Stealing the Business: A Baby Potentially Saved
This morning at Ground Zero, I received an emergency call from Nicole C. who was doing some sidewalk counselling. She met a black woman who was scheduled to have her abortion. As she talked with her, she learned that this woman already had 5 kids and could not afford another one. The woman walked back and forth, sometimes putting her hand on the door of the Abortion Mill, but not opening it.
The woman was then on her cell phone, talking to her husband. She didn't want to go through with it, but they were in a financial crisis.
As Nicole phoned around frantically trying to find financial support, we got a rude awakening that crisis pregnancy centres don't offer cash - probably because of the abuse that can happen with that situation, understandably. So we had to make a split decision and we did.
So Nicole and I bit the bullet and offered her $500 cash right now, and a pledge to help her on a continual basis until her situation stabilized.
Before anything else, the Abortion Mill is a business. That is the context in which they operate and that is the context in which we must venture at times. We have to be the Abortion Mills' competitors for the lives of the unborn. What's a child worth to us? $500? Seems like a pretty good bargain for an eternal soul, no? The early Church raised money to buy the freedom of slaves. And that's what we need to do in this war too.
The abortion mill pushes despair and extorts millions from its victims and from the State.
In response, we need to offer hope in terms of concrete assistance, and we need to show an unbelieving world that we love Christ more than our possessions.
We need to conquer with love...and cash.
I asked Nicole to give me a call to let me know what ended up happening. When I find out, I'll let you all know.
The fact that today we might have saved a human life by our sacrifice is a great privilege and grace.
Please pray hard.
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Update: We are not certain, but looks like the woman went ahead and had the abortion. She went into the building to phone her husband, and was in there for a couple of hours.
Still, we learned a valuable tactical lesson which we will be able to implement next time this situation arises.
3 comments:
Wow, I was moved by this story. Particularly by the counsellor 'putting their money where their mouth was' in offering financial aid, as that seemed to be one of the driving forces in this situation (lack of $$). By the end of story, I was willing to give a substantial contribution to this family as well (as was written: what price can we put on a life?!!)
Then sadly I read the last paragraph, to learn the woman may have gone ahead with her original plans.... The situatin is clear all the same: What will are we willing (and able) to do to ensure lives are protected? Many can give or their time; others, from their resources....
what if there where people prepared to adopt the child. My wife and I just had a child and the pregnency was very rough. We want to adopt a child and save him/her from abortion. Would that change someones heart? Would that cause them to stop. i think its the churches responsability to take care of unwanted children. I am amazed that our society even considers abortion an option. I pray that peoples hearts would be opened to love of Jesus Christ and see the their sin.
Woman who have an abortion feel they have no choice because of their life situation. The pro-life mouvement needs to offer that hope and choice. What is needed now is to be organised so that there are people in place to support, and dare I say, sponsor a woman in this difficult situation. We need to offer these woman hope;that they don't need to have an abortion. There are other options, that are life giving to them and the unborn child. By doing so, we can run the abortion business out of business.
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