Human trafficking victims, like child abuse victims, live in a deceptively normalized state. Victims Can Be Anyone If you grew up in a home with one parent with an explosive temper and the other remained submissive, you wouldn't know that the violence you experienced was abnormal. Nightly...
Abortion is bad because it kills a baby. A rapist's baby is still an innocent baby. The baby is just as much the rape victim's baby. Nature and nurture are both involved in development. No, genetics is not determinative of behavior. Every child has innate...
Looks can be deceiving. Yesterday, I attended hearings in my state's Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. It was surreal. I felt like it was a dystopian fiction. How were we talking about killing babies? When the people who kill these little people for...
Maybe you've seen this phrase, Reach out this season. It has been written in other words, but the appeals that come this time of year can create decision fatigue. How do we decide who to give our time, energy, and money to?If you have ever...
I risked my life for my treasure from sex trafficking. My Trauma I was groomed at 13 and sold for the first time on my 14th birthday. My trafficker was a man with a cue of girls in various stages of grooming or engagement in prostitution. He...
Behaving in such a way as to prepare and preserve the future for the next generations seems like a forgotten concept. Duty and sacrifice are not the norm in our culture. I think it was in our history, or we wouldn't have had a Revolutionary...
NH Lawmakers saw a bill come through the House of Representatives that proposed to ban abortion after the child attains an age and the capability to live outside of the womb, separated from his or her mother because abortion kills a baby. Ban Abortion, Except The bill...
Governor Kasich Vetos Heartbeats This week, the governor of Ohio was presented with a bill, duly passed by the legislature. It would ban abortion once the baby had a discernible heartbeat. He chose to veto the bill. "...
The US had laws against committing abortion for more than half her life as a nation. It would seem the US is a petulant child. In the middle of the last century, people called for relaxation of abortion laws. SCOTUS heard lawyers insist that some babies...