Posted on 05/24/2019 2:58:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Abortion supporters regularly perpetuate the lie that the pro-life movement only cares about children before they are born. But one tweet – and the viral response to it – is proving them wrong.
On May 15, Sarah Tuttle-Singer, an editor for the Times of Israel, dared pro-lifers to tell her on Twitter how they “personally” have aided mothers in need. Her tweet reacted to the pro-life support of Alabama’s new law that considers abortion a felony offense in most cases.
“Dear Pro-Life friends: what have you *personally* done to support lower-income single mothers?” she asked on Twitter. “I’ll wait.”
But she didn’t need to wait for long. More than 13,000 tweeters flooded her feed with responses, ranging from adoption to financial and educational needs. And, whether they knew it or not, they were answering someone who perhaps most needed to hear them: a post-abortive woman. During a 2012 NPR interview, Tuttle-Singer admitted abortion is a decision “never made lightly.”
“It became incredibly painful later on when I was pregnant with my daughter seven years later,” she said of her abortion in college. “I had a hard time reconciling a previous decision with the excitement of seeing this tiny blip on an ultrasound monitor and saying wow, that's a baby; that's life.”
But that’s exactly why the pro-life movement does what it does: to support life.
“Last year alone, we raised a quarter million dollars to support families and centers who take in moms and their babies,” Emily Zanotti, senior editor at the Daily Wire, responded to Tuttle-Singer’s tweet. “We get them prenatal and postnatal care, help them get started on education, jobs, whatever they need.”
Gloria Purvis, the host of EWTN’s Morning Glory, stressed that not only did she improve mothers’ lives but also they improved hers.
“Besides organizing diaper drives, donating to food banks, and organizing transportation to and from doctors’ appointments and giving emotional and financial assistance, I became personal friends with some of these moms,” she tweeted. “They have blessed my life.”
Doctor Grazie Christie, policy advisor for the Catholic Association added, “I read their fetal ultrasounds for free. I donate lots of money to centers that provide material help. I adopted some good woman’s little baby. I could go on and on.”
Several Twitter users shared even more personal stories – stories of adoption.
“We totally rearranged our lives to adopt a sibling group of three living in a Filipino orphanage,” continued writer and Fordham University professor Charles Camosy.
One dad, Jason Miller, typed, “Adopted 1 and took in 3 foster who are now staying permanently. In addition to my 6 natural children.”
“Spent $40K to adopt a little girl with a chronic liver disease that was left on the doorstep of an orphanage at 2 days old,” wrote a pastor named Chris Ward. “We were helped with $500K lifesaving organ transplant. We are grateful for the birth mom choosing life. Our daughter is worth it!”
One dad, Jason Miller, typed, “Adopted 1 and took in 3 foster who are now staying permanently. In addition to my 6 natural children.”
“Spent $40K to adopt a little girl with a chronic liver disease that was left on the doorstep of an orphanage at 2 days old,” wrote a pastor named Chris Ward. “We were helped with $500K lifesaving organ transplant. We are grateful for the birth mom choosing life. Our daughter is worth it!”
Writer Alexi Sargeant tweeted that he “Donated to crisis pregnancy centers” and “Volunteered with the Sisters of Life,” among other things. His wife, author Leah Libresco, added, “Applying for open adoption, to take care of a child whose mother doesn't think she can raise the baby” as well as donating to “pay the bails of black mothers and send them home to be with their children.”
Lisa Moyer wrote, “I’ve volunteered at a crisis pregnancy center. We gave out diapers and baby formula and had a ‘store’ with kids clothes that moms could shop in.”
Meghan Savercool stressed, “I volunteer as a babysitter for an organization that helps single moms complete their college degrees.”
Another continued, “I was a crisis pregnancy counselor. We provided free pregnancy tests and free counseling and supplies during the pregnancy as well as connecting the women with healthcare.”
A pastor named Neil Schori tweeted that he has “helped a significant number of women get free from their abusive partners” while another person, Kim Reid urged, that she does “prison ministry every week in a jail where most inmates are low-income single mothers,” among other things.
These are just a few of the ways the pro-life movement reveals that they care for both the mother and baby – the born and unborn.
Thank you for posting this,
They just want to kill people.
If you live in the USA and pay taxes, you help support single mothers and un-aborted children every day....
(1) Medicaid + dental care for all kids under 18 - Medicaid for Mom for entire pregnancy plus post-partum health issues, plus, Medicaid permanently for Mom if her income is below certain amount.
(2) Food - “SNAP” + food banks + special baby food + school meals.
(3) Shelter - Single mothers with minor children are never homeless if they know the law - subsidized apartments, or shelters, and most states pay for motel or hotel rooms in emergencies.
(4) Several kinds of cash benefits.
(5) Free education K-12. Student loans after age 18.
(6) Free legal assistance for many issues, including against fathers who fail to pay monthly support.
(7) Winter heating bill assistance.
(8) Phone bill assistance plus free Obama cell phones.
(9) Free adult education plus free job training.
There are more benefits and programs - these are just the first nine that popped into my head.
This writer is an ass and his point has no merit. For many years, I have known one of the leading Pro-Life lobbyists in Florida. She and her colleagues diligently help pregnant single women in distress, often going to great lengths to do so and without regard as to race or ethnicity or national origin. As a standard practice, the congregation of the late charismatic leader Jerry Falwell provided clothes, employment, education, and childcare for unwed mothers, along with seating at the front of church services. And the Pro-Life demonstrators in front of abortion clinics routinely offer help for unwed mothers to be. To a remarkable degree, the pro-Life movement is sincere, philosophically driven, and consistently charitable and caring in helping pregnant and unwed women with children.
So “inconvenience” is a legitimate reason for killing the unborn?
what have you *personally* done to support lower-income single mothers?
MY TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR THIER IRRESPONSIBILTY. The dirt bags that get them pregnant are not held responsible either
Why are you obliged to support anybody in order to prevent a baby from being killed?
Turn the tables back on these people and ask them what kind of support Planned Parenthood gives to new moms. Diapers, cribs, formula, bill assistance, education assistance, etc.? Because crisis pregnancy centers (and all who support them) DO offer these things.
“They just want to kill people.”
See my tag line.
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Writer Dares Pro-Lifers to Say They ‘Personally’ Help Moms in Need
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I reject the premise.
A woman is 100% responsible for not murdering her own baby.
Everyone else is 0% responsible for not “helping” her so she doesn’t come to that decision.
So, it’s give me money or I kill this baby? The left is insane.
We helped them by not killing their children.
“There are more benefits and programs - these are just the first nine that popped into my head. “
Not to mention...you didn’t kill their child!
Its a typical leftist-Alinsky argument, and totally fallacious. It makes no difference if anyone gives money to anybody at any time. If that happens or not, the moral coloring of the act is unchanged. Infanticide is infanticide, and abortion kills an innocent human being, regardless of any monetary exchange.
I would ask the original questioner, If I rescue a baby out of a burning house and certain death am I responsible for taking care of him until he’s 18 ?
Out of sight, out of mind.
If only the womb was transparent.
A good lawyer never asks a question in court where the answer isn’t known. This questioner would be a bad lawyer.
Does she PERSONNALLY work for voting integrity? Perhaps she shouldn’t be permitted to cast a ballot.
Right-make Liberals say they personally help illegals in need.
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