Those Graphic Pictures of Abortion Made Me Pro-Life

I remember growing up in a southern baptist church  and I was more than just a Sunday attender. Anytime the doors were open I was there until through middle school and then I started going to a non-denominational church and Lutheran church (different youth group activities) in high school. I knew what abortion was, that they terminated a pregnancy, but I had no idea how they did it. I remember telling people "I would never have an abortion, but I could see why other people might do it."

My sophomore year of college at Florida Atlantic University there was a big commotion on the free speech lawn. All these huge banners were everywhere with pictures of bloody mini body parts over quarters and dimes. I remember standing there in awe. I couldn't' believe they were allowed to put this up, but moreover, I couldn't believe that this had been done. These tiny hands and feet and faces ripped into pieces. It broke my heart. I wanted to know who would do this and why? Reading a pamphlet they handed out this wasn't what I thought. See I thought maybe this was some injustice being done on the other side of the world in some poor savage country... but it wasn't. It was right here in the US this happens and it's called abortion. See it was the first time I learned that ending a pregnancy ended a baby. My churches never taught me and I wish I could tell you why it was never preached on. My family never talked about it but I think it is because they all knew it was wrong and maybe assumed I did too, I don't know. What I do know is the clicking of this is nothing someone had to explain to me. These parts were parts of babies and babies are precious. There is no good reason to rip them apart.

The pictures of these babies now break my heart. It breaks my heart that we aren't saving them. That we aren't supporting these women who are pregnant and loving them and caring for them and taking them in and providing for them but leaving them to deal with it on their own and that these women many times in desperation turn to this. For some it's out of fear: fear of a baby ruining their life, their finances, their dreams, but when we did we become a culture that allowed child sacrifice for the sake of fear.

I now see my logic of "I would never have one but you can" is terrible. Can you imagine if people started saying "I would never kill my wife but I would never stop someone else from doing it." Or " I would never kill my newborn but I wouldn't stop you from doing it." It is a statement of apathy. Of a willingness to be relative so that we don't offend anyone. Unfortunately, murder is offensive and life is the first inalienable right. Abortion kills a baby and wounds a woman, I wouldn't do it and I wouldn't want that to happen to anyone else no matter the circumstances.

In December of last year a friend on Facebook posted that an abortion clinic was coming to Osceola County. In March exactly where it was going became the forefront of knowledge and while at lunch at a local restaurant my husband and I learned about a city commission meeting coming up regarding this. I sat as we listened to Mayor Swan promise that there was nothing they could do, but if they could they would. I listened as doctors and citizens young and old shared with the commission that Kissimmee is a place for family and that this was not going to grow family. In the past several months I've found myself outside of the proposed site of Planned Parenthood Kissimmee overwhelmed with what could go on this building if we can't stop them.

Now as I stand and pray outside of 610 Oak Commons in Kissimmee FL I picture those banners from my sophomore year. I picture those babies being torn apart. I picture those moms coming looking for answers and 93.8% of these babies dying (according to PPGO annual report from 2012).Those opposed think I'm not for women and their rights but I am. I'm for women, I'm for babies. I'm for life. Our women deserve better than this. Our children deserve better than this.

Please friends be praying as the next few weeks are very important in our fight to stop Planned Parenthood. Please come to the City Commission Meeting at City Hall on Tuesday June 17th at 6 pm to ask the city to join us in coming up with alternatives to abortion.

Some might think I'm fanatical about this, but this is life or death for these babies. It's not just a cause to ask you to donate to but rather I'm asking you to just pray. Pray that we can save the babies and support the mothers.  I would hope that someone would fight for me and my life and the life of my child. I'm thankful my mom chose life and I pray that I can help other mommies choose life. If your pregnant and you don't want your baby please let me help you. Please let me care for your child or find someone who you feel comfortable with. Please let me help connect you to people who can help you like the JMJ pregnancy center or another in your area. Please let me pray for you and please know that your not alone.

Below is how they abortion a 23 week old baby. This is shocking to me, and heart breaking. Perhaps if more knew how they did it, more people would be Pro-Life.

Grayson Thinks Pro-Life is Anti-Health

Planned Parenthood had a ribbon cutting for their new Kissimmee office today. Alan Grayson was a speaker at the event and shared with channel 9 " Their protests are misguided. What this clinic does is provide healthcare to people who otherwise would not be able to see a doctor when their sick. That's what the clinic is here for. and I think to protest against that indicates that they are anti-health."

While Alan Grayson believes we are anti-health, a large portion of the group outside protesting today, including myself are health care providers in the county, we are not anti-health. We are anti-abortion. We are anti-perforated women's uteruses, and babies torn from the womb. We are anti-racism with the targeting of this clinic being the hispanic community.

Jenna Tosh has stressed that abortion is “less than 10 percent of what we do.” However, in fiscal year 2011, Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando reported that the total revenue of the non-profit organization was $3,891,501, while $1,412,162 was earned through surgical abortion. This is about 3,000 abortions per year. The salary of the CEO in 2011 was $104,211. Less than 10% that they claim is still creating about 1/3 of their income. 10% has added up. In 2012 Planned Parenthood performed 327,166 abortions, a 2% drop from 2011. In 2002 Planned Parenthood performed 227,385 abortions, meaning they perform more than 100,000 more than they did 10 years ago. Moreover, according to their annual report it's not 10% for pregnant women. It's 10% (well in 2012 it was 11% of their total services). However that year, abortions made up 93.8% of Planned Parenthood's pregnancy services. For every adoption referral they performed 149 abortions. To say abortion is not part of their business plan would be a mis-statement.

Healthcare? Cancer screenings dropped 14% in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, and has dropped 39% since 2009.  Grayson believes I'm against healthcare, but this clinic that he claims is for the sick, isn't doing healthcare but the 70 doctors who have come together here are doing healthcare in Osceola County and the only thing we don't do is abortion. That "10%." We are a county that believes in life, we believe in family and we believe in God.

Grayson, this isn't for the sick. This clinic is for STDs, birth control and abortion. Abortions kills babies. Abortion hurts women. I am not against educating the public on safe sex practices or in treating infections. I'm for treating and catching cancers early, providing women with healthcare and
providing for the women and children in need. I'm just not for murder and that's what I told Nancy Alvarez today : "I'm not against women's health care, I'm against abortion. Abortion is something that ends the life of a beautiful baby and that baby, no matter how it got here is still a gift. And if a woman doesn't want to care for the baby there are hundreds of people who would love to take over," said Osceola County resident Anita Morin.
You can watch that here:
http://www.wftv.com/videos/news/group-protests-as-planned-parenthood-opens/vCbCr2/

I also talked with Mrs. Alvarez about the abundance of pregnancy centers and doctors who have been caring for these people all along. The only thing our county doesn't do is abortion.

So, Mr. Grayson we aren't Anti-Health we are Pro-Life, Pro-women Pro-Babies Pro-Family Pro-minority.

The first inalienable right is life. Please pray with me to protect the children of Osceola County.
Hopefully, the city officials of Kissimmee with see that the B5 zoning does not fit for planned parenthood, but if they won't there are plenty of people willing to stand up for them.

God Bless,
Anita

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Planned Parenthood 2012-2013 Annual report was the main source for these statistics. They aren't made up by some biased group or organization. You can read that report here:  http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/AR-FY13_111213_vF_rev3_ISSUU.pdf

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.

When on Facebook you can learn so much about people and their views. One post the other day was talking about the heartbreak of the death of animals. Another, asked if it was normal to like one child more than another where respondents said it's normal. When did it become normal for each child to not be a beautiful gift? A few weeks ago in North Carolina Pro-Choice license plates were outlawed.  And here I sit as I think about the reality of what our world is allowing.

Today I got a hair cut. My hair has been bothering me lately as it was super long and thick and I just felt it was getting unmanageable for the everyday with my schedule. I'm not one who has time or desire to spend hours and hours to get ready. While doing so, the lady who cut my hear and I somehow started talked about children, which led to a conversation that she started on abortion. Her side: if someone wants to get an abortion they should. That idea was heart breaking to me but I didn't say that.

I will say this friends: Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth. 

The truth is we are allowing mass murder in our country and calling it a procedure. 

The truth is this is heart breaking. 

The truth is my heart is broken today for the about 54 million children that would be living today if we didn't allow abortion.  So many times we ask "Where is God?" in things that don't make sense but this is something God was not asked to be apart of.  In fact, while I can go on to write of the verses in the bible to tell you that these lives should be preserved I have some other thoughts for you:

Did you know that at conception you have all 46 chromosomes? This the "cells" that form are not the woman's body, they are simply in her body. But I can rattle off argument after argument for you the truth is that what I hate is that I don't know how to help in an effective way. 

And I have to ask myself- why does this practice of abortion not bring me to tears more? I think Satan makes us blind to it, the media makes us blind to it, the world calls it normal, but babies are 100% innocent. They have done nothing wrong. As I spoke to the woman as she cut my hair, she told me that it was better for the kid not to be born if the mother didn't want to take care of it. So, I  told her about myself and my mother. I told her of my experience being in foster care, and what it was like to live with various family members. I told her how despite all the obstacles, that I feel blessed and I am thankful for the life that I have lived. I told her how statistically my mom is the type of woman who would have had an abortion, and I'm so thankful that she didn't. She was very sweet, but you could tell as we talked that she still had exceptions in her mind about why abortion was ok. From things I said, and she said, I got the idea that she wasn't a christian, but I pray I am wrong. As we talked I found that while I could share with her the scripture as to why abortion is wrong, it occurred to me that if someone doesn't think the bible is valid, then that wouldn't mean much to them. We didn't have a heated debate, I didn't go through with her many of the things that I'll write after this. I just shared with her a desire to love children, a hope to have my own, and an encouragement for her to adopt (she mentioned she wanted to) and to help the children who need it if she can. We ended with me having a haircut I'm happy with, a thank you and me asking her how I could pray for her.

The conversation did tell me though, that I need to be more prepared with information.  I talked to her about the realities of adoption options, that new babies are a lot easier to find homes for than 14 year old boys with behavior problems. That if the mothers had resources then maybe they would be more likely to keep the children and that that is something the church should be providing (and many churches do).

So there are some things that don't make sense to me:
- We allow abortion and don't consider it life, yet if a woman who is pregnant is murdered two murders are tried for.
- Criminals get an attorney and a voice, but these children don't.
- Why is that cells found on another planet would be called life, yet an embryo inside a woman is considered just cells?
- If we are really going to be pro-life then why is it that we stand by and let so many innocent die. That we don't educate ourselves or attempt to educate others and yet we send thousands of dollars to help those dying from starvation, dirty water, ect?

One point that the woman cutting my hair said was : Why is that people get mad about abortion but they allow birth control? it's the same thing.

She was right. (if referring to the pill as it can allow unification of the egg and sperm to form an embryo and can stop implantation.)

Friends, I don't know what I can do to help, except to use the talents God has given me to share the knowledge.

Stephen Swartz came up with an argument in his book The Moral Question of Abortion called SLED. Please note that the statements made are to exaggerate a point, and I didnt write them. The acronym addresses the arguments of those who support abortion:

"Size: True, embryos are smaller than newborns and adults, but why is that relevant? Do we really want to say that large people are more human than small ones? Men are generally larger than women, but that doesn’t mean that they deserve more rights. Size doesn’t equal value.

Level of development: True, embryos and fetuses are less developed than the adults they’ll one day become. But again, why is this relevant? Four year-old girls are less developed than 14 year-old ones. Should older children have more rights than their younger siblings? Some people say that self-awareness makes one human. But if that is true, newborns do not qualify as valuable human beings. Six-week old infants lack the immediate capacity for performing human mental functions, as do the reversibly comatose, the sleeping, and those with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Environment: Where you are has no bearing on who you are. Does your value change when you cross the street or roll over in bed? If not, how can a journey of eight inches down the birth-canal suddenly change the essential nature of the unborn from non-human to human? If the unborn are not already human, merely changing their location can’t make them valuable.

Degree of Dependency: If viability makes us human, then all those who depend on insulin or kidney medication are not valuable and we may kill them. Conjoined twins who share blood type and bodily systems also have no right to life. In short, it’s far more reasonable to argue that although humans differ immensely with respect to talents, accomplishments, and degrees of development, they are nonetheless equal because they share a common human nature."

But I think while you can argue point by point with people, and have some good things to say using this and other information, what you have to get someone to define is what do they think the embryo is? life? cells? unknown? because what you say that embryo is makes all the difference. 

Friends my heart is, that I am so thankful for the life that I have been given, and I pray that we can educate ourselves on the topic and hopefully share insight in a way that is encouraging and helpful. 

I'm currently reading a book by R.C. Sproul called "Abortion: A Rational Look at an Emotional Issue. 

I suspect I'll bring you some more thoughts on this sticky topic then. 

How do you share the truth in love in this topic? How do you explain the gift of life? I'd love any thoughts you all have, I just ask you keep them constructive. I haven't addressed all my thoughts on this issue and the connected ideas but like I said, I hope to revise this topic and hope to continue to share with you on this soon. 

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