Outrage and Sadness

I am preparing for moving my "office" or rather all of my books/posters/teaching stuff to my new office at our church. In sorting through what to bring, I cut out an article from the Western Catholic Reporter, May 16, 2005 edition, entitled Christ's power saved aborted baby. The same article is online at Kairos Catholic Journal.

How incredibly sad to hear her story and how outraged I am once again that abortion, at any fetal age, is legal. I talk about preborn life at every training I do. I show and pass around a tiny model of a 12 week preborn while I explain his (the model is very much a boy) "milestones" at 12 weeks:

• The neck is present and the face well formed.
• The eyelids close and will reopen at about 24 weeks.
• Tooth buds appear.
• The arms and legs move.
• All body parts and organs are present.
• The fibers that carry pain to the brain are developed.
• Definitive signs of male and female gender are present.
• A heartbeat can be heard with electronic devices.
• The length is about 2 to 3 inches.

I had never heard of a saline solution abortion (how the woman above was to be aborted but somehow lived) so I googled and came across the most horrifying and sobering images blogged at Three Knockdown Rule. I pray daily that our church counsellor Carla Houston's post-abortion ministry continues to support and hold up women after their decision, informed or otherwise. I also pray that our prenatal ministry will evolve into the Crisis Pregnancy Center Pastor Eleanor and I have envisioned.