Abortion is the wrong choice

While abortion takes the life of another human being, Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ former running mate, on a CBS News interview, called abortion “a basic human right.”  It’s demented to think that killing your baby is “a basic human right.”  It was true in the days of Ahab and Jezebel when people sacrificed children to pagan gods, but today, people trying to kill their children are considered wicked, demented and need to be locked away somewhere, …unless they’re getting an abortion, or excuse me, “reproductive healthcare.”   

Sometimes medical procedures are necessary to save a woman’s life, like in the case of an ectopic pregnancy, which because it happens so early in the pregnancy, medical science is not able to save the baby.  To save the mother, the child is removed, otherwise, both would die. 

The Democratic Party seems intensely occupied with encouraging mothers to kill their children.  Before the 2022 election, the Democrat Party spent $31 million on television spots concerning inflation, $140 million on spots concerning crime, but a whopping $320 million on abortion ads.  How sad, the Democrat Party thinks that killing babies is their best-selling point. 

Our first child was ectopic, which ruptured, sending our child to heaven and nearly sent my wife too.  Afterwards, we suffered two miscarriages.  My wife and I wanted children.  After ten years, we became pregnant.  Having learned some things about faith, the first thing we did was to purchase baby clothes, because we set ourselves to have this baby.  At six months the doctor told us there was a problem and asked if we wanted to have an abortion.  That option was not on the table.  When our baby girl was born, I realized I had purchased the wrong color of clothing, but when my baby smiled, I saw she had my wife’s million-dollar contagious smile.  I loved that baby and still do.   

I determined no one was going to speak evil over our child, or her future.  The doctor we had, before we fired him, told us all the things she would never do, and we would take our baby home, and she would do them.  We believed God for our child and spoke God’s blessings over her.   

In Denmark 98% of the pregnancies with the problem we were fighting, are terminated.  In France it is 77%.  In the United States it is 67%.  

Did we have to fight some issues?  Yes, but we also saw God’s intervention in our lives, the lives of our new doctors, and in the life of our beautiful daughter.  

I’ve had many experiences where I learned so much from my daughter.  When she was three years old, wild dogs came into our backyard and killed about 20 chickens in an enclosure.  When the dogs came back, my wife fought them with a broom handle until they left.  So, I decided to put up a fence.  I purchased 5-foot dog-wire fencing and posts, which had to be driven two feet into the ground.  Here I was, in hot July, standing on a six-foot stepladder, with a three-pound sledgehammer, trying to drive the first of thirty metal posts into clay ground after work.  Hitting the post with the sledgehammer, it wobbled all over the place, and I could hear a voice speak to my spirit saying, “If you hit your hand, you are going to break every bone.”  Thinking I was by myself, in frustration, I let something fly out of my mouth that I should have never said.  Then I heard a small voice say, “What cha doing up there, Jesus.”  (Look, I am not confused in thinking I am God, for I know the job is taken and there will be no openings, and no one has called me, “Jesus,” before or since.)  To my horror, I looked over and saw my three-year-old precious daughter sitting in the shade of a tree watching me.  I came down the ladder.  I realized all that my daughter had ever seen me do is preach and teach Bible studies, yet here I had said this awful thing.  She came over to me and said, “Do you think we ought to pray.”  Embarrassed, I had not even thought about prayer.  I said, “yes,” and we held hands and prayed.  I heard a voice speak to my heart and say, “Richard, put out a soaker hose and have your wife cut it on an hour before you come home from work.  Then put in three post a night and quit.”  That is what we did, and it worked.  People at my work made a steel cup to go on the top of the post, so I wouldn’t mangle the tops.  It took around 120 hits per post, but we got the job done.