.:|:. Dove Love’s .:. Points and Passions .:|:.

I just came upon this excerpt on another blog. The author of that blog seemed to be getting it, and stated emphatically “force doesn’t work.” Um, yeah, bingo. But the irony is this person appeared to be quite devoted to religion — apparently oblivious to the fact that organized religion is one of the most controlling systems in our world, one of the most insidious in our lives.

So here’s the excerpt, on the issue of abortion and clear indication that allowing people their “god-given” right to freedom and not fearful control is what actually works.  Go figure :)

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ROME, Oct. 11 — A comprehensive global study of abortion has concluded that abortion rates are similar in countries where it is legal and those where it is not, suggesting that outlawing the procedure does little to deter women seeking it. The data also suggested that the best way to reduce abortion rates was not to make abortion illegal but to make contraception more widely available, said Sharon Camp, chief executive of the Guttmacher InstituteIn Eastern Europe, where contraceptive choices have broadened since the fall of Communism, the study found that abortion rates have decreased by 50 percent, although they are still relatively high compared with those in Western Europe. “In the past we didn’t have this kind of data to draw on,” Ms. Camp said. “Contraception is often the missing element” where abortion rates are high, she said.

source: www.nytimes.com
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And because of all of our controlling systems (parents, schooling, church, governments), we feel powerless, suffocated — it’s slowly killing us. We are beings that were meant to be free, to govern our own lives without constant interference from others. It comes to mind how some animals will die in captivity, others will chew off their own foot to become free of their entrapment. “Give me liberty or give me death” says Patrick Henry. Life without freedom is intolerable, and the intrusions and control of the government in our lives now is unconscionable. We are no longer respected as “the People” and have clearly become the slaves. We aren’t respected for the power that all human beings have within them. We all balk at being controlled. Some much more strongly than others, but we all have that anti-control thing. It goes against our nature to be controlled. And yet in this mega-controlling society, we have all come to be very controlling people, many (many) “control freaks.”

And that makes sense, we have been controlled since birth, and there’s our training to control others. And this insatiable desire, seeming need, we have to control others is all rooted in fear, something we live and breathe to our great detriment.

But my original point here — freedom works, rigid control doesn’t. Why that hasn’t become abundantly obvious confounds me. Have our religion-based laws reduced the “crime,” has it gotten our world under control? How’s that “war on drugs” workin’ for us? How ’bout that prohibition thing? Have we dramatically put a cap on prostitution? Did our former abortion laws stop women from getting abortions? No, it just ensured the deaths or suffering of a lot of women. Again, human beings will not be successfully controlled — ever. Either freedom or death will come first. Even as the “sheeple” we have allowed ourselves to become, we are still very powerful beings, we will always push back (in one form or another) upon being pushed.

Dove

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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.  Martin Luther King, Jr.

As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.
Albert Einstein

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.