Saving Hope

God created a mother's womb to sustain and protect her child's life. The intricacies for a child to be nourished and oxygen to sustain the fast-growing child is more than any human can replicate.

The womb is a self-contained environment for the child keeping out bacterial and viral infections. The child is surrounded by the cushion of amniotic fluid. While the placenta filters between the mother's blood and that of the baby, mother and baby are communicating in ways scientists do not fully understand.

Not only is the child growing, but the child can also help healing in the mother. For instance, if the mother suffers from diabetes, the child will produce insulin to help their mother. When the child is born, their over production of insulin can endanger the child's life when separated from the mother. The child endangers their own life by helping their mother.

During childbirth, the child helps position him or herself to help the birthing process. At birth, the incredible deep stare of a newborn memorizing their mother's face is a little glimpse of heaven. Birth itself is a holy moment. Pain is overcome by joy. The entire nine months feels suddenly worth this tiny little human that you get to hold in your arms, their soft skin and tiny fingers and toes curled about you. Love rushes over you. And you suddenly cannot imagine life without them.

A child is born loving the mother who gave them birth. And there is something beautiful in the eternal bond between a mother and her child who she thinks is the most beautiful baby in the world. You can feel the love in the room. Even when the mother had considered aborting. When a mother looks at her baby, there is a softness that comes over her.

In that moment, it doesn't matter how much money the child will cost to raise, or how long it will take mom to finish her degree. Or the sleepless nights ahead. There is a love so beautiful, a joy so deep, and a hope so pure that it is impossible to describe, but you know when you experience it. It is a precious bond between a mother and her child that is perhaps one of the most beautiful expressions of agape love.

I miss the days when you could view all the little loves lined up behind glass. Absolutely breathtaking, intricately made, profoundly unique, and every child different with their own little personality. I remember when I was a child, that every time my dad visited someone in the hospital, I would ask to see the babies. I don't think there are enough babies being born any more to need such a large room. There would be probably twenty or more babies of various skin tones and amounts of hair, all pink, plump, and healthy.

Unless a mother's body has prepared itself for birth or a natural miscarriage, the mother's body is not prepared to separate from her child. Her body is not meant to be violated and the child ripped from her. The violence against the child is also violence against the mother. Under no circumstance should this seem like a common-place occurrence of little consequence. Mother and child should not be separated for transient or superfluous causes.

Young women and men of childbearing age are being taught that their child is sub-human and abortion is a potential outcome of pregnancy, as if it is no more or less equal with that of natural childbirth, even possibly preferred. The risks and the harm this violence causes otherwise healthy women who risk death is only a fraction of what every child experiences in the process of being tortured to death.

When we originally understand the gravity of what we are doing to children and their mothers, we are aghast with horror. Then over time, our love can grow as hard and cold as the mother who experienced the horror.

We must end the practice. To remain human ourselves, we pray and work in faith to end it. Not just at a state level, but also at a national level where the inalienable right to life is recognized in our Constitution and deserves to be enforced nationwide.

We can stop poisoning and dismembering children. Death facilities have not evolved from when they were illegal, nor can they, as long as their purpose is to brutalize the lives of our youngest children by invading the bodies of their mothers.

We are called to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. We are tasked with being empathetic to their plight. We are responsible for asking how we would like to be treated if we were still in the womb.

These children want to live. These children who we would protect if they were two, four, or seven years old, we need to protect when they are two, four, or seven months in the womb.

It is tragic and creating trauma for every mother experiencing the loss of her child, especially when she feels she could have prevented it. It is traumatic and tragic for the child who cannot choose to stop the loss of their one and only life.

When we truly get ahold of the humanity of these children, the cruelty of our own actions and lack of actions to protect them, our need for them in our world, and God's expectations upon us to save them, these children are ready for us to save them.

An estimated sixty-six children will lose their lives tomorrow if we do nothing. And the day after that. And the day after that. The love and beauty and innocence and hope and joy every child brings into the world with them will be lost to their parents and everyone their life would have impacted in their lifetime.

We are killing the little gifts of hope our world is missing. Women who would have made beautiful mothers are barren and lost without the purpose they would have found in making a difference in a child's life. In every spirit, she knows what she did and cannot undo. And every man knows in his heart he failed them.

We allow the legal murder of children. In Colorado, our tax funds pay for killing children all nine months of pregnancy. In Colorado, there is no way to legally stop human butcher shops without changing the law.

The largest provider of abortions is marketing to our teenagers in our Colorado public schools using our tax dollars to feed the bloodthirsty and greedy death industry. Abortionists tell teenagers contraception prevents pregnancy and then they prey upon the insecurities and fears of youth and young women who become pregnant. By advertising abortion as a "woman's issue", the industry effectively silences the natural protections provided by men, families, churches, and the laws that could stop them.

When we change the law, culture changes. When we speak on behalf of the voiceless, children's lives are saved. When we save the lives of children, we gain hope in the world.

"Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world." (John 16:21)