missed the point...

There was a news story out of Memphis this past week that broke my heart...and for many reasons.
The story was about a non-married couple who found themselves expecting a baby, they got into an argument over terminating the pregnancy (the woman wanted to kill her baby via abortion) and the guy didn't want that to happen. So, he snapped and ended up strangling a puppy...which is sad.

So now you have the summary, but what is so crazy to me is what everyone has seemed to focus on...
the fact that this violent man strangled a puppy and killed it. Don't get me wrong...that is awful and we know that people who practice cruelty to animals often take their anger out on humans too, so I am not dismissing what he did. In fact, I was in an office just this week when this story was on the television in the waiting room and someone sitting near me said, "Ugh, he killed a poor puppy!"

BUT, have we as a society grown so numb to this abortion issue...because I haven't heard one person show compassion or heart ache for the baby that the mom wanted to kill via abortion (and I'm sure that is still the plan). That's a living human being...and yet we feel more compassion and sympathy to a puppy. Really? Now human life is less important than that of a dog? In no way what-so-ever do I condone that man's actions...but no one has seemed to focus on what enraged this man. No one has thought about the fact that this man realized he had a baby of his own DNA in this female, and she (not him) wanted to terminate this pregnancy. This story alone proves how ugly abortion is...women make the call, and men have no say so in the matter. This man took his anger and hurt out in the wrong way no doubt...

It breaks my heart to see how numb we are to this issue...how the liberal media has spun this issue to say babies growing in their mothers' womb are just a blob of tissue...that's wrong in so many ways. That being said...we all know people who have been associated with abortions. The beautiful part is that if we ask for forgiveness, God forgives. There are ALOT of hurting men and women out there who have been involved in abortions...but any of these people can be forgiven by Christ if they belong to him and just ask. I appreciate the few people who have told me their stories over the years...we all have those people in our lives, whether we know it or not. Statistics prove that it affects more people than we would ever think possible.