A Conservative Woman Speaks
Thank you, Mr. John Galt for inviting me to contribute to this new
site; The Republican Papers. I am Kathleen, a fifty three year old
mother of five. I live in mid-Michigan and have all my life. I've
traveled around the United States and visited Norway, Germany and Italy
several years ago. This is still the best place to be!
I'm writing here to express my frustration with the liberal position the
media takes concerning women in particular. During and before the
November elections, I was told over and over that as a women I would
vote for Al Gore, (NOT!) want to control my own reproductive system,
(sure do, but not by abortion!), and support gun control. (controlling
MY gun means hitting the target) Recently at a social get together,
another women and I got into a friendly discussion and I asked her if
she thought being pro-life and pro-gun seemed to her a conflict of
interest. She replied yes! My reply was, "but both views protect
innocent lives!". I feel it is a form of mind control that is being
perpetrated by the media to make conservative thinking women feel we are
somehow outside the norm and therefore less credible and unimportant.
Hopefully by expressing ourselves on sites such as this, we can come
together and share ideas on how we can let our country's leaders know
that we need for them to acknowledge and support the views of
conservative women as an important block of voters.
I am what I term a "professional mom". It's what I have dedicated my
life to and I take it seriously. I had two little boys when my husband
and I decided to become foster parents. I love babies, so that is what
we decided to specialize in. After four newborn foster placements, I
found out that I was pregnant again, and sickness forced me to take time
off until our third child, a girl, was born. Three years later, we had
our fourth, a son. While he was a toddler, I took training to become a
counselor at a pro-life organization call Abortion Alternatives.
I worked there for about three years, and when our littlest boy was
ready for school, we again renewed our foster care license. All together
we (and I do mean the whole family here!) took care of thirty newborn
infants. Some of them were born very early, and I was able to go to the
hospital on a daily basis to prepare them (and me) for the transition to
home. I have never believed that abortion was an answer to a problem
pregnancy, but seeing first hand how medical science could save infants
who sometimes weighed in at two pounds, I can never figure out why there
are those who think that aborted "fetuses" are nothing but tissue
masses. One of our babies was a product of rape. Another, was a product
of incest, which in many cases is also a rape. These babies were
absolutely beautiful. One of these children we still get pictures of at
Christmas and I can't help but think what a terrible tragedy if she had
become "disposed of tissue mass" as many would advocate. Sure it has to
be hard on a rape victim to carry a baby to term. I can't help but
think, that with the proper counseling, a rape victim can come to
understand that even though the rapist "steals" a women's dignity, she
has the power (and what a wonderful power!) to turn a horrible crime
into the light of someone's life. Our twenty-third foster child was the
product of a dark life of drugs and alcohol. She also became our fifth
child. I'm quite certain that there are those who would have thought
abortion the answer for her mother, and I sure am glad that, for
whatever reason, it was not the road she chose.
God gave women the privilege to bear children, and we must know that
responsibility comes with that privilege. The founding fathers of this
country gave us the privilege of defending ourselves in the form of the
second amendment, and we really need to learn that there is a
responsibility here too. We need to fight to maintain this right!
Hopefully we won't have to actually use our weapons to do it.
Personally I think that if our government tries to confiscate our guns
the way other countries have, and there are truly those who support that
idea, we will have another civil war. IT'S SCARY!!
When you see sign that say " I'll give up my guns only when you pry them out of my cold, dead hands" we may chuckle, but it is very, very serious because there are enough people who really would go to those extremes to take our guns. And there are many who would take that stand against those in government in order to keep their privilege of owning them. We often read and hear it said that we must never forget what Hitler did to the Jews and other people he deemed of no value, or felt threatened by.
One of the first things he did was register all weapons, and then
disarm the country. Our founding fathers knew that was dangerous, even
before Hitler was born. If we read the writings of James Madison, Tench
Coxe, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Noah Webster, and other patriots
of our history we would realize that they put out a warning of just such
tyranny. We must stay informed and educated. We must support one
another! Hopefully that will be the intent and the end result of this
site.
Thanks to all of you who would patiently read the words of this
twenty-first century patriot!
Kathleen
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