Food For Thought

Two years ago today was supposed to be the due date of my little Jesse, not my first child and not my last. In that light:

A woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer has a 46% 5-year survival rate. Approximately 40% of all pregnancies (including those not yet detectable by an HPT) will end in loss. The worst argument for elective abortion (in my opinion) is the argument for the rights of the mom. Are my rights more important than those of a woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer just because I have a higher chance of surviving the next 5 years? My 6 week old daughter is just as dependent on someone for survival as she was 8 weeks ago. Should she be abandoned in the street, she wouldn't last without someone taking her home. That throws the argument that a fetus requires it's mother to survive out the window. My child might not require me, specifically, but that's only because she isn't in my belly anymore. She still requires someone to change her, feed her, clothe her and keep her warm. Plain and simple, on her own, life is not possible.

That brings me to my next topic. The Duggar family. They experienced the loss of a living child. You don't believe me? Go watch The Silent Scream (please heed the warning on the webpage. Do not let your child watch this movie. It is the exact opposite of appropriate for children. I'm in tears remembering the video):
http://www.silentscream.org/
How dare anyone ever suggest that God is "telling them" to stop. If God is telling them to stop, He was definitely telling me to stop after 3 consecutive miscarriages. I hope you didn't miss the part in the first paragraph where I mentioned my 6 week old daughter.

I am by no means an expert but I cannot bring myself to believe unpleasant things like miscarriage happen because God is telling someone to stop having children when Scripture indicates otherwise. That would mean God intended for His children (us) to suffer.

"Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come." Romans 5:12-14

Adam and Eve were our spokespeople in the Garden of Eden. When Eve sinned and convinced Adam to sin, they brought physical death and spiritual death, in the separation between man and God.

"The LORD God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all cattle,
And more than every beast of the field;
On your belly you will go,
And dust you will eat
All the days of your life;
And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain in childbirth,
In pain you will bring forth children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he will rule over you.”
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return."" Genesis 3:14-19

Verse 16 speaks of the curse upon the woman, increased pain in childbirth. I will tell you labor pain was horrible and that still was nothing compared to the pain of a miscarriage because that combines the physical with the emotional and mental. Contractions that result in death, crushed dreams and a short pregnancy being so completely over take such a toll on every part of your being. That was not how the world began and it was not the intention of our Creator, it was the punishment. Why shouldn't the crime receive a punishment? We all sin. To question the punishment not only places your own views above those of perfect God but also asks that He not care. A loving parent punishes his/her child, wouldn't a loving God do the same?

And now, I am off. K is starting to scream (to date, best sound in the world. That is subject to change when her giggles become audible) so I need to provide her food.