check your sugarcoat at the door

the battles that aren’t fought

(They may never be clicked or read or considered, but I’m doing a disservice every time I don’t use my own public forum to spread words I find inspiring, motivational or simply, worth the read.)

I found Fran Varian’s words for the first time in It’s So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style. Though I finished the book a week ago, I looked her up today for more, more, more.

At hipmama.com, I found this: Teeth

Fran put words to the death of a young boy who didn’t have the insurance coverage to remove an abcessed tooth. For this, he died. She talks about the passion with which abortion is fought against and the contrasting lack of passion to help the children we already have.

A 12 year-old boy died this past Sunday from poverty, in the United States of America. It’s not as uncommon as it might seem.

Deamonte Driver had a right to life. He had the right to finish the 7th grade and do whatever 12 year-old boys do in the summer these days. His mother wanted this child so much she harbored him inside of her uterus for forty weeks. I believe she had a right to watch him grow up. I believe that every Mother has the right to watch her child grow up.

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I would join your protests over this boy’s death but I doubt you’ll organize any. Somehow I can’t see you aiming your bullhorns at Maryland in one collective outcry of anger and grief the same way you flocked to Florida and wailed outside the window of a grown woman who wanted to die.

Somewhere in South Dakota there’s a terrified 19 year-old girl with a toilet full of morning sickness, no boyfriend and no money.

Let us pray.

 -CJ

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