Abortion.

This is a topic that I just won't change on. For me it is the silent holocaust around the world. It is the female genocide in Asia.

To me it will never be a 'right' to kill someone else.

I'm all riled up about this, not only because of it being an election year, and there's the whole supreme court justices, and the idea of Roe. V Wade ever being overturned...

But a close friend here in Kenya, someone who I greatly respect and admire, was being questioned about abortion by some of our mutual European friends...

To which she replied with how she had worked in the US social working scene before, and how she had seen these kids come in to the government system and their lives and case files, and emotional scars were so horrible, and their future so pointless and dead, that she couldn't help but think that if she were their mother, she would want them dead. If she could choose for them to die, she would. Just kill them now, and see them in 70 years in heaven.

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I sat silent, staring at my food. My mouth dry, and I wanted to just be sick.

First let me preface the following with the fact that I do know that the US foster system, and system for kids is awful. It needs changed, it needs Jesus, it needs people who love and will adopt. Let me also say, that the only people I know who are willing to help out that system are Christians, deeply religious people, and a few homosexual couples.  Without getting into that can of worms, let me just say, I wish everyone had a spirit of adoption over their heart...

And here's where my heart and brain went:

 I have sat down with kids in an orphanages, held dying AIDS babies, and tried to reach child prostitues, like the 8 year old who only crawls on the floor with a blanket over her head. I have never thought to myself, "wow, I just wish their mother had aborted (killed) them."  The very idea of that, just makes me cry. 

Logically, I can 'get' how you would think that, but to think that... how separated can you be from the eyes of that child and the hope that Christ has for them and in them?

I'm not really looking for responses on this. Everyone has such passionate viewpoints, from every angle and every 'side' and every which way. I just wanted to say that I cannot ever say that it is okay for someone to kill someone else. And though I can understand that life would ever be so hopeless that people would want to, and that people would do it...

 I hear the words of my great grandmother Nellie when she had her 6th child, in the midst of the Great Depression. When there was famine, draught, and what looked like no future in front of them... she said when my great aunt was born,

"Her name is Hope, for where there is life.... there is always hope."


My great grandmother had it right.