Yesterday I had one of the most disturbing experiences of my life.
I have been feeding cattle for a neighbor who is out of town. His cows are currently calving and when I arrived, it was apparent to me that one of his young heifers was in the middle of calving problems. She was a small heifer and was having difficulty progressing. My son and I sought to deliver the calf and made it to the point of the claves hips. The calf was dead already but in order to save the mother, we needed to get it out. When the calf got to the hips, it “hip locked” with its mother and we could go no further. After struggling for an hour, we called the vet for help. When he arrived, he could not get it out either. After scratching our heads, we decided the only way to deliver the partially born calf was to take it out of the mother piece by piece. We knew it would be gruesome but seeing the calf was dead already it was our only alternative.
In the midst of the nasty dissection, I turned to the vet and asked him: “Can you imagine doing this to a human baby that is still alive?” At that moment, the barbarity of abortion clarified in my mind like it never had before. I have always been “pro-life” and an outspoken advocate of the pre-born; but never have I felt such revulsion for a practice that literally dissects a tiny child one limb at a time to extract it from the womb of its mother.
Even more horrifying, our current President has advocated and voted time and again for unrestricted access to this barbaric practice. He advocates and is mandating that the tax dollars of American citizens be used to pay for a practice they find revolting. In the new Obama care medical system the government will even have a slush fund set up to pay for abortion on demand. The government will be enforcing religious institutions to even offer the coverage within their medical plans.
Could anything be more tyrannical than to force Christians and other persons of various faith’s to pay for a practice they find revolting? I think this issue will be a “hill to die on” for the church. Will we passively sit by and do nothing- not only to save the pre-born but also bring more and more blood guilt upon our hands? As for me and my house we will not participate in this carnage. Look now for alternative medical coverage that will put you outside the realm of these governmental intrusions.
I would advocate for Samaritan Ministries as a great alternative to health insurance. Go to their web site and see how they are providing medical help to the people of God without any government strings attached. Also, don’t back down on this one for “It would be better for a milestone to be tied around our necks.”
Just been thinking,
Tim
