This is a NICU picture of me a day after I was born.
Why am I involved in pro-life? My name is Rachel Mary. You might not know this to look at me, but you see I was given a death sentence. Twenty-six years ago, three doctors begged my parents to kill me. These physicians said that I had a chromosomal abnormality not compatible with life and said that I would be blind, deaf, and have mental struggles. Another physician said the only test he would offer would be an autopsy.
I was born at 26 weeks at 1 lb. 2 oz, and I was in the NICU for 5 1/2 months. I wasn’t incompatible with life, rather I was compatible with life because I was alive inside of the womb regardless of whether the condition was correct or incorrect.
This false narrative, this belief, and this scare tactic that so many in the medical community believe hook, line and sinker, believing that somehow this child inside of the womb that has a condition is going to suffer in life and is going to lead a tragic life, is an absolutely false, horrific, and wrong mindset. What is not being understood by many in the medical community and then not being shared with the family is the reality of the harm of abortion to the baby and the family.
The medical field believes the lie that they are so-called “rescuing the child from suffering” through aborting the baby. Abortion is not what ends suffering. Abortion is what will cause the baby to suffer and even worse abortion is what preemptively kills the baby.
I think that it is so important when thinking about the reality of abortion that it compels us to be involved in pro-life. This should compel us to have Our Lord’s love and mercy for these moms who are walking inside of the abortion clinic, for these children in utero made in our Lord’s image, and also for the abortion workers.
We have to realize something; it is not only that precious mom who has been deceived by society as it is also the medical field often who is deceived. The mothers are being told they are not strong enough to have that baby and being told that abortion is “medically necessary.” She is also being told that her baby will suffer if her baby is born, and that her baby will not have a good quality of life. Mothers are strong enough to have their babies and they are loving their babies by choosing life for their babies as they are protecting them from the harm of abortion.
When the physician said to my parents that they needed to have an abortion because I would not have a good quality of life. My mom said, “Our baby will because our baby will know the unconditional love of Jesus Christ.” Wow, isn’t that true?
For the medical community to believe this false narrative that the killing of humans in utero with a “life-limiting” condition “spares them suffering” is an absolute oxymoron. It is an absolute tragedy. Let’s just give an example so let’s say that there is a 2-year-old, and they have a diagnosis that means most likely they will pass away. What if the physician said to the parents, “Your child will lead a poor quality of life and your child will not live long but what I’m going to do is I’m going to give your baby a pill that will kill your baby.” What would we say to that? We would say that is absolute medical negligence, and that this is horrific, and that is evil. The killing of a person has no place in medicine. The killing of a person is not medical care. We need to live in a culture of life. The reason why I’m involved in pro-life is because of getting the gravity and the reality of abortion.
I think that when we understand the reality of abortion it compels us to have a heart for these children made in the image of God in the womb who are targeted for destruction and to have a heart of empathy, as I spoke about earlier, for loving these moms and also loving these abortion workers.
Also, loving the abortion worker does not mean that we are dismissing the reality of what they are doing as they are being involved in the killing of children.
It means that we have a heart of compassion of realizing that they are deceived and that oftentimes they think that they are doing right by women.
I have many friends who are former abortionists. These people killed children. God saved their souls, and they are redeemed.
I do believe it is a loving command and a requirement to be involved in pro-life.
Seth Gruber talks about, and he says this is not in the Bible, that he thinks that when we stand before God, He will ask Christians what we did for the unborn. Honestly, I think it’s true, and I think the same question was asked by God for the Christians who lived during the time of the Holocaust and who lived during the time of slavery. I think that it is a Biblical mandate as God says in summary in His word to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. He says to love your neighbor as yourself. It’s really realizing that the unborn child is our neighbor, that mom is our neighbor, that dad is our neighbor, and the abortion worker is our neighbor.
Loving families in crisis or unplanned or unwanted pregnancies is commanded by our Lord. For those that are involved in pro-life, it is essential to have a spirit of mercy and to make sure that all involved in pro-life realize that it’s all about the Lord. Loving God means we need to exude empathy, and we need to exemplify loving kindness toward the women walking into the abortion clinic as they are scared and confused and looking for hope and answers. We need to give what Jesus gives so freely to all of us which is His mercy, hope, truth, and grace. Also, we must debunk the false narrative that somehow abortion is medically necessary as abortion kills a baby. Also, a baby who has a health condition is simply a baby who has a health condition as the baby hasn’t become their diagnosis as that’s still the same little darling that was made at the moment of conception. So may we know the truth and may we speak the truth with the spirit of Christ. My dear friend, Ed Setzler, speaks of having the spirit of Christ.
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