Pro Life Sunday

Every day 4,000 babies are murdered in the womb in this country. This is a statistic that every pro lifer is familiar with. Once upon a time it was difficult to prove that a fetus was a baby. The abortionist called the baby a blob of tissue. Today's technology has proven the inaccuracies of that concept. 3-D imaging, prenatal surgeries, and continuing technological care of preemie babies leaves little doubts that the "blob" of tissue is indeed a human being. The argument shifted away from the issue of viability to the issue of woman's rights. It is here that the pro life movement has fallen short.

The pro life movement has failed to acknowledge that for EVERY baby that is aborted there is a WOMAN. They yell at the culture about the life of a baby, bill boards proclaiming that its a baby not a choice. The pro life movement has succeeded in this area. No one doubts that it is a baby which makes that theory an argument that is seldom brought to the debate floor. However, the pro life movement continues to use this same tactic. What about the mother. Until we reach out to woman, those who have already suffered and been wounded by an abortion, those who would consider abortion as a viable alternative to their circumstance and those who love the woman in those circumstances we will not win the lives of babies or the hearts of their mothers!

For every baby that is killed there are grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, husbands, or boyfriends whom this act will forever define. The statistic is that 1 out 4 woman have had an abortion. The statistics run across the board and include woman sitting next to you in church. Multiply the number of people affected by that decision and every single day upwards of 40,000 people are affected by that "choice". For these people there is only three realities to living in the aftermath. They can harden themselves to the reality they know in their hearts and deny any wrong. They can admit the truth to themselves and live with the guilt and shame they feel which will keep them silent and unable to pass "judgement" on others by voicing their experience. Or, the final choice is to find forgiveness and healing in Christ. For these woman and their families the statistics do not matter because they are the statistics.

Our culture will never pass a law making abortion illegal. To do so would be to convict millions of people of murder. Those people are not going to vote for legislatures who are willing to attempt to pass such legislation. Knowing this is true many pro life advocates have decided that they should pursue a law that would make exceptions because they feel this has more opportunity to be passed. It has no hope of working and is hopelessly flawed. So how do we reach the millions of people affected by abortion in this culture and convince them to make the change. I would say, that we have to convince them that they have been wronged, lied to and damaged. We have to convince them the truth of forgiveness and help them heal. We have to get the truth to them and bring the abortion industry out of the dark, out hiding and into the light. We have to educate the culture on this multi million dollar industry, the health issues surrounding it, and the damage it has done to woman. The pro life movement needs to become the movement that loves woman!

Friends don't let friends have abortions.

A Sad Day

My dmd Emily has wanted a bunny rabbit for years. For various reasons we have told her no. At one point I told her she had to write a report on rabbits and she spent quite a bit of time reading and taking notes but never (do to the school schedule and activities) wrote a finished report. So, my dmd is turning 14 and we decided for her birthday to get her a bunny. We were on our way to a convention and passed through a town that has our favorite pet store. Having a few minutes to spare we stopped in to look around and found that they had bunnies! We quickly picked out the cutest one and decided to bring him with us. He was 5 weeks old and my daughter was beaming from ear to ear. Benjamin Bunny named after a Beatrix Potter character quickly made his way into our hearts and made his debut onto our dmds face book page.

It was late Thursday night when we bought him. Benjamin Bunny seemed fine all day Friday. He seemed fine but we have since learned that bunnies because of their genetics will not show any sign of illness until they are seriously ill. By Saturday morning he was lethargic . We called a vet and got milk replacement in case he was not quite ready to be on solid foods and had dehydrated. He willingly ate a little but then continued to act lethargic and his little head began tilting off to one side. Three more calls to vets who all said that he was probably fine. Finally at 3:30 I called an emergency animal hospital in Des Moines who told us to bring him right in. We got in the car and drove over an hour to the animal hospital. Just as we turned into the parking lot Benjamin Bunny died while laying on my daughters lap. In a surreal ER seen we rushed inside where a lab tech whisked the bunny into the back room, kicking the door out of his way and running down a long hallway. It was no use, there was nothing to be done. We drove another half an hour home and buried him in our garden before driving back to the convention.

My dmd said after the burial that she had at first prayed for God to give her at least a year with Benjamin. Than she said, she knew he was suffering and asked God to do his will but to help her to understand. She is such a sweet and beautiful young woman. We are all sad. The lovely people at our convention bought a sympathy card for my dmd, signed by all the attendees.

Now we don't know what to do. The pet store will give us another bunny but Benjamin was the only mini lop that they had in stock. We are also concerned with the health of a new little bunny from this store. I don't want my daughter to go through something like this again. Should we purchase an older rabbit? The baby stage is when their health is the most delicate. I am trying to contact hollan lop breeders in our area. Maybe we will just wait awhile or maybe we will hear back from one of them and they will have something available. In the meantime I am praying my dmd heart will heal a little.