LIFE

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in our local Pregnancy Care Center's "Walk for Life." As soon as I walked onto the sidewalk across from their campus, I was faced with a group of people (mostly college students) holding posters and shouting the following (the shouts are in italics):

• Abortion is Not Murder
• No Hangers
• My Mother is Pro-Choice
• I am a Choice
• Honk if You Respect Reproductive Rights
• Ignorance is Not Sex Ed
• Pro-Life - It's a Lie - You don't care if women die!
• Anti-Women, Anti-Gay, Hating bigots - go away!
• My Body, My Choice!

That is just a sampling of what I saw and heard. I cried. It broke my heart. And I know that Jesus' heart was breaking as well. The irony of pro-life people being called haters is that, we weren't the ones yelling and spewing anger...they were. Their arguments also didn't make any sense...

• Since when is taking someone's innocent life not murder?
• I was not supporting women harming themselves and killing their children with hangers.
• Aren't they glad that their mother's "choice" was to birth them? If she had aborted them, they wouldn't be here today!
• I respect reproductive rights such as appropriate birth control to prevent conception (only in marriage; abstinence before marriage).
• I am most definitely not ignorant about sex education. I'm all for teaching teens about sex and its consequences (and encouraging no sex before marriage, which is the only context that God allows and smiles upon it).
• Yes, I care if women die, but I also care if baby boys and girls die. (And since when do most pregnancies kill women? God designed women's bodies for pregnancy!)
• Again, I wasn't hating or screaming at anyone. I was loving the sinner, but hating the sin.
• An unborn baby is not part of the mother's body. Yes, he/she is attached to the mother's womb, but has its own body. So, it's the child's body, and since the child cannot speak up for his/her own "choice," we must assume that he/she wants to live. (and I'm not speaking that suicide is okay...that's another issue entirely)
  

Life issues have become even dearer to my heart, since pursuing embryo adoption. Aaron and my children are the very ones that the world hates and wants to kill. And our children have never been in a womb since their conception, so they're clearly not "part of a woman's body." Thus, they are already their own unique person. Abortion and embryonic stem cell research is a satanic evil that continues to grow more and more accepted in our world. We must speak up for life! And going along with speaking up for life, means caring for these children before and after birth...This is why all adoption (domestic, international, and embryo) is absolutely necessary today.