Matthew 5:7 KJV
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Exodus 21:22-25 KJV
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Genesis 50:20-21 KJV
20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
I have been tossing this post around for nearly a week. I have been putting off writing it because it was a difficult one to research. I think that anyone that knows me, know the heart that I have for babies and for children. To think of one suffering in any magnitude, breaks my heart. I rarely watch the news for this very reason, my nerves simply can't handle it.
Yet if anyone deserves our mercy it is our children. Both born and unborn.
And so it is with a broken heart that I find myself writing this tonight. That it even needs to be written speaks to the evil that the world has succumbed to.
I cannot tell you of the pain of rape or incest. I have never suffered such tragedies in my life. I cannot tell you of the pain of being rejected by the only family I have because of what is deemed a mistake in their eyes. I cannot tell you of the pain of being told that I am an inconvenience and I need to be gotten rid of. Or that I am deformed and therefore not worth letting live. Yet, since the legalization of abortion in 1973, millions of babies have suffered this pain, have been murdered simply because they were unwanted.
I sit here with a lump in my throat, trying to banish the images from my mind that I have seen tonight. But I realize that it's this very mindset that let the horrors of Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic go on for over 3 decades. Sticking my head in the sand will not unsee what I have seen and it certainly won't stop what is being done in our country.
There are viable babies being born all over our country tonight that are being refused medical care or being flat out murdered because they are complications of abortion. As if it isn't heinous enough that we legally snuff out the lives of babies because they are "non-persons" until they are born and fill their lungs with oxygen, it is pure evil that allows a baby to die alone in a metal dish, refusing life saving medical treatment, simply because he was supposed to have died during the abortion procedure. It is the stuff of nightmares. Truly it is. I had no idea, or perhaps I just didn't want to believe that man could be so cold and callous, that there are babies who survive abortions, babies who, with medical intervention, could live a healthy life. But men like Kermit Gosnell, who perform illegal abortions on women well into their 3rd trimesters and routinely deliver viable babies, are "ensuring fetal demise" without blinking an eye. I read for myself tonight parts of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report in Gosnell's trial and I could do nothing but sit and weep in anger, in horror, in utter sadness. I was completely unprepared for the photos that were included. Seeing the gruesome effects of his "medical practice" and knowing that for over 30 years his employees not only stood by but helped him, never questioning his obvious illegal practices, was in itself sickening.
We have convinced ourselves that if it doesn't affect us, it's not our problem. Not my monkeys, not my circus. Maybe so, but when the monkeys show up on your doorstep, overturning your right to vote against homosexual marriage, your right to carry a gun, your right to free speech, then I guess the circus tent just got a whole lot bigger.
Women like Kay Hagan, Wendy Davis, Gloria Steinem, who support abortion, even abortion after 20 weeks, are terrifying to me. These are women brainwashing other women into believing that babies are an invasion on their bodies, inconveniences causing them to lose control of their lives.
And let's get one thing clear, whether or not a baby at 12 weeks can feel pain or whether it can't until 20 weeks, is utterly irrelevant. Abortion is murder. Life begins at conception.
The Bible tells us in Exodus, that if a man harms a pregnant woman and causes her fruit to depart from her, to deliver prematurely, and the baby lives then the man must pay whatever the judge determines. But if she delivers prematurely and the baby is harmed or dies, life for life is required. Can you imagine if every mother, father, friend, abortionist, nurse, or anyone else that might be involved in a woman's decision and subsequent abortion, had their life required for the baby's life they stole?
We need to stand up and speak out against abortion, in all stages of gestation. We need to speak up and put an end to an evil that man has deemed acceptable and legal. We must show these babies mercy. Because they are at the mercy of our morals, our laws, our convictions. And regardless of how they were conceived, whether you deem it to be the right time in your life, or whether that baby is healthy or not, what man thinks as evil against us, God means for good.
I can think of another group of people deemed unwanted, unfit, and undesirable. Sinners. You and me. All it took was One Man willing to show us mercy to save us from a neverending, unceasing hellfire and damnation. Christ Jesus. He laid down His life and became our Interceder. He died so that we could have eternal life by simply believing on Him.
Let us intercede, let us show mercy to the innocent, the unborn.
Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
Psalm 127:3 KJV
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Isaiah 44:24 KJV
Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;
Jeremiah 1:5 KJV
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Luke 1:15 KJV
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
Luke 1:41 KJV
And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
My children are the most important things in my life, next to Jesus. I count myself blessed beyond measure to be their Momma, to be able to see them grow and learn new things, to see them sweetly sing Jesus Loves Me and watch them as they begin to understand His love. Teaching them about Christ's Love and His Sacrifice is my most important job in this life. I treasure every day that I am given with them. After struggling for so long, after losing Lachlan, to imagine my life without them would be a nightmare.
From the time I was a little girl I knew I wanted to be a Momma. From the time I was a freshman in high school I had a firm stance as a Pro-Lifer, in any and all circumstances. Abortion is an extremely hot topic. A topic that to me is simply black and white but to many is filled with shades of grey. This week a video exploded onto social media networks. It was a video filmed by a young woman of her own, self-proclaimed, positive abortion story. Emily Letts is a patient advocate at the Cherry Hill Women's Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She speaks with women before their abortion procedures. Throughout her 3 minute video she proclaims that she is a lucky girl, that the abortion doctors are her heroes, that she feels good. At the end of the video she says, "I don't feel sad. I feel in awe that I can make a life. I can make a baby". She does not say how many weeks pregnant she is, but if she had the abortion performed at the Cherry Hill Women's Center, she could have been up to 24 weeks and 6 days pregnant and they would still have performed the abortion to "remove the pregnancy", as stated on their website. At 24 weeks the baby's brain cells are matured enough to develop conscious thought and memory, the baby can hear and recognize sounds and songs, the baby can respond to light, touch and movement, the baby can reach and grasp, the baby can dream, feel pain, and suck his thumb. The baby has a fighting chance and can, with medical intervention, survive if born prematurely at 24 weeks.
Abortion is a subject always talked about and yet never talked about. And I'm betting, prayed about even less. It makes me sick to my stomach, my heart aches, there is a lump lodged in my throat even now as I write this. I read several articles regarding Emily Letts this week and found that I have been far too quick to condemn the women who have abortions as souless murderers in the past. I've wanted to scream at them, call them vile names, damn them to hell. But this week I came across an article written by a former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director, who had herself had 2 abortions, and the Holy Ghost tugged at my heart and whispered in my ear. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her (John 8:7 KJV). In that moment I wanted to weep for those women, for the pain I know that many of them come to feel after their abortions, for the loss, the guilt, the regret. I wanted to weep for the doctors, the clinic workers, the men and women all over the world who support abortion. It is them we should be weeping for. Those precious babies whose lives were ended before they even began, those innocent souls are with my Lord and Savior. They are safe, secure, and loved as they could never be here on this earth. But these men and women in the midst of pro-choice culture, they need our prayers, they need our witness, they need our Savior.
The fruit of our wombs are His reward. Our children are His heritage. He formed us in our mother's womb. He knows us and our calling before we are even formed.
In Luke chapter 1 we find Elisabeth who was barren and stricken in years. She and her husband Zacharias were both righteous before God. An angel of the Lord, Gabriel, appeared to Zacharias and told him that Elisabeth would conceive a son and his name was to be John, that he would be great in the sight of the Lord and filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb. Elisabeth conceived and hid herself 5 months.
We also find in Luke chapter 1 that Gabriel visits the virgin Mary to tell her of her coming conception: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. (Luke 1:35, 36 KJV).
Luke 1:39-44 KJV
39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Elisabeth was 6 months pregnant when Mary went to visit her. Elisabeth was 24 weeks pregnant when Mary went to visit her. Elisabeth was 24 weeks pregnant when John leaped in her belly at the presence of His Lord in Mary's womb. Elisabeth was 24 weeks pregnant with John when the Holy Ghost filled her and her heart immediately knew Mary carried her Lord and Savior in her womb. 24 weeks pregnant. Still within the legal limit for an abortion in many of the states in the U. S. today.
We must speak out against abortion, we must pray for it's end, and we must also treat those women around us who have had an abortion or support it, with love. We must end the hatred and disdain. Is abortion murder of an innocent? Yes. Is one sin greater than another? No. Does the sin of abortion carry far greater repercussions than we could ever imagine? Yes. Please join me in prayer this Mother's Day weekend for those women suffering the pain of having had an abortion and those, like Emily Letts who have not yet begun to feel the guilt and regret of their choices. Join me in praying for the doctors, clinic workers, and pro-choice supporters, that God may change their hearts, that they might come to know Christ as their Savior. Please help me to pray each and every day for an end to abortion.
