It is still so hard to believe that after many years of being a polite society here in these United States of America that Roe v. Wade will soon be in its 40

In this past 39^th year of Roe, much has happened to further the lives of our unborn children but as we all know, it is not enough. We can march around world a bazillion times but until we are led by a prolife president that has the guts to say NO to abortion and to Roe, marching won’t matter. I know marching and other protests bring awareness to the problem, but even I’m sick of the word ‘awareness’: I WANT RESULTS.

We cannot change the problem until we can change the heart.

This past 39^th year of Roe, I have been entwined with the Heartbeat Bill here in Ohio. I had to get out of the box and say out loud, in the House committee that was hearing testimony for the Bill, that I had an abortion and how it has affected my life. And as difficult as that was for me to testify before the House Committee, it was even harder to hear testimony supporting abortion. I can’t tell you how awful it is to listen to men and women say it’s a RIGHT to kill an unborn child. In my entire 50 years on this earth, I still am in awe of people – especially those that consider themselves ‘clergy’ – that fight the devil’s fight to kill our unborn. All it did was fuel the fire that God has put in my gut to stop this heinous bleating of ‘reproductive rights’.

The Heartbeat Bill brought me in front of the media, as well. It was something that was kind of cool and rather humbling. The local news and newspaper was interested in the Bill and that I testified on behalf of post abortive women, like me. Somehow that didn’t make sense to people but it certainly did to me. I know that God set me up to be the one to look to for the post abortive answer to the abortion question.

As this 39^th year of Roe progressed, I was given the distinct honor of being asked to be the speaker at the closing rally for 40 Day for Life here in Dayton. It blessed me beyond measure. A great big thanks to everyone that came and supported me and the cause for LIFE.

In October, we went to Dayton Life Chain and stood with 2000 other people in silent prayer for one hour in reflection of the lives of the unborn that were aborted. I think we at least a 3 mile chain this last time! As drivers passed by, maybe at least one unborn child was saved. I really enjoy making the devil MAD.

As the Heartbeat Bill progressed, I was honored to testify again, this time for the Senate Committee. As I sat through the first day of testimony, I was grieved to see very young girls and boys in Planned Parenthood t-shirts. Obviously, these kids have no idea what they were doing. They giggled and made fun of Prolifers behind their backs with obscene gestures…..all bought and paid for by our tax money.

In this 39^th year of Roe, women that I know felt comfortable enough to confide in me about their abortion experience. In a way it is nice to know that I am not alone, but I kind of wish I was. I hate that anyone ever had to go through the abortion procedure. The life of a post abortive woman is never a bed of roses – of that I am sure.

During this 39^th year of Roe, I became a grandmother again. She was not planned or even considered until her mom realized she was pregnant. I am thankful that her mom chose LIFE. I’m thankful that my son is a good dad. And she is quite beautiful.

Part of being prolife is being a bit of an evangelist. This last year has given me further proof that GOD is in control and will prevail. He will change the hearts of women and men about LIFE; all I am is His servant…as we all should be. Without understanding that GOD is the Creator – the Author and Finisher, the Alpha and the Omega – then we stand a weak chance of changing the mind of people about LIFE. After all, if you don’t know where LIFE comes from, how can you respect it?

So as this 39^th year of Roe v. Wade comes to a close, and the 40^th year begins, we need to be much more attentive to the post abortive woman. There are AT LEAST 55+ million of us that have to deal with our failure every day. But our failure can be what changes the face of abortion and overturns Roe v. Wade. I am ever thankful to GOD that He has brought me this far in my Prolife LIFE, but there is far, far more to do.

I want to thank my husband for being the only one that stood by me at every event and encouraged my every written word; whether it was on this site or one of my many Letters to the Editor of our Ohio newspapers or writing testimony. I say I don’t know if I could have done this alone, but GOD is with me! And it took my husband to remind me of that every step of every day of my Prolife LIFE this 39th year of Roe v. Wade.

Let me leave this with you regarding your Post Abortive walk:

“For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:10-14, NKJV

GOD knows you are or were in Babylon, a place where you are not celebrated, just tolerated. He wants you to know that all you have to do is ask Him and He will take you away from the captivity of being Post Abortive. GOD LOVES YOU! He knows your heart; He knows that you regret your ‘choice’. He knows you want to heal. So now it’s your turn to turn to HIM and be made whole again. Celebrate LIFE – celebrate Him.

Everyone that has ever been born has also been…unborn.

As a former unborn child I can tell you that being after-born is way better than the certain death of 25% of unborn children. In fact, I did not need anyone to tell me how viable or unviable my after-born life would be – LIFE was still my CHOICE. I did not need to be put out of my misery or kept from my after-born life because I may not have been perfect enough.

Being a former unborn child, I have to wonder exactly who is deeming who ‘unwanted’. Now, circumstances can make one assume being either unwanted or unplanned to be non-life worthy. However, being a former unborn child, I can assure you that I preferred LIFE to being vacuumed out of my mother’s womb.

Was I planned? Was I part of a plan? Was I even consulted? Hmm…interesting view, I would say. Okay then – how does any former unborn child become a proponent of choosing death for other unborn children who have also NOT been consulted?

I am now considering the title ‘Unborn Child Consultant’ along with advocate, activist and minister. It seems to me that a certain demographic has been long ignored and not given their God-given rights and lawful proprieties. It also seems that many other people that are too self-absorbed in their own after-born lives to think outside the box to see that we are a nation in trouble without the 50-100 million dead unborn children to help support our country.

As a former unborn child I will tell you that abortion has never been the answer to any question. Unborn children do not want to die.

But as an Unborn Child Consultant, I will do whatever it takes to make the killing stop.

According to GOD, we have a right to LIFE.

In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed – whether you call Him God or not. The reason I say that is because way too many people ‘believe’ one thing or another whether it’s truth or not. Truth is not a matter of opinion, just a matter of acceptance.

So, let me say it again, “In God’s own time and the season He chooses is when our lives are determined and purposed.”

People love to hear themselves talk. They say things that have no meaning; no true determination of anything other than the vanity of their abstract way of thinking about Life to others. As I mentioned earlier, anything other than truth is opinion, or vain interpretation and utterance.

Being rather outspoken of things that the world deems circumspect, I am smart enough to check my sources…namely the Word of God, not worldly publications or pious lackadaisical ‘spiritual’ leaders. The subject of Life and the right to live it is plainly explained to all of us ignorant bible-thumpin’ Christians in the Bible – this isn’t rocket science, the big bang theory or even the theory of evolution…just plain truth straight from the mouth and heart of GOD.

My right to cross the street supersedes the right to LIFE. The unborn take a back seat to the unemployables occupying parks for free on my dime. The unborn die every day without so much of a whimper from the general public but people complain out loud about gas prices. Where have our sensibilities gone?

A time to be born, and a time to die…determined by GOD, as it was always supposed to be. Today, about 4000 unborn babies died from abortion. And it never made the news.

The Church and the United States of America needs to get their mind back and get back to the basics of human LIFE and fundamental necessity, as GOD meant it to be. We are a people that have lost their way but we can get our mind back, just as Solomon did….let’s start with the right to LIFE and the LIBERTY to live it.

We cannot change the color of the sky to suit us, then how is it we think we have the audacity to assign Life to those we think are more worthy and death to those who are not?

The humanistic world does not believe in God, but knows that there is a god-like ethereal being that they can call on when they need a new house or car; they suppose that because they do not worship or ‘believe’ in God or a god out loud that their deeds done in secret are not being remembered, accounted or even considered. How great is the chasm between the truth and an assumed belief to benefit yourself.

God is Lord of all, whether you believe in him or not.

All this being said, Life and death are haphazardly thought of because there is no outward sign of belief in God – an abortion is a blessing to an out of work single woman; euthanasia is prescribed because the quality of Life is dictated by well meaning family members that don’t want their loved one to suffer. I would say that the Life decisions they make are an advantage to themselves, not the person in need. In any event, someone dies.

Let me be the first to let you know that no one needs or wants your God-less opinion or assumption of what you think others need to have value and quality of Life.

To summarize: We don’t need a bunch of well meaning God haters to make laws that govern when we can and cannot have Life. The fact is that abortion and euthanasia is murder, not quality control.

The question is, “…If God is for us, who can be against us?” Turns out just about everyone who does not believe that Life has been and is foreordained before the foundations of this world.

Each one of us has a separate purpose and function; no one is left out, “For there is no partiality with God”, AND, “Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.”

Still after all this time during my post abortive journey and ministry, I am dismayed at how many churches do not exemplify a Prolife message. I think that more often than not, church goers assume a church is Prolife but that usually isn’t the case. When is the last time you heard a Prolife message or sermon in your church?

This article is not for the church goer, this message is for the PASTOR.

It is a well known fact that teenagers that wait to have sex have been taught at home, by their parents throughout their childhood, to wait and to be responsible for themselves and others. That being said, if church goers were taught by the Pastor in their church continually during their walk about Life, there would be no question about abortion.

If there is no respect for Life, then how can there be any respect for anything else the Lord has deemed holy?

After being a member of a large ministry, I saw how little abortion, chastity and holiness really meant to the multitude, not every person, but most: it was only addressed if it was newsworthy at the time. Ironically, those three things are why the Church is failing – when God is taken out of the equation, you have nothing but a liberal by-product that is unrecognizable to God and therefore, not anointed by Him. When these things happen, your church has essentially become a bar without the booze.

Pastors and ministers have a huge responsibility to teach the ENTIRE flock, not just the pretty part that has all the money. The true congregation is made up mostly of people that are hurt, desperate and wounded by what the world has given them. There is a better way, the way of Jesus Christ. Our churches are not the ‘sin hospital’ they are supposed to be. I remember being a seeker, looking desperately for that one place that would extend a loving, caring hand…not more condemnation. My God of the Bible loves us in spite of who we are, not who we should have been. There are many, many Pastors, preachers and ministers that don’t teach the God of the Bible that gave His Son that I would live.

The Apostle Paul said this about false teachers – “But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.”

What about the congregation? What do we do to set ourselves apart from false teachers and preachers that do not exemplify Life and holiness?

Mark them: “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

Go back to what the entire Bible teaches and find a ministry and/or church that has their foundation in the finished work of Jesus Christ – and LIFE.

Imposed morality? Remember three key points of Roe v. Wade:

• Right to Privacy: The 14^th Amendment implied to guarantee a freedom of choice for women to choose death for their unborn child.
• Violates the 14^th Amendment: ‘No person shall be denied Life, Liberty or Property without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws’.
• Personhood: Justices declared and unborn child to be a non-person much like the in Dred Scott case.
• The 14^th Amendment became doublespeak, not what the Framers intended.
• What the Framers intended was dashed due to imposed morality.

Simply put, the 14^th Amendment was taken completely out of context and set up the right to abort throughout nine months of pregnancy:

‘Thus, the Framers’ original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment has not provided a useful yardstick to measure the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses. Since the mid-1940s, the Supreme Court has strayed further from the Framers’ original understanding, recognizing controversial privacy rights to use contraceptives (griswold v. connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S. Ct. 1678, 14 L. Ed. 2d 510 [1965]), obtain abortions prior to the third trimester of pregnancy (roe v. wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147 [1973]).”

Dignity or Divinity of unborn Life? I say both, you decide. All Life was meant to be lived, not cut off due to circumstance. All Life is an assignment from God to be lived as He meant for us to…all of us.

Roe v. Wade has imposed a different morality, one of caring for those born first than those not yet born. We the People have become a civilization of moralistic wannabes rather than the Godly society that we are meant to be.

Without God, there is nothing. With God we are everything!

Sometimes I have to remember that just because I keep up with Prolife issues doesn’t mean that everyone else does. Certainly there are many ‘converts’, like I was once, that really don’t understand what abortion is or what it does. They see lots of media bias toward the acceptability of abortion and how Prolifers are typically considered bomb-carrying terrorists.

On my blog, someone put in the search box, “do abortions always kill the baby?”

I sat back and thought about how ignorant we all can be of sometimes the most obvious things. Yes, abortion is MEANT to kill the baby.

But does the baby always die? The INTENT of abortion is to always kill the baby. But there are times when a baby is accidentally born alive and then left to die in hospital closets, just ask Jill Stanek. There were times when babies survived a saline abortion, just ask Melissa Ohden.

Through tragic circumstances like rape, a baby has to die? How many more Down Syndrome babies have to die because they aren’t perfect enough to their parents?

Abortion has always been a way out, not to save a woman’s life.

4000 babies die every day in the United States that we know of.

Yes, abortions always kills the baby.

Pat Robertson has an opinion that someone with Alzheimer’s is already dead and that a spouse can go ahead and divorce their afflicted loved one and move on with their life. He perceives that death is not a physical thing, but a mental one as well. If that is the case Mr. Robertson, who else is dead to you? Those with Down Syndrome? Maybe the unborn? Those in comas?

My grandpa Hadley married a lady about a year before I was born. She had three children, two girls and a boy. As a kid I loved visiting them. My [step] grandma Lou made the best biscuits EVER. She even made fried baloney taste like heaven. They lived in a tiny town in southern Missouri only known to those that are from there. I remember one of their houses had an outhouse with a water pump outside.

After a while they bought a tiny little house in Houston, Missouri that a later owner would one day paint pink. When we would visit, somehow my grandparents would find the room for the five of us to spend the night. I think their Plymouth Fury was bigger than that house! Grandma Lou had a Hoosier cabinet that she would crank out flour to make her famous biscuits and let us eat hard candy in the dish by the couch. It was worth the drive from St. Louis.

By the time I was in my twenty’s, I was busy being a wife and mom and making enough of a paycheck to survive. I hadn’t visited my grandparents in many years and I hated that. But one day we were able to afford to make the drive down to my uncle’s farm to see everyone and to my surprise, my grandparents were in a nursing home. My grandma Lou had Alzheimer’s. My grandfather loved my grandma Lou so much that he decided to bunk with her at the nursing home.

I had never been to a nursing home before. I had my young son with me and all the ladies wanted to pinch his cheeks. We made our way to my grandparent’s room and to this day I still tear up when I think about it…Grandma Lou was lying in bed softly babbling something only she could understand. My grandpa would lovingly put his hand on her arm and talk with her as if she was speaking perfect English. I was stunned by the whole scene. I had no idea how sick she was and I had no idea how much he loved her to stay by her side as if she was perfectly well.

Ironically, Grandpa Hadley died from an aneurism before she passed. He lovingly took care of his wife until it was his time to go. He never left her side. Glory to God!

So Mr. Robertson, you are wrong. A man or woman with Alzheimer’s is just as alive as they were they day they conceived.

I am a deep thinker or maybe even a ponderer of things not usually thought of. I don’t require much, just the palette that the Lord gave me – His Holy Word.

How big is God?

God made everything…EVERYTHING. Scientists, philosophers and figure-heads have tried since the beginning of time to build a case against God being the Creator of Life and the universe. What a daunting task trying to unseat God!

Can a person assume to understand God’s completeness? Would a mere human understand that the Greatest Story ever told needed a beginning and end, not just the juicy middle that everyone only conveniently remembers? If you cannot grasp the beginning and end, then you cannot assume to understand the vastness of God and LIFE.

In the ‘known’ universe, there are thus far 70 sextillion stars…that’s 21 zeros after 70. The most current estimates guess that there are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the Universe; it’s been estimated that about 10% of stars have planets which would mean about 20 billion solar systems in our galaxy alone.

This is where men like Stephen Hawking comes along; trying to unseat God by giving us the ‘Big Bang’ THEORY….everything is here by some kind of extraordinary accident. What God has created with His immeasurable love has been deemed an accident.

We are by no means AN ACCIDENT. God cannot make accidents otherwise He would not be perfect. While we ponder Life and its beginning, middle and end, there is Jesus who God gave us to show us our imperfections, that were are teachable, and that we are eternal with Him if we choose to be.

Truly, Life is quite simple. We have the vastness of the universe to show us how important we are to God to have something so incredible. And, we have Jesus, who God gave us to prove His compassion, not His dispassion:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Gonidakis and Schlueter think that the Heartbeat Bill is going to cost too much money to fight…since when does the price of Life have a ceiling?

In part, Schlueter says in his editorial, “We align ourselves with the Catholic Church and other church teaching in order to achieve the ultimate goal while working to preserve life in the present moment.” That was his first mistake. The right to Life is not a Catholic issue – the Right to Life is God given and taught in the canon of Scripture that is inspired by God, not by a denomination or its framers. The BIBLE contends that our Life has been known to HIM since the foundation of the world; all Life that has not been known to us yet is known to HIM and it is up to us as CHRISTIANS to maintain what HIS Holy Word says: “Thou shalt not kill” and “Love your neighbor as yourself”.

KeepLifeLegal is an advocate of Life at all stages and the Heartbeat Bill. We believe that God is our inspiration for the cause of Life, not denominations or organizations:

Here at KeepLifeLegal, we believe what the BIBLE says because it is the INSPIRED WORD OF GOD. We do not associate our ministry with denominations because they teach what their founder(s) believe or conjured, not what the BIBLE teaches which is: 

1. The finished work of Jesus Christ; The only means of being cleansed from sin is through Repentance and Faith in the Precious Blood of Christ
2. There is one God, eternally co-existent in three Persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Trinity)
3. The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God

Anyone that understands these most basic points of Christianity will comprehend that Life is precious to God in all forms and ages regardless of how much it costs or who is aggravates. The price of Life cannot be calculated or determined. 

For as inconsequential as Gonidakis and Schlueter really are in the grand scheme of things, they are doing their best to destroy what can be the most important piece of legislation that has crossed the desk for the unborn. It should be Ohio Right to Life’s responsibility to whole-heartedly back any and all prolife legislation.

These people are real deal and the who’s who of the prolife movement that is supporting the Heartbeat Bill:

• Governor Mike Huckabee
• Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel
• Congressman Steve Chabot
• Former Secretary of State Ken Blackwell
• Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council Action
• Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association
• Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America
• Dr. Jack Willke, founder of Nat’l and Ohio Right to Life and president of International Right to Life
• Father Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life
• Joseph Farah, CEO of WorldNetDaily
• Barrett Duke, Ph.D., of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
• Randy Alcorn, author
• Lila Rose, president of Live Action
• Jill Stanek, columnist
• Bishop Harry Jackson
• Walter Weber, Senior Legal Counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice
• Mat Staver, dean of Liberty School of Law, founder of Liberty Counsel, and president of Freedom Federation.

 And this is the short list. There are over 400 groups and leaders that support Ohio’s Heartbeat Bill…Gonidakis and Schlueter have made this a personal issue, not a Life issue.