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ABORTION HAS A FACE

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     I would like to share personal stories that to me illustrates what the abortion issue is all about. It is about real people. The political left, in it's vanity thinks it has the right to decide who lives or dies. It thinks that it can decide, because of the complexity and quality, or lack of quality, in a person's perceived environment, what is best for that person. Only God is truly qualified to make that judgement. I have seen people born into less than desirable circumstances become hardened criminals and I have seen them become one of the top neuro-surgeons in the country.  My granddaughter was born on September 4, 1987 and my daughter Misty, who I love more than life itself, made a mistake becoming pregnant at fourteen years old. After I recovered from the shock we  had a talk and I felt obligated to remind her that what she did was wrong. I really didn't have to say that because she knew she was wrong. In our family abortion is not an option. I told her that

1963- CHAPTER ONE- OUR FOUNDATION

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                                                                                                                                           Introduction  It was a beautiful, clear Wednesday morning, January 16, 1963. Daddy sat at a nearby dresser, watching mother as she lay sleeping. Granddaddy, and my grandmother, who we called mama, and granddaddy's invalid sister Arda Brown Mannion, were in the kitchen at the rear of the house. Which was about 50 feet away from where my parents were in the front bedroom. Didi, my mother's youngest sister, was working at Southern Bell Telephone Company a few blocks away. My brother Mark, myself, and my cousins Roy and Alton, were at school. Donna, my older sister, was living with her husband Larry at our home across town in West Nashville. The rest of us were temporarily living with my grandparents because my father had suffered a mental decline over the past six months or so. Our hope was that one day we would be able to return