Street Report January 10-15 2005

>   1192 babies saved since January 2000 !  

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Monday- Bag n’ tag of 173 babies from past week’s carnage

Thursday- 35         midnight abortions         IN, TN², MO, IL         2 saves, a young mother from Illinois 8 weeks pregnant, & a Missouri couple chose life for their babies. Bitterly cold winds ripped through our layers of clothing as we pleaded the case of the fatherless. A mother and daughter from Caseyville, IL. blessed Angela and two other lifesavers with cups of hot chocolate. The mother said, "I drive by here everyday and I see you standing here. You helped my daughter a couple years ago, you talked her out of aborting the baby. I now have a beautiful grandson. Now, my daughter talks to and helps other girls." PTL! I began weeping tears of joy, but my tears were freezing and burning on my cheeks, but I smiled and said, "One candle lights another."

Friday- 62         3 saves, including 2 black couples who came back out and told proclaimers they couldn’t go through with it.         IN, TN², MN, GA, MO, IL

        A massacre was underway, as we watched in horror as the cars kept coming in and pouring onto the hospital lot with mothers marching in to kill their babies. Like they were going in to have a pedicure. Women go in to get fixed, but they come out broken.

Saturday- 41         2 saves        TN, LA, AK, MO, IL         Biting-cold air as temperatures were 9 degrees with a wind-chill which made it feel like zero. Late-term mothers were already in by 6:00 A.M. Approximately 30 lifesavers cared enough to crawl out of their warm beds, to lay their lives down, and cry out for the least of these. Sidewalk counselors worked the alley and sidewalks as the Wash U. and St. Louis U. deathscorts huddled together to keep warm. The praise and worship team raised their voices in song. We kept the van running as proclaimers took turns coming in and warming up or thawing out. Angela encouraged the rescuers and called them the "frozen chosen".

        The January 2005 Boston Magazine Online carries the story "Confessions of an Abortion Doctor". The anonymous abortionist says, "I have the utmost respect for life, but also believe that I'm ending it for good reasons." Yet she withheld her name for fear that someone might take her life. The shootings of abortionists years ago, which she recalls vividly, scare her.

        But doesn't she realize that the words of those who would justify killing people like her are simply an echo of her own? They say, "I have the utmost respect for life...but also believe that I'm ending it for good reasons." Hitler did something he loved, but that didn’t make it right.

        It's the same argument, and the same fallacy, just applied to a different group of people. It's simply a variation on the old heresy that "the end justifies the means." The "good reasons," whatever they may be, can never justify the direct taking of a human life.

        The anonymous abortionist of this article is not the only abortion supporter who admits that abortion is the taking of life. By now, everyone associated in the blood-letting business knows when a woman comes for an abortion, two people walk in but only one person walks out.

        To begin with, all Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe") wanted was an abortion. She says the attorneys assured her they would get her one; they didn’t. Lie number one. One of the feminist attorneys needed a pregnant plaintiff to sign the affidavit challenging the laws against abortion.

        In Roe v. Wade, the attorneys argued that Jane Roe should be allowed to abort because she was gang-raped. This, too, was untrue. In fact, she was neither gang-raped, nor raped at all. These attorneys simply used Norma for the monumental case.

        Doe v. Bolton, which allowed for second-and third-trimester abortions made it legal for this procedure to be accomplished outside of a hospital. Sandra Cano (who signed an affidavit as Mary Doe) was a poor pregnant woman seeking a divorce and the return of her two children who were in foster care. But Sandra Cano never wanted an abortion and never had one.

        Neither Jane Roe nor Mary ever had abortions; they are now pro-life. Their two children are alive today.

        Another major lie that the whole argument hinges on puffs up the number of women killed from illegal back-alley abortions. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co founder of NARAL, who is today pro-life, admits that they just fabricated the number: "I confess that I knew the figures were totally false. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics." The data impressed the media enough to report it, but they never took a close look at the details.

        The only "choice" the abortionists ever give anybody is "Tuesday or Friday?"

        Sometimes it is very difficult for us to comprehend the magnitude of the toll that the abortion holocaust has taken over the past 32 years. When one says that over 45 million children have been slaughtered by legalized abortion since January 22, 1973, the numbers just don’t seem to register.

        Perhaps you might want to rethink who the real "terrorists" are. We are being destroyed as a nation by an enemy from within. We are being destroyed by a lie that was birthed in the very pit of hell. The lie took its physical form in the Roe v. Wade decision issued by the Supreme Court of the United States of America on January 22, 1973. Yes, the Supreme Court in its malevolent wisdom magically found in the United States Constitution a "woman’s right to privacy" (she could kill her own child in the womb if she so chose).

        Abortion reveals, more than any other issue, the devastation of the lie and its true identity. It shows that the real battle in our nation is spiritual, and therefore can never be resolved politically. It is the ancient battle that began in heaven and moved to this earth. It has swept across the pages of the Bible and history ever since. It is a battle between two world views- the seed of the serpent vs. the seed of the woman (Genesis 3:15).

        We have more than enough people in Washington, D.C. doing all that they can to plead the case of the fatherless. They are pleading it alright, but they won’t win it. The battle can’t be won there. One cannot plead the case of the fatherless to win it in Washington, D.C. for the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) is not allowed to be wielded there. The pressures to compromise God’s Word are relentless and limitless. Politics is, after all, the art of compromise. Abortion is not a political issue, it is a Gospel issue.

        The battle cannot be won from the top down- from Washington, D.C. to the streets. It will be won as simple Christians live out their faith in the streets of our cities. You have to go to the root of the problem. Our nation is suffering with decay, sin and immorality. Who do we hold as our moral compass? The church and its leaders. You can’t expect our President to be our great theologian in chief. That’s why the battle will not be won in D.C. It’s when the heart of our nation changes, that the laws of the land will reflect the change. We must let our light shine.

Tune in to today’s Small Victories radio program, AM 630 KJSL, at 1:00 P.M.  Today's guest is Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America.  Replays Friday at 8:00 P.M. Sunday at 1:00 & 10:00 P.M. and Wednesday & Monday at 12:00 A.M.