their sole parent is severely ill and cannot care for them properly. Most children in the foster system live with a foster family for a year, grow attached to their foster parents (while the foster parents get attached to them), and then are forced back into their biological family homes. It’s a very painful and deeply unjust system; therefore why many people don’t want to do it.

Most people would love to adopt, but there is a lack of children to adopt in this country (have you never seen a reality show where the person giving up their child for adoption looks through HUNDREDS of scrapbooks families wanting to adopt) which is why most people adopt out of country (which is insanely expensive.

Thank you all, rant over. Stop bitching about things you don’t know.

[the-pink-owl-deactivated2024082]

This too. Children that would otherwise be aborted are not put into the foster care system unless you abandon them after the fact. Adoption and foster care are not the same thing, and while it’s possible to adopt out of foster care, newborns that are put up for adoption are almost always adopted and will never be in foster care. 

[aubs-of-steel-deactivated201708]

“so they know what it is like to raise an unwanted child”

What the heck. Foster children are not unwanted. 

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Actually the whole tone of this is so messed up because it not only implies the only other option outside of abortion is “raising an unwanted child,” it’s fully admitting these are children that the parent simply didn’t want, yet pro-lifers are the ones who need to be punished for wanting that child kept alive.

I know @just-shower-thoughts is a bot, but whoever first made that statement is really effed up in the head.

[thotpatroleum-deactivated202211]

I think about this stuff a lot. If I got pregnant I don’t know what I would do but abortion would be the last thing I’d want. I’d probably give him or her to my aunt and uncle for a while and if that didn’t work, then foster care. I would not want an abortion.

[shadowfromthestarlight]

i really hate this attitude, too. i would want to be a foster parent. those kids are not worthless to me.

and another point that seems to be missing here is that even if a child is unplanned, the parents often do want it and get excited about it by the time it’s born

[atimeforchoosing]

Thank you @shefellformalfoy.  I wish more people understood the difference between the foster care system and the adoption system.  You explained it perfectly.

[tradinista-blog]

The role of Catholics in fighting police aggression

C. Matthew Hawkins stood frozen with fear as the update crackled through the police car radio: the suspect in question is white and 5-feet, 7-inches tall. Hawkins, now a Catholic seminarian who happens to be 6-feet tall and black, was grateful for the news.

Police aggression is a Christian issue

“Fundamentally the issue of aggressive policing does come down to the value we place on human life,” said Hawkins, a seminarian from the Diocese of Pittsburgh currently studying in Baltimore. 

An African-American who worked as a university professor before entering seminary, Hawkins explained that the question of police aggression and Catholics’ response to it is akin to other questions of dehumanization we face in our society.  

“If you think their lives are expendable and disposable, then you can subscribe to this culture of death, then you don’t become concerned about the high number of unarmed civilians who are dying under contested circumstances.”

[comparsitlaudatio]

If you're pro-life, then you're also obliged to care about police brutality. Defend life from womb to tomb: you better believe that includes this.

[fatcr0w]

Demonstrations are NOT enough

Revisionist history says that everyone in Germany was totally cool with Nazism, but there were over 100k people willing to take to the street to protest the rise of Nazism in Berlin in 1932. 

Even in a time where Nazism was the only platform estimated to bring Germany out of post-war poverty, this many people were willing to stand up against it. 

The Nazis won because this energy was not sustained.

If yesterday was your 1st demonstration, don’t let it be your last! Don’t let it be your only method of resistance!

remember: 

[artisanscribbles]

Also America wants to leave the United Nations now. SO yeah, you may want to call your Reps about that.

Here’s a link to the Bill which was introduced by Rep. Mike D. Rogers:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193

Good luck to you all; My American Followers.

[iwillseethegoodness]

Does anyone have any sources for that anti Nazi march? I can’t find anything about it.

[asoundshift]

The source of the image is the German Federal Archive: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/view/7328568

According to the caption, this was an election rally during the parliamentary elections of the German state of Prussia in 1932 by the Iron Front. The Iron Front was an alliance of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, free trade unions and other various leftist organizations formed in support of the republic and in opposition to the extreme right.

I don’t really think that the energy wasn’t sustained so much as the tactics were ineffective. Notably, there was a lack of unity on the part of the left (sound familiar?) as well as the Iron Front and SPD more generally believing that Nazism would pass and could be defeated through democracy and the rule of the law. They couldn’t or wouldn’t grasp that once in power, the Nazis would just dismantle the democratic system and change the laws. This, more than anything, is not a mistake we can afford to make as well.

Sources:

Bundesarchiv - Picture database: Picture archive (n.d.). Retrieved January 24, 2017, from http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/view/7328568  

Divided they fell: the German left and the rise of Hitler – International Socialism. (2013). Retrieved January 24, 2017, from http://isj.org.uk/divided-they-fell-the-german-left-and-the-rise-of-hitler/  

Stibbe, M. (2013). Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

[ithelpstodream]

[thecatechistchronicles]

Alright I’m sick of this crap from people who have no idea what the HIV outbreak was really caused by. It has NOTHING to do with Planned Parenthood and everything to do with the massive HEROIN use going down here. Besides that Planned Parenthood isn’t the only place that offers free STD testing. We have tons of free and low income health clinics here that provide the same services. If you want the receipt here is the CDC’s report on the HIV epidemic in Indiana.  https://www.cdc.gov/mmWr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6416a4.htm

I don’t care what your political views are, lying to fit your own narrative is wrong and manipulative. Get woke children. 

[and-then-he-melted]

cat goes lol

doggo goes bork

cow goes chaucer-esque verse

[officiallordvetinari]

My name is Cow And in the memes The beests ar all Unlyke it seems

The Cat spekes lol “Bork” Dog has sed And as for Cow

I lik the bred

[ven-gethenian-blog]

This is my favourite meme in YEARS. 

[o-pulcre-facies-deactivated2023]

Compulsively reblogging

[cherrys-acid]

Lets talk about how hard it is to open up to someone about being sad for no reason. Lets talk about how hard it is to explain to your friends and family that you have this heavy feeling in your chest for no reason. Lets talk about how hard it is to understand why you’re having a panic attack while just taking a walk back home. Lets talk about how hard it is to understand your own self and how scary it is to feel like the whole world is falling on your shoulders and you have no idea why .

[autumnhobbit]

Even though 1% of abortions are performed to save the life of the mother, what do you say about this case, as rare as it is? Is it still the right thing to not abort, even if the child will die anyway when the mother does, if it is not yet developed enough to be born before the mother dies?

OK, anon. Here’s my problem with that issue. In almost any medical situation, simply going in and killing the baby will not solve the problem, and that’s what abortion is; going in and killing the child without any other plan in mind. I can understand when a treatment is needed to save the mother’s life, and the child dies as an unfortunate side effect of that treatment; that’s different from abortion. The doctors weren’t /trying/ to kill the child, they were trying to help the mother, and they couldn’t prevent the child’s death. But here’s the thing: every child is ‘just going to die anyway.’ Every human is going to die anyway. That doesn’t make abuse of power okay. The whole point of medical care is to try to preserve human life if at all possible. Just because a toddler will die one day doesn’t make it okay to come into their house and stab them in the brain with scissors or burn them with saline or rip them to shreds with a vaccuum. It’s no more okay when they’re a little younger and a little easier to abuse. Why do we think we should have to pick between helping one or the other? They’re both human beings, both with the inherent dignity therein, both deserving of all the help we can give them, especially in a nation as advanced and prosperous as ours. This question gets thrown around a lot in pro-choice circles, like they think it’s a real ‘gotcha’ question. Like they’re going to somehow corner you into admitting that you care more about an unborn baby than you do about a mother. I can only look at examples in my own life. I know a lady who goes to church with me who has four bitty kids and is pregnant with her fifth. The lining of her uterus is super-thin, and at any moment she could rupture it and die, killing both her and her unborn baby. She’s been unable to deliver her kids naturally, and has endured abuse by family, supposed friends, and medical personnel who think she shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce. But she keeps going, because she loves her kids and believes they’re worth it. When my own mom was miscarrying my sixth sibling, she refused intervention for a week in the hopes of giving our baby every chance to live. Both these mothers love their children, and fought to give them a chance, at the risk of their own lives. No, I don’t believe it’s right to kill a child in the midst of a tragedy.

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

In almost any medical situation, simply going in and killing the baby will not solve the problem, and that’s what abortion is; going in and killing the child without any other plan in mind. I can understand when a treatment is needed to save the mother’s life, and the child dies as an unfortunate side effect of that treatment; that’s different from abortion. The doctors weren’t /trying/ to kill the child, they were trying to help the mother, and they couldn’t prevent the child’s death.

Louder for the people in the back.

Abortion’s end goal is always killing an unborn child, there is no other goal. But treating an illness in the mother, whether it be through a necessary medication or surgery on the mother’s body is ALWAYS moral, even if it indirectly results in the death of the child. Life-threatening Preeclampsia? Deliver the baby, or have an emergency c-section, and try to save baby, even if you know or think your efforts will be fruitless. Ectopic pregnancy? Aside from the fact that these pregnancies usually resolve themselves ie miscarriage, remove the diseased portion of the fallopian tube (it’s NOT an abortion because your goal is NOT to end the life of the baby) 

Furthermore, Dr. C.J. Wallace successfully transplanted an embryo from the fallopian tube to the uterus. In fkin 1917.

“In this day of advanced surgery, with the art of transplanting different parts, and in fact organs of the body, I wonder at the escape of so important a procedure, entailing so little danger, as the transplanting of an ectopic pregnancy from the fallopian tube into the uterus.” Dr. Wallace recorded a case in which he attempted just such a transplantation, and he concluded that, whenever possible: “…we should make a supreme attempt to save the life of the growing child by opening the tube carefully and transplanting it into the uterus where nature intended it should go.  It can be very quickly done.  It does not endanger the life of the mother and may be her only chance to bear a child … I have not the least doubt that many such transplanted ectopic pregnancies will be reported in the near future.” (x)

There is no “abortion to save the mother” there is only TREATMENT of a harmful condition and following up with trying to save the baby, even if you think/know the baby won’t make it. 

Because a woman AND her unborn child are BOTH human beings with lives that deserve the best efforts to be saved.

[autumnhobbit]

Even though 1% of abortions are performed to save the life of the mother, what do you say about this case, as rare as it is? Is it still the right thing to not abort, even if the child will die anyway when the mother does, if it is not yet developed enough to be born before the mother dies?

OK, anon. Here’s my problem with that issue. In almost any medical situation, simply going in and killing the baby will not solve the problem, and that’s what abortion is; going in and killing the child without any other plan in mind. I can understand when a treatment is needed to save the mother’s life, and the child dies as an unfortunate side effect of that treatment; that’s different from abortion. The doctors weren’t /trying/ to kill the child, they were trying to help the mother, and they couldn’t prevent the child’s death. But here’s the thing: every child is ‘just going to die anyway.’ Every human is going to die anyway. That doesn’t make abuse of power okay. The whole point of medical care is to try to preserve human life if at all possible. Just because a toddler will die one day doesn’t make it okay to come into their house and stab them in the brain with scissors or burn them with saline or rip them to shreds with a vaccuum. It’s no more okay when they’re a little younger and a little easier to abuse. Why do we think we should have to pick between helping one or the other? They’re both human beings, both with the inherent dignity therein, both deserving of all the help we can give them, especially in a nation as advanced and prosperous as ours. This question gets thrown around a lot in pro-choice circles, like they think it’s a real ‘gotcha’ question. Like they’re going to somehow corner you into admitting that you care more about an unborn baby than you do about a mother. I can only look at examples in my own life. I know a lady who goes to church with me who has four bitty kids and is pregnant with her fifth. The lining of her uterus is super-thin, and at any moment she could rupture it and die, killing both her and her unborn baby. She’s been unable to deliver her kids naturally, and has endured abuse by family, supposed friends, and medical personnel who think she shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce. But she keeps going, because she loves her kids and believes they’re worth it. When my own mom was miscarrying my sixth sibling, she refused intervention for a week in the hopes of giving our baby every chance to live. Both these mothers love their children, and fought to give them a chance, at the risk of their own lives. No, I don’t believe it’s right to kill a child in the midst of a tragedy.

[hislittleflower-throughconcrete]

In almost any medical situation, simply going in and killing the baby will not solve the problem, and that’s what abortion is; going in and killing the child without any other plan in mind. I can understand when a treatment is needed to save the mother’s life, and the child dies as an unfortunate side effect of that treatment; that’s different from abortion. The doctors weren’t /trying/ to kill the child, they were trying to help the mother, and they couldn’t prevent the child’s death.

Louder for the people in the back.

Abortion’s end goal is always killing an unborn child, there is no other goal. But treating an illness in the mother, whether it be through a necessary medication or surgery on the mother’s body is ALWAYS moral, even if it indirectly results in the death of the child. Life-threatening Preeclampsia? Deliver the baby, or have an emergency c-section, and try to save baby, even if you know or think your efforts will be fruitless. Ectopic pregnancy? Aside from the fact that these pregnancies usually resolve themselves ie miscarriage, remove the diseased portion of the fallopian tube (it’s NOT an abortion because your goal is NOT to end the life of the baby) 

Furthermore, Dr. C.J. Wallace successfully transplanted an embryo from the fallopian tube to the uterus. In fkin 1917.

“In this day of advanced surgery, with the art of transplanting different parts, and in fact organs of the body, I wonder at the escape of so important a procedure, entailing so little danger, as the transplanting of an ectopic pregnancy from the fallopian tube into the uterus.” Dr. Wallace recorded a case in which he attempted just such a transplantation, and he concluded that, whenever possible: “…we should make a supreme attempt to save the life of the growing child by opening the tube carefully and transplanting it into the uterus where nature intended it should go.  It can be very quickly done.  It does not endanger the life of the mother and may be her only chance to bear a child … I have not the least doubt that many such transplanted ectopic pregnancies will be reported in the near future.” (x)

There is no “abortion to save the mother” there is only TREATMENT of a harmful condition and following up with trying to save the baby, even if you think/know the baby won’t make it. 

Because a woman AND her unborn child are BOTH human beings with lives that deserve the best efforts to be saved.

[thisiseverydayracism]

Trump is such a loser.

[geekerypeekery]

Spread these images. Everyone in Trump’s America needs to see just how much they are in the minority.

[marvelsmostwanted]

As of today, WhiteHouse.gov is no longer a reliable source of information. Trump is using the platform to spread lies. You might want to check it out to see what his new “policies” are, but the lack of information and the misinformation now present on the website are stunning.

[wordsnquotes]

Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via wordsnquotes)

[cilly-murphy]

[1sistersr4ever]

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

St. Josemaria Escriva (via 1sistersr4ever)

[1sistersr4ever]

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

St. Josemaria Escriva (via 1sistersr4ever)