Framing the Argument

A lot has been written about abortion and how it's supporters go through quite a bit of verbal gymnastics to justify something that is profoundly unjust. The verbal jockeying they do is astounding. They are always coming up with new ways to explain it.

So why do they do it? Why do they keep coming up with new phrases and terms for it? They take after the father of lies and deception. In the Garden of Eden, Satan did this to the first humans. He used God's word and asked a seemingly innocent question. He framed it in such a way as to cause doubt and confusion.

The anti-lifers are just following in his footsteps. They have company. The slaveowners took to verbal jockeying to justify the enslavement of an entire race. They even used scripture. The Nazi's used all kinds euphemisms to justify extermination of a race. They had a Propaganda Minister to frame the argument to justify what they did. Now we have abortion. It's supporters framing the argument and jockeying and maneuvering the language to support a cause.

In all that jockeying and maneuvering, they stake out a position that is untenable. That's because they've placed themselves in opposition to God. If you have to frame the argument and twist words and meanings to support your cause, then your cause isn't worth supporting. What are you trying to hide? Why not come straight out and say it plainly? It's simple. Pro-lifers have done it from day one. It's murder. It's no surprise that abortion clinics don't want the women who come to them for an abortion to see an ultrasound of their baby. A great majority of those women change their mind when they are able to see the ultrasound.

They wanted abortion to be legal so it would be "safe". Women wouldn't have to get unregulated back ally abortions, but, when some commonsense regulations are proposed, like parental notification and requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital, you'd think they were having their fingernails ripped out with all the howling and caterwauling that goes on.

When someone talks about framing the argument I know I won't be getting the whole picture.

Brave and Courageous

A lot of things get labeled as brave and courageous by the liberal media and Democrats. Most of them aren't really brave and courageous. Like a man deciding he's a woman and dressing and acting like one. Overpaid politicians staging a sit in on the floor of the House of Representatives. Cities establishing themselves as Sanctuary Cities and providing a safe space for illegals. Then there's abortion. Women who have abortions and even film them are labeled as brave and courageous. I fail to see what is brave about killing a completely defenseless human.

I mentioned in my last post the girl my wife and I adopted was born drug exposed. I had never thought about drug exposed babies. Being a foster parent opened my eyes to how many there are. We had several in our home and the foster parents we knew had, at one time or another, some of them.

Our daughter was the third drug exposed child her mom had given birth to. When we were waiting for the mom's parental rights to be terminated, the social worker told us the mom would also be charged with severe abuse because she had given birth to three drug exposed babies. That got me to thinking that if she had aborted her children she wouldn't have been charged with anything and liberals would say she was brave and courageous. She gives birth to them and she's charged with severe abuse. She should be charged with severe abuse but at least she gave birth to them. If it's okay to kill a baby then why is she charged with exposing them to drugs. If she's going to be charged with severe abuse for doing that then abortion should also be a crime.

I know a woman can be in a very difficult situation and she knows she can't provide for the child after she gives birth.  Maybe they were raped and carrying the child to term would be a severe emotional and constant reminder of what happened to them. I just hope they would choose life and give birth to the child and keep it or put it up for adoption. That would be a brave and courageous thing to do. There are crisis pregnancy centers that can help them through the pregnancy. Do I condemn women who have had abortions? No. I pray they find God and discover they can be forgiven. Pray they can find peace and comfort in God. But I will not apologize for calling abortion what it is. You can't go wrong by choosing life.


If today's liberal media and Democrat Party had been around when Eve took that bite out of a certain piece of fruit, they would've called her brave and courageous.

Getting Started

My wife and I got started in foster parenting because of a miscarriage. We hadn't given it any thought up until then. After the miscarriage, my wife saw a fertility doctor. She did that because she was thirty-nine and it had taken her three years to get pregnant. The fertility doctor did a Clomid Challenge Test and told us she had a poor ovarian reserve. He suggested we look into adoption.

I'm a big believer that God engineers your circumstances. I think all the things we went through were part of getting us to consider adoption. We looked into private adoption and quickly discovered it would cost too much. So we looked into foster parenting. We knew it could be years before we would have a child in our home that would be available to adopt. We decided to let God handle it and not worry about it. He would place the child he wanted us to adopt in our home when it was the right time.

The child we adopted has been with us for eight years now. She was a week old when she was placed in our home. We fully believe God put her with us. It's been challenging and sometimes we feel like we are not up to it. She was born drug exposed. We've had to take her to physical therapy and occupational therapy and see a child psychiatrist. It's been a roller coaster. Sometimes we wonder why God put her with us. We feel so inadequate at times when she is so hyper it seems like she blasted off from Cape Canaveral and is on her way to the moon. She just goes so fast from one thing to the next it's exhausting trying to keep up with her.

Eventually she reenters the atmosphere and we try to provide her with a parachute so she'll have a soft landing. Sometimes she burns up on reentry and passes out on us. She gets real quiet and says she's tired. We waste no time getting her in her pajamas and her teeth brushed and in bed. Then we enjoy a few hours in the evening of peace and quiet. Through all that, though, we are so happy God chose us to be her parents.

Even though she's eight, we are still just getting started with her. She finished first grade in May. She has so much ahead of her. I'm excited about what God has in store for her and for us as her parents. The things He'll teach us along the way. Trusting Him to lead us and help us be the best parents we can be for her.