Proverbs 24:11, 12 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” 
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done? 
~ New International Version ~

Does anyone of you know Paddy O'Burn. He was once a famous radio comedian and radio actor for SABC's Springbok Radio. When the SABC got rid of the radio station he went to Television for a short while. He was a firm suppoter of Pro Life, like myself. 

In my younger days I was a Pro Life activist. They were proud days. We didn't do the picketing. We just had large photos of babies that had been aborted in buckets pasted to our cars. We placed them in doctors' rooms, where we knew illegal abortions were being performed. They would be torn down and we would replace them.

Those were the good old days. Our feelings have not changed. We've just grown up and become complacent. Lazy is a better word.

Paddy told me a story of a man who went to a gaenecologist and asked him if he knew a mother was to give birth to a baby with syphilis, lead poisoning, tinnitus, typhus, hearing loss from a distended inner ear, what advice would he give the mother. The doctor replied without haste he would advise her to have an abortion. The man then congratulated him on killing Ludwig Van Beethoven.

I recently read a story about how a twin survived and abortion performed on her and her brother. This is that story...

Twins -- one aborted, one survives!

Sarah tells her story . . .
"Twenty-nine years ago, my mother decided to have an abortion. At the time, she was pregnant with twins, but nobody knew this, not even her doctor. My tiny brother and I were both there growing in her womb, until that dreadful day.

Before the abortion, we were both alive. Moments later, I was alone.

It's frightening to think I was almost aborted when my mom had a D&C abortion. Somehow, miraculously, I survived! My twin brother wasn't so lucky. Andrew was aborted and we lost him forever.

Several weeks later, my mother was shocked to feel me kicking in her womb. She already had five children and she knew what it felt like when a baby kicked in the womb. She instantly knew that somehow she was still pregnant. She went back to the doctor and told him she was still pregnant...that she had made a big mistake and that she wanted to keep this baby.

To this day, my mother deeply regrets that abortion. I know the pain is unbearable for her at times when she looks at me and knows she aborted my twin brother. Mom says 'the protective hand of Almighty God saved my life . . . that God's hand covered and hid me in her womb, and protected me from the scalpel of death.

After surviving the abortion, I was born with bilateral, congenital dislocated hips and many other physical handicaps. Nine days after I was born, I was taken to an orthopedic surgeon who applied a cast to each of my tiny legs. My mom would remove these casts with pliers every Monday morning and take me to the doctor to have new casts put on.

At six weeks I was put into my first body cast. Many surgeries and body cast followed over the next few years. Unfortunately, doctors are telling me that now I'll need surgeries about every 5 years (please pray for me).

Today, I thank God I survived the abortion, but the pain continues for everyone in my family. In memory of my brother Andrew, we bought a memorial gravestone and placed it in a cemetery in Southern California. It reads:

ANDREW JAMES SMITH, TWIN BROTHER OF SARAH -- IN OUR HEARTS YOU'LL ALWAYS BE ALIVE -- NOVEMBER 1970

Please share our story with others so the tragedy of abortion stops hurting babies and families. Everyone needs to know the truth about abortion. Thank you."

--Sarah Smith
 

A heart rendering story. How can man remove or kill what God has created?

However, in South Africa, and many other parts of the world, abortion is just a way to make money. Prior to 1994, when the new government took over, our politicians were against abortion and had strict laws in place. You had to virtually prove rape before they allowed the abortion to take place.

Since our new government has come into being they have removed the death penalty and replaced it with abortion. You can save an adult who takes another life but you can willingly kill an unwanted child and you don't even need an excuse.

God ordains life, who are we to stop it from being?

Revelations 12, Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a Woman, adorned with the sun standing on the moon, and with twelve stars on her head for a crown. She was pregnant, and in labor, crying aloud in the pangs of childbirth.

During pregnancy a relationship is formed between mother and child that can never be removed no matter what. Far greater than the father can ever imagine. The mother bonds with her child. She will have many days of pain and nausea. God never said that pregnancy was easy.God allows pregnancy to take place so that the mother can become closer to her child. Whe we abort the child we a ripping away a part of that woman. We are severing her body and tearing her flesh away. A destruction that can prevent future pregnancies taking place.

Prostitutes were careless in the "Good old days". They regularly applied for abortions citing rape as the excuse. Now they needn't apply. It's easy and in some cases cheap.

Just recently, in the Eastern Cape, a young man was acquitted of murdering his unborn child when he had his pregnant fiance shot in the belly. The judiciary claimed that as the child was not yet self supporting it was not alive to begin with. Sad!

Children give us joy and the will to fight and live. We can become very angry with them sometimes but they will continue to bring us joy and good memories.

My first wife and I lost a child at six months. We weren't able to have children and it was believed the pregnancy was a miracle to begin with. The wife went through all the normal stages of her pregnancy and we were elated. This joy turned into great pain for us when we lost the child at six months.

We remained without any children until our divorce some nine years later. We were married a total of eighteen years.

I had longed for children but she had been dead against it. I would have loved to have been a father and to have walked my daughter down the isle or taken my son to the football or any sport game he would have enjoyed. I would have loved to go away for a weekend with him fishing and spent some quality time with him. We were never given the honour to have children We accepted this and we made the most of each other. We weren't able to foster or adopt as the laws were stringent in those days. By the time the wife would have been of the correct age I would have been too old.

I had married an orphan who was dead against children because of her fostered up bringing. I had to just accept and respect her beliefs. I was pretty much in love with her.

In my second marriage I received two lovely daughters and a son. One of the daughters gave me instant grand sons. I must admit I would have preferred the children to have been a lot younger. The grandsons are the best. However, this marriage lasted 4 days short of a year.

Now I am as happy and contented as I would like to be. I will never ask God why He never gave us children again. I have learnt my lesson.

I now spoil other parents children as I don't have to live with them. I love them and would have cherished my own but God knew my temperament and spared both the children and I from my wrath.

In short and ending. When a child is killed and aborted the angels in the heavens mourn and weep. My heart virtually dies. I feel for that child. I also feel for the parent who didn't have a say in the decision.

Read Sarah Smith's story, weep with us, mourn with us, pray for the unborn child.