Comments on: Reaping what we sow–gendercide and abortion http://www.theworldtomorrow.ca/weeklycolumn/reaping-sowgendercide-abortion/ with Jeff Patton Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jeff http://www.theworldtomorrow.ca/weeklycolumn/reaping-sowgendercide-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Jeff Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:43 +0000 http://www.theworldtomorrow.ca/?p=95#comment-30 Dear JF, What can we do? First, we can take a personal stand against abortion but not having one or not influencing others to have one. We can support organizations that help women to keep their pregnancies and help give them the support some vulnerable women need to help raise their children. Perhaps, like during the Roman Empire, the Church can organize itself to launch a mission to take baby girls from these East Asian societies and raise them up in orphanages? During those first four centuries after the birth of Christ a good part of the Church's growth came from just such human "castaways." Obviously we could start small and build the contacts with the pertinent governments (who I bet would be supportive), and the appropriate administration, front line staff, and fundraisers--following the example of Nicolas Winton who saved hundreds of Jewish children refugees during the Nazi's progressive take-over of Czeckoslovakia in 1938-1939. Winton had the advantage of being wealthy in his own right. Dear JF,
What can we do? First, we can take a personal stand against abortion but not having one or not influencing others to have one. We can support organizations that help women to keep their pregnancies and help give them the support some vulnerable women need to help raise their children. Perhaps, like during the Roman Empire, the Church can organize itself to launch a mission to take baby girls from these East Asian societies and raise them up in orphanages? During those first four centuries after the birth of Christ a good part of the Church’s growth came from just such human “castaways.” Obviously we could start small and build the contacts with the pertinent governments (who I bet would be supportive), and the appropriate administration, front line staff, and fundraisers–following the example of Nicolas Winton who saved hundreds of Jewish children refugees during the Nazi’s progressive take-over of Czeckoslovakia in 1938-1939. Winton had the advantage of being wealthy in his own right.

]]> By: JF http://www.theworldtomorrow.ca/weeklycolumn/reaping-sowgendercide-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-29 JF Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:11:38 +0000 http://www.theworldtomorrow.ca/?p=95#comment-29 Hi Jeff The reasoning of your article is powerful & sobering. What is an individual to do? I can't change secular society from passing laws in favour of abortion. I can't stop polices in China to "limit births" (motivating them to abort female babies). But I *am* expecting to retire one day, and as you so accurately state our "selfish thinking" ... "Will we be able to keep our stuff and our society as a whole fixed, running, and safe till we die?" (After we die, it is the problem of another generation!) (Ezek 9:4 NKJV) and the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it." Can we be more proactive? or is our role just to point out the consequences of the "evil actions & decisions" & "sigh & cry" about it? JF Hi Jeff

The reasoning of your article is powerful & sobering.

What is an individual to do?

I can’t change secular society from passing laws in favour of abortion. I can’t stop polices in China to “limit births” (motivating them to abort female babies). But I *am* expecting to retire one day, and as you so accurately state our “selfish thinking” …

“Will we be able to keep our stuff and our society as a whole fixed, running, and safe till we die?”

(After we die, it is the problem of another generation!)

(Ezek 9:4 NKJV) and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Can we be more proactive? or is our role just to point out the consequences of the “evil actions & decisions” & “sigh & cry” about it?

JF

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