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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    2/19/2002 9:49 pm  
To:  ALL   (1 of 9)  
 
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Subject:  Charles Colson on America's Abandoned Babies
Source:   BreakPoint with Charles Colson; December 31, 2001

America's Abandoned Babies:
Whatever happened to the preciousness of new life?
by Charles Colson

[Pro-Life Infonet Note:  Charles Colson is the founder of Prison
Fellowship Ministries.]

One cold December night, Jamie, 19, the frightened and unmarried mother of
a two-year-old son, gave birth to a baby boy on her trailer home floor.
Out of fear, she had kept her pregnancy hidden from her parents. She would
have gone to a hospital, she said, but she had no money and no insurance.
Jamie's boyfriend asked a hospital emergency room nurse where they could
leave a baby awaiting adoption. "We do not handle that," the nurse said.
Before midnight, Jamie bundled up the baby and left the trailer. She
returned empty-handed. Police later found the newborn, alive, in a
cardboard box. He had been abandoned in the dark empty hallway of a nearby
apartment complex.

Jamie's baby is just one of America's newborns routinely found abandoned
in trash bins, junk cars, and dark alleyways. Recently, ten abandoned
infants were found dead in New York City. Minnesota officials discovered a
dead newborn in a bathroom stall. Four abandoned babies, three of them
dead, were found in Louisiana.

Spurred by the discovery of thirteen abandoned babies in ten months in
Houston, in September 1999 Texas passed the nation's first Safe Haven Law.
After the death of an abandoned newborn in a hospital parking lot, Indiana
also passed the Safe Haven law. In the past two years, thirty-five other
states have adopted Safe Haven Laws. These laws allow mothers to
anonymously leave a newborn at hospitals, firehouses, and other designated
facilities without fear of prosecution.

But even with widespread promotion, they are having little effect. When
New Jersey spent $500,000 to promote newborn Safe Havens, six babies were
left at Safe Havens, but two others were left at a doorstep and old car.
Florida distributed decals at firehouses proclaiming: "A Safe Baby
Station: Leave a Baby in Safety." Yet, Florida firefighters recently
counted eleven illegal abandonments, with four of the babies dead.

The problem of abandoned babies goes far deeper than lack of finances,
fear of family, or criminal prosecution. It's a reflection, I believe, of
our callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. The abortion lobby
and the pro-choice people wouldn't sanction leaving abandoned babies in
dark alleys, but in helping undercut respect for life, that's exactly the
horror they've helped create.

The truth is, all life is precious in God's sight. The Psalmist David
writes: "For you [God] created my inmost being; you knit me together in my
mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made .
. . All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of
them came to be."

A baby -- born and unborn -- is precious to God. It is not a disposable
commodity. A child's life should not be subject to our finances, our
fears, and our convenience. We somehow have lost the sense of sacredness
that a new life embodies. We are throwing away precious human life -- our
future generations.

And until we regain our respect and reverence for valuable human life --
until we realize that our babies belong to God, not to us -- we will no
doubt continue to find America's newborns crying in cardboard boxes and
abandoned in dark empty hallways.

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  From:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    2/20/2002 3:48 pm  
To:  David (DavidABrown)    (2 of 9)  
 
  321.2 in reply to 321.1  
 
You know back years ago babies were abandoned too. The difference I see between then and now is then they were left on someone's doorstep where there were sure to be found. Now they are thrown in dumpsters and alleyways where it's unlikely they will be found. Back then even though the mother didn't want the baby she risked getting caught to make sure the baby would be found by someone. Now the "mother" isn't willing to take that risk because she doesn't see the baby as worth it. 
Ruth

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  From:  Rtartan   2/20/2002 5:27 pm  
To:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    (3 of 9)  
 
  321.3 in reply to 321.2  
 
Many hospitals around the country have the word "foundling" in there name, but stopped taking "foundlings" and some even cooperated with law enforcement at prosecuting thoses foolish enough to abandon their children at a hospital. 
We all know already that it is the abortion mentality and racism that feeds this problem. OT1H, children are seen as commodities in a way that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago. OTOH, the "child safety nazis" will not allow white people to adopt children of color in this country, so people fly to Korea to adopt. 

Some people are sick towards children, and nowhere is that more true than in social and educational policy. 

 
  
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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    2/20/2002 9:46 pm  
To:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    (4 of 9)  
 
  321.4 in reply to 321.3  
 
Hi Ruth,

 

Its almost like no one wants to look out for anyone anymore or give anyone a helping hand.

 

Luke 10:25-30 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him (Jesus), saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He (Jesus) said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

 

God Bless You,

David



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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    2/20/2002 9:51 pm  
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  321.5 in reply to 321.4  
 
Oh yeah, a neighbor is Anyone who happens to be in your presence at any given time.

 

God Bless You!

David



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  From:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    2/21/2002 9:49 am  
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  321.6 in reply to 321.3  
 
What is OTOH and OT1H? 
I know many many people who have adopted children over the years and interestingly enough I only know of one couple that have adopted a black baby. His birth mother was a crack addict. My friends got him at birth as a foster child but the state wouldn't let them adopt him because they wanted to keep him in the foster care system. The way I understand it the state gets funding from the government for foster kids so they would rather keep the child in limbo then allow a family to adopt. Very sad IMO. I don't know how much this has to do with racism or with greed on the state's part. 

Abortion has definately cheapened people's view of life. Life in general but especially a baby's life. IMO it is upsetting when a woman abandons her baby but when they go to the trouble of leaving the baby with someone, such as hospital personnel, they should be applauded instead of arrested. They should be applauded for two reasons, one because even though they could not take care of the child they cared enough about them to make sure he/she was left with someone who could. Two because they had the courage to give birth to the baby instead of murdering him/her. These are the women that would give their baby up for adoption but they don't know how to go about doing it. I think that if as much money were put into adoption as has been put into abortion we would see a significant rise in the number of adoptions. 

Ruth

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  From:  StevenJn316   2/22/2002 12:26 pm  
To:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    (7 of 9)  
 
  321.7 in reply to 321.6  
 
In all the discussion of taxpayer funds for abortions for the poor, I would like to see the government provide taxpayer funds for women who want to birth and adopt-out their baby as well. 
The funds would pay for pre-natal doctor visits, maternity clothes and hospital costs. 

THEN, EVERY CLINIC (like Planned Parenthood etc.) would be forced by law to offer BOTH solutions to the women who come there...or else be shut down...and the government could send in the occasional undercover woman to enforce this. 

The result would be the abortion groups would scream LOUDLY at this, which would show the nation what a scam the label 'pro-choice' or 'women's right to choose' really is. 

And of course it would also mean many fewer abortions and many more adoptions.
 
  
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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    2/22/2002 2:38 pm  
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Hi Steven,

<The result would be the abortion groups would scream LOUDLY at this, which would show the nation what a scam the label 'pro-choice' or 'women's right to choose' really is.>

Well put! :o)

It is a scam.

Like you just commented there are Solutions but they are not interested in Solutions that provide for life.

God Bless You,

David 



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   From:  Ruth (RUTHMARX)    2/25/2002 9:22 am  
To:  StevenJn316   (9 of 9)  
 
  321.9 in reply to 321.7  
 
That's an excellent idea. IF they were really promoting freedom of choice for women they themselves would have come up with this idea. To be honest though they only support women making the choice they approve. It's gotten to the point where pro choice people try to make women ashamed of having children. I can't call myself pro choice if I only support you when you make my choice. 
Ruth

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