Worth repeating.Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified sanc·ti·fy tr.v. sanc·ti·fied, sanc·ti·fy·ing, sanc·ti·fies 1. To set apart for sacred use; consecrate. 2. To make holy; purify. 3. thee, and I ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 My biological mother was 17 years old and seven and one-half months pregnant when she made the decision to have a saline abortion saline abortion Obstetrics Voluntary termination of pregnancy during the 2nd trimester, effected by replacing 200 ml of amniotic fluid with 200 ml of 20% saline solution, which stimulates uterine contraction, followed by fetal delivery in 12-24 hrs. See Abortion. . I am the person she aborted. I lived instead of died.... Some have said I am a "botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. abortion." A result of a job not well done.... I am happy to be alive. I almost died. Every day I thank God for life. I do not consider myself a by-product by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. by-product Noun 1. of conception, a clump of tissue, or any other of the titles given to a child in the womb. I do not consider any person conceived to be any of those things. Gianna Jessen Gianna Jessen (b. April 6 1977, Los Angeles, California, United States) is a Christian recording artist and pro-life activist. When Gianna's biological mother was seven and a half months pregnant, she sought a instillation abortion, a now-rare procedure normally not Testimony before a congressional subcommittee at age 19 April 22, 1996 One of the truly perverse things that the pro-abortion movement has done is to convince many people that the child conceived in rape can never have a worthwhile life. The pro-abortion movement constantly depicts children of rape and incest as somehow defective, tainted, unwanted--almost as if we carry some evil gene predisposing us to anti-social behavior. While Christians certainly understand the reality of man's sinful nature, we should also understand, as my birth mother did, that each child is a God-made miracle, and that this is true of children conceived in rape and incest. Julie Makimaa January 17, 2000 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN (Julie Makimaa's mother became pregnant with Julie as a result of rape.) All human life is "fearfully and wonderfully made." My life is no more valuable before God than the life of an embryo. Everyone wants to live a complete and healthy life, but I do not believe killing a life to save a life is right. Who, besides God, knows what people embryos may become? What we do know is that performing research on a four-day old embryo will ensure that it never becomes a five-day old embryo--much less a 30-year-old actor, 40-year-old scientist who discovers a cure for Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. , 50-year-old congressman, or 91-year-old former president. Nathan Salley Testimony before a congressional subcommittee at age 16 July 17, 2001 (Nathan Salley has battled leukemia since he was 11. His life was saved through medical techniques that utilized non-embryonic stem cells stem cells, unspecialized human or animal cells that can produce mature specialized body cells and at the same time replicate themselves. Embryonic stem cells are derived from a blastocyst (the blastula typical of placental mammals; see embryo), which is very young .) But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8 |
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