The Third Trimester

Of course, now that I've said abortions are being done in the third trimester, I have to substantiate it with facts.   I'm rather exhausted today, so will be giving you sites to look at:

This is the latest US stats on abortion:  http://www.cirtl.org/stats.htm

This is Montana's latest stats on abortion:  http://www.dphhs.mt.gov/statisticalinformation/vitalstats/2008report/tablea1234.pdf#tablea3  You will see the Dept. of Vital Statistics  also includes a table showing the age of gestation when aborted.

This is states' policies on late term abortion:  http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_PLTA.pdf

Viability is the fetus (baby)'s ability to survive outside of his/her mother. 

This baby to the left is 16 weeks from conception, a second trimester baby.

We will talk more later.  God be with us.

If You Leave

A beautiful song!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awUFFNr3imY

What a wonderful gift is life and what a joyful gift is love!  We take so much for granted. 

Each of those little babies that are aborted, their lives are measured by the breath they take.  An unborn baby cannot breathe and in the eyes of the law, has no value.  Yet, their lives start at conception.  The soul, the "heart" and all of baby begins at conception.  Baby begins learning as its body develops.  First he knows awareness, and as development progresses he hears, he sees, he reacts. 

The abortionist knows that his best offense is to kill the baby before baby's bones are hardened.  The older the baby, the more difficult it is to kill the baby.  In spite of the miracle of the protection of the womb, the only protection afforded baby by the law, is that he can't be killed after he breathes.  (I had better qualify that to say that Partial Birth Abortion is illegal and the Born Alive Infant Act was enacted to stop the killing of infants after birth, which was happening.)    The bottom line is that in spite of some restrictions in using taxpayer money and the Partial Birth Abortion prohibition, an abortion is still legal at any stage of the pregnancy.
When I was a child I had a dream.  I dreamed I was in the midst of a lot of bubbles.  I was sliding down a tube which then took a turn and I was sliding down another tube, all as I was in this river of bubbles.  When I awoke I tried to think where it was that I had such an awesome experience.  I could not think of any place that I had been where there had been bubbles and tubes to go down.  Many nights I laid awake trying to make myself have that dream again,  but to no avail.   Now, years later, I just wonder if that dream was triggered by a memory of an awareness of life at the beginning. 

God be with us all.  May His justice and deliverance be soon!

Montana Springtime

Back again...from the land of the sun to ---snow!!!! ---and wind!!!  The first day back was the day for our church to stand in front of Planned Parenthood, in prayer, to stop the abortions.   The wind was cold.  Barb got these huge signs that were taped onto sheets of styrofoam and the wind kept trying to take off with the poster  I held.  Thank the Lord that this time I brought my "about 10-pound" purse with me and I could use it as a weight on the far end! 

Today I awoke and looked outside and the ground was covered in snow.  Even though today was to be a day of rest, I was considering going out and cleaning up the mess the dogs made of everything on the deck.  Perhaps this was God's way of saying...work tomorrow, rest today.   God be with us.