Little Voices for Life

from WorldMag.com
by Janie B. Cheaney

The longtime host of Weekend Edition on NPR, Scott Simon, occasionally pens an editorial for The Wall Street Journal. His latest, published Dec. 17, addresses a timeless issue: “The Case for Adoption.”

“This is the season that begins with the story of a couple who wanted a baby,” Simon writes. His opening sentence earns no points for biblical insight, but Simon’s personal experience of wanting a baby is deeply felt. He married late, and he and his wife discovered quickly that they were not able to conceive. They considered assisted fertilization, but as well-traveled individuals they knew first-hand that there are plenty of orphans needing homes. They adopted Elise from Nanchang, China, when she was 11 months old. Six years later they returned for Lina. While he faults no couples or pregnant women for the personal choices they make, he wants to promote an option that has been deeply satisfying for him, his wife, and their daughters. That’s the reason for his latest book, Baby We Were Meant For Each Other: In Praise of Adoption.

I’m very glad the Simons made their decision—but not just because it was so fulfilling for them. Without saying a word, the two little girls make a powerful statement. Their story reminds me of another adoption story I heard several years ago at a fund-raising dinner for the local crisis pregnancy center.

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More Photos from our Annual Event

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Merry Christmas?

Just when you thought “pro-choice” Christmas cards were the final frontier, some Planned Parenthood affiliates are now offering gift certificates. Gift certificates offered by PP cannot be used for abortions, only for birth control, educational materials, etc. Read more here.

Here is Metro Women’s Center’s Christmas card – affirming life, not destroying it!

In the News ...

Closed Abortion Centers
According to Operation Rescue, 31 abortion businesses closed in the last 12 months while 9 new abortion facilities opened. A total of 689 surgical abortion clinics remain in the U.S., down from a high of almost 2,200 in 1991, which means more than two-thirds of abortion centers have closed that were operating nearly 20 years ago. [LifeNews.com]

Comment:
First, we need to be in prayer that the 7 abortion facilities in Minnesota will stop providing abortion services to women in our state. Second, be in prayer that Regions Hospital will stop providing abortions at its HealthPartners clinic located in the hospital. Additionally, Planned Parenthood is preparing to build its new mega-abortion center at the corner of Charles and Vandalia. It appears that some of the workers who are helping ready the site are unaware that they are building an abortuary (killing center).

Pro-Life Nurse Denied Legal Recourse
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a pro-life employee has no legal recourse if forced by an employer to assist in an abortion. Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a former nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, said she was forced to participate in an abortion against her will and threatened with disciplinary action if she did not assist in the "emergency late-term abortion." The Alliance Defense Fund, representing DeCarlo, later learned that the abortion was not an emergency and that the patient was not in crisis at the time of the procedure. When she attempted to sue the hospital, alleging it had violated the federal "Church Amendment," a lower court ruled that the law does not provide recourse for individuals who experience discrimination. The amendment was intended to protect health care workers of federally funded businesses from being discriminated against when refusing to participate in abortions on religious grounds. [CitizenLink.com]

Comment: There may come a time when we are ordered to disobey the Lord regarding life issues. Here are some examples we can meditate on for encouragement:

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
Genesis 39:7-12
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand; There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her. And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

Hebrew Midwives
Exodus 1:15-17
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

Birth of Moses
Exodus 1:22; 2:1-3
And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive. And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Peter
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.