Father Kleppner - October 14, 2007 Basketball Star Thankful Mom Chose Life Over Abortion Last September, Swintayla Cash, USA champion captain of the Detroit Shock Basketball team, after winning the 2003 WNBA championship trophy, sat down in the locker room and cried. Now, with a chance to go to the Athens Olympics, she revealed why. Cash is a beautiful and talented young woman who rose from a life of poverty to success as a professional athlete. She has ambitions beyond the basketball court and wants to go into acting and modeling and does motivational speaking about “fighting through life’s adversity.” Last week she made the U.S. Olympic team. She was born in 1979, six years after Roe v. Wade and her high-schoolaged mother had agonized over whether to abort her. “There were 1,000 things going through my mind,” she said about the day last September when she was caught crying in the locker room, “My mom went through a whole ordeal about whether to have an abortion, or to keep me because she was a senior in high school.” Staff at crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. are well aware that abortion facilities set up shop in the poor subsidized housing neighborhoods and target vulnerable young girls with scare tactics about a life of unending poverty. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger made no secret of her intention to cleanse the U.S. of racially and economically “undesirable” people, especially African Americans, Jews, Catholics, Eastern Europeans and Italians. Today, though only 14 percent of women in the U.S. of childbearing age are African American, up to 50% of all abortions were committed against African American women. Cash’s mother, Cynthia, says Swin is an inspiration to the children of their hometown, McKeesport, Pennsylvania. “Some of the kids that live in public housing look at her and see that you can achieve anything you want if you’re willing to work hard,” she said. “We didn’t have a whole lot but Swin never let that stop her;” Cash says of her mother, “Without her sacrifice, love and support I have no idea where I would be today. She is a phenomenal woman and mother but most of all she is my best friend.”   Have You Ever Thought About the Extravagance of God? More sky that we can see More sea than we can sail More sun that we can bear to watch More stars than we can scale More breath that we can breathe More yield that we can sow More grace that we can comprehend More love than we can know.

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