From Lila Rose
I want to share a story I read at the
Boston Globe. It's from
the beginning of this year, but it will be relevant forever. It shows
the inherent good of humanity...but it also highlights the extreme
danger we face from a pro-abortion government.
In late 2012, Mary and Mark Gundrum, of Milwaukee, learned that their unborn baby boy had
an encephalocele
– "a rare disorder in which part of the brain was exposed, covered in
skin, outside the head." In other words, the baby's face hadn't fused
properly, leaving a huge gap separating the halves.
This is the sort of diagnosis that all too often results in abortion –
via pressure from doctors, family members, and even spouses. But the
Gundrums performed the ultimate act of love: they chose life for their
baby.
So
Dominic was born, and the encephalocele was severe. (You'll notice,
though, that every picture shows him smiling!) Mary and Mark immediately
sought out a skilled surgeon willing to help them, and they found him
at Boston Children's Hospital.
Surgery, of course, would be very expensive and time-consuming,
requiring a several-week stay over a thousand miles away. So Mary and
Mark did what they had to: with utmost humility, they asked for help.
They posted their petition online...and dozens of total strangers
flocked to their aid.
Several families offered to house the Gundrums in Boston. Many more sent
them food, groceries, and Christmas gifts, and still others offered
transportation. And above all these material offers stood thousands and
thousands of prayers for Dominic's well-being.
The surgery was a success, and a powerful impromptu support network made
what could have been a terrible ordeal as smooth and easy as possible
for these two parents and their precious baby boy.
So what does this have to do with ObamaCare? Well, just look at the chain of beautiful, proactive, loving events in this story.
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Mary and Mark defied a terrible diagnosis and showed supreme love for their baby by giving him life – even though he wasn't what some would call "perfect," or even "normal."
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The Gundrums needed help, and so they asked for it – personally, and with open hearts.
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Without being commanded or forced to, people opened their homes, cars, and wallets to help this precious child.
It's clear from Dominic's story that people
want to step up and
help others. They rally together and give of
love thy neighbor as thyself. They rally together and give of themselves for the sake of even total
strangers. In short, they take seriously the commandment to
love thy neighbor as thyself.
These good Samaritans knew Dominic for what he was – not a burden, but a gift beyond price.
On the other hand, look at what our government encourages. ObamaCare
subsidizes abortions – most plans even include a surcharge of
at least a dollar a month,
specifically
for abortion funding. In states like Connecticut and Rhode Island,
there isn't even a non-abortion-funding plan available on the exchanges,
even though ObamaCare originally promised otherwise. And even where
there are such plans, the law is written to make it very, very difficult
to discern which plans cover abortion and which don't.
And don't forget the notorious HHS Mandate, which forces employers to pay for abortifacient drugs for employees.
The brutal, unavoidable fact is that ObamaCare, and the pro-abortion government that spawned it,
make it easier to kill children like Dominic than to save them.
Our government spits on human life as an inconvenience, a burden.
ObamaCare shores up a lake of funds, taken by force or deception from
taxpayers of conscience like you and me, to bankroll the systematic
dismemberment and poisoning of our weakest children.
The very children who most need our help...destroyed. Murdered. And if
the Department of Health and Human Services can't deceive us into paying
for it, the IRS will force us to.
I hope you'll help me speak out against a government that incentivizes
the destruction of the voiceless. Help me demand that our elected
officials instead affirm life and strive to protect those who most need
that protection.
The more we make our voices heard, the better our chances of reading more stories like Dominic's.
