{"id":7412,"date":"2004-04-25T22:33:05","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T22:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html"},"modified":"2004-04-25T22:33:05","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T22:33:05","slug":"rather_amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html","title":{"rendered":"Rather Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/ny-lilife0426,0,4252977.story?coll=ny-homepage-big-pix\">Newsday runs a fair portrayal of pro-life folks at the march<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maureen Russell, a clinical social worker from Floral Park, said family obligations kept her from attending the rally, but she counsels women who regret having abortions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many women bought the argument that if they had an abortion, their problems would be solved,&#8221; she said yesterday, adding that she is a mother of three who considers herself a feminist. &#8220;But when women choose against their children, it&#8217;s almost like going against themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hours before dawn yesterday, Mawn and other activists from Long Island gathered across the street from St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Ronkonkoma to board a bus that took them to Washington. After the four-hour drive, they stood with hundreds of others holding signs along eight blocks on Pennsylvania Avenue around 13th Street, the area designated for anti-abortion activists.<\/p>\n<p>They were met with intense opposition, and more than a few abortion rights marchers yelled at them, said Mary Fountaine, a Sayville volunteer for the Long Island Coalition for Life, who held a sign with a photo of a woman holding a baby. &#8220;They hate it,&#8221; Fountaine said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen so much hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added, &#8220;I&#8217;m down here today to try to turn the hearts a little bit of some of the people who are marching.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday runs a fair portrayal of pro-life folks at the march Maureen Russell, a clinical social worker from Floral Park, said family obligations kept her from attending the rally, but she counsels women who regret having abortions. &#8220;So many women bought the argument that if they had an abortion, their problems would be solved,&#8221; she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rather Amazing - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rather Amazing - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newsday runs a fair portrayal of pro-life folks at the march Maureen Russell, a clinical social worker from Floral Park, said family obligations kept her from attending the rally, but she counsels women who regret having abortions. &#8220;So many women bought the argument that if they had an abortion, their problems would be solved,&#8221; she&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-04-25T22:33:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rather Amazing - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rather Amazing - Via Media","og_description":"Newsday runs a fair portrayal of pro-life folks at the march Maureen Russell, a clinical social worker from Floral Park, said family obligations kept her from attending the rally, but she counsels women who regret having abortions. &#8220;So many women bought the argument that if they had an abortion, their problems would be solved,&#8221; she&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2004-04-25T22:33:05+00:00","author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html","name":"Rather Amazing - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"datePublished":"2004-04-25T22:33:05+00:00","dateModified":"2004-04-25T22:33:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/rather_amazing.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rather Amazing"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}