Will It End With You?

Normally, I do not care to involve myself in politics. With this presidential election, it is different. I was listening to Focus on the Family this morning and there was a registered nurse speaking out against abortion.

The Born Alive Infant Protection Act was passed to prevent hospital staff and doctors from leaving a viable baby, accidentally born alive after an abortion, to die of suffocation and starvation. It's basic provision was for those babies to receive immediate emergency life-saving care if they survived the abortion procedure.

One baby did survive and she speaks out against abortion today.

She survived a saline abortion. Let that sink in for a moment. A tiny, helpless two pound baby survived being burned internally and externally in uetero for eighteen hours. Does the horror of that grip you as it does me? Did you even know that babies could be born ALIVE after an abortion? Until today, I had no idea.

One nurse discovered this at the hospital that she had been working at for over a year. This ugly, inhuman side of medical practice was revealed one night after a Downs syndrome baby was aborted, lived through the procedure and was being taken to the soiled linens room to die alone. Jill Stanek was changed for life when she encountered infanticide in her place of employment. It was the unspoken horror that went on in a place that was supposed to provide care and healing to people. Babies are people too are they not?

The whole focus of our presidential race has been on economics. The abortion question has been raised but very infrequently. I personally don't care what the economic plan is that either candidate has. To me, the value placed on the lives of innocent babies far surpasses the value we place on our national debt.

A friend emailed me this:



Please vote for those who have no voice...

To verify these claims, go to BornAliveTruth.org or Jill Stanek's blog, of particular interest is the transcript of Sen. Obama's opposition regarding the Born Alive Infant Protection Act read it on pages 84-90.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE:

I have always held very fiercely to the belief that babies are people from the moment of conception. I have always considered abortion to be murder. Even when I was faced with an unplanned pregnancy, and the doctor told me I had "options", I declared to him that the only option was that I was keeping this baby. Just because I had chosen to have sex and that physical union resulted in a baby, does not mean that it is my choice to rid myself of the "inconvenience" of becoming a parent. I am so glad that I chose life because I never would have met Mr. Dramatic had I chosen to exercise my "right" as a woman to choose.

For those women out there who made the choice to abort their babies, I do not condemn you. My sin was no less than yours'. To God all sin is equal. It is only as humans that we try to make ourselves sound more righteous than someone else. To God all sin is equal, but His forgiveness and atonement for that sin is all encompassing. I invite you to find grace and forgiveness in Jesus. I urge you to find true, whole, holy love in my Savior, Jesus Christ. He is the only One who can wash away the crimson stain of sin that marks us all. He is the only One who can love you completely and perfectly. It is only in Him that I am able to be cleansed and whole.