Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Heart-breaks

Yesterday, I was on the sidewalks of the abortion center, when I saw a woman walking down the street with her friend. I suspected she was coming for an abortion, so I walked towards them, and asked if I could speak with her. (This is us in the photo above though I have cartooned the friend's face so she cannot be identified.) The pregnant woman said her mind was made up, and she didn't really want to talk about it. Well...the baby can't speak for herself, so I sweetly asked how far along she was. 5 weeks. But she was schizophrenic, she told me, and couldn't work. I sat down in front of her, and she sat on the curb. Did her medication control her illness? Yes. Did she have any source of income? She did have income from SSI. Did she have friends who were willing to help her through this struggle? Her friend at her side nodded. None of that mattered. She told me she'd talked to God, and He was okay with this decision to abort her baby.

Well, not really, I felt compelled to point out. I wear a belly-pack on my volunteer days, filled with pages and pages of Bible verses that show that God is very NOT okay with killing babies, in the womb or out of the womb. I read her those verses. I also chatted with her about all the options available to her, other than killing the baby. Adoption. The many resources our group could provide and assist her in accessing should she choose to keep her child. A baby shower to provide two full years of the baby's needs. Counseling and parenting services. Assistance with rent, food, bills. None of that mattered, although they removed every excuse for why her baby should die.

I asked her, "Is the baby of any less value than your sweet friend beside you?" She looked at her friend. Her friend was certainly petite. Was she of less value than those who were bigger? No. She had relatives in other parts of the country. I asked her if their value changed because of their location? No. A two-year-old was less developed than she was...did the two-year-old have less value than she did? No. She was dependent on drugs to control her illness. Did her dependency make her of any less value than those not dependent? No. She agreed that development, dependency, location, and size did not change the value of a human being. So, she admitted, all those points proved the baby in the womb was of no less value than any human. She admitted the baby was human (what else could she be???). She admitted the Bible indicated God did not approve of killing babies, or any innocent human, made in His image. And she understood that she would bear the eternal consequences of willfully disregarding God's clear commandments.

Then I turned to her friend.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"I don't want her to do it,"said the friend, "I had an abortion. Now I have endometriosis from the abortion and I want children, but I cannot have them. I killed the only baby I will ever have."
Her friend, M, had gone through deep depression, even suicidal thoughts. M would save her friend from this. No one should ever do this, she said. But her friend stood up, took my contact info, thanked me, and walked into the abortion center anyway. M walked beside her, sadly.

One of my friends is married to a man whose birth mother was schizophrenic. She wanted to abort him. His birth father managed to convince her to give this wonderful son up for adoption. He has never wished that his mother had followed through with abortion.

Some days at the abortion mill are more heartbreaking than others. On a positive note, one woman chose life for her baby. We rejoiced as she happily took our gift bag of blessings for her and her baby. Still, my heart ached for the woman who knew what she was doing was wrong, with eternal consequence, and still chose to defy God.
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James 4:17 

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 comment:

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