The Sword Was Not With the Goddess: A Spiritual Midwife Addresses the Need to Heal Abortion.

Asked to name her faith, the author states: "I am a member of the evolving new species, beyond the humans who know, beyond Homo sapiens. Even beyond Homo relatens (Lloyd DeMause's term for the humans who relate). My spirituality is the human at one with the source -- Homo Divinitus." She quite openly expresses her spirituality in the following excerpts from the anthology Conscious Conception: An Elemental Journey through the Labyrinth of Sexuality (Monroe, Utah: Freestone, 1986), which she coauthored with her partner Frederick (Rico) Baker. (1)

They explain:

Conscious conception means that we relate to every baby as a soul which is equally desired to be here with us by parents and community. Couples by their awareness of self, would know when ejaculation of semen would set a baby going or not. When babies were not needed by the couple as an expression of their love, none would be conceived.

They propose conscious conception as a peaceful and mindful alternative to an abortion culture.

We can put to rest the victim of fertility archetype which has been at best the inspiration of great literature/tragedy for millennia, and at worst has released much pain and suffering upon our Earth. We can become conscious of our capacity to cocreate--as simple as knowing when one is hungry or thristy, we can know when we are fertile and act in ways which are best-for-life.

This natural knowing is aided by attention to not only our physical bodies and fertility cycles, but our dreams and desires. What is emerging at the end of this millennium is the realization that fertility awareness is a SOURCE experience, one which puts us in direct relationship with creative energy. By becoming conscious of our fertility, we become more creative.

It is our choice in what form we show the world our love--a baby is but one option. Conscious conception transcends the prochoice and prolife polemic. Conscious conception is both at once--simply stated, its instruction is to "Choose Life".