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My Angry Mother
Dr. Alveda King's Blog ^ | May 8th, 2015 | Dr. Alveda King

Posted on 05/09/2015 8:19:37 AM PDT by OK Sun

My mother was not only angry in 1950. She was pregnant and scared; seeking a D&C. Thank God my Granddaddy Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. had seen me in a dream in 1947; and he was looking and waiting for me.

Granddaddy and Daddy promised to help Mother through that first unexpected pregnancy. I was born to A. D. and Naomi Ruth Barber King on January 22, 1951.

Over the years, Mother recovered from her anger, finding grace in Jesus Christ.

If my family had followed the abortion friendly path prescribed below, I and my siblings may never have been born.

“Feminist theologian” Kristine Holmgren writes at the Huffington Post: “If you were born before women had access to safe, affordable, accessible abortion, chances are your mother was an angry mother.” She argues that the use of abortion and contraception can eliminate “angry mothers” and concludes, “This Mothers Day, I challenge American women to renew their commitment to responsible, thoughtful motherhood. Let’s protect our liberties, reclaim safe, accessible abortion and contraception as our birthright. This year – let us commit to a new future and a new promise. No more angry mothers.”

During the years of my life, I made some scared and angry decisions, including having two of what was pitched to me as “safe, legal and rare abortions.” Those abortions cost me three lives including my subsequent miscarriage.

“Be angry and sin not!”

Anger is one thing, dead babies are quite another thing altogether. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at priestsforlife.org ...


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: alvedaking; christianity; prolife
A message for Mother's Day.
1 posted on 05/09/2015 8:19:37 AM PDT by OK Sun
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To: OK Sun

My adopted daughter and I prayed in thanksgiving that her birth mother did not abort her. She then became a single teenage mom and choose life.


2 posted on 05/09/2015 8:22:52 AM PDT by Mercat (Release the HildeKraken)
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