Posted on 01/13/2017 1:20:13 PM PST by Morgana
A group of elderly women wearing yellow T-shirts with the word “GRR!” splashed across the front gained public attention recently at the Maine state Capitol as they advocated for abortion, the Free Press reports.
GRR! stands for “Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights.” The group seeks to educate women at the local level about the pro-abortion agenda, and encourage women to speak with their local government officials about supporting abortion and other reproductive health issues. About 40 grandmothers participate in GRR!, according to the report.
Judy Kahrl founded the group after traveling to Africa and noticing young women who postponed family and childbearing for education and career. She said she noticed a disconnect with American society where abortion is more commonplace and yet the “pro-choice” crowd remains largely silent. So, she said she decided to start the local advocacy group GRR! on the Maine homefront.
“Abortion is a sticking point for many because it has become connected to religion,” Kahrl told the Free Press. “It’s not a religious issue. It’s not a Republican or Democratic issue. Reproductive freedom is a human rights issue.”
“This isn’t about us,” Kahrl added. “We’ve had our children and grandchildren. This is for them.”
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Kahrl’s father, Dr. Clarence Gamble, associated with Procter and Gamble, graduated from Harvard Medical School, and later his practice delved into women’s health issues including birth control advocacy, according to the New Maine Times.
Gamble was “good friends” with Margaret Sanger, the founder of the Planned Parenthood abortion business, according to the report. He founded a grassroots organization called “Pathfinder International” devoted to international reproductive health education, including the promotion of abortion. Judy Kahrl sometimes accompanied her father on these trips, the report continued.
For many grandmothers, however, their feelings are quite the opposite about abortion. Many grandmothers are saddened by the abortion of their future grandchildren, the National Catholic Register reports. Special Rachel’s Vineyards retreats have been considered and implemented for grandparents grieving the loss of their aborted grandchildren, the report continues.
“The Rachel’s Vineyard retreat was a powerful experience of healing for me and really went to the heart of my post abortion trauma and grief and helped me to find peace and closure,” one mourning grandmother commented on the Priests for Life blog. “I formed a number of close friendships from that experience and we remained in touch at support group meetings and social events loving and supporting, and praying for one another.”
Any real Grandma would have pictures of the babies that make them grandmas in the first place. Lots of pictures. And lots of stories. Should be easy to pick out the real McCoys from the posers.
These granny’s should be careful what they wish for. If the law can say when life begins, it can say when it ends.
It’s a human rights issue for everyone except the human about to be aborted.
Exactly. The grandkids who survive the abortion holocaust will choose to put their pto-choice grandmothers to death.
After all, it’s now axiomatic that it’s better to be dead than to be unwanted.
And we know from “market value” that everything about the “fetus” is human. He has a human heart, human liver, human bone, blood, and brain. Everything but human rights.
Grandmas are raising their grandkids more and more.
Amazing how the new generation feels/has no responsibility for the children they bring into the world.
Moral responsibility is gone
Financial responsibility gone, taken over by Uncle Sam
Fatherhood is now ‘baby daddy’. Zero responsibility.
Innate mothering instinct in gone, don’t know why but it is.
2 Timothy 3Amplified Bible (AMP)
But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear].
2 For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,
3 [and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,
4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.
6 For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,
7 always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
“Thou shall not kill” pretty much makes it a religious issue.
No special response. We were both pretty angry. She gave the usual excuses of not wanting to be saddled with an inconvenience (”ruining her life”), including if it was “defective”.
It’s her fault the baby is “inconvenient”. So much of this nonsense would be avoided if we were moral and DIDN’T SCREW OUTSIDE MARRIAGE.
the sheer leftard lunacy.
you arent grandmas if you get your kids tocabort their babies.
i pray everyday for God to come back today and stop the insanity that passes for worldly genius.
the stink in this country started right after WW2 for all practical purposes....those “grandmas” are the first children of our WW2 vets and they were blessed and perfumed and babied beyond anything their parents got and Woodstock was a prime example of their decadence and self absorption....
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