In the early 70's I viewed the display of human beings, from just days after conception through 9 months of gestation, at the Science & Industry Museum in Chicago. They were from miscarraiges or still births. These humans were in jars filled with preservative and below them was information on their developement, such as when the heartbeat or brain waves could be detected. Much of this information is the same as what we try to share with abortion-bound women today. In the last 50+ years we have learned more about the clear humanity & developement of the child in the womb. Any remaining ignorance of these facts would seem clearly willful. 
  In the Roe V Wade decision the Supreme court willfully chose not to consider the child in the womb. 
 A doctor friend of mine shared with me his recent experience of trying to help a pregnant woman who was injured in a car accident. He had to try to deliver the 25 week old baby who despite his efforts, unfortunately died. 
 He shared "I've never seen a 25wk baby before, but even after all the schooling I've been through and all the studies that I've done, that 25wk fetus is very much a baby. All the features you expect in any small human. It just cemented how evil the whole industry is. I appreciate everything you do and don't ever stop fighting the fight. Those kiddos need it."
  I replied "... Thousands of our preborn neighbors are still being killed here in Texas- through IVF & abortion pills.  
 It is important to keep bringing this before the church. 
 It seems like the majority of the people that I see going into the IVF clinics are Christians." 
 Doc says "You're absolutely correct. Completely agree and a major propblem. A problem most church leaders don't want to touch. We'll kill 6 babies to get the perfect one we want..." 
   I have said many times that at the heart of this issue is identifying with the victim of this ongoing holocaust- the preborn yet fully human being. 
 I have witnessed many instances when some event happened to cause someone to identify with this fellow image bearer of God. I suspect that, while my doctor friend has been to abortion clinics with me to try to intervene on behalf of these babies that this event in his life has caused him to further identify with the preborn. 
  Earlier this week my nurse son shared with me an experience of the valiant attempt of doctors in an ER who tried to spare the life of another preborn child from a mother who had just died. They took the baby via C-section but despite their efforts the baby died. One of his fellow nurses was experiencing some emotional trama as a result of the events of that evening. Maybe he came to the place where he identified with that preborn baby. Let's hope so, as so many nurses are pro-abortion, including at least one "Christian" one that my son has interacted with. 
  It is not surprising that so many mothers have their babies killed. They do not identify with their own babies, and until we Christians identify with them and repent of our apathy, bloodguilt and hardess of heart, this holocaust will continue mostly unimpeded. 
  Please do your own Bible study on innocent bloodshed & bloodguilt and appeal to your pastors to teach on this issue; and lead your churches in bringing forth fruit in keeping with repentance. 
   

Where are we going here in the US? We are going in the way of Europe. 
 Francis Schaeffer said in 1982 that if the church in the US did not repent that we would continue to follow in the path of the churches in Europe and become completely irrelevant to our culture. We haven't and we have.
  Since 1982 I have seen additional calls to repentance that have mostly gone unheeded. In the late 80's the message of Operation rescue was "repent from our apathy toward the bloodshed of our preborn neighbors and come to their defense". This message was responded to by thousands and the results were significant. Tens of thousands of lives were spared; thousands of Christians were arrested (more than 3 times the number that were arrested during the civil rights protest of the 60's) and many people came to faith in the Gospel when they witnessed Christians who were giving more than lip service when it came to loving their neighbors as themselves.  The list of other positive results is lengthy.
  There were other calls to repentance from people like Alan Keyes who during his campaign for presidency in 2008 made the ending of legalized abortion his highest priority. Keyes referred to himself as the invisible man because the media just treated him as if he did not exist. Unfortunately the church gave him the same treatment. 
  Consider Europe as we continue to follow their lead in rejecting God. In Scotland a grandmother was arrested twice for standing near an abortion clinic with a sign that read "Coercion is a crime, here to talk only if you want". Also in Scotland a man was arrested for silently praying near an abortion facility. When community officers tasked with patrolling the zone approached him, they asked, "What is the nature of your prayer?" 
 Lest anyone think that the recent rally in DC was any sign of repentance please consider that the lives and actions of the politicians at the event. Any honest assessment of the character of these politicians would conclude that they are at the very least not aligned with Jesus Christ, or biblical Christianity. Consider that while some thousands of people made the sacrifice of their time and money to attend this event the 90+ % of the places where human sacrifice was taking place in the US (including on the day of the event) had NO ONE there pleading for the lives of those who were being sacrificed.
  "The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  Christianity is not about rally's and certainly not about giving recognition to immoral political leaders. Christianity starts with repentance and bring forth fruit in keeping with that repentance. Picking up one's cross does not refer to an ornament that one hangs from their rearview mirror. We have shed the blood of over a 100 million human beings through abortions (including those done by chemicals at an early stage of development) and IVF procedures (which President Trump promotes). If God heard the Blood of Able crying out from the ground how deafening must the cry be of these 100 million+ innocent lives be? 
May God grant us true repentance.  
       

​Christianity illegal in the US.
When I tell people that Christianity is illegal in the US, they seemed confused or to think that I am.
The Bible states that loving GOD & Loving your neighbor is the fulfillment of all the commandments (Lev. 19:18: Matt. 19:19; Matt. 22:39; Mk. 12:31; Lk. 10:27; Rom. 13:9; Gal. 5:14; James 2:8; Rom. 13:8; Mk. 12:33).   It is really the most basic way that our Christianity is lived out.  Jesus showed what it looked like in what He did for us.  He also gave us the “Good Samaritan parable as well as many others.  The “Golden Rule” sums up what loving your neighbor is about.  If you were about to be murdered then you would want someone to intervene on your behalf & stop the murderer.  This is illegal in the US.  Christians today will respond that there are other ways to love your neighbor but how can they really think that stopping their murderer from murdering them is not what they would want most if they were the victim.  I really think that these people that say these things really believe their own lies.
  I often heard folks in church talk about how bad things are getting in our culture and how they think that before long it will be illegal to be a Christian.  These same people are unaware of the fact that the issue which resulted in the arrest of more Christians than any other issue in the U.S. was of those Christians who were interposing themselves on behalf of their preborn neighbors from the mid 1980’s into the early 1990s.  These Christians had produced some fruit of their repentance from not loving their preborn neighbors, who were threatened with murder and it resulted in their arrest.  Some spent some considerable time in jail.  Hebrews 13:1-3 is referring to Christians who were in jail.  It is where you expected to find Christians.
  As most Christians lead by their Pastors refused to identify with their preborn neighbors who were being brought to the mills to be murdered, they also had to deny the Christians who were being arrested for loving those preborn neighbors.
   2 Tim 3:12 say’s “All those who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted”.  Don’t overlook verse 13 “But evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived”. I am afraid that what we see more of today is the denial of one’s faith or obedience to the extent necessary to avoid persecution. Like most of the Christians in Nazi Germany we will deny a whole people group if identifying with them may cost us too much.  I think that it was John Bunyan who when he was asked about his incarceration by another clergyman, responded “The question is not what am I doing in here but rather what are you doing out there?”.  People today are so out of touch with historical Christianity that when you mention a fellow believer who was arrested in the U.S., they think that the Christian must have done something wrong in order to get arrested. The more rational question might be, as a Christian, why am I not suffering persecution especially when I live in a holocaust. Most pastors have made more trips to visit Israel or even toured Auschwitz than to their local abortion mill to plead for the lives of their preborn neighbors or even hold a sign in protest of this holocaust.  Most pastors have made more trips to Hawaii, or some other overseas vacation spot, than to any one of the abortion clinics in their area.  I am not saying that it is wrong to go to these places but if you as a Pastor are known for these types of trips and your congregations hear of those excursions more often than you going to a place that is often just blocks from your church then this will serve to dehumanize the victims.  This is one reason why Christian women have their babies aborted.  After all it really can’t be murder or even that great of an offense against God if the pastor’s response to it is so weak.

53 years after ROE V. Wade and the aborting of 66,000,000+ preborn human beings in the US since 1973, Christians still make comments like "the Bible doesn't say anything that condemns abortion". 
 Why would they look for scriptures that condemn the killing of a particular class of people? Do they look to the Bible for scriptures that condemn the killing of people over 80 or people that have darker skin?
 Human abortion involves taking the life of innocent human beings. 
 In Genesis 1:26, the Bible states that human beings are made in the image of God. This is what sets us apart from other life forms and establishes the intrinsic value of every human being. It seems rather wicked to even suggest that certain humans are not made in His image, although man in his wickedness has done this at various times. The Nazi's dehumanized to the Jews (and others); slave owners have done it to their slaves; the Hutus did it to the Tutsis in Rwanda. 
  Every one of the victims of these past atrocities, and this current and ongoing holocaust of the preborn, were made in the image of God. And all of the scriptures that have to do with the taking of the lives of innocent human beings apply to these victims. 
  We do not need to produce scriptural support for why it is wrong to abort any preborn human being any more than we need to provide that support for why it is wrong to take the life of any human being from any other people group. 
 Christians will even ask whether the child in the womb should be given consideration as a neighbor whom we are called to love as ourselves.  The "Good Samaritan" story in Luke 10 is preceded with the the statement "seeking to justify himself". This is the guy in the narrative that you don't want to be like and yet it seems like he is the guy that so often represents so many Christians of our day. These Christians are not unlike the Christians that lived during the late 30's and early 40's in Germany or during slavery in different parts of the world or in Rwanda in 1994. 
 The appropriate questions for Christians to ask themselves today as it was back then is "how would Jesus have me live in the midst of this holocaust?" or "how can I intervene on behalf of preborn human beings that are being threatened with abortion or being abused or discarded through IVF procedures?" or "What does the Bible say about innocent bloodshed or bloodguilt?". 
 Here are some scriptures that have to do with that last question. 
    Blood Guilt: Gen. 4:10; Gen. 9:5-7; Gen. 32:10; 42:22 Exo. 21:22; 22:2+3; 23:7; Lev. 25:17; Numbers 35:34; Duet. 18:10; Duet. 19:10+13; Duet. 21:1-9.; Duet. 22:8; Duet. 27:25; Lev. 17:4; 7:11; 7:14; LEV. 20:2-6+9+11-13+16+27; Judges 9:24; Judges 19:29; 1 Sam. 18:56; 1Sam. 19:5; 1 Sam. 25:31; 2 Sam 2:16;  2 Sam 2:28-29; 2 Sam 4:11; 2Sam 4:11; 2 Sam 21:1b; 1 Kings 2:5 +31+32 (Joab); 2 Kings 16:3; 2Kings 17:17+31; 2Kinga 21:6+16; 2 Kings 23:10+26-27 & **24:3+4;  1 Chron. 22:8; 2 Chron. 28:3 (burned his sons); 2 Chron 33:6; Jonah 1:12-14b; PS. 5:6; 51:14 Isa. Ch. 1; 26:21b; 59:3 + 7; Lam. 4:13-14; Ezek. 8:12 (things done in secret); Lam. 4:13-14; Ezek. 8:18b (God won’t listen because “they filled the land with violence) + Ezek. 12:19; Ezek. 16:20-21; Ezek. 22:1-4 + 6+7+12+13+27; 23:37+39; Ezek. 33:25 (idolatry); Ezek 35:6 (did not hate bloodshed); Ezek. 36:18; Hos. 1:4b + 6:8; Hos. 9:16 (God calls the babies in the womb Precious even as He causes miscarriages): Hos. 12:14; Amos 1:23; Hab. 2:8+12+17; Matt. 23:34-36; Acts 5:28; God sends prophets to them  = their blood guilt is increased; Luke11:50-51
Innocent Bloodshed: 2 Chon. 26:3; 1 Sam 18:5; IS. 4:4; Ezek. 16:20-21; PS. 5:6b; PS. 10:8; PS. 106:38; Ezek. 36:18; Joel 3:19b; Jer. 7:6 & 31; Jer. 22:3b; Jer. 22:15-17 (16b “what it means to know me”); Jer. 26:15;
Do Justice: Judges 19:30 cf. Micah 6:8; Jer. 5:28 “cause of the orphan”; cf 5:30-31; PS. 41:1 (Blessed for considering the helpless)
 May the Lamb of God receive Glory by how we as His followers live in these difficult times.

  

​ I recently listened to an interview, on PBS, of someone who was talking about fish and the new discoveries that have been made about their intelligence and how they feel pain.  The person gave descriptions of the conditions in some of the places where fish are raised and the “inhumane” treatment of fish".
 The person doing the interview was so moved that she said that she would not be able to even look at fish in her freezer the same way, as she did before.
 It was clear that the person being interviewed and then the host were attempting to get the listeners to identify with fish. Once people identify with the fish, they will have compassion on them and not eat them or at least show some concern about the way they are treated. I think of Mary Temple Grandin, an American ethologist, inventor, and animal science professor at Colorado State University, who came up with better ways of treating livestock.
 It was really interesting to me how the people on the PBS were attempting to stir up the same kind of beneficence in their listeners as we abolitionist do. While they are attempting to direct this beneficence toward fish, we are trying to direct it toward the preborn. They even used the term “humane” which caused me to consider what the word means.
 I googled it – “having or showing compassion or benevolence.”
"Regulations ensuring the humane treatment of animals"
 Or “formal (of a branch of learning) intended to have a civilizing or refining effect on people.
"The center emphasizes economics as a humane discipline"
 The use of the word “humane” presumes that we would always want to treat humans with beneficence.  So, to treat a fish “humanely” would be to treat a fish the way that we should treat a fellow human. But if we murder the smallest and weakest of humans before they can even be born or keep them frozen in petri dishes for some undetermined time to be either disposed of, like any other waste, or implanted in the hope that one might survive, then haven’t we so dehumanized humans so that that term can hardly be used to stir compassion? When  the world’s governments not only allow but often encourage the murder of 17,000 preborn babies every hour through abortion and IVF procedures, how can humanizing be equated with improving the way we treat a species or be associated with “showing compassion or benevolence”? Promoting regulation of the murder of the preborn or presenting the mother who has her own baby murdered as a victim also contributes to the verbicide of the word humanize.
 The efforts of the Abolitionists are to cause other human beings to identify with their preborn neighbors, in a more intimate or personal way.  The  good Samaritan identified with the victim in Luke 10 when he “felt compassion” for him. Once any human being, be it the abortionist or the pregnant woman, identifies with the baby in the womb in a way that compels feeling compassion, they will not kill the baby in the womb.
 Would it not be a marvelous thing to hear a PBS interview with an Abolitionist?
Pray for this – “…perhaps the Lord will work for us…” 1 Sam. 14  

The text below is copied from an email from Faye Barnhart from the Human Life Initiative. 
 She writes some of what some others have been saying for years. I pray that Christian Pastors will read this and that their repentance will be manifest by them leading their flocks in this long overdue repentance. 
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I woke up with Isaiah 59 and Romans 1 on my mind this morning. Isaiah 59: "Justice is turned back And righteousness stands far away; For truth has stumbled in the street, And righteousness cannot enter." As I woke up, I read the entire chapter. Further up in the chapter it reads, "Behold, the hand of Yahweh is not so short That it cannot save; Nor is His ear so dull That it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood And your fingers with iniquity, your lips have spoken a lie; Your tongue mutters unrighteousness. No one calls in righteousness, and no one seeks justice in truth. They trust in confusion and speak worthlessness." (see all Isaiah 59) Romans 1: "Therefore God gave them up to vile impurity in the lusts of their hearts, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them." (see all Rom 1)

It was a restless sleep last night, knowing I had to write this email this morning. This email asking believers across Colorado to please plead for God's mercy and repent for our state. Colorado runs red with the blood of the innocent. We have allowed a holocaust ten times as deadly as that in Germany during WWII. Over the fifty years that we have allowed innocent children to be murdered, we have lost an entire generation. And the generations after them. We have been content to be silent and complacent while real human beings have been slaughtered. And we knew it was happening. We preferred the lie that they were not living human beings, or that, somehow, we were not responsible as "our brother's keeper" (Genesis 4:9). It eased our conscience that we hadn't met them, yet. We didn't know who we were killing. We didn't know what they would grow up to be or the blessing they would be in their families, our churches, and our communities. And all they would have influenced in their lifetimes. We were content to let them be as the character in "It's a Wonderful Life" to have never been born. But it was worse than that, because they were already here. They were already living. They were already going to be born, dead or alive. They were already wanting to continue living. We stole their inheritance from them among the living.

Jeremiah 5:28b-29
They refuse to provide justice to orphans
and deny the rights of the poor.
Should I not punish them for this?” says the LORD.
“Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

Is it time, yet? 

We have injustice in Colorado and our nation. The blood of the innocent has polluted our land and invited the demonic. This is not politics, as usual; this is a call to the people of God across Colorado to repent of the bloodshed on our hands. The bloodshed from the bodies of innocent children who had their separate blood type from their Mammas, their own little hearts, their own little faces and fingers and toes, their own little lives they wanted to live. Their hugs and their giggles and the love they wanted to give us. This is a call to fervent prayer on their behalf, and ours, who are wanting to stand in the gap on their behalf. 

Part of Awakenings in this country have been an understanding of the judgement of God and fervent prayer. When Jesus' disciples tried to cast out a demon from a man unsuccessfully, Jesus told them it was due to unbelief, and in the King James translation, a need for fasting and prayer. We have the demonic to cast out of our state (and send back to the abyss). Another part of Awakenings is that the actions of those repenting resonated in the public square, in conversations, in laws, and in homes.

This is more than a political process. This is more than just filling petitions with signatures, though necessary. This is about piercing the darkness with the light, speaking the truth into the lies, and raising a banner of what is right. This is a prayer that the blind will see, the dull will hear, and that God would replace our cold hearts of stone with hearts of loving flesh. And that God will reach down with His own mighty hand to rescue those He loves. That He would rescue the widow and the orphan and the stranger that we have failed. And that He would allow us the opportunity to rescue them as He expects of us. 

I don't know if this is like the spies that went into the promised land and only two of them believed that they could take it, while the ten spies said the giants were too big, so that by the time God's people came around to want to take it, it was too late, and they lost the opportunity for another generation. Or, if it is like Moses going before Pharoah multiple times until Pharoah finally let the people go. I do know that if God grants us yet another opportunity to put forward a petition to sign and put before the voters, we best not squander it! It will be the prayers of God's people if we will have an opportunity to give to the voters of Colorado a chance to change our law and put life into the Colorado Constitution in place of death. Because Colorado is as Isaiah 59 and Romans 1. We need the power and hand of God to move from the prayers of God's people to move the ruler's hearts.

This is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic. And this particular process through a people's initiative - not a state sanctioned one - is a democratic process. But the powers that be do not want to give up the practice of idolatry and sacrifice of God's children on the high places. And will not do so easily.

People keep asking when petitions will be out. We have to either pass the Colorado Supreme Court to be able to start printing. Or, we have to go back through the process. We are not in charge. The state is. But the state answers to God and you know Him and may plead with Him on our behalf, and most importantly, on behalf of the children whose lives hang in the balance.

At Planned Parenthood on Friday I saw a woman in a vehicle park where the LoveLife sidewalk counselors usually park so, thinking that it was one of them, I did not approach the car. When after some time another vehicle, with a male driver, pulled in behind the first vehicle they both pulled away from the curb & drove into the entrance to the clinic. I felt terrible that I had misjudged the situation and had not tried to talk to the woman. I hurried to the ladder on the sidewalk and spoke to her as best I could from across the parking lot. I began by asking her forgiveness for not trying to talk to her when she was parked outside and then pleaded with her not to allow herself to be used or manipulated by this man and not to do anything that she would end up regretting the rest of her life. I had some time because she did not get out of her car right away. They both went into the clinic but were not in there for more than 15 minutes and left before the abortionist or the pill dispenser woman had arrived. She stopped in the drive and allowed me to talk to her. I asked if she had received any pills to kill the baby and she said no that she did not do anything. She seemed sincere and took one of my tracts and information on fetal development. I am hopeful that she decided to spare the life of her baby. I am grateful that God continually uses me in spite of my inadequacies and failures. 

Our Pastor recently exhorted the church to stop just huddling up and actually run the plays. Referring to the lack of involvement in ministry outside the church. He said that if this were a football game then we would be getting delay of game penalties for being to long in the huddle. I would carry the analogy a step farther and say that the way things are going with contemporary Christianity we are racking up more negative yardage through delay of game penalties than our total offense (passing and rushing combined).
Nothing new under the sun. I am reading William Wilberforce's "A Practical View of Christianity", written in 1779 in which he has a lot to say about this benign Christianity. Today I refer to this as "Americanized, Study the Bible & have fun Christianity", which is void of persecution, suffering, substantial sacrifice and dying to self. A Christianity that thinks that picking up one's cross means to hang an ornament, on a chain, around your neck or from your rear view mirror. We've seen plenty of parents with these ornaments as they drive into Planned Parenthood to sacrifice their children. May God have mercy on us & grant us repentance.
  The liberals actively support and even encourage abortions and the pietist say "We don't drink and we don't chew and we don't go with the women who do". To which may be asked "What do you do". They are are content to convince themselves that they don't abort their children but the statistics say otherwise.  When asked of any religious affiliation, one third of the women going into Planned Parenthood to abort their babies claim to be "evangelical Christians". I suspect this is because they often don't use birth control and when they do get pregnant they go off and abort they baby rather than face the shame brought on them by their Christian peers. Their peers never know and they face the guilt of what they've done on their own. The silence of Christian churches in regard to this holocaust and the lack of voice that the Pastors give it's victims presents a picture of abortion as something less than the shedding of innocent blood, so the pregnant teen is persuaded that it can't really be murder.  Even in those churches that do mention abortion it is usually presented as some moral wrong on the level of coveting the car of one's neighbor, rather than the murder of one's most helpless neighbors. In relatively few churches are there exhortations to actively intervene on behalf of the victims of this holocaust. The problem is compounded because the women who abort their babies know what they've done and they can't talk about it to anyone. When a post abortive mother can come to Jesus and confess that she had her own baby murdered then she can experience the magnanimous forgiveness of Christ and will subsequently like Mary Magdalene "love much", Luke 7:47.   
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer worked to persuade Christians in Germany to identify with the victims of the Nazi holocaust. 
  William Wilberforce worked for 17 years to try to get Christians to identify with the slaves being shipped through Britain. 
  We must ACTIVELY work to persuade Christians to identify with the victims of this holocaust which has claimed the lives of approximately 100 million of our preborn neighbors. I am including the estimates from IVF where tiny humans are discarded when unwanted and those who are killed through chemicals at an early stage of development, based off of "Worldometer" numbers. This is a worldwide holocaust that claims the lives of approximately 17,000 human beings per hour. And God heard one man's blood crying from the ground for justice when Cain killed Able. 
  

Terri & I went to a place where preborn babies are killed all the way up until birth. I include this descriptor not because it is any more of an offence against God or any l more wrong than taking the life of any innocent human being at any stage of development but rather to help people to see how jaded and callous these moms are who can go into a place while they can feel their child kicking in their womb and have them killed. And how demonic this is that "Doctors" and other "medical Professionals" can also feel these babies kicking and thrashing in the wombs of their mothers. They have to put more physical effort into the murders that they commit. 
 As we sat outside this place and tried to appeal to anyone that may be going in to have their baby killed, two young men came by. We asked them if they were Mormons and they told us they were JW's and were going to see a Doctor about an ingrown toenail. 
  We told them that in that same building babies were being killed all the way up until birth. Their reply was that they needed to get into their appointment. There was absolutely no indication that they cared one bit about babies being killed in the same building where they were obtaining other services. It's like they just have a mission to fulfill in knocking on a certain number of doors each day and promoting their cult and don't want to be distracted by their preborn neighbors being murdered. It's bad enough that they have to take time out to deal with this dang ingrown toenail.   
  Thanks to all the lover's of Jesus Christ who care to include the victims of this current holocaust as neighbors whom they are to love as themselves. 

 In April at our outreach, a woman with her family stopped to thank us for our efforts. She approached Susan and Roberto to say that, about 3 years ago, she was going to Planned Parenthood to have her baby aborted but she changed her mind because of the people out front with signs. Her young daughter, the survivor, was there with the rest of the family and they all expressed their happiness over what God had done. 
  In May, Terri & I were at the abortion clinic in Lowry and a woman stopped to tell me that about 2 years ago she had had her baby aborted at the clinic there. She told me that it was the worst decision she had ever made. Through tears she told me that the people at the clinic told her that they would help her and she did not see help anywhere else. I told her of how God is a merciful God who can forgive any sin if we turn to Jesus and ask Him. While shedding more tears she said that she knows that because since then she has become a Christian. 
  One woman could shed tears of joy because Christians "showed up" in her (and even more so her child's) time of need. 
 One woman shed tears of regret because Christians didn't "show up" in her (and even more so her child's) hour of need. 
  The victims of this holocaust are just as much our neighbors as the Jewish people were in Nazi Germany; as the slaves in the US and throughout the world when it legal; as the guy that was dying in the ditch in Luke 10. 
   The preborn children being threatened with abortion are:
      Our neighbors whom we are called to love as ourselves Matt. 22:39
      Fatherless who we are called to defend PS. 82:3
      Orphans who we are called to "look after" James 1:27
      The dumb that we are called speak out for PS. 31:8
      The innocent being led off to slaughter who we are called to rescue Prov. 24:10-12