ABORTION: A LIFE & DEATH DECISION
by Mike Robinson
There are few feelings of completion like that of holding a new-born child in one's arms. I recall doing that with my children. I recall doing that with my grand children. In fact, I recall holding my most recent grand daughter in my arms just minutes after her birth. She is absolutely beautiful! What else?!
Then I came home to read a magazine article about the virtues of abortion on demand.
I was suddenly gripped with a combined sense of grief and anger. What if, for some very rational, logical, compelling reason, that little baby in my arms had been "terminated" sometime in the previous 9 months?
I know that this is a very emotive subject. However, I want to join my voice with the growing chorus of concern about this enormous destructiveness in our society.
When it was first legalised, we were promised that abortion would mean that child abuse would almost cease to exist because every baby born would be wanted and loved. Like so many of these rational promises, this one has proven to be a massive deception. What it did was to further cheapen life.
Our awareness of child abuse is at an unprecedented level.
Abortion itself is probably the ultimate (and most acceptable) form of child abuse we have ever seen in our lifetime.
I know that you and I can quote exceptional situations where it seems that abortion is the only option. I know that the various pro-abortion movements sound so plausible as they argue their way into our minds and values.
But I also know that, in my many years as a Pastor and Counsellor, I have yet to meet the first person who regrets NOT having had an abortion while I have met many who deeply regret that they ever allowed themselves to be talked into such an irreversible decision.
I often think about that couple who came from out-of-town into my office to seek my advice and to explain why abortion was the only way to go for them. Theirs were very genuine and compelling reasons. Some years later, I met that same couple. They asked if I remembered that day and that conversation. I said that I did. "There's someone we want you to meet", they said with beaming smiles.
You guessed it. The little fellow they picked up in their arms was the joy of their lives because of the life they gave him.
