This would be an important video to watch if you believe Canada is pro-choice. The choice of some women is really under fire in Canada.

A few thoughts on life....

Let me start by stating the obvious: THIS PAGE IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT (unlike my page on human trafficking and orphans). I touch the topic of the value of life willingly, regardless.

Perhaps to the shock of some of you reading this, I am not really "into" politics (and I am likely the furthest thing from politically correct). I am a person of conviction (as I hope you all are too) and believe in integrity. People of integrity will not be afraid to lovingly express their hearts on issues they (we) care about....especially on issues as important as the value of human life - at whatever stage. When it comes to discourses surrounding issues like this one I believe history will judge our silence if that is the road we choose. With this in mind, I choose to open my mouth (or should I say type on my keyboard).

Let me share with you one of many good reasons why I am pro-life. Her name is Stephanie (alias).

I met Stephanie about a year ago when I was getting my nails done at one of those 15 minute manicures in the airport. Something I rarely do (why I chose to do it this particular day I do not know). There was a hot issue that was going down in the nation that week having to do with the topic of life. It was all over the news. While Stephanie was doing my nails I was in a pretty intense conversation with someone on my cell phone about it all. We spoke passionately for several minutes and Stephanie heard every word. I hung up, put my head back in a deep sigh and then pulled it back to focus on the nails. At that point, knowing she had heard the conversation I did the logical social thing and asked her what she thought.

She slowly looked up at me and said, "I totally disagree with it," (Without getting it all the details, her response meant that she was taking the pro- life perspective on the issue.) She then explained why. Stephanie told me that she was Catholic but was pro-choice and had recently had an abortion herself. She explained that she would never recommend it to anyone and that it was the worst experience of her life. The silence was thick in between her sentences. She went on to say, "I almost died on the floor of the abortion clinic. I was all alone."

Seeing that she had more to say I asked her gently, "What happened?"

She explained, "I was afraid of my father. Her is a very violent man and I was afraid of what he would to do me if he found out I was pregnant so I just booked the appointment and went by myself. When I went in the nurses forgot to give me an anesthetic - maybe they were in a rush or something, I don't know why they didn't. I felt everything. There were some complications and I got a blood clot that set me into convulsions but the nurses did not know what to do with me. They froze and left me on the floor [in blood] until my body worked it out. It was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. It was horrible. I would never wish this on anyone. I have been on anti-depressants ever since." Hearing this, and sensing her devastation, was like a punch in the gut. I honestly do not understand how anyone can 'celebrate' abortion. It is like celebrating amputation (and that is no where near a perfect analogy).

I have never been the same since I heard her share this horrific story.

In my opinion anyone who holds the perspective that abortion should be legal, rare, and safe is naive. I don't believe safe abortion exists. I have heard too many horror stories now and read too many stats that indicate the contrary. Stephanie's is one of multitudes of women, men, grandmas and grandpas who are living with the emotional and physical wreckage of post abortion realities, and, who wished they had a 2nd chance at it.

If hearing horror stories like Stephanie's is not enough I have also been confronted with the truth that this is a money making business in Canada (abortion that is). The leading abortionists in our nation make million of dollars a year of it. That is simply the truth of it. The question that I have not yet had answered is, "If the abortion industry is all about compassion for women then why don't those who are profiting off of it give all their revenue to post abortive women's mental health councillors or to aid women who are sterile, battling breast cancer, cervical cancer, cervical complications and the like - in many cases linked to former abortions?" I don't know, call me simplistic but certain things seem obvious. I am pro-life because I have seen a mass of evidence that abortion destroys lives.

There are many other reasons that I could list for why I am pro-life, like, evidence in the Word that God has a heart for the unborn (Ps. 139, Ps 71) and much scientific evidence out there regarding the reality of life from conception. I find, however, that as soon as you begin discussing from these angles the rhetoric and labels begin to fly and people normal shut their brains off. Common sense dialogue is often replaced by rantish emotionalism - which says something in itself. Wounded people wound people and my observation is that those in the pro-abortion movement who are most venomous opposed to calm discussion of the facts are this way because their conscience is screaming at them. They need to scream louder to justify ending the life of a fetus (which, incidently, means "little one" in latin).

ï "The word fetus is from the Latin fetus, meaning offspring, bringing forth, hatching of young.[3]" - Wikepedia on fetus.

I am so thankful that there is healing for anyone touched by the negative effects of abortion. Furthermore, whatever the emotions involved, Stephanie's story is enough to warrant a discussion.....TO BE CONTINUED AS TIME AND THOUGHTS PERMIT....

Feel free to e-mail me at admin@faytene.ca if you have a story you want to share with me, or, a point of feedback (if you are e-mailing about the "what about if a girl is raped?" question, I will get to it (likely) so sit tight. If you know a girl in this position please let me know, we know lots of people willing to adopt (refer to video at the top)).

This is the ultra-sound of a child that was inside the womb of a teenage girl who sent me a Face book message asking what she should do. I shared my heart with her (as we always should in love) and told her one of my greatest concerns was for her. I explained how many women who have had abortions regret it for the rest of thier lives and it messes them up for life (mentally, emotionally and sometimes physically). She did not want to abort the baby anyway and my advice just helped her understand why. This little guy is now alive and amazing! He has been adopted into a loving family and mom can see him any time she wants to. I am so thankful. She said to me after he was born, "I can't believe I ever considered killing him...."

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