Adoption Option: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

On Thursday we spoke to two classes at Cooper High School regarding the Adoption Option. The students had great questions for our speakers; there were four birth moms and one adoptive mom who shared their stories. We usually get two questions from the students after we speak:

The first is, "Once you make an adoption plan, can you ever get your baby back if you regret your decision?"

Our answer: "No, we can't get our babies back because adoption is a legal severing of the parental rights of the biological parents from the child. Our hearts are always going to be connected to our children but we would be harming the child if, after a few years, we decided we wanted the child back and tried to remove him or her from the only family they had ever known. That WOULD be selfish! What many of us regret is the choices we made that got us pregnant before we were prepared for the responsibility of raising a child."

The second question is, "Don't you think you were selfish for making an adoption plan?"

To this question we respond: "Adoption is an unselfish act by loving birthparents who sacrificially put the needs of the child above their own desire to 'keep' the baby. As a birth parent, the 'easy' thing to do emotionally is to take the baby home with you; the hard thing to do is to walk out of the hospital without your baby, knowing that someone else will be enjoying your child. No birthparent leaves the hospital without tears, but because we love our babies and want what is best for them, we choose to take the emotional and often societal 'beating' that comes with it. All parenting choices require sacrifice whether you are actively parenting or whether you choose to have someone else parent your child through adoption. The only 'selfish' choice would be to parent the child and not put your life in order so the child has the best future possible. Babies are not possessions to be owned; they are responsibilities to be cared for in the best way possible. As one of our speakers says, "I did not give my baby away; I gave her more."

When possible, I point out that Christ died on the cross, sacrificially, so that we could be 'adopted' by God. When Christ willingly went to the cross, He experienced great pain on our behalf and for our good. While birth parents are not saviors, the pain we experience is both chosen and experienced for the good of our children.

There is more to be said, but those are the short answers!

Expose Planned Parenthood

Dear Friends,

I am posting this information because it is our mission to educate the community about life-affirming alternatives that allow both mom and baby to live. It is well documented that Planned Parenthood makes money from abortions, and it now is being exposed in other areas such as educating pimps on how to run their sex slave businesses using minor girls.

Please check out http://exposeplannedparenthood.com/vigil for more information and to educate yourselves about the true nature of Planned Parenthood. Pay close attention to the right hand side bar and visit each of the pages indicated. The information is well documented, and the numbers don't lie. Planned Parenthood makes money when clients (minors and adults) have abortions - somebody does not get to live - that is a problem.

Regions/HealthPartners and a prayer request

I have been asked what people can do if they want to directly respond to the Regions/HealthPartners issue. Here is a site for information on responding individually: http://savehealthpartners.com/.

Also, please send out special prayer for us because we have a new neighbor in our MWC building. Right down the hall, a Psychic, Palmreader, and Tarot Card office just opened up this week.

Enemy moving in and warfare abounds, but God is greater!

Peaceful Vigil at Regions Hospital: 40 Days for Life Twin Cities

Please join me. I plan to be at Regions Hospital on Friday mornings from March 11 through April 25 from 9 am to 11 am. If you would like to meet me at MWC at 8 am and ride over together, that would be fine. Just email me at info@metrowomenscenter.org.

This event is about prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil, community outreach (petition drive).

Why Regions?
Facts about HealthPartners and Regions Hospital [from http://savehealthpartners.com/facts.html]
· HealthPartners owns Regions Hospital, located in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
· Regions Hospital committed 733 abortions in 2005.
· Regions Hospital trains doctors to do abortions.
· HealthPartners doesn’t want the consumer to know about its abortion practices.
· HealthPartners insurance pays for abortion.
· Regions Hospital’s “GYN Special Services” abortion center commits late-term abortions up to almost the fifth month of pregnancy (20 weeks gestation).

Where:
HealthPartners' Regions Hospital is located just north of downtown Saint Paul, MN across I-94 at 640 Jackson Street, Saint Paul MN 55101. You can participate in peaceful vigil on the public sidewalk, in front of the main entrance on the Jackson Street side.

Link to HealthPartners' Regions Hospital website for directions and parking: www.regionshospital.com/Regions/Menu/1,1640,3129,00.html.

This information is for parking in the hospital decks only. If you park in the hospital deck, leave your signs and literature on the public sidewalk with your prayer partner. The parking decks and driveways are private property, and no solicitation is allowed.

New street-level pay parking!
There is a new pay parking lot on the street level on Jackson Street across from Regions Hospital at the intersection of Jackson and 13th Streets.

On the Road: Bible Baptist Church

Farmington, MN

Bible Baptist Church has been a pro-life partner of MWC for many years. We enjoy visiting with the folks there and updating them on activities at the Center.

Pastor Tom Yauch is the senior pastor there and sadly, his mother passed on the Saturday before our visit. He still preached a pro-life message, and we had a good time of fellowship with the church.

They are rejoicing that they now have their church building paid off!





Some of the members brought diapers, snowsuits, and formula for the Center, and two full baby bottles were returned to us!

PPH representative helping 'pimp' use underage girls?

This story is . . . interesting. It appears that this representative of Planned Parenthood is helping the 'pimp' use underage women for profit.

Read the article here.

Fetal Lethal Injection Center

Thanks to Baptists for Life's PCC List for information about this “center.”

Post: Unlicensed Abortionist Pendergraft Operating Secret Late-term “Fetal Lethal Injection Center” in DC area

Judge Rules Health Care Law Is Unconstitutional

Thanks to our friend, Brian Gibson, Pro Life Action Ministries, for pointing out this new development. Brian writes that U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Florida found the new health care law unconstitutional. Focusing on the mandate to purchase health insurance as the reason for the law's violation of our rights, the judge invalidated the entirety of the law. The health care law would be the greatest expansion of abortion in U.S. history, funding abortion and organizations that commit abortions, such as Planned Parenthood, with outrageous amounts of federal money. This law also sets up the future for rationing and denial of care based on age or usefulness to society. More on the story here.

Keep Praying!

On the Road: Family Baptist

We had a great time with Family Baptist Church on Sunday morning. I was able to share a PURITY message with the ladies and teens in Sunday School and also our powerpoint presentation [here] about the lies of abortion and the truth of God’s Word. Thanks to my friend, Joshua MacLeod at Watermelon Ministries for the inspiration for this presentation. He gave me permission to take off on his hopebooklet.com using our own pictures.

Please pray for Family Baptist. They are located in the heart of north Minneapolis, seeking to have an impact for the Lord. Pastor Ormiston preached a message on Ambition (The Right Kind). You can listen to the message here. It should be posted soon, and there are lots of other great messages there for you to be encouraged by. What a blessing!