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Category: pregnancy

  • Genesis 16: Seen

    After living in Canaan for ten years, Abram and Sarai still do not have a child. Sarai plans to make her Egyptian servant Hagar sleep with her husband in order to obtain one. Abram agrees and Hagar gets pregnant. It’s almost the perfect solution.  Hagar looks at Sarai with contempt and Sarai complains to Abram.…

  • Vote for Life

    If you want to see less abortions in America, then I suggest that you vote for Kamala Harris this November. I know that this may seem counterintuitive, but the number of abortions actually goes down when Democrats are in office.* The reason is that it is not the lack of availability of safe abortions that…

  • The Human Struggle

    I am just finishing up listening to Demon Copperhead on audiobook. It was my commute entertainment for my summer course. I have to admit that got over halfway through the story before realizing that it wasn’t just familiar to another plot, but exactly the same as David Copperfield. Not the magician, but the Charles Dickens…

  • The Great Debate

    Nature is not forgiving when it comes to human reproduction.

  • The System

    I am going to share an experience that may inform some people as to why I am not voting red this election season. Two and a half years ago, when Tim and I were on the application list for adoption through DHS, they asked us to be on the backup emergency foster home list. We…

  • Remembering

    You never forget your first. It was five years after our daughter. We had wanted to have the children close together, but we didn’t get pregnant as easily as before. That was unexpected. We wanted her to have a sibling or two or even three. After all, Tim and I both came from families of…