Hello and Introduction from a New Guest Blogger
— Posted by Christina (February 2, 2008 at 3:49 pm)
A warm hello to everybody!
My name is Christina DeGoede, and I am one of the new guest bloggers who will be regularly posting some of my pro-life-related experiences, reflections, ideas, etc. on this website. I am very much looking forward to doing this and think that I will really enjoy it, and I am very grateful for the invitation to blog from Generations for Life. I love so much to be involved in pro-life work, and this will be a great way to share with you some of what this work means to me.
And let me tell you a little about myself. I live in Mossyrock, Washington; this is about two hours southeast of Seattle, Washington. I am 18 years old, and I just graduated from my high school studies in which I was homeschooled. My family and I first became actively involved in pro-life work when I was three years old, and again we have been actively involved for these past eight years.
I was especially excited about finishing my high school studies because I am very eager to organize and lead a new pro-life activism group. I will most probably start this group in my area. Just now, I am in the process of getting it all planned out.
Again, I look forward to posting on this website. And thank you all for any comments that you will write on my posts. I will always be interested in what your point of view is.
Take care everybody, and God bless!
Sincerely,
Christina DeGoede
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Annie says:
Christina,
Thanks again for being a guest blogger! I’m excited that we will hear from some younger voices! I am officially back from maternity leave so I will hopefully be blogging once in a while. Chat with you all soon!
Annie
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Lauren says:
Questions:
Do you have any pro-choice friends?
Is your family actively involved in the movement?
Did you start out in this movement young?
Why did your parents choose to homeschool you?
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Veronica says:
Welcome Christina! I am a homeschooler as well…(sophomore) I look forward to reading your posts! Btw, I love your name!
Lauren, I can answer two of your questions to Christina:
“My family and I first became actively involved in pro-life work when I was three years old, and again we have been actively involved for these past eight years.” (This is directly from her post above)
Hope this helps!
In Christ’s Love,
Veronica
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Robert says:
Fáilte (Welcome) and greetings from Ireland. I wish you every success as you begin to organise and lead a new pro-life group. I’m looking forward to your posts.
God Bless.
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Jen says:
Welcome Christina!
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Germaine says:
Welcome Christina! I wish you success in all your endeavors to help bring an end to abortion. I looking forward to reading your posts! God bless!
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Christina says:
Thank you so much for all your kind, welcoming coments! Know that your support is inspiring and encouraging.
Lauren,
I will here answer your first and last questions since these two were not answered in my post.
I currently have no pro-abortion friends. But it is difficult to say whether any of my aquaintances and buddies are pro-abortion, since the abortion topic has not been brought up among us.
My Mom decided that my siblings and I would be homeschooled because she was sent to public high school as a girl, and she did not want us to be exposed to what she was exposed to in school.
Veronica,
I am very happy that you are homeschooled also and can enjoy what I loved and will always love!
Robert,
Thank you for the greetings and good wishes from Ireland! That is special since I am part Irish!
Take care and God bless!
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Lauren says:
Christina,
Why do you use the phrase, “Pro-abortion”? Do you know anyone that is pro-abortion? I don’t mean to be incendiary, I’m just wondering what your perspective is.
Comment posted February 4th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
RSD says:
Welcome Christina….nice to hear from young, pro-life folks!
Lauren,
What’s wrong with the term “pro-abortion”, if that’s the truth…
you guys support abortion and it’s consequences, correct?
Comment posted February 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Christina says:
Lauren,
I understand that the use of the term “pro-abortion”, instead of the term “pro-choice”, by pro-life people is often misunderstood. Since this is the case and also because I see it as important to use the correct term when referring to the position of support for abortion, I will very soon post a blog explaining why I use the term “pro-abortion.”
Comment posted February 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Lauren says:
No RSD. I do not “support abortion”. I am not like hey, go get an abortion it’s fun! I support free access to reproductive choices. Do you support free access to reproductive choice?
Comment posted February 13th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Miss March says:
Welcome Christina!
I too am homeschooled (sophomore) and think it is always nice to meet others who were homeschooled. Just because I am the curious type, did you use a curriculum? If so which one?
Can’t wait to see your posts! I loved the one about the term “pro-choice” I try to use pro-abortion as often as I remember. I use it instead of pro-choice because I think of myself as pro-choice. I am for women choosing to put their babies up for adoption, I am for women (and men) using abstinence if they do not want a baby, I am for the choice of saving sex for marriage, etc. But in making a choice, I think both parties concerns should be taken into account. And when a woman has an abortion, she is certainly not considering what that baby might choose!!
Anyway, I need to go start school…God bless you!
Comment posted February 20th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Lee Anne says:
Christina - welcome to the world of blogging! Thank you for speaking out - we need you, and others like you who are willing to face ridicule and persecution. God Bless you!
As far as the pro-”choice” terminology. For years, and I am very old! - the people who back abortion have used the term ‘choice’.
After all, who would not be for ‘choice?’ It has a nice ring to it and gee - if you are not pro-’choice’, well then you are just plain mean and closed minded!
Let us ask what the ‘choice’ in this matter is…it is a convenient way of saying “well, I personally would never have an abortion, but gosh, if someone else is pregnant and does not want to carry the baby to term, who am I to say that they must?”
The ‘choice’ in this instance is a life and death matter. It is the life of another human being. Most women do not freely choose to abort their babies. There are many outside pressures - including the father of the baby, the families, i.e. sisters, brothers, parents of the woman, friends (well meaning, I am sure) who often times pressure a woman, covertly and openly to terminate her pregnancy so that she can live her life without being ’saddled’, ‘burdened’ with a child.
If the choice were as simple as whether to wear a green dress or a purple dress, that would be one thing…but pro-’choice’ is never about dresses - it is about the killing of an innocent human being.
One of your readers, Lauren, asked if you knew pro-’choice’ people. You replied that you did not know, Christina. I do know pro-’choice’ people - and, quite frankly some of them are extremely pro-abortion while others of them have not looked at the terminology with any great discernment - simply gone along with the tide.
I am a post abortive woman - notice I did not write ‘post-choice’ woman. My son, Matthew Dean, would have been 38 years old this September. Instead, his birth and death date by abortion was this past April.
Welcome again to blogsville, Christina. May the Lord richly bless you -
Comment posted June 13th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Macile Hooper LeJeune says:
Merci, ma cherie, Lee Anne for giving us this link in your own blog. Christina, hooray for you and teens like you who know that the ‘unborn’ are already creatures made by our Father GOD; and that they need protection. May our Sweet Jesus and HIS Blessed Mother Mary (Undoer of Knots, etc) keep their arms around all of us; especially those most vunerable of all, the child in the womb.
DIEU TE BENISSE!!! GOD BLESS!!! Cajun Sissy Macile, a little old Cajun lady in S/W Louisiana … just 15 miles from the TX border.
Comment posted June 21st, 2008 at 10:30 am