The High Price of “Free Sex”

Many of the clients who call or come in to Life Centers do so because they have realized they may be facing paying a far higher price for so-called “free sex” then they expected.  That price may be a pregnancy they feel unprepared to handle, emotional damage resulting from feeling used rather than loved, physical problems from birth control or STIs, or post-abortion trauma leading to depression or addictive behaviors.  Now, doctors are warning that the price of “free” sexual activity may include your life as a new strain of gonorrhea is rapidly on the rise.

The antibiotic-resistant form of gonorrhea, HO41, reportedly found only 2 years ago in Japan, may be much worse than AIDS because the bacteria is much more aggressive and will affect more people quickly.  Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put a person into septic shock causing death within several days.  William Smith, Director of the National Coalition of STD Directors, said that this is an emergency situation.  “As time moves on, it’s getting more hazardous.”  Smith is urging Congress to allocate additional funding of $54 million for research to try to develop treatments and conduct a public awareness campaign.  However, doctors say that once again, the true avoidance of this disease would be to practice sex in the context of a pure, monogamous relationship with a person of the opposite sex, the original design of marriage.  Perhaps the priceless gift of sexuality saved for and exclusively given to a lifetime mate is actually the only truly free sex after all. If you have questions regarding the price you may find yourself paying as the result of choices you are facing, contact us. We are here 24 hours a day to listen to your concerns and offer help. 1-800-973-7334. www.vclifecenters.com

Mother’s Day Musings

“You’re really going to love Mom.”  Too true.  Studies and surveys of consumer trends tell us that Mothers Day is the holiday which garners the most phone calls and gift and card purchases of the year in terms of remembering one person in our lives.  Dream therapists tell us the baby in a pregnant mom’s dreams represents herself.  Science has now confirmed that each child conceived by a woman leaves its DNA trace in its mother’s body for the remainder of that mother’s life regardless of pregnancy loss due to abortion or miscarriage.  It is no surprise, then, that women can usually tell you the age an unborn child would be decades after such a loss.  The memory of that child is still physically present in her.  How, then, can we continue to minimize the effects of abortion on our society? 

While Senator Mike Lee and ten co-sponsors call on the US Congress to pass a resolution asking that “Congress and States should gather information about and correct abusive, unsanitary and illegal abortion practices and the interstate referral of women and girls to facilities engaged in dangerous or illegal second and third semester procedures” in response to the continuing exposure (one in D.C. and one in New York - see videos below) of the many physical harms to women being committed by abortion, there remains a strange silence about the terrible emotional and psychological trauma abortion causes many women (and men).  Post-abortion syndrome has been linked to many troubling symptoms and behaviors, including depression, promiscuity, addictive and self-destructive behaviors.  It can often be the cause of a failure to bond between a mother and a later child. 

Mother’s Day may be a time which holds a bittersweet or even a dreaded feeling for you or someone you know. Life Centers offers post-abortion counseling and referrals to help heal the wounds of a mother’s heart. We also offer free ultrasounds allowing a woman to see for herself the baby growing within her so that she can celebrate being a loving mom every Mother’s Day to come.

Call our confidential 24 hr. hotline today at 1-800-973-7334 or visit us online at www.vclifecenters.com.