A team of scientists at the University of Washington has cracked the entire code of a human fetus using only a sample of blood from its mother and a saliva smear from its father.
The technology is a significant step toward standard comprehensive testing of babies in the womb for genetic defects — those that mark serious disorders as well as those indicating risk for such diseases as alcoholism and obesity. And it potentially provides a window into non-medical heritable traits, such as hair and eye color, athletic prowess and IQ.
Rather than saving lives, pro-lifers see this test as an enhanced “search and destroy” diagnostic tool that exponentially expands the genetic information available on unborn babies — so that parents may have up to 3,500 genetic possibilities to weigh into a decision about whether or not to have an abortion.
Key to the new test is that it is non-invasive. The researchers took free-floating DNA of a fetus from the mother’s bloodstream and DNA from the father’s saliva and puzzled it together into a genetic picture of their 18-week-old unborn baby boy.
Comparing their own laboratory DNA map and a sample of the baby’s actual DNA taken after birth, they concluded in their study, published this month in Science Translational Medicine, that they had accurately spotted 39 of 44 de novo mutations, spelling mistakes in the genetic code.
These mutations have been linked to a wide array of diseases, from Alzheimer’s and autism to cancer, multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia. Environmental toxins are demonstrated to produce many types of mutations, and others are “spontaneous.” They continue to occur throughout life.
But a mutation for a disease is no guarantee a person will get it. Indeed, according to the latest research from the University of Washington’s Genome Sciences Department, most people are healthy, walking mutants, carrying all sorts of subtle and even rare genetic predispositions to disease.
Even so, prenatal testing is developing at rocket pace. Since the 1980s, doctors have used chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis to diagnose genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs and Down syndrome. Both tests invade the womb for samples of fetal genetic material, and they carry risks of infection and miscarriage. Amniocentesis can also actually cause the birth defect of clubbed feet.
Recently, at least three firms in California — Sequinom, Verinata and Ariosa— began offering non-invasive blood tests for Trisomy disorders, including Down syndrome. Multiplicom, a Belgium-based start-up company, entered the race late, and this month received a $260,000 grant to develop non-invasive prenatal testing. Two other companies are finishing trials of tests, and four of them are battling over patent rights.
‘Perfect Storm’
But the test described by the Washington scientists could render the contest obsolete. Dr. Jay Shendure, the lead scientist, told the Telegraph of London: “This work opens up the possibility that we will be able to scan the whole genome of the fetus for more than 3,000 single-gene disorders through a single, non-invasive test.”
Another researcher on the team, Jacob Kitzman, added: “The improved resolution is like going from being able to see that two books are stuck together to being able to notice one word misspelled on a page.”
“I think we have a perfect storm brewing,” said Mark Bradford, president of the newly formed Jerome Lejeune Society (USA), a group that supports research, care and advocacy for Down syndrome and other genetic intelligence disabilities.
First, he said, the new blood testing removes the “fear factor” of risks associated with invasive testing, so more women will take the tests. And the results of that information are almost certainly going to expand the genetic “grounds” for abortion. Already, 93% of unborn babies who receive a positive test for Down syndrome are aborted. There have also been documented abortions for medically correctable disorders like cleft palate. And in the field of in vitro fertilization medicine, parents now routinely screen and discard embryos for genetic predispositions to disease, including breast cancer.
Thirdly, said Bradford, “The insurance companies are sure to become a factor, especially in light of recent court rulings in so-called wrongful birth cases.” This spring a jury awarded a Portland, Ore., couple $2.9 million because of the false negative provided by their prenatal testing. They argued that had the test been accurate, they would have aborted their 4-year-old daughter, who has Down syndrome. In the wake of that case, another couple is suing Kaiser Permanente for $6.25 million because their child was born with a rare genetic disorder called Charge syndrome — after prenatal tests had reassured them their baby was healthy. HMOs, insurers and even employers are going to be mindful of the potential cost associated with any disability that arises — even in the long term — if it could have been tested for prior to birth.
Threat of Coercion
Finally, there is the factor of coercion in pregnancy care. A New England Journal of Medicine editorial this month discusses the tangled issue. It cites a 2007 survey of 229 obstetricians and 126 health lawyers in which 51% were “highly likely” to use courts to force a patient to undergo an unwanted caesarean section.
If half of those polled would use judicial authority to force an invasive surgery, it is easy to imagine support for forced non-invasive prenatal testing. Indeed, academics have already openly argued for forced prenatal testing and even abortion of babies with disabilities. In the 2000 Journal of Medical Ethics, ethicist Henrikka Clarkeburn argued, “When parents are at risk of having a child whose life would be worse than non-existence, the parents have a duty to use prenatal testing and a duty to terminate an affected pregnancy.”
There seems to be no shortage of people in academic circles who are willing to determine which people’s lives are worse than non-existence, said Bradford.
“It’s a shame,” he added, “because there is very promising research and therapy for improving the quality of life of people with genetic disabilities.” Other research is looking at ways to prevent genetic disease.
“Some people think we already have a cure for Down syndrome and genetic diseases,” said Bradford, “and the cure is abortion.”
In terms of genetic testing, he added: “I’m afraid our worst dreams in the past have now become our reality.”
“While there might be some legitimate purpose to do this test simply for parents to be prepared for their special-needs children, for the most part, this is just a further slide down the eugenics slope,” said the Family Research Council’s David Prentice. “It’s simply another reason for selecting against young human beings and ending their lives prematurely.”
Register correspondent Celeste McGovern writes from Aboyne, Scotland.
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Qquestion: how much more of this ‘life (that) would be worse than non-existence’ talk is required before we start seeing parents being allowed to euthanize ‘damaged’ children, or doctors & insurers being able to use the courts to force them to do so?
When - and if - they ever do discover the homosexual genetic material, imagine the dilemma facing those who say the court-created “right” to abortion is absolute, those who oppose to placing any legal restictions on abortion, those who accept abortion based on the fact that the unborn cell mass is a female mass of cells. How will they argue against the killing of homosexual unborn cell masses? How many heterosexual unborn cell masses do you thing will be aborted simply because they are heterosexual? Will they make it a federal hate crime to abort a homosexual unborn cell mass?
THE ARTICLE ABOVE SAID:
“In the 2000 Journal of Medical Ethics, ethicist Henrikka Clarkeburn argued, “When parents are at risk of having a child whose life would be worse than non-existence, the parents have a duty to use prenatal testing and a duty to terminate an affected pregnancy.”
There seems to be no shortage of people in academic circles who are willing to determine which people’s lives are worse than non-existence, said Bradford.
“It’s a shame,” he added, “because there is very promising research and therapy for improving the quality of life of people with genetic disabilities.” Other research is looking at ways to prevent genetic disease.
“Some people think we already have a cure for Down syndrome and genetic diseases,” said Bradford, “and the cure is abortion.”
In terms of genetic testing, he added: “I’m afraid our worst dreams in the past have now become our reality.”
“While there might be some legitimate purpose to do this test simply for parents to be prepared for their special-needs children, for the most part, this is just a further slide down the eugenics slope,” said the Family Research Council’s David Prentice. “It’s simply another reason for selecting against young human beings and ending their lives prematurely.”
The NAZZI regime has already conjured us the fantasy of socially engineering a so-called “master race” on the earth. Thus this trend will take us towards elimination of babies-in-the-womb by abortion which “is just a further slide down the eugenics slope, and fast-approaching the legalization of infanticide.
What those arm-chair university bureaucrats don’t realize is that the human body begins with DNA that is packed with genes, and thus, that the whole human body, every cell, is made-up of genes. The human body is a biological vessel for “housing” a specific genetic embodiment: a Person. A human Person is “a house of genes.” Therefore, everything can be “blamed on genetics,” which then will cause gene scientists to remain on “a gene-hunting mode,” the most extreme manifestation of which climaxing in wishing suicide or genocide of the Family of Man. Since every human being has his or her own “genetic signature” or “genome,” there would be no end to elimination of certain human beings by “genetic identification.” Thus, the terminal logic that follows would subconsciously conclude that: Since everything is genetic and disposable, human beings are also genetic and thus disposable.” For, if we begin to declare that “everything is genetic,” as we are rendering human babies “disposable,” except those with “a perfect body,” then, there won’t be any end in sight. We would be committing “genetic suicide” or self-inflicted genocide. It will be tantamount to wishing the final extinction of the Family of Man of the earth.
In addition, genetic testing can only reveal bodily defects associated with clearly visible uncommon external physical signs that affect appearance, looks, or aesthetics, such as Down’s Syndrome, due to macro-physical abnormalities that are markedly visible when viewing the baby in his/her mother’s womb. Since all humans are genetic, and engage in commonly known behaviors, then, it can be logically deduced that all human beings have a predisposition for all behaviors which humans are known to engage in. Thus, it is not possible to discover a so-called “genetic basis” for voluntary free choices such as habituating oneself to drinking liquor. In short, here is no validated scientific proof that that can be obtain to validate the claim that genetic testing can reveal a so-called “predisposition” for making behavioral choices or adopting behavioral habits acquired later in life, such as habituating oneself to drinking liquor, which then leads to an addiction called “alcoholism.”
Sleeping, eating, drinking, breathing, etc…, which are necessary life-giving and life-preserving habits of the human organism, could be said to be “genetic,” for they are autonomous activities witnessed in all human beings over which we have no willful control. Since these “autonomous habits” also have chemo-electrolytic signatures or markers, scientists can affect the way in which such “habitual activities,” like sleeping, are “regulated,” via administration of sleeping pills, for example, which are also laboratory chemicals having electrolytic pathways that have an affinity for neuronal receptors in the human brain.
But scientists cannot totally eliminate or eradicate the need for sleeping, eating, breathing or drinking in a human being.
Therefore, genetic testing has the possibility to reveal uncommon occurrences in the human baby that are amenable to a cellular bio-chemo-electrolytic basis effecting a physical or structural change, such as Down’s Syndrome or a baby having an incomplete organ. However, genetic testing cannot discover nor confirm a genetic basis for latent behavioral choices in life, such as alcoholism, that are amenable to environmental factors such as moral upbringing, peer pressure, or an “Act of the Will.”
The so-called “perfect human body” being sought after by unconscionable eugenist experiments, is a danger-and-death fraught omen courting the extinction of the Family of Man on the Earth. They are fighting against the Law of Transformation of Energy to no avail. This law has two secondary corollaries: Conservation and Entropy.
Due to Entropy, all physical processes or events or bodies proceed, develop mature, and conclude, in accordance with the universal mechanism: INPUT-PROCESS-OUTPUT. Thus, all have a beginning, a duration, and an end. Seasons have a cycling duration of about three months; human beings have a lifespan of about 100 years old.
Hitler had already beaten the eugenists to it! It led to a disaster of cosmic proportions. For good reason, in Ecclesiastes, King Solomon declares “there is nothing new under the sun.”
In conclusion, due to the law of Entropy, many things can go wrong in biology and in physical Nature.
Thus, no physical process or event, or physical object or body in this Universe, can possess “perfection” or “perpetuity.”
Then, “perfect human bodies,” for creating a so-called “perfect master race” dreamed and fantasized by eugenists is a sordid and macabre fantasy that cannot ever get of sin and evil; nor of human mortality or biological death.
Life and Death are in the hands of Almighty God. We come into this world as little babies who must go to school to learn how to read and write and do mathematics! And yet, later, by the grace of God, those eugenists who have been endowed with the gift of life by Almighty God, now want to “play God,” by dethroning the authority of our Creator on the earth. They are engaged in pursuing goals that are contrary to limits in human possibilities and opposite to God’s commandments for human living on the earth!
And due to Sin in physical Nature manifested as Entropy, and in human nature manifested as evil, wrong, and wickedness, death rules the span-of-life and destiny of all physical things. Our human life-span terminates in biological death. But thereafter, depending upon the life we’ve lived on the Earth, we are judged by God’s standards of good and evil, to receive our reward, either in Heaven or in Hell.
Human mortality is part-and-parcel of biological life. Until our Perfect Lord Christ Jesus returns, sinfulness or our Fallen Human Nature is also part-and-parcel of human existence. So are our “imperfect biological bodies” which must also answer to the Law of Entropy and eventually to mortality.
Only our repentance from sin for forgiveness and newness of life in Christ Jesus empowers us with the light of God’s grace and Merci for righteous, loving, just, prosperous, and peaceful living on the Earth.
God bless you all with His wisdom and understanding in Christ Jesus our loving Savior and mighty Lord of Lords and King of Kings whose return we patiently await!
found a web site that says Albert Einstein suffered from: Aspergers Syndrome, Dyslexia, learning disorder and epilepsy.
Needless to say, we are playing with fire, and the burn will be severe. There is no end to this kind of so called “medical advancement”. What happens to the pursuit of curing cancer, AIDS, HIV, and many others that are so urgently need of a cure?
It’s a pretty small step from forced abortion of unborn babies due to a disability to forced euthanasia of born persons with a disability. There is certainly no principled distinction between the two.
If I haven’t had a deep faith in God I would have fallen into dispair!
The fact that everything is possible with God, and the Holy Cross shows it, gives me hope.
I have no idea what God will do now. I would close the store and turn the lights off…
Anyone sees some silver lining?
I had a woman friend whom told me that she was encouraged to have an abortion because she was told her baby had a medical defect. She had her son and didn’t abort her baby. Played vollyball with her and her son. He was not born with medical condition like the doctors said he had.
Here’s how I’d approach the pro-choice crowd: if the parents have a “duty” to their government to abort any defective fetuses they conceive, then both parents must be sterilized to prevent further conceptions and need for abortions. After all, they must have defective genes themselves in order to produce an unhealthy baby. If they refuse sterilization, then governments should terminate their lives as well. That’s where pro-abortion arguments leads to, the creation of a master race. We need to remind the pro-choice crowd that first the devil comes for the helpless, then he comes for you.
The future of humanity is on the line…not just genetically but the very soul of mankind is precariously tilted toward devastation. History does repeat itself when men do not learn from their mistakes. If we thought the Nazi regime was a descent into hell, it would appear we have only touched the surface of the depths of evil into which man can descend.
God have mercy!
On the other hand, these genetic discoveries could improve life for the vast majority of the human race if we would only apply not only principles of bio-genetics but bio-ethics to these advances we have made.
As and RN who has specialized in Maternal Infant Care I have worked both in a Medicaid Pregnancy Center and in the hospital Maternity floor and I do take issue with all the negative comments regarding prenatal testing. In my experience with OB/GYNs, most reputable OB/GYNS whether they be pro-life or pro-choice wouldn’t touch abortions with a 10 foot pole. Those are designated to the quacks in the community. The OB/GYN Team consists of the primary care provider, a neonatologist (specializes in the care of high risk pregnancies) if one is needed, nurse practitioners, RNS,etc. and we work extremely hard to make sure that a healthy baby is born. Most prenatal testing IS NOT DONE TO PROMOTE ABORTION. It is so that if there is something wrong with the baby, it can be corrected in utero so that there is a healthy baby on the way. Most of the patients I have taken care of whose babies have been diagnosed with some kind of an anomaly, and have been offered the option to abort, the majority of them decide to carry their babies to full term and let the chips fall where they may. I’m very much in favor of prenatal testing as long as it is used to correct any anomalies in utero. God has given many scientists the gift of finding cures for so many diseases and being able to correct some anamolies but sometimes we encounter scientists right out of a horror movie.
I wonder what this will look like with Obamacare. Will we be forced to have our children prenatally tested, and then informed that healthcare will not be provided for a genetically imperfect child if we choose to give them a life “worse than non-existence”?
Indeed there are many good and gifted scientists who make great strides for the field of medicine. The problem is all the people who want to use those advancements for their own purposes.
I shudder to think how close we are coming to a truly eugenic mindset in this country.
There is something, I don’t know, but something not quite right about a “reputable” pro-choice ob/gyn who doesn’t do his own abortions but would hand his patients over to the “quacks” in the community instead.
I am happy that there isn’t much pressure to abort the disabled in your hospital, but as the article noted, some 93% of Downs babies are aborted. I’ve read many, many articles and testimonials from women who had an adverse prenatal testing result who were pressured, or felt they were pressured, to abort. The kidshealth.org website also notes that “Prenatal testing is further complicated by the fact that more abnormalities can be diagnosed in a fetus than can be treated or cured.”
None of my children are really qualify for the “disabled” category, but one is quite Learning Disabled, another to a much lesser extent, and then a third does have some minor, physcial issues. These issue, though mild, have nevertheless taken a lot of time and money to manage. Health care is already very expensive and the system is breaking down. (I’ve heard that the medical system has nearly collapsed in Greece due to the government financial chaos. In England, a doctor has charged that the system there promotes a kind of euthanasia for the elderly). I can see where the less than perfect are more expensive to care for and educate. I don’t think it a stretch to entertain the notion that prenatal testing can easily become a hunt and destroy mission in order to save the medical system money.
DJ I don’t know what state you live in but there are a lot of services for children with special health care needs that you can access. Contact your state Dept of Health or Crippled Children’s Services.
Many enlightening words of faith have been made here in compassionate response to this article, which I hope, would reach congressional politicians, judges, and White House officials, who have arrogated to themselves the false sense of “power” to such make momentous policy decisions as regarding the life or death of helpless, innocent, and fragile human babies among us who are too young to advocate for themselves.
Flesh and blood is mortal, but our eternal God sees your good works as you seek to protect and defend human life at all ages at home and abroad.
For, God is exceedingly able to bring-out, from within us, the best expressions of His Spirit for loving service and creative manifestation, as we live our temporary lives on the Earth. It is Christ who said, “The kingdom of God is within you.” And we believe it with our godly faith, which is the victory that overcomes the world. Because of this awesome gift from our heavenly Father, we walk by faith according to the spirit and not by sight according to the flesh.
For examples, our world has benefited immensely from contributions made by disabled individuals like Helen Keller, Stephen Hawking, Joanie Erickson Tada, Ishrak Pearlman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other persons who, though physically impaired in one form or another, are still enabled to reflect the wondrous powers of scientific and artistic creativity God had imparted to them before their birth, because they still possess within themselves, “the likeness and image of God,” our Loving Creator, as imprinted in their inner-souls by God since before the time of their conception in their mothers’ wombs.
As the Apostle Paul reminds us in speaking the Word of God, every family obtains its name from heaven above. And the Prophet Jeremiah speaks God’s living Word in saying that before he was conceived in his mother’s womb, God knew him.
Therefore, every human being, regardless of physical impairment that could cause developmental problems, is entitled to the right to life, which is the first, foremost, and primary necessary Right, above all other rights, that is required in order to continue to enjoy all “the blessings of liberty secured to ourselves and our posterity,” that God by His grace and Merci in Christ Jesus has lovingly bestowed upon us for our general welfare and constructive benefit.
God bless you all with His peace, love, and prosperity, even as your soul prospers.
What you suggest in this column is exactly the scenario I explore in my novel Death Panels… eventually abortion won’t be a choice; it will be a government decision.
CeCi: thank you for your concern, but these issues aren’t ones the DOH are really able to help with (or even the public school system, actually, for the educational ones), and we likely would not qualify for assistance even if they were. Best regards and wishes.
There has NOT been one word, even one, written on these pages expressing HUMANE COMPASSION for females who have been molested against their will/ and/or raped/ and/or forced to commit incest (*ALL CRIMINAL ACTIONS COMMITTED BY MISOGYNIST MALES AGAINST FEMALES…). WHY IS THAT SURPRISING?
DO THE WRITERS ON THIS PAGE openly SUPPORT CRIMINAL ACTIONS BY MISOGYNIST, FEMALE-HATING MALES OF RAPING FEMALES—including FORCING THE VICTIM OF RAPE TO BE LEGALLY coerced INTO HAVING THE RAPIST’S FETUS? IF SO, WHY? WHO SPEAKS against MALE MISOGYNISTS WHO RAPE FEMALES TO BEGIN WITH? SHOULD A FEMALE SIBLING WHO HAS BEEN RAPED BY A MALE RELATIVE BE legally FORCED TO HAVE THE RAPIST’S !@#$%? IF SO, WHY? WHY SHOULDN’T FEMALE VICTIMS OF RAPE/INCEST WHO HAVE BEEN dictated to BY A RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION THAT OBVIOUSLY HATES FEMALES MAKE A LEGAL DECISION TO SUE THE IDIOTS WHO insist THAT THE VICTIMS must ENDURE CRIMINAL ACTS AGAINST THEM BY MISOGYNIST MALES—WHO OBVIOUSLY BELIEVE THAT RAPE AND/OR INCEST are legal and/or that THE FEMALES THAT THEY LEGALLY MOLEST AND RAPE ARE, AH, ASKING FOR IT!
MISOGYNIST ATTITUDES ON BLAMING THE VICTIMS ARE ALIVE AND WELL!
WOW, I am so impressed with these comments from other Christians!! So different from reading posts on other sights about other things, that are so filled with hate and anger. All of the above posts are so we’ll thought out and so inspirational, and I thank you all for that. You give me hope about America’s future.
I’d like to tell you about my son and daughter-in-law (actually feels more like my own daughter). With their last child (a son, with 2 previous boys) they were told that she should probably abort at her birth fluid was low; however, they (along with our encouragement) decided that they didn’t feel right aborting. Her parents and us encouraged their decision, as we all feel that God knows the future and we never know when a child who “may not be perfect” will change our lives for the positive. So, long story short: they decided to have this sweet boy and trust God, and lo and behold, he has been a gift in so many people’s lives. He has no physical disabilities and is so bright and smart. They are, as are we, so grateful that they didn’t follow the advise of their physicians and decided, instead, to trust God that this child had a reason and a purpose for being on this earth; and they are not disappointed for he inspires so many. He’s usually extremely energetic both mentally and physically; however, he inspires others with his view on life and his ability to help others! Who would have know??? Not the docs for sure, but the praying parents had faith that they were doing the “right thing”. As a grandmother, who has had him visit with us (he is known in this kingdom as Prince Z—-) and has been a great , positive influence to all who know and come in contact with him.
One more thing: we are all genetically impaired in one way or another. I do believe that God created us that way so that no one get’s (“a big head”) as my Mom and Dad used to say. God knows what he’s doing, unlike us humans who would choose to cancel His way out to get our way to “perfection”??? Heaven help us if we ever attain it for it will be our downfall. I’ve seen so many families “blessed” by the Down’s Syndrome child or other serous defects” that would not be the great people they are without that child. So, I’m all for not allowing this “perfectionist” ridicule to continue. People, wake up, we are all defective in some way or another.
Why have my comments agreeing, and expanding upon this story, with personal proofs of others who have not “gone with their doctor’s advice”, and not had an abortion not been published here?? Does it take more time, or were my comments and story not deemed to be worthy of publication on this blog?
OK, What happened to my post, which is a good example of a family deciding to go ahead and have the baby despite the docs suggestion??? Doesn’t that qualify as good “copy” in this case???
Let me know please; however, I’m thinking that maybe this sight is not watched for very long, and it might show up tomorrow? At any rate, please give me feedback either positive or negative, as why my post will not be published. I am trying to help this cause and took a great amount of time and (love) to post this. Hate to see that disappear???
Hi Historian,
some thoughts:
if you were to use the phrase ‘human fetus’ in place of the word ‘fetus’ every time you thought, spoke, or wrote on this topic, would that affect your view of the living creature you think should die?
is a ‘RAPIST’S !@#$%?’ in any way liable for his father’s actions? Or any less deserving of a chance at life than any other child?
how misogynistic is a worldview that objectifies women for the sexual gratification of men and then seeks to persuade them to destroy the life that grows within them as a result?
@historian: My dear innocent child. There is so much pain in your post. That despicable act only makes it clear why it were our sins that crucified Him to the tree. A big wound in His side is your wound, and He is the only One that can heal you.
Rape regardless if it is a man raping a woman or any other case including males raping small boys is a terrible thing that is horribly wounding others people. These people have not been created this way. They became like that by their choices. Very bad choices. There are in a very, very dark place already, with their hearts burning out of pain, living a life of a lie, and without any purpose. They are becoming martyrs of a wicked cross of the evil one. They are the most pitiable people you could possibly imagine. They already live in hell on Earth. As per a child of a rapist, he/she is innocent, and does not deserve capital punishment because of the sins of his/her father. If God allows us to make bad choices, the Church will also allow us to do them. She only explains why these things are bad. An innocent child will be killed, and will end up in the arms of God, who is Love. It is not the child that will become a real victim of this death, though. It will be the person committing the killing, who will reject love - the only purpose we live for. The Church is telling it to us in Love for everyone. Those who are in Love in God are talking about abortion as the one that kills bodies of children but also kills souls of mothers, fathers, and those who participate in the act. The Church is not in job of defending bodies. She is in a mission of defending souls, including yours. Out of love for you. Out of love not for what you do or you don’t do but because of who you are - a person who deserves Christ’s death on the Cross. And that is enough. I truly am sorry for your pain. I am a man, and I beg for your forgiveness. I beg you. Please google “Rachel’s Vineyard”. They will help you regardless of what you have done. They will really do that.
Blessings, and love,
Greg.
Claire: comments can take up to 48 hours to post.
Historian: wow. I had trouble reading your post, not because I necessarily disagreed with with it, but the use of all caps make it unpleasant/difficult to read.
Basically—an abortion won’t make the rape/incest/etc go away. Nothing will. What has been done has been done. An abortion, on the other hand, might very well conceal the crime and allow the rapist (one committed by father? brother? etc) continue to abuse his victim. Not too many DNA tests are done an aborted fetuses/babies. A live birth, though, if a DNA is done to determine paternity, would indicate the problem of the infants parentage and the law might have an easier time getting on conviction of the criminal in question.
Here’s a prayer that will end abortion in USA:Almighty and Loving Truine God embrace the whole being of President Barack Obama with Your might and love. Bestow on him the grace to have pity on those innocent babies who were killed , are killed and will be killed through abortion. Let him be aware of the terrible pain suffered by the unborn and the mother while the baby is being dismembered in the womb of the mother. Let the President’s mind focus on the horrible post-abortion experience and mental anguish of the mother. Let his heart be compassionate enough for the unborn who were murdered, are murdered and will be murdered if abortionists continue doing this heinous crime. Let him become a pro-life advocate and whisper to him to issue this mandate: STOP KILLING THE UNBORN. The issuance of this mandate brings You much honor much honor and glory and serves to build-up faith and hope to all Your people. Thank You, Dear Triune God for the grace and love You bestow on us all. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Amen
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