Storm Clouds over Pennsylvania

2/12/2015

Kathleen and Phil Foley

We have received several communications from women in Pennsylvania expressing their fear of the passage of PA Bill HB 162. Pennsylvania appears to be following New Jersey in exposing women who suffered catastrophic pregnancies and were rescued by the confidential adoption process.

For women who will be impacted by this legislation, we recommend you review our blog entry Governor Chris Christie signs death warrant for aging and elderly women in New Jersey, May 5, 2014 and The Opening of Sealed Adoption Records: Privacy and Redaction, May 20, 2014.

Although the legislation in Pennsylvania in not exactly like the New Jersey legislation, the life altering impact is the same for women traumatized by confidential and unwanted pregnancy no matter what her age.

The Storm is coming. You are stronger than you think. You have options. Don’t let the State of Pennsylvania control you destiny. Be proactive. You are not alone.

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In the provocative spirit of Matilda Joslyn Gage, Gloria Anzaldua, and Mary Daly, Kathleen Hoy Foley expands and deepens the voice of female experience.

Raw. Uncompromising. Compassionate. Deliberately antagonistic. Kathleen writes to awaken the courage within the reader.

TO THE SURVIVOR
If you are a person who was victimized as a child or as an adult, I am so very sorry you ever had to suffer at the hands of a predator.

I am sorry you were abused, sorry no one protected you, sorry you have felt so alone, sorry you have been so afraid then and in the now. I am so sorry for the loss of your innocence.

You were and are entitled to you life. And you had a right to inherit your own body. And no matter what you did or what you think you failed to do you are not to blame. Sexual abuse is never a victim's choice. Sexual abuse is something that was done to your body not something you wanted.

This is an excerpt from:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130101063123/http://true-perspective.org

Kathleen and I encourage you to visit this site for perspective on your ordeal. Live happy and whole. Claim you power!

You are your own authority.

Question Everything. Including social, religious & political authorities

Learn to listen and respond to your intuition. It is never wrong.

Learn to be impolite. It must be part of your defense system.

Nothing is unspeakable.

Stare truth in the eye and speak it.

You name abuse. Listen to your body. It will tell you. It is never wrong.

Stare abuse in the eye and speak it.

Stare abusers in the eye and name them.

Use your voice. Use your words.

BE LOUD. Violence against girls, boys, women and men hides in the silent shadows.

Know that you are powerful.

KNOW THAT YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL. USE IT.

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