Abortion Month Prayers

This month I decided to something different, hence all the Facebook posts you will see. Since September is known as Abortion Month, I have been burdened to ask others to pray with us this month for abortions. Prayers will be for students, parents, mommas, dads, doctors, teachers, centers, post abortion syndrome and all.

 

 

When I did my thesis on the beginnings of Morning Light Home, I had come across this:
"A study using questionnaires through personal interviews was conducted on more than seventeen thousand women who at tended a family planning service in Taipei metropolitan areas between 1991 and 1992. The reproductive history and sexual behaviour of the subjects were especially focused on during the interviews. Preliminary findings showed that 46% of the women had a his tory of having had an induced abortion. Among them, 54.8% had had one abortion, 29.7% had had two, and 15.5% had had three or more. The abortion ratio was 379 induced abortions per 1,000 live births and 255 per 1,000 pregnancies. The abortion ratio was highest for women younger than 20 years of age, for aboriginal women and for nulliparous women."

And this:"Sex-selective abortions in Taiwan create a serious gender imbalance, which is second only to that of China. Between 2004 and 2010, the Taiwanese gender ratio at birth was between 108 and 112 boys for every 100 girls, compared to the worldwide average ratio of around 106 males to 100 females. The government estimated that there were around 3,000 ‘missing’ female babies each year.
 
It is estimated that there are more than 300,000 abortions annually in Taiwan, a country whose population is only 23 million. Like in China, India and Pakistan, sex-selective abortions are common because male children are traditionally valued more highly than females. The Taiwanese government now wants to make the practice impossible by preventing doctors from gender screening of foetuses."

Sad, so sad. This was said about Taiwan and post abortion issues: " In Taiwan, aborted children are considered “spirit babies” who will return to haunt their parents, disturbing their sleep with special cries, ruining business deals, souring love affairs, and prompting suicides unless prayers are offered for them in the temples." (The Standard. “The Spirit Babies: Fighting Ghosts of Aborted Infants,” July 6, 1990, p 18.)

As I write this, I think of a client we had. She didn't want to abort. Alexia spent lots of time on the phone, texting, talking and praying with her. This momma was 28years old, so not like a teenager in school (not that that is a reason to abort). Her family came down from the north to find her and take her to get an abortion. We counseled, tell the dr you do not want an abortion, no one can force you. She did, and she called us and they helped her escape out the side door to Alexia and Wuli who were waiting with a car. As they drove her around talking to this angry and scared young woman, MLH staff received a phone call. The gov't social worker called and said MLH had to give the woman up to another organization. Her family it turns out called someone they knew in the gov't and made up something against us. We could only do what we were told, and the momma agreed to as she didn't want to cause problems for us she said. Later, Alexia recieved an instant message from the momma saying she had the abortion, regrets it so much, but she had no choice.

NO CHOICE! that is why we are here people..............the DO HAVE A CHOICE!!! goodness, she is 28 years old, SHE HAS A CHOICE!! Her family made her have an abortion, but what is she doing now? can she sleep? can she eat? is she suicidal? depressed? introvert? lonely? what is she going thru?

PRAY! Pray with us that we can reach more like this. We are looking to do a billboard, but we have to see what is in our budget and if we can. Please pray we can!!

Pray for abortion month in Taiwan