Everyone who is Perfect, Raise your Hand!

Reading slanted news and commentary, I'm struck by the shared ignorance of otherwise seemingly intelligent people who should have had biology somewhere in their education. It seems in the argument about "abortion" the one forgotten is the one who is being aborted. Termed a "fetus", "clump of cells", "product of conception", or a woman's "right to choose", the little infant in the womb is a real living human being who by 21 days has a heartbeat and by 34 days detectable brainwaves, both measurements doctors use to determine if human beings are still living. By just a few weeks into pregnancy, we can see the child's face, fingers, toes, and by seven weeks, the little one will move away if you try to touch his/her face. By ten weeks in the womb, when you insert an abortionist's catheter or clamp to take them away from the safety of their mothers, they will scream and try to move away from the bully about to tear them into pieces. I personally ignore arguments of "viability" and "self-awareness" and "sentient" because every child is as viable, self-aware, and sentient as you and I were, and any measurement we give is purely arbitrary to rationalize our inhumane treatment of other living human beings.

These are children.

Already Here

This is not theory or hyperbole. These little boys and girls are already a part of our world. They are already here. They are already a son or daughter, and their mother and father are already parents. Their humanity is not up for debate as confirmed by both biology and theology as living bodies and living souls. The only bodies and souls they will ever have throughout their only lifetime, just as you and I get one body and one soul for one lifetime.

The only question is how we will treat them?

Peek-a-Boo, I Don't See You

We have attempted to treat the most vulnerable and youngest among us much like a two-year-old plays peek-a-boo. We act like if we cover our eyes, the child disappears. But when we open our eyes, we see not only the humanity of these tiny children in the womb, but we also expose our own cruelty in brutally, cruelly, and inhumanely pulling them apart in pieces as if in some gruesome torture chamber and horror movie. There is no born person who would ever want to be treated like that.

So why are we treating others like we would never want ourselves to be treated?

Everyone who is Perfect, please raise your hand!

Children are treated as inconvenient, as an obstacle getting in the way of our own dreams and goals like a college degree or a job or some arbitrary standard of living, all the while the purpose for which they are being created and the dreams and goals they will want for themselves are ignored as irrelevant. Maybe they would like to go to college, have a job, and aspire to a certain standard of living? Children are not even considered in the "choice" to abort them unless in some kind of "mercy" killing where it is considered better to torture them to death than allow them to continue living and have to face some kind of potential obstacle like a feared handicap, poverty, or parents who haven't already planned for them. They are not considered patients by doctors to care for them, as mothers are being convinced to fear some "maybe", "could be", or "what if" the child has - heaven forbid! - something less than perfect about them that could require loving someone less than biologically perfect! (As if any one of us could ever be biologically perfect.) Isn't that the same argument of the holocaust and all eugenics? Only "survival of the fittest" from the myth of evolution has become "only the fittest should survive" and we "help" de-evolve the human race and depopulate the world, deciding who should live and who should die. And these little children are not only being cruelly killed but inhumanely experimented on and disposed of as "waste". Their lives are wasted in some cruel experiment to learn about them biologically while never knowing them personally - their personalities, talents, and creativity lost on us.

When will we deserve them?

What happened to love?

What happened to a mother's love who loves her children with all their imperfections? I read recently of a mother who sued the doctor for not telling her that her child would be defective so she could abort her. I wondered why instead of awarding her money the judge didn't order that the daughter be adopted by parents who want her? Or why not order the child be pulled into pieces in the courtroom, since that's what the mother wanted? The child is nine years old, but to the child, what difference does it make if they are butchered alive now or nine years ago? The result is the same.

When will we learn to love again?

When will we learn?

How much more proof and argument do we need to finally do the right thing? I get that a lot of women didn't know what they were doing when they aborted a child. But we're not talking about those women or things in the past. We are talking about now and moving forward. When is enough, enough? When will we put all this knowledge to work and do something about it? What will change over the next ten years - other than the loss of 20,000 innocent children and the generations after them in Colorado - that will change the human heart to suddenly want to do the right thing? How much education do we need? How many prayers do we need to pray to God to do what God has already told us to do? To take care of the widows and orphans and enact justice on their behalf?

When will those of us allowed to be born become human?

Do we really want these children to live?

I'm tired of the arguments over words. I could write a Constitutional Amendment one hundred different ways to do exactly the same thing - stop the slaughter of innocent children. Stop killing them before they can be born. Stop pulling them apart in pieces. Stop abusing and torturing them to death. And stop the advertisements and funding of human butcherers and businesses that under the guise of "clinics" - fake clinics that are not clinics at all, and now legally called "healthcare", whose only purpose is to kill, steal, and destroy - legally murder children every day. Ripping their lives away from the mothers who just haven't seen their faces, yet, to love them, or any of the thousands of couples who would adopt them. We have to stop wrangling over words and start caring about who those words are protecting!

"A rose by any other name would still smell so sweet!"

A Choice to Make

Just as every mother who is facing whether she will terminate her pregnancy, so yours and my responsibility is compounded by the thousands. Is it better that a child is tortured to death or given life? At the end of the argument, and at the end of the day, those are the only two options - life and death, blessings or curses - words that will save them, or words that will condemn them to death.

While we wrangle over words, children are dying.

Children are crying in the womb for us to save them. Children are pulled apart in pieces, their only life taken from them, their potential and purpose missing in our world. And the generations after them. And we are sick from it. Sick from their blood crying from the contaminated ground, crying from the rivers and the sewers that are sick with tiny unwanted babies who only wanted to be born and loved like each of us would like to be.

We are robbing them. And we are robbing "us".

Isn't it time yet to do something? Or would we rather debate more, talk more, strategize more, brainstorm more, argue more, research more, follow culture more, .... Because for 50 years, we've marched, we've talked, we've met, and we've prayed. We have this brief window of time to repent. And to do what we say we want to do - works in-keeping with our repentance - protect children by making it illegal to kill them.

Are you ready?

I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. (Acts 26:20)

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Faye Barnhart is a Life Affirming Specialist and Women’s Advocate of 19 years, served in a federal think tank on the co-occurrence of adult and child violence and in pregnancy care centers. A pre-law student and aid at the Colorado state capitol, she finished her degree and pursued a career in communications while raising children as a single parent. A follower of Jesus Christ, she is now married to a farmer in rural Colorado, mother of adult married children and an adopted special needs son, and grandmother to several miracle babies including a grandson who needed life-saving surgery at birth.