I Had To Save The Baby!

Proverbs 31:8 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.”

“I had to save the baby.” Sam said. A friend of mine was telling me a story involving her five year old son, Sam, and his one year old brother Avery. The boys were out in the yard playing and she heard screaming, she ran around the corner of the house and she sees their rooster attacking the boys. Avery fell to the ground and Sam laid on top of Avery to protect him from their crazy rooster. The rooster dug his talons into Sam, pecking at him. She kicked the rooster off of the boys but the rooster kept coming back and Sam just laid there protecting Avery. The rooster finally retreated after their mother hit him with a shovel. Afterwards she asked Sam. What made you just lay there on top of your brother, protecting him, Why didn’t you run away? “I had to save the baby,” Sam said.”

January is Sanctity of Human Life Month, this year marks the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. The pastor of the church I attended last Sunday spoke of the “What if’s” of abortion. What if 50 million children had not been lost to abortion over the last 39 years. How many Steve Jobs, Bill Gate’s, Hellen Kellers, Henry Fords, Ruth and Billy Grahams would have been added to our world?

I know a woman who was pushed by her parents and boyfriend to have an abortion when she was a teenager. I asked her, What do you want to say to people?  This is her response. “When I got home that day (after the abortion) my boyfriend said to me, “Did you have fun killing our kid today?” I will never forget it. Abortion pretty much ruins your life. I am still looking for healing, but I don’t want to go there, I don’t want to remember. I would like to help young women who are in the same position I was in, but I know in doing so I would have to tell my story and I am not ready to do that. I need to talk to someone. I need to find healing and forgiveness.”

Mother Teresa said this, "Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness."

If Sam’s mother were to explain abortion to him and then to ask him what he thought. I see him looking up at her with his innocent eyes, responding without any hesitation, “Mom we have to save the babies!”