Friday, June 24, 2022
Never Give In
Today is meaningful as a fulfillment of my life's work, of 30-some years. It's not a final victory, by any means. But reversing Roe v. Wade was a goal, a marker. Not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning, as Winston Churchill said. And giving a check to whatever joy and relief may be found, is remembering the thousands of pre-natal children ever the years, children whose mothers dismissed or ignored my pleas to let them live and my offers of help so that the mothers may more easily do so. All that happening as they passed me by at the abortion sites in Asheville. As of today, the battle has changed, but the killing will continue into the foreseeable future.Now that Roe is no more, after a brief tantrum, pro-abortion activists and politicians will quickly shift to the new fronts. And, they believe they have their issue for the upcoming November elections. I have spoken and written thousands and thousands of words on this subject. At this point, I have said all that must be said.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
“Women’s March on Asheville” & “Bans Off Our Bodies”
For the occasion of the “Women’s March on Asheville” and “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies in Asheville, North Carolina today, May 14, 2022:
“Pro-abortion reaction to Alito’s draft ruling is mass social hysteria. Nothing they say, nor how loud they say it changes the reality of abortion hurting a mother and killing a baby. Absolute “bodily autonomy” is violent and brutal when it means removing a pre-natal child from their natural environment, where they are perfectly viable. A child who only wants to be loved.
“The tragic part of Alito’s draft is it doesn’t recognize the humanity and personhood of pre-natal human beings. It merely undoes the legal travesty that was Roe v. Wade, something the court should have done 30 years ago with the PP v. Casey decision. Pro-abortion people are declaring contempt for a Supreme Court that no longer affirms destroying a life. But Justice Alito’s draft is persuasive. It throws the “issue” of abortion back to the states because abortion never was a constitutional right.
“If the majority of the Court holds to Alito’s draft, the angry, absurd rhetoric to intimidate judges and lawmakers will continue in state legislatures. The effort to drown and demonize voices who speak for women and children will intensify. Our nation protected the enslavement of human beings for 200 years. The South relied upon slavery. It took a negation of a Supreme Court decision and war between states to end slavery
“Until we all recognize the personhood of pre-natal human beings, while also accommodating the unique nature of women, the division and conflict will only grow.”
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Wandering Lost in the Wilderness
Over the past couple years I been thinking about our status in the mission to protect pre-natal children. When I say “our” I mean those people who are anti-abortion. My thoughts could be summarized by a few simple statements, but until the fall season of 2019, I didn’t have any sort of figure, metaphor, or illustration to explain them.
Preachers, in my experience, often don’t give apt contemporary examples of Bible stories, and in this case, I was able to do it myself in a way that seems perfect. Our pastor had been preaching a series on the life of Moses, and the section on this particular Sunday covered Numbers 13 and 14, the story of the Lord commanding Moses to send leaders of the Israelites to scout out the promised land, the land of Canaan.
Moses asked them to investigate the strength of the people
who lived there, the fertility of the soil, and the fortifications, if any, of
the cities. He asked them to bring back
some of the fruits of the land. As you
may remember, the scouts came back and said the land truly flowed with “milk
and honey,” but the people were powerful and the cities large and well
fortified. Then Caleb “silenced the
people” and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can
certainly do it.” At this the other
leaders, other than Joshua, complained that they couldn’t attack the Canaanites
who were far too strong for them. They even began spreading false reports about
the land itself, and said that it was occupied by giants, the Nephilim, who
made them feel as small as grasshoppers. That night all the people complained and wept
aloud that they wished they had died in
As a result of this rebellion, and their grumbling, the Lord said that the Israelites would wander in the wilderness for 40 years, one year for every day they scouted the promised land, and furthermore, every person 20 years or older, those who had seen his miracles, like the parting of the Red Sea and the pillars of cloud and fire, would die in the wilderness. The very thing the people feared that might result from trying to take the land would happen to them, and in contrast the children who the people feared would be taken as plunder would be who entered the land God had promised. Only Caleb and Joshua were excepted, because they had remained faithful.
So, here’s my contemporary application: In our
early Life Advocates newsletters from the late 1980s, we stated as our purpose
the transformation of our culture to value the sanctity of human life. Practically speaking, our goal was to change
the laws, beginning with a reversal of Roe
v. Wade, so that pre-natal children would be given the same protection as
born people have, but not only that, but through education and ministry, this
transformation would be peaceful. Over
time, as people learned the truth about human life in the womb, attitudes and
beliefs would change. I believed that
this change was attainable within my lifetime.
I don’t recall the exact year, (it would have been in the early 1990s)
but, immediately prior to the announcement of the Casey Supreme Court decision,
we had scheduled a press conference at
The real opportunity for change came during the movement
under the banner of Operation Rescue.
This amounted to nearly a decade when thousands of people across the
country peacefully interposed their bodies between the likely victims of
abortion and the professional killers. A
friend of mine was one of the leaders of Operation Rescue. I can’t verify this
without doing a lot of research, but he said that more people were arrested to
trying to save pre-natal children, than were arrested during the entire Civil
Rights movement. The principal of rescue,
and usually its practice, unlike picketing, protesting, education, lobbying,
etc, and even ministry to pregnant women, directly addressed the immediate
situation of people about to be murdered.
I remember those days well. The showdown between life and death was in
play. Christians and others were putting their lives and livelihoods on the
line. I remember Dr. James Dobson
calling people to
But it failed. Because of my acquaintance with one of the leaders of Operation Rescue, I know some of the inside story of this failure. I won’t go into that right now. In the public realm however, Christian leaders failed to support the rescue movement. They either disagreed with “breaking the law” or they remained silent and uninvolved. Their motives, I can only guess at from this distance. Was it that they felt they could do more good not being in jail? Where they afraid? That’s how I felt, though I supported Rescue. Without the widespread support of the church, those people who actually risked arrest, fines, and jail, became discouraged, disillusioned, and demoralized. And no one emerged who was willing to become a life-long martyr. Despite several people carrying the name of Rescue for some time, the Rescue Movement was effectively dead. At this point, the bombers and shooters moved in. That is a whole different chapter that I will not go into now. You can read my novel, Universal Man for further exploration of all this.
As for the biblical analogy: transforming our culture to
hold to the sanctity of human life was the promised land. Our own nation, the
Our status therefore is, we are now wandering in the wilderness. Look what has happened since them. Unthinkable terrorism, drug epidemics, the “legalization” of homosexual marriage, etc. And more recently, the ongoing world-wide corona virus epidemic, the resulting economic suppression, and even now riots, burning buildings, and looting in cities everywhere.
As far as I can see, the apparent leaders of the anti-abortion movement now have no coherent vision of what we should be as a nation and a culture, let alone how to achieve or reach for that vision. There are sporadic, uncoordinated attempts to tinker around the edges of the law, with varying success. To expect an additional Trump nominee to change the “balance” of the Supreme so that a reversal of Roe is possible, is naïve. (There always has been who we think is a reliable vote that suddenly evolves. Take some of the strange opinions of Chief Justice Roberts, for example.
The most active front of the anti-abortion efforts now calls itself the Abortion Abolition Movement. I am very familiar with its ideas and people who identify themselves this way. Their idea, as best I understand it, is that we must call for a complete ban on abortion. I have heard some of them express that mother’s who abort should be charged criminally for murder. There seems to be an underlying belief that what we called the “pro-life” movement is evil and actually has prolonged the existence of legal abortion. Another aspect is the belief that only through preaching the gospel will individuals and our society will change. Few “abolitionists” seem to understand rescue. They don’t have a developed picture of what our society would actually look like having abolished abortion, or what it would take practically and policy-wise to reach this goal. Without going into a detailed critique, I will say that they are partly right and party wrong about all of this. The hardest part for me personally, is the attitude that somehow they have something new that’s never been tried before. The confusion and overly narrow perspective of their viewpoint is part of wandering in the wilderness. As least they are still active and out there confronting abortion.
We all are, in fact, wandering lost in the wilderness, myself included. All of us are compromised to one degree or another. None of us possesses a full comprehension of the reality of abortion that includes the full spectrum of responses. All of us have devised spiritual, emotional, and psychological barriers to allow us to live more or less normal lives that accommodate the killing and allow it to continue without being any more than mildly troubled. This is the result of long term exposure and relative inaction, at least in proportion to the true urgency of the immediate life and death situation. I myself suffer from compassion burnout. I’ve reached a point where, on an emotional level, I just don’t care anymore.
Many, in fact most, “pro-life” antiabortion people participate occasionally in an ineffective or partly effective campaign or project related to abortion. Or they vote and think that fulfills their duty. Some pro-life preachers will deliver a sermon on the subject once a year. Some pro-life preachers will not preach a whole sermon, but will mention the subject in passing once or twice a year. Some pro-life churches immerse themselves in and feel called to concentrate their efforts on other needs, such as hunger or homelessness, while simply effectively ignoring the slaughter that takes place a few miles from where they meet. Many pro-life people and churches were once active and now are not. This is all part of wandering lost in the wilderness.
Roe v. Wade
dropped on us coming on to 47 years ago.
The abortion of children in the womb was “legalized” six years before
that in
So, what do we do? The short answer is, I don’t know. I also don’t know if we can draw an exact parallel between the Numbers narrative and our present circumstances, especially the epilogue. When those men who are responsible for spreading a bad report about the promised land were struck down and died of a plague, all the surviving Israelites “mourned bitterly”, admitted they had sinned and attempted to enter the promised land. But Moses said this now was disobeying the Lord’s command, and the inhabitants of the land attacked and beat them down. In other words, it was too late to avoid the 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
A longer answer, then, is that we must endure whatever comes and be faithful when and to what we can in the areas of being present where children are being killed, of seeking to change the law and educating and reasoning with our neighbors, in creating powerful artistic expressions, and in serving women and men who face difficulties with pregnancy and raising children. We also must admit that we are wandering and not pretend that our schemes and strategies will make much of a difference on the culture, or that they will significantly change the death count. My prediction for the future is that true Christians will suffer persecution and be forced to endure hardships, and this is part of the purification process.* How long or short this term of wandering will be, I have no idea. Whatever happens in this coming election and afterwards, the results will be alarming.
-Meredith Eugene Hunt
*While I can’t say I know exactly what to do as an
individual, I have some ideas of what could and should happen. I didn’t want this commentary to be about my
novel, but I did put these ideas in its story. Since nobody is really reading
it, it doesn’t matter if I give spoilers.
The main title, Universal Man,
is a statement that I wrote the main character, who, though flawed as any human
being is, represents the Church. He
wanders for a time in the wilderness of the
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The World & the Devil's Hatred
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Make Way for Ducklings
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Friday, June 14, 2019
Letter: Abortion Protestors Should Go Home
The Mountain Xpress published a letter to the editor on June 5, 2019 that they headlined. “Abortion Protestors Should Go Home,” referring to us who go to Planned Parenthood on Saturday mornings. The letter writer, Mark Wonnacott made several claims. 1.We pro-lifers believe that abortion is murder. 2.We mostly only go out on warm, sunny days and go home when it starts drizzling. 3.We are very careful to stay within the confines of the law. 4.We obstruct the bus stop. He bases his claims on observations made from his vehicle at the traffic stop light. His conclusion is that we are either “moral cowards of the highest order”, or that we “use an imagined sense of moral superiority, an artfully constructed victim narrative and a position of incredibly social power to bully women… or both.” I guess the victim narrative would be about pre-natal children. Anyway, he recommends that we should “Stop it. Go home. Pay your taxes. Hug your children. Trust women.”
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Aborting Father Threatens to Kill Pro-life Grandma
This happened at the Asheville Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago. Someone called the police later in the morning, probably on us. The police showed up in numbers, detained some of us, did background checks, and then gave us a talk about "good behavior." I had originally posted this video on our YouTube channel, but then YT took the video down, citing their privacy policy. I have this man's name and other identifying information, and in the future if he does anything else like this to us, I will press charges for communicating a threat.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Burning Roe v. Wade
The Review
First of all, Roe v. Wade is one of the most despicable documents in history. It and slavish submission to it are responsible philosophically for the deaths of millions of human beings since 1973. That itself is enough to earn this little volume a zero. Less than zero.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
"Random Act of Kindness of Some Basic Life Essentials"
Thanks so much for your support. It is needed. We can’t give up.
UPDATE: That was a week ago. Last weekend I found another green bag in a new location, and this time I was able to get pictures. I had mis-remembered the words of the note. The headline of the blog post contains the right words. This time I looked inside the bag to see if I might learn who is doing this project. There was no identifying information. The bag contained a stocking hat, gloves, a scarf, some soap, wipes, a hand warmer, a few snacks, a couple other things, and a bottle of water. I left the bag as I found it.
The last photo here is not of Planned Parenthood, but a little place called Biscuit Head along Biltmore Avenue that we see every time we leave PP. There's always a long line. It seems so strange in this out-of-the-way place. People standing in line in a parking lot. I spoke with a couple from Missouri that was eating biscuits from a box off the back of their car. They had driven all the way from western Kentucky to visit Asheville for the weekend. They said it was faster ordering food here by take out. The wait was an hour, they said. I told them where they could go for a nice nearby hike to some cliffs along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
In the other side of this building is an office for TranzMission. And we wonder why things seem to be changing so fast. They have money. There's an organization.
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Become a Patron
[Note: I just moved this article from www.chaoticterrinpress.blogspot.com this morning. The original posting was on 7/10/17.]
This below is what I posted on Patreon yesterday. The idea is to invite a friendly audience of vehicular passersby to support us and my writing.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Perspective
Three young Jewish women converse at a mass demonstration in
to protest against the Nazi
persecution of German Jewry.* 1933 USHMM
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I've been thinking about the hatred and rage we experience when we are on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Sure, lots of people give friendly honks and thumbs-up. I appreciate those, even if the support is weak. (It would mean more if people actually joined us.) The opposition on the other hand is emotionally fierce, and it sticks with you.
*The photograph has been cleaned up from the original, to remove specks. And cropped a little.To see the original and the documentation, go to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. I considered using this photo in my novel, but getting permission to use a high resolution image was burdensome. The photo is in the public domain.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Planned Parenthood Protest, 2-11-17
It took a while for us to figure out why Planned Parenthood was closed, but their parking lot was full. Their people had gone to a rally in Raleigh. |
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Video: "Making the BEST Anti-Abortion, Pro-Life Signs Workshop"
Monday, January 23, 2017
Video: "Women's March on Asheville"
Sunday, January 22, 2017
GRACEFUL RUNNER Available TODAY!
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
A Novel for Roe v. Wade
To read the heart of the back cover of Graceful Runner, go to the page link on the right. The first, earlier edition of the book may be found HERE at the Barnes & Noble Nook store in an electronic version.
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Planned Parenthood Spending Your Tax Dollars on Flavored Condoms?
Monday, November 21, 2016
Berea College Students Stand for Life
The video may be found HERE.
Monday, November 14, 2016
The Swastika of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Berea College in Kentucky Promotes Abortionist Willie Parker, The "Good Samaritan."
This above is a screen shot of a video of a slide show that promotes abortionist Willie Parker and his convocation of November 10, 2016. The short video and a pan of the Berea College library, made two days AFTER the event, may be seen HERE. Below is a screenshot of an online announcement.