I asked Emily Hope Baker if I could post the following. She graciously agreed. Thanks Emily!
Mark & Emily’s counseling website is called Hope for Life Biblical Counseling and Equipping The following is from Emily…
This was written by a friend of mine in regard to a key issue in the upcoming presidential election here in the States. Though not “easy” to read, I believe it’s something we all need to hear and take to heart. Thank you for sharing this, Rebekah.
The truth is not always pretty or welcomed, but the truth needs to be heard.
The reason Obama has been able to push for allowing newborn infants to die is because it made people uncomfortable to think about it, they shook it off, walked away and didn’t want to think about it – to know that a baby lays in a cold metal basin, with the products of its birth, and slowly loses body heat, is denied food, water and comfort and slowly dies in a dark, back room all alone. And then it is disposed of as biological waste – not as a human being. This is truth as honestly as it comes.
It is so much easier to turn away and not hear, to say it’s ‘not my problem, it doesn’t affect me, I’ll never have to face this so I don’t want to look at what it entails – this is scary, stop talking about [it],’ when in reality we do nothing to protect that little life or mourn its passing. It is too easy to be just like everyone else and shelter ourselves and let those in political circles take care of it – then stand back and click our tongues because we disagree with their choices. Well, WHO put them there in the first place?
Twenty years ago when I worked in the ER, a mother brought her 15 year old daughter in. Her daughter had been 5 months pregnant that morning – until her boyfriend took her in for an abortion in another county when the girl should have been in school. Then he dropped her off at home with baby parts still coming out of her uterus because the abortion clinic hadn’t done an adequate job.
Her mother was heartbroken and in shock and the 15 yr old was in such a state of shock she couldn’t speak, she could only stare off and cry. I had to help the doctor as he took out parts of that 5 month baby and put them in a dish we covered so the mother and daughter couldn’t see. And I had to try and comfort both women because the horror of what had happened was so overwhelming neither could even acknowledge what had happened – and I had to explain to the sobbing mother that the police couldn’t even take a report because no crime had been committed.
Even the doctor was disturbed by what had taken place and was shaky the rest of night – a hardened ER doctor brought low by an abortion and its aftermath. It took me months to come to grips with it. Abortion is reality – whether you have seen the aftermath or not, whether you know how it happens or not, it still exists. It kills innocent lives and it destroys the mother’s life – abortion haunts women for life.
So when you don’t see or understand the horrors of abortion and how deeply it wounds those who have them, you can easily call speaking about abortion a scare tactic. You can say it is terrorism because it is hard to listen to and think about. Yet it happens thousands of times a day in this country.
Yes – it should spark terror in your heart, and disgust and pity and sorrow. And it should also spark something else – the strength to speak out about the horror and let others know, because they – just like you – don’t want to hear it or know it exists. And it should spark the demand for reform, for change. And we do that by electing government officials who will hold our ideals and cares as highly as we do.
If you don’t understand the horror of abortion on all the victims, you can’t be as strongly opposed to it. You can even look over it to other things you consider more important like the economy, gay marriage, taxes.
[Everyone needs] to hear it and know the reality for what it is – it isn’t just stories, it is REAL LIFE and it happens in OUR COUNTRY every single day.
Once having heard it, can you turn away from it and shelter yourself again and force yourself not to think about those tiny helpless babies in dark back rooms? [Can you say] it isn’t your problem – someone else will take care of it for you so you don’t need to think about it again. Or will you consider how you can make changes – and push for changes?
Every single person in America has the ability to do something to stop abortion – and it begins at polling places. Whether you leave it there or not is your choice.
Read Pro-Choice Lobby is Upset Tim Tebow’s Mom Made a Choice
Checkout some of our training videos on our YouTube Channel
