http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/13/politics/uwire/main4446765.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA
I probably wouldn't have voted for Obama before, but there is not a snowball's chance in hell he's getting my vote now.
Abortion is something that is very near to my heart. I have an adopted sister whose birth mother attempted to abort her 18 years ago, this month. Her mother was a crack addict and choose to live a life of sin. When she become pregnant, she decided to "take care" of the "problem" herself and overdosed on cocaine. This gave her the effect she wanted and she went into premature labor. My sister was born over two months early and weighed right at one pound. She was given "NO CHANCE" of survival and eighteen years ago, the technology to keep her alive didn't exist. As she struggled to live, the doctors and nurses found out just how special she was. Soon they changed their theory to include life, but at a very poor level. She would live, but never walk, talk or function on any normal level. She continued to grow and spent her first several months in a hospital. The nurses finally gave her a name. They all fell in love with this special little girl.
Once she was able to leave the hospital, she went to a foster home. While there she had three episodes of SIDS, but was revived each time. She has had some struggles all of her life. She has a mild case of Cerebral Palsy and has gotten pneumonia a few more times than most. She has also walked, talked, ridden a bicycle, gone to school, done modeling and amazed everyone she has met. She is one of the most beautiful people I have ever met, on the outside, as well as the inside. This little girl won my heart when I met her as a precious, curly haired baby seventeen years ago and continues to do so today. She is a Senior this year and is actually taking all college level classes to become a paramedic and someday a nurse. She is and will always be, one of my best friends. Her birth mother (or egg donor) will never know the amazing life she attempted to throw away. Honestly, I don't believe she deserves to know this wonderful person.
As a Christian I think abortion is wrong on so many levels. It goes against everything the Bible says. I don't understand how Christians can even attempt to justify it. I think one thing that boils it all down for me is this. Out of every situation I have ever heard of to justify abortion, the most prominent one is this. Mary, fiancee of Joseph. This was a woman who didn't even "do the deed" to wind up in the situation she was faced with. She lived during a time when unwed pregnancy was socially forbidden. She was ostracized by her family and friends. She was a total outcast. Yet she carried that baby, birthed him and cared for him, as if she had planned to have him all along. I often wonder what if she had aborted Jesus. By all means, if anyone does then she had every "right" to. Where would that have left us, this world? Without a chance of redemption.
Because of her courage through a situation she didn't even ask to be put in, I have a future. I have a chance to make it to Heaven. Do you think if she had chosen not to carry him that God would have simply "tried again" with someone else? I find it hard to believe. How many influential people that could be in our world today have been aborted before they had the chance? Maybe the cure for cancer or AIDS or the answer to peace in this world will never be discovered because of this.
I'll leave my soap box with one of my favorite songs.
What Was I Supposed To Be?
Words and music by Ray Boltz
When Jesus walked upon the earth
On the shores of Galilee
He'd say to his disciples,
Let the little children come to me
I wonder if up in heaven
Do you suppose we'll see
Little children ask Him,
What was I supposed to be?
CHORUS:
What was I supposed to be?
What were my eyes supposed to see?
And why did I taste of death
Before I even drew a breath
Or laid my head
At my mother's breast to sleep
Oh, Jesus, what was I supposed to be?
CHORUS
Was I to be a prophet
Used in the ministry?
A doctor who would find the cure
For some terrible disease?
Even if I'd been born imperfect
Why couldn't my parents see
That I'd have been made perfect
When you came back for me?
Oh, Jesus,
CHORUS
What was I supposed to be?
Jesus, what was I supposed to be?
5 comments:
I am a christian and I believe there are some instances, very few, where abortion should be an option. I won't go into the exceptions, but I will say just because I believe that abortion is wrong in most cases, doesn't mean I can force my views on others. I do hesitate to want abortion legalized because I don't want people to resort to that or go crazy with the freedom of it. But at the same time, I don't want our leaders telling us what personal decisions we can and can't make.
As for voting, I hope you have other reasons why you wouldn't vote for Obama besides the abortion issue. He's a good man who would lead our country with passion and with concern for average citizen. Don't discount him because of a very slanted news article.
I am not really sure how this article is slanted. However, regardless if it is slanted or not, the fact that he did nothing to stop this practice from happening is enough for him to lose my vote. I want a president who is concered for and passionate about EVERY citizen. I want someone that will call us, as a nation, to a higher standard of life.
I am sorry Mr/Mrs. Anonymous but how can you say you are a christian and be on the fence about abortion? Is it not murder in your eyes? Does the child have a choice what situation it may have been conceived or be born into? Either it is wrong or it isn't there is no "in-between".
I am a christian and I firmly believe that there is a reason and purpose for everything. Abortion in my opinion is wrong and to say that it isn't because the mother has a choice makes me so mad! When will people realize that it is not about them or her....it is about the child. If you don't want a child then don't mess around activities that may lead to the creation in one.
Why not give the child to someone who would love and take care of them. Do right by them and respect them. Give them to someone who wants them, there are plenty of women and families in this world who would die to have a child and can't for whatever reason. I for one am one of them.
Christa is a blessing and a beautiful person and example on how God can take something that was a horrible no glimpse of hope situation and turn it around and use it for his good. I am so glad I got to be a part of her life and am so glad your family took her as their own.
God is the one who has the ultimate say in what should and shouldn't be not us as humans.
Mindy
Those that say they are a Christian but want people to be able to physically rip and tear apart a child in a mother's womb need to seriously re-consider their position. 1.2 million abortions in the United States alone each year is not exercising a choice or a freedom, it is murder on a genocidal scale. Don't buy into the warped, distorted viewpoint of those that would perpetrate all manner of evil on this world. Like Mindy said, there is a third life in every one of the more than 115 thousand abortions that occur daily in the U.S.
If you've never seen a baby, in person, on an ultrasound machine or put your hand on a mother's belly and felt it kick at a loud noise or its mother's voice, then you're going to fall hook, line and sinker for the argument that "it's not a life". HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uKCchuIjM
If you've never watched on an ultrasound as a murderous "doctor" inserts metal tools into a mother's womb and rips apart the small, floating baby then you need to! HERE!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjNo_0cW-ek
We show videos all day long on Discovery Health of hip replacement surgery, open heart surgery, and even intrauterine surgery; where they save the babies life. Why don't we see the lives of women being rescued from unwanted pregnancies and see the "miracle" of science as the doctor eliminates an unwanted baby? Because it is murder and the videos are grotesque! Why don't we get to see HD videos of the womb as the baby, sorry, "fetus" is being eliminated? We see tumors removed, shrapnel from bullets, glass fragments, but not a parasitic fetus? How about this for a new series on Discovery? "Baby's Story: Why she decided to have someone kill me and why her life is now better for it"
Why not start supporting legislation that would allow us to terminate an unwanted life after it's born? Would it not make more sense to give the baby a few years to see if it's going to be the next Einstein, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Carver (inventor, not president) or Johan Sebastian Bach? (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/451061/historys_famous_orphans.html) All of these people were unwanted orphans, by the way. At least then we'd know we killed them because they simply took from our society instead of being some sort of genius with potentially huge benefits to the world.
In the 1930's and 1940's, Germany was full of people that were convinced by their leaders that the Jewish race was less than human. It started slowly with simple prejudice, a scapegoat:
"Germany is suffering because of the Jews."
"Germany would be better off if there weren't so many Jews in this country."
"Jews are nothing but dogs."
It led to one of history's greatest holocaust. People convinced themselves that one life was less valuable than another and it led to horrible atrocities against that lesser life. You've bought into the lies that an unborn baby is less important than a toddling two year old. Remember, if you do nothing, in 9 months you'll have a squirming, crying, fussy baby in your hands with all the potential of any other life. How is that any less valuable than our own life?
If you truly believed that an unborn baby is a life the same as you or I, would it make you reconsider a candidate that would "lead" us in a direction that continues to support the torture and murder of that life? Yeah, it's a big issue for us; stop telling us that it isn't. For most of us, it's the biggest. Tax reform? Free health care? Corporation reform? Energy crisis? Sounds like we're worried about those of us that made it into the "wanted life" club. Killing babies by the truckload?!? Now that's something worth casting a vote over. How do you think the 1.2 million babies murdered last year would have voted?
the story of your sister touched my heart. thank you for sharing your special story about such a blessing. you have such an incredible family. i pray that obama will not be elected for SO many reasons, his views on abortion being a strong one. and to mr/mrs anonymous... it's not good character leave your comments and opinions unsigned. if you are truly proud of your beliefs, be proud enough to stand up and show your face along with it. say your feelings with pride and dignity, or don't say them at all.
signed,
shawna mannon
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