Only Then Will You Know...

(2005) How wrong abortion is. Not until you have some of your own and witness the entire birthing process. Only then will you know.

A few weeks ago my wife and I were blessed to watch our twin girls, Chloe and Sidney, join the world at Arlington Memorial Hospital. Thanks to the careful oversight of our doctor and the recommendation of a specialist we were able to avoid some possible horrible outcomes. Our twins had just begun "twin to twin transfusion", where one begins taking all of the resources from the other, when they both urgently suggested we get to the hospital and get the girls out a few days later. Thank God they did. Sidney was taking most of the food and blood, leaving Chloe much smaller and wanting. The possibilities could have been death for both of them, if things had gone on much further.

At 8:58am on Sunday morning the 21st of August, I was able to witness first hand the C-section birth of my beautiful little ones. Chloe was first, followed seconds later by her "bigger" yet younger sister, Sidney. Our doctor was gracious enough to allow me to video tape the entire process. I've watched it over and over, and still well up with tears.

The process of life is amazing. It is the strongest and only evidence we need of God's hand on us and our world. How in the world can anyone with a brain think this all began with a "big bang" millions of years ago? Or, how can anyone discount a providential hand in the process of pregnancy, when each week literally thousands of things must happen just right or the baby will not survive? I will never get it and until I had my own, it never really sunk in. Now it has.

Everyday over 3800 abortions are performed each day in the United States, according to the Agape Press. That's over 1.37 million a year in America alone!

Have we become immune to the social argument of abortion over the last 30+ years since Roe vs. Wade in 1973? Are you tired of hearing about it? Tired of being told who's right it is? Tired of being asked to pray about it or support various life sustaining organizations? Tired of the politicizing of it all?

If you're like me, I have to admit, many times it goes in one ear and out the other. Yet, isn't it sad that I can't even watch a news story about an abandoned or abused dog or pet without getting more sad and angry than ever? I bet you can relate. Anyone with a beating heart should. Yet, when it comes to the horribly painful process a baby goes through during an abortion, we shrug our shoulders and say, "Well, it's about politics" or "I don't want to tell someone what to do" or "Who am I to judge?".

Wrong answer.

It is time we get serious about these killings that happen in America. Nothing is more tragic and nothing is more painful in the eyes of God than seeing a little one be ripped apart by suction tubes, or be euthanized as they lay in the womb. Don't be fooled. An abortion is painful. Babies scream and are literally torn to pieces without anything to deminish the pain. We have been fooled by Satan himself into believing a fetus isn't a human or a fetus has no idea what is happening to them.

It hurts the baby, it hurts God and it should hurt us.

I challenge you to find a little one to hold sometime soon. Listen to the baby grunt, whimper and giggle. Look at them as they stare holes in your eyes. Kiss them when the smile. Pat them when the cry. Let God remind you of how precious life really is. Let Him remind yourself that the only reason you're alive is because you're own mother opted to keep you, rather than have you torn out.

If you are a Christian and somehow think you can support abortion, you're wrong. Do we defend pedophiles by claiming he has a right to do what he does? That would be insane. Yet, we justify the actions of abortions by doing just that!

One final point. Let me introduce you to Susan Anne Catherine Torres. She was born just a few weeks before my own. Her story is sad yet powerfully uplifting. I first heard about her on a flight to Jacksonville, when she was just a few weeks old in her mother's belly.

See, her mother was technically dead as a result of a terrible cancer. Her body functions were kept going in order for baby Susan to grow. She needed to get to at least 24 weeks, even to have a shot, and she made it. Born at 26 weeks, little Susan Anne now has a decent chance of living a mircale life. Her mother literally died giving her baby a chance to live. If only more would do the same. (http://www.susantorresfund.org for the story)

God loves every baby, and none more than his own. But even Jesus was allowed the chance to live. Thank God He wasn't born in today's world and to a modern day "Mary"

Abortion kills and that's that.

Now you know.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:12-14


© 2005, J. Brady
"I say it as I see it and I make no bones about it."