Today, I have been researching abortion;
the different types, if they are legal in the U.S., and asking God HOW I
can make a difference. The answer is literally RIGHT in front of me.
Ella. The little girl on the left. She's my second daughter. For
those of you who have heard our story or read my book, you know how we
had to fight for her life. But would I have done that if someone would
have never told me about abortion and how horrific it was?
In
that exam room when I was told that my baby had no chance to survive,
that I was already living on borrowed time because of the risk for a
deadly infection with my womb exposed to dangerous bacteria, would I
have chosen to save my own life with "abortion"/ "terminating my
pregnancy"/"inducing labor" (however you want to put it) if I didn't
know that there was a God who LOVES and cares about me and that that
same God LOVES and cares about my unborn baby?
I was a mom
who was told that her baby would never live. It was suicide to go on
with the pregnancy. For those Pro-Choicers out there who stand firm
because the mother has the right to choose to end her pregnancy to
either protect her own life or her emotional stability because the baby
was the result of rape - Ella and I are LIVING proof that the doctors
are not always right and that an abortion was NOT the only solution.
How selfish can we be? In the 180 movie I posted today on facebook, the
interviewer makes an incredible point. If we are the victims of an
unimaginable crime such as rape, why then do we commit a greater one by
murdering the innocent? Or if it is our life or theirs...who's to say
my life is more important than the little one growing within me? It's
the exact same thing as looking at your 9 month old or 5 yr old and
running low on food, choose to feed only yourself and starve to child to
death. Sound horrific? That's abortion! It's murder. What about the
un-wed mother or mom without support? Well, what about adoption? I
have never seen murder be the healthy solution to anything.
As I
watch video after video with pictures of dead and bloody babies piled
in gallon buckets because they had a cleft pallet, or because they were
Downs Syndrome or because their daddy left, or because their "quality of
life" was going to be less than perfect (like my Ella's life was
predicted to be), I had emotions of nausea and sorrow all at once.
Tears ran down my cheeks as I watched in horror what goes on behind the
closed doors of the abortion clinics.
Doctors once told me that
my body was crushing Ella with such force that her bones would come out
mangled and her quality of life (if a miracle happened and she actually
survived) would be not even worth living because of the lung diseases,
brain development issues (possible brain bleeds, cerebral palsy) that
they said she would have, they said she'd never walk and be confined to
casts her whole life as doctors cut and re-aligned bones again and again
- and that was all IF she even survived, which they left no hope for
ever being a possibility.
Well, halleluiah that doctors are not
God! Today, my bubbly baby girl came jumping up the stairs signing at
the top of those lungs that were never supposed to exist with a bright
and happy smile on her face. And as for that brain of hers...she is 3
1/2 and already recognizes and names every single letter of the alphabet
(upper and lower case) and can put letter-sounds to all but three!
Yesterday she sounded out the word: frog!
I share all of this
#1. because I want to praise our God, Jesus Christ, who is bigger than
any of us ever give Him credit! He saves, He heals, He renews, He
forgives and He IS MIGHTY! Praise His Holy name!
#2. because I want us to be aware of what is going on in hospitals:
*Right now Obama has either changed or is trying to change (I'm not
sure which) all hospital staff requirements that any doctor in any given
hospital regardless of it's religious or moral beliefs be willing to
perform an abortion!
*There is a type of abortion where they
induce labor in a woman early in her pregnancy (20 - 23 weeks or so) and
because they know that the baby is too young to live outside the
mother's womb, they don't introduce any saline solution or "poisons" to
the womb or baby. They simply induce labor and once the baby is born,
wait for it to die. Sometimes it takes only minutes, other times they
can live hours and in a few cases they have lived days with no care or
attention: they are just left in an empty room to die. HORRENDOUS! And
Barack Obama has said "no" THREE times to a law that would require
medical personnel to step in and save the lives of the babies that
lived!
#3. And I am sharing because I believe that most moms
that abort are simply misinformed. That they do not understand what is
really happening. Doctors are Pros at wording it so that you just
believe you are undergoing a procedure. Abortion may not even be in
their vocabulary. So, if the mothers aren't educated about abortion,
they may have one and realize only later what happened.
I
want to thank a dear friend and mentor, Vonnie McDaniel, for telling me
at a very young age in gruesome detail all about abortion! Vonnie, if
it weren't for your words and straight forward and honest description
about what abortion is when I was in 6th grade, I don't know what I
would have chosen to do with my pregnancy. Thank you for talking about a
very tough subject and giving me the tools I needed and belief in the
One who can give courage to fight for a life no one else believes will
live. Ella is one of the greatest blessings and miracles I have EVER
received (along with Calvin and Ariana)!
To all of my
friends, I urge you to choose life unashamedly and to urge those around
you to urge their friends to do the same and to really educate them on
what is going on in our world, in America today!!
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