I liked the bits about (a) the dangerous grounds that ‘reason’ or ‘feelings’can take us into and (b) evil masquerading as good. This is true of all places where fascism or totalitarian ideologies gain public support. Religious fundamentalisms (whether Muslim or Christian, Hindu or any other) have large scale mass support – their violent, hate-fuelled acts are justified by members from their own communities, because they are perceived to be ‘innately’ good revolutionaries.

As I thought about her story I remembered Irene Vilar, who has written the book Impossible Motherhood about her 15 abortions.

And I feel sorry for women and men who put themselves and their children, born and unborn, through so much pain and suffering.

Both Angie Jackson and Irene Vilar knew before getting pregnant that their pregnancy were impossible, Irene Vilar because of her husband’s absolute and open non-acceptance of having children and Angie Jackson because of her own obviously known health-situation, so why did they and their partners not do what was needed to prevent the pregnancies from happening? Why being open to a situation where you beforehand knew that you would have to kill your own child?

What would you think of a person that opened her/his door to let you in just to kill you as soon as you entered?

Angie Jackson tells us that it is no big deal to have an abortion. Well, she might not have been feeling much physical pain, women also have late abortions under an anaesthetic, so it is possible to have an abortion without feeling the immediate physical pain, we know that. But she might wake up later to feel the pain of other longterm aftereffects both physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Longterm effects that are widely described and recognized.

So don’t take her words for more than they are, words that show her ignorance, inexperience and immaturity, words that show us how terrible misguided and unenlightened she is. This is not a happy, sound, healthy and strong young woman telling us news to bring enlightening comfort to other women and the world, on the contrary is she bringing more darkness and tragedy forward.

This is the sad story of many women (and men), who have been damaged and scared.

This is not an example of God’s truth but an example of lives lived without Jesus Christ.

We need to welcome it into the open and pray for the healing of these persons as well as all of our society, that this darkness be dispelled that we can live together in joy, wisdom and love to the end that we do no longer put ourselves in unloving situations that make us give in to killing other human beings, and indeed not the most innocent and defenseless.

Lord Jesus, I pray for your forgiveness for this young woman, Angie Jackson, and all who have made the terrible decision of having their own children killed as well as all who have been part of this decision and killing.

Lord Jesus, I pray for their conversion, repentance and healing. I pray that they will come to the place where they will see and acknowledge the deep wound and loss they have caused not only to themselves, but to a humanity that have been deprived of a human being and the gift that God had so intended to bring forth through that very special incoming child.

Lord Jesus, I pray for Angie Jackson to have the help needed to be restored to full humaneness by acknowledging the pain of having killed her own child, by acknowledging that she is now a mother of 2 children, one of which she gave no chances to receive neither her own love nor the love from other human beings.

Lord Jesus, I pray that Angie Jackson will have the help needed to begin to love both of her children, to name her dead child, give it a funeral and a grave and beg this child and God for forgiveness, that she will begin to love and care for her second child as much as she loves and cares for her first child, that she will begin to pray for both of her children and that she will begin to love herself, her partner and her surviving first child and her murdered second child so deeply that she will never put herself and her family through a similar situation.

Lord Jesus, I pray for Angie Jackson and her family in heaven and on earth to be restored to true Christ-wholeness and Christ-peace.

Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour, establish thou it, I pray and I thank you and praise you for your Holy Will to be done in this matter and all matters that has to do with the truth and lies of abortion. Amen.

I do not think most people learn much about abortion before they need one. Knowing that it can be done quickly and easily with a couple of pills, they can focus on the important part: Do they want a baby and do they want it now?

Angie Jackson does exactly what she sets out to do, she demystifies abortion, and additionally says a few words to make people who are considering an abortion feel better about themselves. She also provides an very personal example, which is often much more valuable than some complete factual source, full of “intellectual horsepower” (quoting you).

Pro-choice vs pro-ban (they call themselves “pro-life”) is a totally different issue. This is about helping people make one of the most important choices they’ll ever make, whether they want an abortion due to health concerns, they got pregnant by accident or they changed their mind about wanting a baby.

Kind regards from a very excited father-to-be.

Aside from my personal observations running contrary to your observations, much of what you said should be considered. Unfortunately it won’t. The loudest morons from the internet will find things to whine about, and real communication will again be impeded.

Basically, any people group will become dysfunctional to a greater or lesser degree when their ability to take responsibility for their lives is interfered with.

Many Blacks in America had a double-whammy – a family history that involved being enslaved (which is not unlike being in a communist country), and the welfare system (another form of slavery.)

Only those who were able to make the mental and emotional break with the slavery/welfare lifestyle and mindset, were able to break out of the stereotypical dysfunction.

That ability may have been supplied from within the family, or from caring people outside the family, but it is really, really hard if you don’t have someone hold up and encourage a different way of being than you are accustomed to. Breaking free of old beliefs isn’t easy. It reminds me of how easy it is to fool an elephant into believing that it is stuck in his situation, being pegged down. When an elephant is young, it is tied up using a big heavy peg in the ground, which it cannot pull out. Over time, the peg gets smaller and smaller and the elephant gets bigger and bigger…and yet the elephant believes it cannot escape, so it doesn’t even try. Habits of body and mind are powerful, and that is why I think there are still too many of what you call “dysfunctional” Blacks.

This is a stereotype, of course. Plenty of Blacks in America are thriving in their chosen careers and businesses.

King improved civil rights; Gandhi stopped an all-out civil war.

While Obama and King are very different and shouldn’t be compared, you can’t prevent people from trying to compare them. And while they are not overall similar, some similarities do exist. For example, both spent many years of their life working for communities. Obama was a community organizer and King organized African-American communities in protest of racial segregation.

I am not disagreeing with you that prisons do not rehabilitate prisoners, however, what would you suggest would be a viable solution to handling these individuals after their crimes have been committed. Surely mass execution would be effective in terminating these menaces to society; however, not all crimes are equal (stealing a loaf of bread compared to rape/murder). Therefore, do you believe that all murderers and rapists should be either executed, sterilized or perhaps both? And what if we presuppose that a murderer can in fact be rehabilitated and be released back into society, or at the very least incarcerate this person for the rest of their life. Should we adopt a utilitarian mentality that although some murderers/rapists can be rehabilitated, society should in fact terminate all of these individual due to the fact that if only one remains to be kept alive more damage will be ascertained from this action rather than benefit.

Indeed, it would seem that capital punishment does not serve society as a deterrent to crimes, but rather it acts as a method to cleanse society of these criminals. Therefore, is the justice system truly aimed at rehabilitation or the deterrence of future crimes in the first place, or is the system more geared at serving the ultimate or ongoing punishment to those individuals whom have broken society’s laws? Another question which stems from this argument is if there is a human option to “properly” bring individuals to justice after they have committed a crime against society.

If society merely terminates individuals based upon the fact that they are indeed sociopaths or they have committed heinous crimes, is society adopting a method of eugenics to its legal system? Finally, I will beg the question of what is proper and right in order to deter/punish those who will/have commit/ted extreme atrocities against humanity? Is a mass grave the option or are there other alternatives? It would seem that with the case of sociopaths (ex. Theodore Bundy), there is no viable solution in order to rehabilitate these individuals. Shall society utilize this principle for all criminals in order to maintain “the greater good?”