Baby Saved From Abortion is Baptized

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Serena was three months pregnant and in turmoil. The young Panamanian-born mother of two was suffering from diabetes, and personnel at the Causeway Medical Clinic in Metairie, Louisiana's largest abortion clinic, told her the disease could cause severe birth defects in her unborn child if she went ahead and had the baby.

The ambivalence Serena felt after her first consultation at the abortion clinic intensified overnight. As she was driven to the facility for her scheduled abortion on April 10, 2004 -- Holy Saturday -- she saw a group of people walking and praying on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. Serena -- who asked that her last name not be used in print -- got out of the car just a few feet from the clinic entrance, and then decided to make a U-turn.

She walked over to Pam Richard, who along with her husband, John, coordinates the New Orleans Archdiocesan Sidewalk and Prayer Ministry, and to Jesuit Father Richard C. Hermes, who was keeping vigil with a group of students from the Pro-Life Club at Jesuit High School in New Orleans. Serena's story has an ending -- actually a beginning -- that Richard says still gives her goose bumps.

On Nov. 23 Serena gave birth to her third son, 8-pound, 7-ounce Jaykob Angel, healthy in every way. On Jan. 16 pro-life supporters and the students at Jesuit High School gathered at the student chapel as Father Hermes baptized the baby who had been saved from death. The Richards served as Jaykob's godparents.

And there you have it,the truth about abortion! While people are getting down on the oil companies they ought to think of the money profits the abortion industry is making off of women. Some 50 million abortions in this country,that’s a lot of money to fight for to keep going! Of course we are talking about dead children,abortionists are talking about big money. And the government assists these profits with subsidies and grants as Michele Malkin has spoken of in her column.

GOP presidential candidate John McCain sounded more like a Democrat presidential candidate (a recurring trend) when he joined the Left’s oil industry-bashers a few weeks ago. Asked by a North Carolina voter whether he supported a Jimmy Carter-era windfall profits tax, McCain responded: “Um, I don’t like obscene profits being made anywhere–and I’d be glad to look not just at the windfall profits tax–that’s not what bothers me–but we should look at any incentives that we are giving to people or industries or corporations that are distorting the market.”

Here’s an idea for all the hand-wringing GOP strategists in Washington wondering what it will take to win back disgusted economic and social conservatives: How about a Republican presidential candidate who will talk about the tax-subsidized abortion industry the way McCain talks about oil industry?

In April, the annual report of Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02 billion—with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget.

And what market-distorting results do we get for those government incentives? 289,650 abortions in 2006.

I was told by a very serious pro-life man who started the right to life here in Kentucky that there is a difference in trying to save the mother and because of it the baby dies and a clear intention of killing the baby to save the mother. There should always be the intention to try and save both. And if the mother is in a crisis situation can"t they deliver the baby sooner than expected? These are all things the cultural of death do not tell the mothers to be. But then too many just plain don"t want to be pregnant. 55 million dead children-14 million African American children dead because of abortion. Praise God for those who were saved from abortion,baby and mother. History will judged us harshly for all these dead children and for not having the will as a nation to stop it. Especially now when Obama is so radically pro-death to the unborn babies and could very well be the next president. For those who will not vote because they don"t like McCain so much,he does have some serious drawbacks, we have to at the very least stop Obama from becoming President and turning back all the good work that has been done to change the abortion laws. Maybe McCain won't be that great but Obama would be a disaster to pro-life work. Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,Jesus. To think the savior came to us from the womb and the evil attack on the wombs of mothers is definitely evil.

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