Wake Up Call

Warning: Not for children, adult subject matter

Recently I rented an excellent movie from Netflix. The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women borrows its title from a tract written by 16th century reformer John Knox in protest of the reign of queens. Mary I was in power at that time and she was persecuting Protestants. The title was borrowed for the DVD to blast today’s “monstrous regiment of women”, the liberal feminists.

There is much I could comment on from this video, and perhaps I’ll find the time to do so soon. Not everyone will agree with all parts of the video, but it is full of important information about the feminist agenda. One part of the video has haunted me, and that is what I want to write about today.

There is a brief segment in this video in which an abortion is seen being performed onscreen. Thankfully, a 5 second warning was given before the footage was shown. Personally, I could not bring myself to watch it. I did not want to watch it. I’m not even sure if I feel it was appropriate that they showed it.

I skipped the DVD forward to the next scene, and then rewound for about 3 seconds so as not to miss the beginning of the scene. And it is that 3 seconds of film that has haunted me. Having performed the abortion, the doctor is shown wrapping the baby casually in a white piece of paper, as a butcher might do with a steak.

How can I explain what my heart felt during those few seconds? I can only explain it as a dawning horror: there, on the table, was a baby. A baby!!!

I know what abortion is. I believe life starts at conception, and therefore every abortion takes the life of a baby. But the baby in the video looked just like one of my newborn babies might have looked. Fully formed. Perfect. Real.

I wanted to jump into the television and grab that baby and hold it. I wanted to shout, “Stop! Don’t do it! Give the baby to me!” What I saw on that screen was not a statistic. It was not a disembodied soul. It was a little person, whose life was taken away mercilessly.

The feminists use sterile words like “pro-choice” and “fetus”. They don’t want to call this what it is: the Holocaust of our time. Since 1973, there have been over 49 million surgical abortions performed in this country.

This is equal to the population of the following states:

What are we going to do about this?

“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14