To build a society based on human need, with love of all beings as its guiding principle, the reproductive needs of women have to be included in the center of the foundation. The feminine aspects of life, heretofore treated as peripheral, marginal, or unimportant, must be given their rightful status as central to the human…
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Humanity’s Dream of Peace Depends Upon the Liberation and Advancement of Women
We must bring our human intelligence and compassionate judgment to bear on the nature and quality of Life on Earth. The planet needs our loving attention. All the technology in the world will not release us from our fundamental responsibility to be in right relationship with the world, with all living beings, and especially with…
Room to Breathe – Winter Solstice 2012 – Conscious Caring
There is a new consciousness birthing itself on the planet—an awareness that supports conscious living, which means conscious choice-making. — Life Choices home page I feel like I have more room to breathe now that President Obama has been re-elected. While not the perfect progressive by any means, Obama is a fascinating figure. It’s not an accident that…
Prayer for the Election-Obama is a Bridge to a Better Time
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, Anthem May we find the right road as a nation; it’s a tense time. Yet, the sun still rises and the earth still turns. All is in place and moving in…
Abortion—It’s a Matter of Conscience
I believe abortion is essentially pro-life because my experience has shown me how it can enrich women’s lives. Large numbers of women could not have succeeded as lawyers and doctors, scientists and engineers, without the availability of abortion. Women have a greater degree and sense of safety in their lives because they know they can…
Abortion Rights and the Education of Girls
Malala Yousufzai has become a household name around the world. The fifteen year old is an activist for girls’ education in an area of Pakistan that has been besieged by the Taliban. We all know about the Taliban. They are the religious fanatics who are considered the enemy of freedom and democracy. Among its many terrorist aims, the…
Abortion Teaches Us to Let Go Like the Trees of Fall
If we are to survive as a species, human beings are going to have to accept that our bodies and the body of the Earth are one and the same. We must engage consciously with the life cycles—the coming into being and going away of life through death—and respect those individuals who are put in…
No Choice in the Election
While we have made great strides toward equality, we cannot rest until our mothers, sisters, and daughters assume their rightful place as full participants in a secure, prosperous, and just society. —President Barack Obama As of today, there can be no doubt that women’s well being and reproductive health are at the center of the…
On Becoming A Published Author
It’s been almost a year since Life Choices came into the world, and almost two years since I was offered the book contract for it. I find myself looking back and reflecting, musing and remembering, and being amazed again at all that has transpired. The book is out there now and being carried along in the fast moving…
The Beauty of Counseling
Underneath the many valid reasons for having an abortion—reasons prompted by necessity and life circumstances—is the pulsing of a new way of being in our lives, a way based on self-respect, autonomy, safety, and equality. — Life Choices (p.11) The word that best sums up what I see in my counseling work is beauty. The beauty of… — engaging…