My First Experience...

I went to a Pregnancy Test Center (part of the Save-A-Life East program) today. I need to get on Medicaid and to do so I had to have a certified statement of pregnancy and due date. To go to the doc-in-a-box was going to cost $30 just for the test. If it came back positive, there was a mandatory doctor visit of only....wait for it....$103 bucks on top of the pregnancy test! What the crap?!?!? I need Medicaid people! If I had that kind of money....well I called the Pregnancy Test Center and they got me right in and it was not at all like the "horror" stories I've heard told by pro-choicers. From the first phone conversation to the time I left, the women were fantastic. I told them I was not interested in seeing any anti-abortion video and they respected that. I did go back with the counselor and in our meeting I got to talk with her about my passion in this area. For the first time, I got to see in person those tiny models of fetal development from 7-12 weeks then a second trimester baby and a third trimester. Grace even played with the babies and was excited to see the little bitties. As I sat there holding these tiny babies, the reason for my passion against abortion was deepened. This 12 week old baby, fit perfectly in the palm of my hand and was fully developed. So many pro-choicers would see this little one and still support a woman's right to kill that baby. The 8 week old baby was the size of my thumb pad. I have known this for a long time but to hold it in my hand and to see those tiny little feet and little face and know that babies like this are killed daily made my heart heavy. I talked with the counselor for a long time. I have a lot of personal growing I still need to do before, but one day I want to do what she does. She shared the truth of life before birth, shared the love of Jesus with me and my whole was just amazing and a surprise. Had I been a scared girl/woman unsure of what to do, no doubt I would have felt the love and compassion that these two ladies had to give. The love of Christ is what we are called to share with the world. It was a wonderful time and another time to learn and grow.