Emily Brooke

Getting to hear your baby’s heartbeat for the first time is surreal. No baby bump yet, but there’s already a second heart inside me, beating away. Pregnancy is simultaneously so ordinary, and an absolute miracle. #elevenweeks #fetaldevelopment #prolife

Anytime you see two men raising a child, understand that they didn't even have to pass a background check. And at least one of those men is not biologically related to the child, which is statistically the most dangerous man to have in the home.

The “Cars” soundtrack did not have to go that hard.

If you can survive driving downtown and parking for the Mini, you can handle the Mini.

I am calling for millennials to be grandfathered back into this program. BOOK IT was the best thing in my elementary education. What do we need to do to qualify? Read classics of American literature? I’ll read whatever is necessary to score that personal pan pizza.

“The distance between Indianapolis and heaven is shorter than the distance between Indianapolis and Cincinnati” -Marguerite Young

Size, consciousness, self-awareness, and capacity for pain are completely arbitrary markers of personhood and would justify killing large numbers of people in addition to unborn children.

We need to start letting children write movie synopses. My six year old just asked for “the boy in red underwear who sings with the bear who walks on two feet.”

@KalleSorbo @midwestern_ope I had that profound thought driving from Indiana (home) to Colorado. I was highly anticipating the mountains, but driving across Kansas the sky was the most unbelievable blue and the wheat fields actually looked like gold shining in the sun, as far as the eye can see.

The secret of America is there really isn’t an ugly state. Even North Dakota & Iowa have breathtaking beauty in their own right.

No, gay men should not to allowed to buy babies via a surrogate. No, single straight men should not be allowed to buy babies via a surrogate. No, single women shouldn’t be allowed to buy babies via a surrogate. No, married heterosexual couples shouldn’t be able to buy babies via a surrogate. Is that clear enough for you? Surrogacy commodifies a baby, reducing the child into a product to be purchased, grossly violating that child’s human dignity. Surrogacy then robs the baby of mother and/or father, all to gratify adults who think their desire for a child trumps the wellbeing of the child who deserves an intact natural family. Surrogacy in all circumstances is a gross violation of natural law. It should be illegal. This should not be a controversial opinion.

It’s an Indianapolis tradition: sign up for the Mini in December with great intentions, forget about it until March, panic jog all through April.

My toxic trait is I will stop and organize the contents of any Little Free Library I happen across.

I think if you want someone to understand the ethical issues with egg donation and surrogacy for gay men the best thing you can do is ask them this question: “Why do you think the standard practice in these arrangements is to have two separate women as donor and surrogate?” Any human with a functioning moral compass and an above room temperature IQ is going to feel at least a bit uncomfortable as they outline how this arrangement is intended to ensure minimal maternal infant bonding and therefor no legal claim of motherhood. People who oppose these practices often frame it as “buying a baby” but I think that’s not quite right, because at least one intended parent is usually the actual father. What they are buying, and legally ensuring, is the absence of a mother.

Just a couple of dads laughing off the notion that their baby, taken from mom at birth, is whimpering for her. #stopsurrogacynow Creating motherless children is a new technological "advancement." Thank Obergefell. It's time to @MakeKidsGreater

They bought the eggs of one woman, rented the womb of another, and that baby will never know its mother. It is an absolute indictment of our society that we allow this. It should be criminal.

A favorite: authors Lew Wallace (botd 1827) & James Whitcomb Riley. Wallace's Ben Hur was the best-selling book of the 19th century, & Riley was the leading poet of the age. Indiana produced more bestselling authors from 1880 through 1920 than anywhere else, even New York.

@allyobrien @Prolife_Sam @taytay__babes @smoke_nd_pearlz Killing humans is bad. A fetus is not —oh wait.

@Prolife_Sam @taytay__babes @smoke_nd_pearlz Killing children is bad. A fetus is not a child

Teen pregnancy wasn’t gonna be a thing in my household growing up because my momma believed in birth control and abortion 😂😂

I have two sovereign citizens on my caseload and that is two too many.

@EudaimoniaEsq I likewise hate “St. Mary’s”

I always think of Steel Magnolias as an Easter movie. Is that correct?

I really, really love Tenebrae service. Is that weird?