FATHERHOOD & ABORTION

Fatherhood, in its deepest form, is a Priest-craft, and children live within the loins of every boy, and every man capable of laying seed within a womb. The craft of Fatherhood is a learned skill and with its attendant responsibilities requires initiation to introduce the depth of it all to Life to a man.

There are numerous clichés circulating around in people’s heads far from the depth of fatherhood used to rally people around the cause against abortion, but fear of losing position, or argument dominants the discourses on the subject. Other fears laced around the issue are masked under dark ominous countenances, and the emphasis of Christians upon the teachings of Christ reveals a weakness atheists pick up readily: the fear of true power, as Jesus saw, taught, and lived it.

Unable to speak truth to power, or embrace the ancient concept of Genesis Christians fail to understand that Creation is not a fixed event in our collective past, but an ever-present copulation of energies dancing between, or rather within life-death-resurrection. This is an understanding of Life plunging the individual, and the tribe into the fierceness of living truth-to-power. What many thinking Native people, or as some of us call ourselves: NDNS, understand about this is that the very people who must war against other nations are the most fervent supporters of abortion rights. It is hard for many to understand the movements within the white American soul.

The task of raising children needs mirrors, but the extremes within this controversy are unable to see the correlation between mirrors, and child-rearing, water, and fire, or the propensity to war and the survival of the fetus, and the inexplicable ability of white people, over our collective history, to eradicate whole tribes with the stroke of a pen, and their furious fight to shut down abortion clinics to save the lives of unborn babies. For many the contradictions are gross, too many, and overwhelming. They are complicated in the midst of the struggle, but easy to see.” – Gregory E. Woods 10.21.12

Evelyn Thorns waiting for train at Union Station