Precious Life

"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise

you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it

very well." Psalm 139:13,14

I found this facinating, even though it is rather horrible:

"In general, abortion providers have censored their own emotional trauma out of concern to protect abortion rights. In 2008, however, abortionist Lisa Harris endeavored to begin “breaking the silence” in the pages of the journal Reproductive Health Matters. When she herself was 18 weeks pregnant, Dr. Harris performed a D&E abortion on an 18-week-old fetus. Harris felt her own child kick precisely at the moment that she ripped a fetal leg off with her forceps:

"Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes—without me—meaning my conscious brain—even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling—a brutally visceral response—heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics. It was one of the more raw moments in my life."

This is but a sampling of the stories in the article "Mugged by Ultrasound: Why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life." I would highly recommend reading it. Though Ms. Harris remained an abortion doctor many others in this article left their positions at abortion clinics. You can also read Dr. Mohler's response to the article.

There has also been a bit of a controversy over Tim Tebow's Super Bowl commercial that reportedly has a very pro-life message. Some women's rights groups are saying it will cause abortion doctors to be shot and so on. The funny thing is the bigger deal they make about it the more people will want to see it when it gets put on Youtube after it airs. So they are more or less making it worse for themselves.

The sanctity of even the smallest life has been important to me ever since I was really old enough to understand it, and it should be important to any Christian. Life is a gift from God and a most beautiful thing, never to be thrown away. No matter what life it is, it is precious. No matter how old or young, or even how useless or burdensome it seems to be, life is precious.

And this most precious thing called life is what Christ gave to ransom us from sin and death and give us true life.

Laura

(Special thanks to Mama and Daddy for discussing these things with me. : )