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 All right, so now that the children are dismissed,

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 for the rest of us adults, we are talking today about...

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 The A word, it's nasty.

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 When you're talking about a...

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 Whatever you do, don't straight up say what it is.

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 Seriously, there are so many words and phrases

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 you can choose to avoid being offensive.

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 Why say a...

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 When you can say...

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 Empowerment.

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 Empowerment.

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 Words like coercion, killing, regret are not helpful.

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 Just saying.

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 Stick to more uplifting terms, such as...

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 Self-care, health-care, repro-right, or my favorite...

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 Choice.

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 Brilliant, really.

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 So simple and yet so void of anything truthful.

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 Love it.

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 A...

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 Don't call it what it really is, because that's just too much.

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 Nobody wants to think about that.

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 Come on.

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 I like this hat.

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 It's a difficult subject, and it's one that we don't like to think about or talk about.

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 But as I said to the youth on Friday evening, this is one of the most important social justice issues of our day.

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 Let's get some perspective.

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 How many COVID deaths have there been in Canada in the past two years?

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 If the numbers are accurate, about 40,000 people died, and COVID was considered a factor.

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 That's over the past two years.

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 That's over the past two years.

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 That averages out to about 20,000 people per year.

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 But abortion claims the lives of over 100,000 children every year here in Canada.

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 Five times as many.

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 As a culture and as a country, we bent over backwards to fight COVID and save lives.

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 We put all kinds of restrictions on people.

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 We mandated that they make certain health choices or else suffer the loss of certain rights and freedoms, all to save lives.

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 But for the 100,000-plus children each year that are being aborted in their mother's wombs, we say,

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 Oh, it's not appropriate to make laws in this area.

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 It's the woman's personal health care choice.

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 Let her do what she wants to do.

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 And we'll provide the funding and the freedom for her to do it.

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 This particular issue has come alive in recent weeks,

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 ever since this U.S. Supreme Court leaked draft suggesting that Roe v. Wade could be overturned in the United States.

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 Now, we don't know what the final results will be of all that,

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 but it certainly has shown us that we are in the midst of a battle over this practice in our two nations today.

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 And for that, I'm grateful.

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 Because as Christians, I fear that many of us have simply given up the fight on abortion.

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 We've stopped talking about it until now, some of us.

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 Or, if we still do talk about it, sometimes it's only to lament what's going on.

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 But what are we doing about this terrible injustice still going on in our nation, even in our province today?

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 And so I have a few goals with our time this morning.

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 First, I want to help you look on the reality of abortion and what's happening in our nation today.

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 Because I believe that we will continue to be silent.

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 We will continue to sit on the sidelines of this fight and watch things get worse

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 until our hearts are gripped by the horror of what's happening.

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 And we can stand to be silent and uninvolved no more.

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 Second, I want to point us to the cross of Christ

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 and the matchless grace and mercy of Jesus

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 and what it means for this issue.

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 Third, I want to give you encouragement about why it's still worth fighting for

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 this seemingly lost cause.

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 And finally, I want to call you to action

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 and give you practical things you can do to join in the fight.

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 So first, I want to help you look on the reality of abortion and what's happening in our nation today.

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 We will begin by listening to the testimony of a former abortion doctor in court,

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 Dr. Anthony Levitino.

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 During the course of his career, he performed over 1,200 abortions.

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 Listen to what he has to say.

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 This investigation of Planned Parenthood is based on false premises,

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 one after another after another.

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 It's time to stop wasting time, get on it with meaningful work,

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 and stop picking on women and trying to take their choice away.

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 I yield back to the balance of my time.

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 The time of the gentleman has expired.

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 We welcome our distinguished witnesses today.

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 Do you and each of you swear that the testimony that you are about to give

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 shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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 So help you God.

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 And I'll now begin by introducing today's witnesses.

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 The first witness is Dr. Anthony Levitino.

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 Dr. Levitino is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist.

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 Over the course of his career, Dr. Levitino has practiced obstetrics and gynecology

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 in both private and university settings,

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 including as an associate professor of OBGYN at the Albany Medical College.

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 And Dr. Levitino, we'll begin with you.

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 Welcome.

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 Thank you, Chairman and members of the committee.

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 I only have five minutes, so I'm going to get right to it.

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 Second trimester D&E abortions perform between roughly 14 and 24 weeks of gestation.

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 Your patient today is 17 years old.

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 She's 22 weeks pregnant.

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 Her baby is the length of your hand plus a couple of inches.

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 And she's been feeling her baby kick for the last several weeks.

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 But she's asleep on an operating room table.

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 You walk into that operating room scrubbed and gowned,

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 and after removing laminaria, you introduce a suction catheter into the uterus.

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 This is a 14-French suction catheter.

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 If she were 12 weeks pregnant or less, basically the width of your hand or smaller,

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 you could basically do the entire procedure with this.

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 But babies this big don't fit through catheters this size.

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 After suctioning the amniotic fluid out from around the baby,

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 you introduce an instrument called a sofa clamp.

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 It's about 13 inches long.

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 It's made of stainless steel.

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 The business end of this clamp is about 2 1⁄2 inches long and 1 1⁄2 inch wide.

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 There are rows of sharp teeth.

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 This is a grasping instrument.

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 When it gets a hold of something, it does not let go.

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 A DNA procedure is a blind abortion,

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 so picture yourself introducing this and grabbing anything you can blindly

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 and pull, and I do mean hard,

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 and out pops a leg about that big which you put down on the table next to you.

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 Reach in again, pull again,

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 and pull out an arm about the same length which you put down on the table next to you.

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 And use this instrument again and again to tear out the spine,

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 the intestines, the heart and lungs.

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 Head in the baby that size is about the size of a large plum.

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 Can't see it, but you've got a pretty good idea you've got it

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 if you've got your instrument around something

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 and your fingers are spread about as far as they go.

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 You know you did it right if you crush down on the instrument

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 and white material runs out of the cervix.

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 That was the baby's brains.

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 Then you can pull out skull pieces.

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 And you have a day like I had a lot of times.

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 Sometimes a little face comes back and stares back at you.

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 Congratulations.

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 You just successfully performed a second trimester DNA abortion.

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 You just affirmed her right to choose.

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 One more question, Dr. Levatino.

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 Why did you end your practice of doing abortions?

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 I did over 1,200 abortions over a four-year period in private practice,

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 not counting the ones that I did during my training.

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 I met my wife during my first year of training at Albany Medical Center.

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 We got married about a year later and found that we had an infertility problem.

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 After years of failed infertility treatment and several years trying to adopt a child,

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 we were blessed with adopting a little girl that we named Heather in August of 1978.

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 As sometimes happens in those situations, my wife got pregnant the very next month,

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 and we had two children ten months apart.

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 Two months short of my daughter Heather's sixth birthday, she was killed in an auto accident

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 and literally died in her arms in the back of an ambulance.

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 Anyone who has children might think they have some idea of what that feels like,

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 but unless you've been through it yourself, you have no idea whatsoever.

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 I know people find it hard to believe, but what do you do after a disaster?

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 You bury your child and then you go back to your life.

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 And I don't remember exactly how long it was after my daughter died

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 that I showed up at Albany Medical Center OR number nine

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 to perform my first second trimester D&E abortion.

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 I wasn't thinking of it as anything special.

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 This was routine to me.

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 But I reached in, literally pulled out an arm or leg and got sick.

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 Earlier on, I described stacking up body parts on the side of the table.

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 It's not to gross people out, to use a simple term.

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 When you do an abortion, you need to keep inventory.

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 You have to make sure you get two arms and two legs and all the pieces.

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 If you don't, your patient's going to come back infected, bleeding, or dead.

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 So I soldiered on and finished that abortion.

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 And I know it sounds, as I said, hard for people to believe,

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 but I'm telling you straight up my experience.

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 You know, after over 1,200 abortions, first and second trimester up to 24 weeks,

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 and all the rest of it, and being very dedicated to it,

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 for the first time in my life, I really looked.

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 I really looked at that pile of body parts on the side of the table.

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 And I didn't see her wonderful right to choose,

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 and I didn't see all the money I just made.

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 All I could see was somebody's son or daughter.

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 And I stopped doing late-term abortions after that,

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 and several months later stopped doing all abortions.

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 Thank you.

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 I find it heart-wrenching to listen to that description of a second trimester abortion,

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 and I hope you do too.

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 That's being done in Canada today.

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 Now, some will point out here that the vast majority of abortions are medical abortions

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 or chemical abortions using drugs, and happen well before 20 weeks.

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 The truth is, it's actually quite difficult to get accurate numbers in Canada today,

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 because only hospitals are required to report abortions in Canada.

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 For clinics, it's completely voluntary whether they report or not.

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 Even the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada admits that the numbers during the past several years of COVID

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 were probably underreported for a variety of reasons.

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 And then, of course, each province has their own unique system and regulations.

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 So take, for example, the data from 2020.

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 This data comes from the Canadian Institute for Health Information,

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 and it's freely available online to anybody.

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 And this is just those reported by hospitals,

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 which make up not very many of that approximately 100,000.

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 There were 14,815 abortions reported by hospitals in Canada, excluding Quebec.

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 And as you can see from the first two numbers there,

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 we know for sure that about 59% of them were first trimester abortions.

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 If you look at the next couple numbers,

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 we know for sure that about 18% were either second or third trimester abortions.

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 And then there are 23% which are unknown.

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 Even if none of those 23% were second or third trimester abortions,

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 18% still means that in Canadian hospitals,

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 2,666 children were torn limb from limb in 2020,

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 using the technique described by Dr. Levatino.

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 Now let's remember, that number,

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 it doesn't include the abortion clinics,

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 which operate in all but four Canadian provinces and territories now.

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 And the clinics account for the vast majority of abortions in Canada today,

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 which means that there are thousands of babies

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 being destroyed in Canada every year

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 in the manner described by Dr. Levatino.

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 Thousands of babies for whom just six months or less,

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 and they could have had life outside the womb,

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 grown up, enjoyed the same things that we all do,

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 these were people,

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 little people who were ripped apart.

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 Now one of the common pushbacks here suggests

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 that first trimester abortions are okay

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 because it's not yet a human being in the womb.

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 Well let me ask you,

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 if it's not a human being,

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 what is it?

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 And when does it become a human being?

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 Almost everybody agrees that it's a human being after it's born.

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 What about five minutes before it's born?

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 It's the same baby five minutes before it's born

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 as it is five minutes after it's born.

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 The only difference is location.

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 Does our location make us more or less human?

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 Surely not.

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 Well no, it's not location,

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 it's level of development,

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 people will say.

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 It hasn't developed into a human being yet.

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 Okay?

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 So at what point does it become fully human

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 then in the pregnancy,

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 in the womb?

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 Here's a picture of Lila Stenzrud.

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 In this picture she is four years old,

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 eating a Timbit.

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 Here's another picture of her with her mom at a party.

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 She was born in 2014,

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 and this is a picture of her four years earlier.

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 She was born in 2014 at just 21 weeks

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 and four days.

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 That's basically the halfway point of the pregnancy.

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 You can find her story all over the internet,

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 it's even on major news sources,

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 CNN.

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 Look at this photo.

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 Is she a human being?

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 Is she less of a human being here

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 than she is here?

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 She looks admittedly,

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 maybe,

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 to us,

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 less human in this picture.

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 I mean,

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 we could look at skin color,

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 we could look at

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 the eyes,

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 the kind of the shape of the head

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 and kind of

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 different things going on

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 with the proportions of her limbs.

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 But at some point we need to ask the question,

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 what makes a human being

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 a human being?

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 Is it how we look?

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 Is it our shape?

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 Is it the proportion of our arms and legs?

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 Is it whether we have two arms and two legs?

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 Maybe,

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 I'm not sure,

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 some of you have heard of Nick,

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 I can't say his last name,

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 Wawoychuk or Wawoychuk.

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 I was born in Melbourne, Australia, 1982

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 and my parents had no idea

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 that I was going to be born

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 without arms or legs.

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 I was the only one that I ever saw

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 without limbs.

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 My faith in Jesus Christ

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 was sealed after seven years

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 of wondering why, God,

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 I was born this way.

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 He answered me very clearly

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 through John chapter 9

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 and I gave my life to Jesus

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 at 15 after reading about

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 how he came across a man

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 who was born blind.

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 And I'm like,

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 hey, hold on a second,

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 this looks interesting.

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 And no one knew

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 why he was born that way.

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 I'm like,

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 perfect.

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 So I read on

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 and in verse 3

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 of the ninth chapter,

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 Jesus said,

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 it was done so that

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 the works of God

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 would be revealed through him.

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 And I'm like,

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 wow, God,

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 if you had a plan

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 for the blind man,

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 you do have a plan for me.

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 And that was the beginning

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 of my personal relationship

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 with Jesus.

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 Jesus said,

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 no arms,

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 no legs,

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 and yet he's happily married,

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 has two children,

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 and he has learned

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 to do all kinds

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 of amazing things,

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 including swimming

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 and preaching the gospel

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 all over the world.

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 Being human

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 is about more

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 than just our shape.

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 It's about more

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 than our appearance.

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 Lila wasn't any less human

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 back in 2014.

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 when she was born

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 than you or I were

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 at that stage

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 in the womb.

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 Different things develop

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 at different stages.

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 It's not us becoming

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 more human as we go.

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 Think about this.

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 Is a toddler

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 any less human

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 than an adult?

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 Of course not.

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 It's just a different

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 stage of development

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 in the normal progression

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 of a human being.

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 And so the question

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 it really drives us to

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 is not,

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 when do we become human?

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 But at what point

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 does human life

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 begin in the womb?

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 Let's listen to

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 what Tara Sander Lee,

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 a molecular geneticist,

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 has to say

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 about when life begins.

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 Do we really know

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 when life begins?

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 Some people think

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 that it is a complete mystery

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 and therefore abortion

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 should be allowed.

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 They reason that a fetus

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 is not a person

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 or is somehow

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 not a real human being

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 or is just a potential life

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 while in the mother's womb.

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 But there are two problems

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 with this kind of reasoning.

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 First,

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 even if it were true

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 that we did not know

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 when life had begun

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 in the womb,

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 that would be an argument

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 against abortion.

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 Imagine you go hunting

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 with a friend

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 and the two of you

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 become separated.

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 You see some rustling

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 in the bushes ahead

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 but you don't know

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 if it's a deer

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 or your friend.

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 Would you shoot?

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 That would be criminally

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 reckless if you did

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 because there's a chance

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 that behind that bush

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 is a human life.

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 In the same way,

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 if there is a possibility

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 that there is a human life

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 in the womb,

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 it would be reckless

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 to kill that life.

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 But that's where we find

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 the second flaw

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 in this reasoning.

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 It's not merely possible

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 that a human life

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 has begun in the womb.

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 It is a scientific certainty

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 that life begins

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 at fertilization.

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 At the moment a sperm

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 fuses with an egg

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 known as fertilization

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 or conception,

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 a new unique human being

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 that is genetically distinct

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 from both parents

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 comes into existence.

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 Gender, ethnicity,

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 hair color, eye color

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 and countless other traits

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 are determined

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 at that moment.

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 This genetic blueprint

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 remains the same

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 for his or her entire life.

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 After conception,

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 a developing baby grows

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 at an extremely rapid pace,

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 especially within

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 the first trimester.

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 The baby's heart begins

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 to beat in the sixth week

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 of pregnancy,

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 which is only a little

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 over three weeks

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 from the moment of conception.

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 A new study found

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 that the first heartbeat

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 may occur even sooner,

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 as early as the fifth week,

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 which is about the same time

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 a mother discovers

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 she is pregnant.

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 The baby's lungs

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 and digestive system

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 are also forming.

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 At eight weeks,

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 human brain activity

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 can be recorded.

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 In fact,

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 the human brain

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 will continue to develop

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 and mature even after birth

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 and well into the person's 20s.

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 At 12 weeks,

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 the tiny child can swallow,

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 scrunch hands into little fists,

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 touch his or her face

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 and scratch his or her head.

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 The baby's fingers and toes

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 are also complete with nails.

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 Fingerprints are developing

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 by 14 weeks.

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 At 18 weeks,

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 the baby's ears can even hear music

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 and recognize their mother's voice.

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 Between 18 and 30 weeks,

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 doctors can treat pre-born babies

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 while still inside the womb

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 with life-saving therapies

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 and repair significant defects

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 for certain diseases.

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 And at 22 weeks,

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 or even sooner,

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 it is possible for babies to be born

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 and survive outside the womb.

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 It is also a fact

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 that pre-born children

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 exhibit behaviors

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 that we do on a daily basis.

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 They smile,

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 feel pain,

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 cough,

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 yawn,

00:21:20.199 --> 00:21:20.599
 hiccup,

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 respond to sound and light,

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 sleep,

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 and possibly even dream.

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 Some researchers have even shown

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 that babies may cry

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 while in the womb.

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 So referring to the pre-born child

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 as a zygote,

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 blastocyst,

00:21:33.439 --> 00:21:33.879
 embryo,

00:21:33.919 --> 00:21:34.439
 or fetus

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 at different stages of development

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 does nothing to lessen

00:21:37.379 --> 00:21:38.379
 his or her humanity.

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 Those are just ways

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 of referring to age.

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 No different from the terms

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 infant,

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 toddler,

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 adolescent,

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 or adult.

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 It is also false

00:21:47.260 --> 00:21:48.120
 for some to call

00:21:48.120 --> 00:21:49.080
 the pre-born child

00:21:49.080 --> 00:21:49.720
 a parasite

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 or consider him or her

00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:52.160
 as nothing more

00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:53.720
 than a blob-like sea cucumber.

00:21:54.280 --> 00:21:54.600
 First,

00:21:54.820 --> 00:21:55.880
 parasites are different

00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:56.440
 in species

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 from their host.

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 And if a fetus

00:21:58.340 --> 00:21:59.040
 were a parasite,

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 then the mother's immune system

00:22:00.760 --> 00:22:01.620
 would attack it.

00:22:02.520 --> 00:22:02.920
 Instead,

00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:04.120
 the mother's body

00:22:04.120 --> 00:22:05.620
 undergoes dramatic changes

00:22:05.620 --> 00:22:07.080
 to specifically provide

00:22:07.080 --> 00:22:08.380
 nourishment and nutrients

00:22:08.380 --> 00:22:09.160
 to her child.

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 even pro-choice atheist philosopher

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:14.000
 Peter Singer admits that

00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.400
 there is no doubt

00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:16.660
 that from the first moments

00:22:16.660 --> 00:22:17.500
 of its existence,

00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.860
 an embryo conceived

00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:20.380
 from human sperm and egg

00:22:20.380 --> 00:22:21.640
 is a human being.

00:22:22.060 --> 00:22:23.019
 And there are thousands

00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:23.920
 of biology

00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:25.620
 and embryology textbooks,

00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:27.400
 modern DNA studies,

00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:28.700
 medical dictionaries,

00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:29.779
 science professors,

00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.940
 and medical researchers

00:22:30.940 --> 00:22:32.000
 that all confirm

00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:33.320
 that life begins

00:22:33.320 --> 00:22:34.380
 at fertilization.

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 And every mother,

00:22:36.100 --> 00:22:36.600
 like me,

00:22:36.740 --> 00:22:38.140
 that has experienced pregnancy

00:22:38.140 --> 00:22:39.720
 knows that with every kick

00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:41.020
 and movement the baby makes,

00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:41.840
 life is blooming

00:22:41.840 --> 00:22:43.400
 for the child growing inside.

00:22:44.360 --> 00:22:45.880
 So when does life begin?

00:22:46.620 --> 00:22:48.180
 It is a scientific certainty

00:22:48.180 --> 00:22:49.620
 that human life begins

00:22:49.620 --> 00:22:50.800
 at the moment of conception.

00:22:51.600 --> 00:22:51.840
 Therefore,

00:22:52.080 --> 00:22:52.920
 every abortion

00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:54.660
 kills an innocent human being.

00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:55.860
 To suggest otherwise

00:22:55.860 --> 00:22:56.980
 is to ignore

00:22:56.980 --> 00:22:58.100
 the scientific facts

00:22:58.100 --> 00:22:59.740
 and miss the miracle of life.

00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:06.160
 So whether it's the abortion pill

00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:07.280
 in the first trimester

00:23:07.280 --> 00:23:09.160
 or surgical abortion

00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:10.660
 in the second or third trimester,

00:23:10.800 --> 00:23:11.620
 it's all the same.

00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:13.600
 Abortion takes the life

00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:14.740
 of an innocent human being

00:23:14.740 --> 00:23:15.220
 in the womb.

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 And this is happening

00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:18.320
 in Canada today

00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:20.540
 to over 100,000 children

00:23:20.540 --> 00:23:21.220
 every year.

00:23:23.340 --> 00:23:24.780
 Let's go now to the cross.

00:23:26.560 --> 00:23:28.480
 Maybe you or somebody

00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:29.300
 that you know

00:23:29.300 --> 00:23:30.320
 has had an abortion.

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 There is mercy

00:23:32.899 --> 00:23:34.419
 and grace

00:23:34.419 --> 00:23:36.039
 and more.

00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:36.939
 There is cleansing

00:23:36.939 --> 00:23:38.679
 and healing from sins

00:23:38.679 --> 00:23:41.240
 for those who have committed them,

00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:42.359
 all of us,

00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:43.539
 at the cross.

00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:46.779
 God sent his son Jesus

00:23:46.779 --> 00:23:47.779
 into the world

00:23:47.779 --> 00:23:49.299
 to die on the cross

00:23:49.299 --> 00:23:50.679
 and atone

00:23:50.679 --> 00:23:52.240
 for our sins,

00:23:52.559 --> 00:23:53.419
 including the sin

00:23:53.419 --> 00:23:54.339
 of taking the life

00:23:54.339 --> 00:23:54.960
 of a child

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 in the womb.

00:23:58.039 --> 00:23:59.000
 There's a proverb

00:23:59.000 --> 00:23:59.579
 of Solomon

00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:00.859
 that catches my attention

00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:03.399
 every time I read it.

00:24:03.659 --> 00:24:05.220
 Proverbs 28, verse 17.

00:24:06.879 --> 00:24:07.919
 Anyone tormented

00:24:07.919 --> 00:24:09.039
 by the guilt of murder

00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:10.039
 will seek refuge

00:24:10.039 --> 00:24:10.720
 in the grave.

00:24:11.699 --> 00:24:13.099
 Let no one hold them back.

00:24:14.919 --> 00:24:16.199
 There are lots of sins

00:24:16.199 --> 00:24:17.179
 that we have no trouble

00:24:17.179 --> 00:24:18.240
 with accepting

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.059
 that Jesus' death

00:24:19.059 --> 00:24:19.759
 paid for it

00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:21.359
 and I'm forgiven.

00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:23.720
 But this particular sin

00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:24.899
 has been known

00:24:24.899 --> 00:24:25.759
 to haunt people

00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:27.259
 who have committed it

00:24:27.259 --> 00:24:28.439
 for the rest of their lives.

00:24:29.579 --> 00:24:30.339
 So much so

00:24:30.339 --> 00:24:32.159
 that before Christ came

00:24:32.159 --> 00:24:33.339
 there seemed in many ways

00:24:33.339 --> 00:24:34.359
 only one way

00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:35.679
 to escape that guilt.

00:24:37.159 --> 00:24:38.019
 But now,

00:24:38.740 --> 00:24:39.439
 the good news

00:24:39.439 --> 00:24:40.220
 is that someone

00:24:40.220 --> 00:24:41.919
 greater than Solomon

00:24:41.919 --> 00:24:42.559
 has come

00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:44.099
 and there is a refuge

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:45.899
 for those tormented

00:24:45.899 --> 00:24:47.279
 by the guilt of murder.

00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:50.220
 The perfect Lamb of God,

00:24:50.919 --> 00:24:52.659
 the one who sacrificed himself

00:24:52.659 --> 00:24:53.480
 to take away

00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:54.439
 the sins of the world,

00:24:55.179 --> 00:24:55.919
 Jesus Christ.

00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:56.000
 Christ.

00:24:57.120 --> 00:24:58.320
 In the words of Isaiah

00:24:58.320 --> 00:24:58.840
 the prophet,

00:24:59.080 --> 00:25:00.019
 we all like sheep

00:25:00.019 --> 00:25:00.940
 have gone astray.

00:25:02.340 --> 00:25:03.060
 Each of us

00:25:03.060 --> 00:25:04.220
 has turned to our own way.

00:25:04.840 --> 00:25:06.279
 We've all blown it.

00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:07.500
 We've all done bad things.

00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:08.600
 We've all done evil.

00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:11.100
 And the Lord,

00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:11.980
 God,

00:25:12.620 --> 00:25:14.259
 has laid on him

00:25:14.259 --> 00:25:15.740
 the iniquity

00:25:15.740 --> 00:25:16.539
 of us all.

00:25:18.100 --> 00:25:19.400
 He was pierced

00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:20.920
 for our transgressions.

00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.400
 He was crushed

00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:24.900
 for our iniquities.

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:26.980
 The punishment

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:28.700
 that brought us peace

00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:29.980
 was upon him.

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 And by his wounds,

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 we are healed.

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 This is just one passage

00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:38.820
 of many

00:25:38.820 --> 00:25:39.560
 which describes

00:25:39.560 --> 00:25:40.980
 what the sacrificial death

00:25:40.980 --> 00:25:41.660
 of Jesus

00:25:41.660 --> 00:25:42.380
 has done

00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:43.259
 for sinners

00:25:43.259 --> 00:25:44.720
 of all different stripes.

00:25:45.779 --> 00:25:47.300
 It has brought healing.

00:25:48.100 --> 00:25:49.360
 It has brought the cure.

00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:50.439
 It has brought the remedy

00:25:50.439 --> 00:25:52.000
 for our guilt.

00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:54.359
 Forgiveness,

00:25:55.439 --> 00:25:56.019
 atonement,

00:25:57.439 --> 00:25:57.799
 cleansing.

00:25:58.979 --> 00:25:59.719
 And so if you

00:25:59.719 --> 00:26:00.699
 or someone you know

00:26:00.699 --> 00:26:01.599
 has had an abortion,

00:26:02.219 --> 00:26:03.479
 God's grace

00:26:03.479 --> 00:26:04.479
 and mercy

00:26:04.479 --> 00:26:06.500
 through Jesus

00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:07.619
 at the cross

00:26:07.619 --> 00:26:08.819
 is greater.

00:26:11.139 --> 00:26:12.519
 The Bible tells us

00:26:12.519 --> 00:26:13.859
 that if we confess our sins,

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:14.899
 he is faithful

00:26:14.899 --> 00:26:16.240
 to forgive us

00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:17.259
 of our sins

00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:18.419
 and to cleanse us

00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:19.960
 from all unrighteousness,

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:22.240
 you can be free

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:23.820
 of that guilt forever.

00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:26.340
 But there's more

00:26:26.340 --> 00:26:27.140
 that we find here

00:26:27.140 --> 00:26:27.800
 at the cross.

00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:29.600
 Not just forgiveness

00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:30.220
 for people

00:26:30.220 --> 00:26:31.360
 who have had an abortion

00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:34.620
 or performed an abortion,

00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:36.500
 but forgiveness

00:26:36.500 --> 00:26:37.539
 for all of us

00:26:37.539 --> 00:26:39.860
 who have sat idly by

00:26:39.860 --> 00:26:41.140
 and done nothing

00:26:41.140 --> 00:26:41.920
 to stand up

00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:42.519
 for the lives

00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:43.240
 of the pre-born

00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:43.740
 in the womb.

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:46.819
 I don't need

00:26:46.819 --> 00:26:47.440
 to convince you

00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:47.960
 this morning

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.599
 that abortion

00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:50.019
 is evil,

00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:51.680
 that it's wrong.

00:26:52.620 --> 00:26:53.880
 Every single one of us

00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:54.440
 after hearing

00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:54.940
 what's done

00:26:54.940 --> 00:26:56.059
 in a surgical abortion

00:26:56.059 --> 00:26:57.059
 and seeing

00:26:57.059 --> 00:26:58.079
 what it really is

00:26:58.079 --> 00:26:58.740
 in the womb

00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.579
 even before

00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.660
 the second trimester,

00:27:00.819 --> 00:27:02.200
 we know deep down inside

00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:03.819
 that it's wrong,

00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:05.620
 that it's evil,

00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:06.279
 that it's something

00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:07.180
 that God hates,

00:27:07.339 --> 00:27:08.039
 that it breaks

00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:08.599
 his heart

00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:10.120
 to see that happen.

00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.299
 The problem is

00:27:13.299 --> 00:27:13.779
 that we

00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:15.759
 all too often

00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:17.039
 don't feel that way,

00:27:17.879 --> 00:27:19.219
 the way that God does

00:27:19.219 --> 00:27:20.359
 about abortion.

00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:22.719
 We care more about

00:27:22.719 --> 00:27:23.439
 what other people

00:27:23.439 --> 00:27:25.219
 think about us

00:27:25.219 --> 00:27:26.959
 than those children

00:27:26.959 --> 00:27:28.399
 being slaughtered

00:27:28.399 --> 00:27:28.859
 in the womb.

00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:31.159
 And so we won't fly

00:27:31.159 --> 00:27:32.239
 the pro-life flag.

00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:34.019
 We won't go march

00:27:34.019 --> 00:27:35.199
 in the pro-life rallies.

00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:37.279
 We've got more

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:38.259
 important things

00:27:38.259 --> 00:27:38.859
 to do.

00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.719
 But let me ask you this.

00:27:41.819 --> 00:27:42.459
 Is there any

00:27:42.459 --> 00:27:44.000
 more important action

00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:44.979
 for us as Christians

00:27:44.979 --> 00:27:46.439
 today in our society

00:27:46.439 --> 00:27:47.719
 than action

00:27:47.719 --> 00:27:49.019
 against this vile

00:27:49.019 --> 00:27:50.339
 and barbaric thing

00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:52.019
 happening in Canada today?

00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:55.099
 Listen to these words.

00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.599
 James chapter 1

00:27:58.599 --> 00:27:59.459
 verse 27.

00:28:00.659 --> 00:28:01.879
 Religion that God

00:28:01.879 --> 00:28:03.000
 our Father accepts

00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:03.739
 is pure

00:28:03.739 --> 00:28:05.319
 and faultless

00:28:05.319 --> 00:28:05.919
 is this.

00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:07.899
 To look after

00:28:07.899 --> 00:28:08.519
 orphans

00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:10.079
 and widows

00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:11.579
 in their distress

00:28:11.579 --> 00:28:12.899
 and to keep

00:28:12.899 --> 00:28:13.740
 oneself from being

00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:14.179
 polluted

00:28:14.179 --> 00:28:15.819
 by the world.

00:28:16.859 --> 00:28:17.399
 What is

00:28:17.399 --> 00:28:18.960
 James' point here?

00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:19.779
 He's saying a few

00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:20.539
 different things

00:28:20.539 --> 00:28:21.699
 but one of those things

00:28:21.699 --> 00:28:22.759
 he's making the point

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:23.740
 that real faith

00:28:23.740 --> 00:28:24.339
 in God

00:28:24.339 --> 00:28:25.599
 takes action.

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:27.699
 It sees the need

00:28:27.699 --> 00:28:28.299
 of the needy

00:28:28.299 --> 00:28:28.899
 and it doesn't just

00:28:28.899 --> 00:28:30.079
 sit there on the sidelines

00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:30.779
 and watch.

00:28:31.419 --> 00:28:32.480
 It gets involved

00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.059
 in meeting that need.

00:28:35.199 --> 00:28:36.480
 James returns to this again

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:37.220
 in chapter 2

00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:37.919
 verse 14.

00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.380
 He says,

00:28:39.380 --> 00:28:39.900
 What good is it

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:40.840
 my brothers and sisters

00:28:40.840 --> 00:28:41.759
 if someone claims

00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:42.660
 to have faith

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:44.360
 but has no deeds?

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:45.960
 Can such faith

00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:46.539
 save them?

00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:48.620
 Suppose a brother

00:28:48.620 --> 00:28:49.180
 or sister

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:50.880
 is without clothes

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.860
 and daily food.

00:28:52.860 --> 00:28:53.620
 If one of you

00:28:53.620 --> 00:28:54.279
 says to them

00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:55.800
 go in peace

00:28:55.800 --> 00:28:57.320
 keep warm

00:28:57.320 --> 00:28:58.000
 and well fed

00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.120
 but does nothing

00:28:59.120 --> 00:29:00.800
 about their physical needs

00:29:00.800 --> 00:29:01.960
 what good is it?

00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:04.460
 in the same way

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:05.500
 faith

00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.980
 by itself

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.640
 if it is not

00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:08.860
 accompanied by action

00:29:08.860 --> 00:29:10.420
 is dead.

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:12.100
 Real

00:29:12.100 --> 00:29:13.160
 living faith

00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:13.700
 in God

00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:15.039
 in Jesus

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:16.279
 takes action.

00:29:16.420 --> 00:29:16.920
 It not only

00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:18.059
 notices the need

00:29:18.059 --> 00:29:18.819
 of the poor

00:29:18.819 --> 00:29:19.860
 and the vulnerable

00:29:19.860 --> 00:29:20.980
 but it takes action

00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:22.220
 to meet those needs.

00:29:23.680 --> 00:29:24.660
 We are called

00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:25.120
 by God

00:29:25.120 --> 00:29:25.960
 every one of us

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:27.519
 to love our neighbor.

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:29.920
 What did the Apostle John

00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:30.700
 say about that

00:29:30.700 --> 00:29:31.720
 in his letter?

00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:33.279
 1 John 3

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.119
 verse 18

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:34.519
 He said,

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:35.299
 Dear children

00:29:35.299 --> 00:29:36.259
 let us not love

00:29:36.259 --> 00:29:37.079
 with words

00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:38.940
 or speech

00:29:38.940 --> 00:29:40.299
 but with actions

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:42.460
 and in truth.

00:29:45.339 --> 00:29:46.519
 We could consider

00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:47.480
 the words of Solomon

00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:48.900
 in Proverbs 24

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:50.039
 verse 11.

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:52.440
 Rescue

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:53.200
 those being

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:53.659
 led away

00:29:53.659 --> 00:29:54.259
 to death.

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.119
 Hold back

00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:56.899
 those staggering

00:29:56.899 --> 00:29:57.740
 towards slaughter.

00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:58.359
 If you say

00:29:58.359 --> 00:29:59.220
 but we knew

00:29:59.220 --> 00:30:00.279
 nothing about this

00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:02.000
 does not he

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:02.740
 who weigh the heart

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:03.420
 perceive it?

00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:05.720
 Does not he

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:06.379
 who guards

00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:06.920
 your life

00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:07.399
 know it?

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.379
 Will he not

00:30:09.379 --> 00:30:10.180
 repay everyone

00:30:10.180 --> 00:30:11.099
 according to

00:30:11.099 --> 00:30:11.980
 what they have done?

00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:15.059
 Or consider

00:30:15.059 --> 00:30:15.460
 the words

00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:16.180
 of King Lemuel

00:30:16.180 --> 00:30:17.379
 in Proverbs 31

00:30:17.379 --> 00:30:18.720
 verses 8 and 9.

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:20.859
 Speak up

00:30:20.859 --> 00:30:21.319
 for those

00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:21.720
 who cannot

00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:22.839
 speak for themselves.

00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:24.619
 For the rights

00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:25.019
 of all

00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:26.039
 who are destitute.

00:30:26.619 --> 00:30:27.299
 Speak up

00:30:27.299 --> 00:30:28.379
 and judge fairly.

00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:29.839
 Defend the rights

00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:30.940
 of the poor

00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:32.039
 and needy.

00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:34.599
 Many of us

00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:35.119
 are guilty

00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:36.940
 because we have

00:30:36.940 --> 00:30:37.659
 not done this

00:30:37.659 --> 00:30:38.519
 for the unborn

00:30:38.519 --> 00:30:39.779
 children in our nation.

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:41.740
 Some of us

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:42.599
 have been silent.

00:30:43.879 --> 00:30:44.480
 Others of us

00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:45.240
 have talked a lot

00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:45.859
 about abortion

00:30:45.859 --> 00:30:47.159
 but only to one another

00:30:47.159 --> 00:30:47.879
 as a lament

00:30:47.879 --> 00:30:48.960
 about how things

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:49.599
 are getting worse

00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:50.439
 in our society

00:30:50.439 --> 00:30:51.759
 and so we too

00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:52.899
 must come to the cross

00:30:52.899 --> 00:30:54.039
 for mercy

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:55.099
 and forgiveness.

00:30:56.179 --> 00:30:57.039
 We have not

00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:58.319
 loved our unborn

00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:59.480
 neighbors as ourselves.

00:31:00.219 --> 00:31:00.899
 We have not

00:31:00.899 --> 00:31:02.039
 spoken up in the land

00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:02.919
 for those who cannot

00:31:02.919 --> 00:31:03.919
 speak up for themselves.

00:31:04.159 --> 00:31:04.679
 We have not made

00:31:04.679 --> 00:31:05.879
 efforts to rescue

00:31:05.879 --> 00:31:07.119
 those who are being

00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:08.339
 led away to death.

00:31:10.779 --> 00:31:11.480
 We have watched

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.199
 things get worse

00:31:12.199 --> 00:31:12.619
 and worse

00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:13.259
 and have said

00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:14.899
 well I guess

00:31:14.899 --> 00:31:15.539
 there is nothing more

00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:16.119
 that we can do

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:16.559
 about it.

00:31:17.139 --> 00:31:17.919
 It is pretty much

00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:18.519
 a done deal

00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:19.060
 in Canada

00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:19.440
 right?

00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:21.420
 Even if I was

00:31:21.420 --> 00:31:22.360
 to fly the pro-life

00:31:22.360 --> 00:31:23.000
 flag what would

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:23.860
 people think of me?

00:31:24.900 --> 00:31:25.700
 What if people

00:31:25.700 --> 00:31:26.620
 are nasty to me?

00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:28.640
 Listen

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:30.340
 if every single

00:31:30.340 --> 00:31:31.259
 person in Canada

00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:32.120
 thought that abortion

00:31:32.120 --> 00:31:32.820
 was good

00:31:32.820 --> 00:31:35.180
 and that those

00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:35.860
 who oppose it

00:31:35.860 --> 00:31:36.900
 are evil and hateful

00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:38.080
 it doesn't change

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:38.660
 the reality

00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:39.840
 of what is going on.

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:41.660
 Taking the life

00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:42.720
 of an unborn child

00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:43.500
 in the womb

00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:44.640
 is wrong.

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.720
 It's barbaric

00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:49.519
 and if you and I

00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:50.339
 are the only ones

00:31:50.339 --> 00:31:51.299
 left standing up

00:31:51.299 --> 00:31:52.119
 and saying that

00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:53.559
 whatever the cost

00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:54.319
 we do right

00:31:54.319 --> 00:31:55.940
 and we honor

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:56.480
 the Lord

00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.599
 who created

00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:58.799
 every human being

00:31:58.799 --> 00:31:59.859
 in his image.

00:32:01.819 --> 00:32:02.980
 Perhaps for some of us

00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:03.500
 we just need

00:32:03.500 --> 00:32:04.900
 to redefine success

00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:06.640
 when it comes

00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:07.279
 to the fight

00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.059
 against abortion.

00:32:09.339 --> 00:32:10.039
 Of course

00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:10.980
 we want to win

00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:12.000
 the cultural war.

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:13.359
 we want to see

00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:14.420
 abortion outlawed

00:32:14.420 --> 00:32:15.019
 in our nation

00:32:15.019 --> 00:32:16.680
 but even if it goes

00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:17.740
 the opposite way

00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:19.920
 our duty

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:20.500
 as citizens

00:32:20.500 --> 00:32:21.039
 of the kingdom

00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:21.460
 of heaven

00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:22.140
 is to stand

00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:23.220
 against this evil

00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:24.799
 and to act

00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:25.779
 against this evil

00:32:25.779 --> 00:32:26.859
 to speak up

00:32:26.859 --> 00:32:28.119
 against it

00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:29.019
 in whatever ways

00:32:29.019 --> 00:32:29.500
 we can

00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:30.720
 until it's gone

00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.559
 from our land

00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:32.420
 or the Lord

00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:33.240
 takes us home.

00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:35.740
 That's what success

00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:36.900
 looks like

00:32:36.900 --> 00:32:37.440
 in the fight

00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:38.299
 against abortion.

00:32:38.859 --> 00:32:39.859
 It's not just about

00:32:39.859 --> 00:32:40.660
 achieving certain

00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:41.640
 political goals

00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:43.400
 or societal reforms

00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:44.880
 it's about being

00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:45.420
 faithful

00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:46.420
 where the Lord

00:32:46.420 --> 00:32:47.160
 has put us

00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:48.420
 with whatever

00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:49.700
 wicked injustices

00:32:49.700 --> 00:32:50.500
 are going on

00:32:50.500 --> 00:32:50.940
 in our own

00:32:50.940 --> 00:32:51.340
 neighborhoods.

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.780
 Think about it

00:32:53.780 --> 00:32:54.200
 this way

00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:55.840
 if we all lived

00:32:55.840 --> 00:32:57.100
 in some of those

00:32:57.100 --> 00:32:58.280
 Muslim countries

00:32:58.280 --> 00:32:59.060
 in another place

00:32:59.060 --> 00:32:59.520
 in the world

00:32:59.520 --> 00:33:00.060
 we wouldn't even

00:33:00.060 --> 00:33:00.820
 be having this

00:33:00.820 --> 00:33:01.520
 conversation.

00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:02.860
 There'd be

00:33:02.860 --> 00:33:03.620
 different stands

00:33:03.620 --> 00:33:04.180
 to take.

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:05.440
 There'd be

00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:06.700
 other societal evils

00:33:06.700 --> 00:33:07.200
 that we'd be

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:08.120
 talking about today

00:33:08.120 --> 00:33:08.820
 because some of

00:33:08.820 --> 00:33:09.380
 those countries

00:33:09.380 --> 00:33:10.300
 don't practice

00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:11.240
 abortion at all.

00:33:12.360 --> 00:33:13.160
 It's looked down

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.060
 on by the whole

00:33:14.060 --> 00:33:15.080
 society as a

00:33:15.080 --> 00:33:15.680
 horrid and

00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:16.400
 barbaric thing

00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:16.860
 to do.

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.680
 But this is the

00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:20.740
 place that we

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:22.880
 live and this

00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:23.460
 is the evil

00:33:23.460 --> 00:33:24.120
 going on in

00:33:24.120 --> 00:33:24.920
 our country.

00:33:27.340 --> 00:33:28.080
 Now I know

00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:28.560
 for many

00:33:28.560 --> 00:33:29.400
 Christians in

00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:30.040
 the evangelical

00:33:30.040 --> 00:33:30.860
 church we've

00:33:30.860 --> 00:33:31.260
 been really

00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:32.040
 discouraged at

00:33:32.040 --> 00:33:32.640
 how things

00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:33.500
 seem to be

00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:33.960
 trending

00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:34.660
 especially when

00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:35.120
 it comes to

00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:35.560
 this issue

00:33:35.560 --> 00:33:36.120
 of abortion.

00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.139
 it seems

00:33:38.139 --> 00:33:38.419
 like we're

00:33:38.419 --> 00:33:39.099
 just continuously

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:40.079
 sliding farther

00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:40.699
 and farther

00:33:40.699 --> 00:33:41.479
 away from where

00:33:41.479 --> 00:33:42.000
 we should be

00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:42.839
 especially when

00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:43.259
 it comes to

00:33:43.259 --> 00:33:43.719
 the political

00:33:43.719 --> 00:33:44.139
 arena.

00:33:44.859 --> 00:33:45.919
 But we can't

00:33:45.919 --> 00:33:46.519
 give up the

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:48.099
 fight on this

00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:48.359
 one.

00:33:50.639 --> 00:33:51.359
 Innocent human

00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:52.219
 beings are still

00:33:52.219 --> 00:33:52.599
 dying.

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:56.539
 I know some

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:56.979
 have looked at

00:33:56.979 --> 00:33:57.519
 the way things

00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:58.259
 are just spiraling

00:33:58.259 --> 00:33:58.959
 downward and

00:33:58.959 --> 00:33:59.479
 looked at those

00:33:59.479 --> 00:34:00.039
 warnings in

00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:00.639
 scripture that

00:34:00.639 --> 00:34:01.179
 say it's going

00:34:01.179 --> 00:34:01.759
 to get worse

00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:02.359
 at the end

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:05.500
 but we can't

00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:05.920
 give up the

00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:06.180
 fight.

00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:08.579
 So long as

00:34:08.579 --> 00:34:09.119
 it's happening

00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:10.000
 in our own

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:11.099
 land we cannot

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:11.699
 give up the

00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:11.960
 fight.

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:13.980
 Many of you

00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:14.440
 will have heard

00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:15.079
 about the school

00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:15.639
 shooting in

00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:16.440
 Texas by now.

00:34:16.539 --> 00:34:17.079
 We talked about

00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:17.679
 it during prayer

00:34:17.679 --> 00:34:18.380
 time and prayed

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:19.179
 for those people.

00:34:19.860 --> 00:34:20.619
 There's a lot of

00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:21.679
 anger and outrage

00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.659
 at how the

00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:23.539
 police responded

00:34:23.539 --> 00:34:24.480
 to the situation.

00:34:25.900 --> 00:34:27.599
 Some people seem

00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.480
 to agree that the

00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:29.280
 right thing to do

00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:30.079
 in this situation

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:31.360
 was for the

00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:32.000
 police to just

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:33.119
 charge right in

00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:33.900
 there and stop

00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:34.579
 that young man

00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:35.079
 as soon as

00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:36.480
 possible even

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:36.900
 if it meant

00:34:36.900 --> 00:34:37.319
 putting their

00:34:37.319 --> 00:34:38.779
 own lives on

00:34:38.779 --> 00:34:39.239
 the line.

00:34:39.779 --> 00:34:40.380
 That's their

00:34:40.380 --> 00:34:41.699
 duty as law

00:34:41.699 --> 00:34:42.819
 enforcement officers.

00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:43.639
 Many are saying

00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:45.779
 I mean how many

00:34:45.779 --> 00:34:46.860
 innocent children's

00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:47.519
 lives were in

00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:48.360
 danger while that

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.340
 shooter was alive

00:34:49.340 --> 00:34:51.659
 and firing things

00:34:51.659 --> 00:34:52.279
 off in there.

00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:54.219
 Nineteen of them

00:34:54.219 --> 00:34:54.779
 were killed.

00:34:56.340 --> 00:34:56.799
 Parents were

00:34:56.799 --> 00:34:57.599
 outraged because

00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:58.840
 it seemed to

00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:59.500
 them like the

00:34:59.500 --> 00:35:00.360
 officers were

00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:01.980
 cowardly waiting

00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:03.079
 on the sidelines

00:35:03.079 --> 00:35:04.199
 for the

00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:05.099
 specialists to

00:35:05.099 --> 00:35:05.599
 come in

00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.840
 while innocent

00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:08.960
 children were

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:09.500
 in danger.

00:35:09.739 --> 00:35:10.380
 Whether that's

00:35:10.380 --> 00:35:11.019
 the whole story

00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:11.599
 or not I

00:35:11.599 --> 00:35:12.119
 don't know.

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.679
 But I got

00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:15.319
 thinking about

00:35:15.319 --> 00:35:15.639
 that.

00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:16.739
 How many of

00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:17.299
 us are just

00:35:17.299 --> 00:35:18.039
 like that when

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:18.579
 it comes to

00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:19.019
 abortion?

00:35:20.500 --> 00:35:21.340
 Waiting on the

00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:21.980
 sidelines.

00:35:22.980 --> 00:35:23.739
 All too content

00:35:23.739 --> 00:35:24.900
 to leave the

00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:25.860
 fight up to

00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.599
 someone else.

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.679
 Not wanting to

00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:28.460
 take flack or

00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:29.480
 put ourselves into

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:30.299
 the crossfire.

00:35:30.300 --> 00:35:32.220
 But we have to

00:35:32.220 --> 00:35:32.780
 get in there.

00:35:34.140 --> 00:35:35.180
 We have to do

00:35:35.180 --> 00:35:36.039
 whatever we can

00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:36.840
 to put an end

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:37.300
 to this.

00:35:38.340 --> 00:35:39.100
 We don't know

00:35:39.100 --> 00:35:39.720
 when the world

00:35:39.720 --> 00:35:40.120
 will end.

00:35:40.200 --> 00:35:40.600
 We don't know

00:35:40.600 --> 00:35:41.420
 when Jesus will

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:41.860
 return.

00:35:42.760 --> 00:35:43.400
 Think back to

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:44.400
 William Wilberforce

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:45.800
 and how he felt

00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.180
 in the late 1700s

00:35:47.180 --> 00:35:47.780
 as he looked at

00:35:47.780 --> 00:35:48.640
 the slave trade.

00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.140
 The barbaric

00:35:50.140 --> 00:35:51.519
 treatment of

00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:52.400
 black men,

00:35:52.580 --> 00:35:52.800
 women,

00:35:52.900 --> 00:35:53.440
 and children.

00:35:54.700 --> 00:35:55.260
 It was his

00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:56.240
 faith that led

00:35:56.240 --> 00:35:56.960
 him to fight

00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:57.700
 the fight which

00:35:57.700 --> 00:35:58.980
 by God's grace

00:35:58.980 --> 00:36:00.260
 resulted in the

00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:01.079
 abolishment of

00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:01.900
 the slave trade.

00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:04.579
 Can you imagine

00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:05.280
 if instead

00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.320
 William Wilberforce

00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:06.920
 had looked at

00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:07.539
 those passages

00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:08.059
 of scripture

00:36:08.059 --> 00:36:08.780
 that say that

00:36:08.780 --> 00:36:09.240
 it's going to

00:36:09.240 --> 00:36:09.780
 get worse

00:36:09.780 --> 00:36:10.659
 and just thought

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:11.139
 to himself,

00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:11.440
 well,

00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:12.659
 I know it's

00:36:12.659 --> 00:36:12.900
 evil,

00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:13.420
 I know it's

00:36:13.420 --> 00:36:14.000
 horrible what

00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:14.480
 they're doing,

00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:15.619
 but it says

00:36:15.619 --> 00:36:16.000
 it's going to

00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:16.500
 get worse

00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:17.519
 and so it's

00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:18.320
 a lost cause.

00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:20.539
 What would

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:21.139
 our society

00:36:21.139 --> 00:36:21.960
 look like today?

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:24.559
 We don't know

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:25.000
 when the Lord

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:25.559
 will return

00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:26.119
 or when the

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:26.800
 end will come.

00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:28.019
 It could be

00:36:28.019 --> 00:36:28.519
 another hundred

00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:28.960
 years.

00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:31.639
 Perhaps

00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:32.980
 by the Lord's

00:36:32.980 --> 00:36:33.659
 grace in

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.240
 answer to

00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:34.699
 the prayers

00:36:34.699 --> 00:36:35.119
 of his

00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:35.599
 people,

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:36.300
 he will

00:36:36.300 --> 00:36:37.199
 grant Canada

00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:37.940
 a season

00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:39.039
 of reform

00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:40.240
 and renewal

00:36:40.240 --> 00:36:42.380
 even if only

00:36:42.380 --> 00:36:43.659
 on this one

00:36:43.659 --> 00:36:44.780
 issue of

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:45.219
 abortion.

00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:47.320
 I mean,

00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:47.980
 who of us

00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:48.800
 here today

00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:49.300
 thought that

00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:49.639
 we would

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:50.320
 even be

00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:51.860
 hearing news

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:52.619
 down in the

00:36:52.619 --> 00:36:53.340
 United States

00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:54.980
 of overturning

00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:55.559
 Roe versus

00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:55.900
 Wade?

00:36:57.340 --> 00:36:58.139
 Who of us

00:36:58.139 --> 00:36:58.519
 thought that

00:36:58.519 --> 00:36:59.000
 today in

00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:59.360
 the United

00:36:59.360 --> 00:36:59.940
 States of

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:00.300
 America

00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:00.599
 there would

00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:00.940
 be whole

00:37:00.940 --> 00:37:01.960
 states banning

00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:02.980
 abortion almost

00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:03.679
 entirely.

00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:05.800
 Oklahoma just

00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:06.400
 passed a law

00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:07.139
 banning abortion

00:37:07.139 --> 00:37:07.820
 from the moment

00:37:07.820 --> 00:37:08.719
 of fertilization

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.179
 onward with

00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:10.940
 only one or two

00:37:10.940 --> 00:37:11.480
 very rare

00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.300
 exceptions and

00:37:12.300 --> 00:37:13.019
 citizens are

00:37:13.019 --> 00:37:13.860
 going to be

00:37:13.860 --> 00:37:14.679
 allowed to file

00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:15.559
 civil lawsuits

00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:16.599
 against anyone

00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:17.639
 caught providing

00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:18.539
 abortions in the

00:37:18.539 --> 00:37:19.699
 state as a way

00:37:19.699 --> 00:37:20.259
 to keep them

00:37:20.259 --> 00:37:20.840
 from doing it

00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:21.420
 on the sly.

00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:24.159
 what this shows

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:25.039
 is that change

00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:25.639
 is still

00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:27.159
 possible even

00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:27.880
 in our own

00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:28.280
 nation.

00:37:35.159 --> 00:37:36.119
 Even if our

00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:36.599
 own nation

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:37.340
 continues to

00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:38.139
 slide downhill

00:37:38.139 --> 00:37:38.940
 morally in

00:37:38.940 --> 00:37:39.579
 every other

00:37:39.579 --> 00:37:40.500
 area we can

00:37:40.500 --> 00:37:42.280
 still pray and

00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:43.000
 fight for a

00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:44.059
 Canada whose

00:37:44.059 --> 00:37:44.960
 eyes have opened

00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:45.820
 up to the evil

00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:46.400
 of abortion

00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:47.619
 just like

00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:48.480
 Wilberforce did

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.099
 for the slave

00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:49.400
 trade.

00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:50.039
 Let's not

00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:50.599
 give up the

00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:50.860
 fight.

00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:54.340
 I've been at

00:37:54.340 --> 00:37:55.000
 almost all of

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:55.700
 the local

00:37:55.700 --> 00:37:56.480
 pro-life meetings

00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:57.099
 for the past

00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:57.840
 number of years.

00:37:58.220 --> 00:37:58.780
 I was at the

00:37:58.780 --> 00:37:59.440
 March for Life

00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:00.180
 this year in

00:38:00.180 --> 00:38:00.579
 Regina.

00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:01.960
 I went to the

00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:02.639
 SAS pro-life

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:03.340
 convention a

00:38:03.340 --> 00:38:03.800
 couple years

00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:07.039
 back and

00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.420
 there's one

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:08.059
 thing that's

00:38:08.059 --> 00:38:08.639
 missing from

00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:09.240
 all of these

00:38:09.240 --> 00:38:09.660
 things.

00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:12.200
 The evangelical

00:38:12.200 --> 00:38:12.820
 church.

00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:14.960
 There's the

00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:16.200
 odd few here

00:38:16.200 --> 00:38:17.300
 and there but

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:18.160
 mostly the ones

00:38:18.160 --> 00:38:19.119
 engaged in some

00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:19.839
 form of action

00:38:19.839 --> 00:38:20.639
 against abortion

00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:21.579
 in Saskatchewan.

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:22.639
 They're almost

00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:23.279
 all Catholic

00:38:23.279 --> 00:38:23.739
 people.

00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:25.779
 Where's the

00:38:25.779 --> 00:38:26.859
 evangelical church

00:38:26.859 --> 00:38:27.739
 of Saskatchewan?

00:38:28.579 --> 00:38:29.519
 In a province

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:30.039
 of a million

00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:30.859
 people we had

00:38:30.859 --> 00:38:32.739
 just 200 show

00:38:32.739 --> 00:38:33.159
 up for the

00:38:33.159 --> 00:38:34.319
 March for Life

00:38:34.319 --> 00:38:35.380
 this year at

00:38:35.380 --> 00:38:36.159
 the Ledge in

00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:37.440
 Regina and

00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.219
 those 200 were

00:38:38.219 --> 00:38:38.839
 from all over

00:38:38.839 --> 00:38:40.559
 Saskatchewan and

00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:41.380
 almost all of

00:38:41.380 --> 00:38:42.119
 them were

00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:42.559
 Catholic.

00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:45.119
 And I wonder

00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:45.960
 is it only the

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:46.980
 Catholics that see

00:38:46.980 --> 00:38:47.759
 and care about

00:38:47.759 --> 00:38:48.619
 what's going on?

00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:49.759
 In our nation

00:38:49.759 --> 00:38:50.179
 today?

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:53.519
 I'm told that at

00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:54.059
 one time the

00:38:54.059 --> 00:38:54.779
 local pro-life

00:38:54.779 --> 00:38:55.319
 group here in

00:38:55.319 --> 00:38:56.000
 Davidson had a

00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:56.519
 whole bunch of

00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:57.819
 people in it and

00:38:57.819 --> 00:38:58.539
 that the Catholics

00:38:58.539 --> 00:38:59.480
 were actually a

00:38:59.480 --> 00:38:59.940
 minority.

00:39:00.940 --> 00:39:01.759
 Now it's just

00:39:01.759 --> 00:39:04.159
 seven of us and

00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:04.880
 they're all Catholic

00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:05.980
 except for me.

00:39:08.859 --> 00:39:09.779
 Let me ask you

00:39:09.779 --> 00:39:10.139
 something.

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:12.960
 You tell me.

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.920
 why can't what

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:16.659
 just happened in

00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:18.179
 Oklahoma happen

00:39:18.179 --> 00:39:18.559
 here in

00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:19.260
 Saskatchewan?

00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:22.940
 I think it's

00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:23.900
 because many of

00:39:23.900 --> 00:39:24.579
 us are sitting on

00:39:24.579 --> 00:39:25.380
 the sidelines and

00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:25.980
 waiting for the

00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:27.059
 specialists to come

00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:28.500
 in and do it for

00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:28.800
 us.

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:31.039
 So let me give you

00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:31.720
 some practical

00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:33.159
 encouragement this

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:33.840
 morning about how

00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:34.679
 you can join the

00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:35.860
 fight, about how

00:39:35.860 --> 00:39:36.880
 you can participate

00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:38.579
 in rescuing those

00:39:38.579 --> 00:39:39.519
 being led away to

00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:41.220
 death, how you can

00:39:41.219 --> 00:39:42.139
 speak up for those

00:39:42.139 --> 00:39:42.859
 who cannot speak

00:39:42.859 --> 00:39:43.480
 for themselves.

00:39:44.919 --> 00:39:45.839
 First of all, some

00:39:45.839 --> 00:39:47.739
 of you will say, I

00:39:47.739 --> 00:39:48.419
 don't have time.

00:39:50.399 --> 00:39:51.379
 You need to make

00:39:51.379 --> 00:39:52.559
 time for this.

00:39:53.399 --> 00:39:54.179
 The lives of

00:39:54.179 --> 00:39:55.099
 innocent children are

00:39:55.099 --> 00:39:56.500
 at stake and surely

00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:57.079
 there are other

00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:57.879
 things in life that

00:39:57.879 --> 00:39:58.759
 can be left undone.

00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:02.359
 Second, I'm not

00:40:02.359 --> 00:40:02.980
 calling you to

00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:03.619
 become the next

00:40:03.619 --> 00:40:04.519
 full-time staff

00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:05.519
 member of a pro-life

00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:06.239
 organization.

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:08.559
 Each of us has

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.059
 different gifts and

00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:11.199
 skills and

00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:12.699
 abilities and

00:40:12.699 --> 00:40:14.279
 responsibilities that

00:40:14.279 --> 00:40:14.859
 we need to care

00:40:14.859 --> 00:40:15.159
 for.

00:40:16.419 --> 00:40:17.319
 What are yours?

00:40:18.739 --> 00:40:19.559
 Have you figured

00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:20.619
 out how you can

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:22.399
 participate meaningfully,

00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:23.359
 effectively in this

00:40:23.359 --> 00:40:23.899
 cause yet?

00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:25.619
 For some of you it

00:40:25.619 --> 00:40:26.079
 might be really

00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:27.039
 obvious, for others

00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:27.899
 it might be a bit of

00:40:27.899 --> 00:40:29.139
 a journey, growing to

00:40:29.139 --> 00:40:30.139
 understand what's

00:40:30.139 --> 00:40:31.859
 going on and how

00:40:31.859 --> 00:40:32.899
 you can meaningfully

00:40:32.899 --> 00:40:34.139
 contribute to this

00:40:34.139 --> 00:40:34.559
 cause.

00:40:34.759 --> 00:40:35.359
 And that's okay.

00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:36.019
 I've been on that

00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:37.779
 journey for myself a

00:40:37.779 --> 00:40:38.480
 long time now.

00:40:38.579 --> 00:40:39.000
 And with each

00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:39.799
 passing year it's

00:40:39.799 --> 00:40:40.819
 becoming clear what I

00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:41.960
 can do and what I

00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:42.340
 can't.

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:44.680
 You may be in a

00:40:44.680 --> 00:40:45.700
 truly busy season of

00:40:45.700 --> 00:40:46.240
 life in which

00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:46.900
 everything is

00:40:46.900 --> 00:40:48.600
 important and so

00:40:48.600 --> 00:40:49.300
 maybe all you can

00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:50.000
 manage is something

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:51.240
 small but regular.

00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:53.160
 Others of you may

00:40:53.160 --> 00:40:53.800
 have a bunch of

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:54.559
 time to give but

00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:55.260
 just you're not sure

00:40:55.260 --> 00:40:55.880
 what to do.

00:40:57.180 --> 00:40:58.039
 There are lots of

00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:58.620
 opportunities.

00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.820
 Let me just list off

00:41:00.820 --> 00:41:01.440
 a bunch of them.

00:41:02.380 --> 00:41:04.640
 First of all, make it

00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:06.660
 your goal each year to

00:41:06.660 --> 00:41:08.420
 do something for the

00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:08.780
 unborn.

00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:11.099
 Maybe you're at the

00:41:11.099 --> 00:41:11.860
 very beginning of

00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:12.500
 this journey and

00:41:12.500 --> 00:41:13.240
 your goal for this

00:41:13.240 --> 00:41:14.200
 year is simply to get

00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:15.820
 more information about

00:41:15.820 --> 00:41:16.599
 the issue, about

00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:17.740
 what's really going on

00:41:17.740 --> 00:41:18.519
 and what the

00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:19.440
 opportunities are.

00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:21.320
 How can you do

00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:21.579
 that?

00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:23.220
 You can come talk to

00:41:23.220 --> 00:41:23.420
 me.

00:41:24.340 --> 00:41:25.280
 You could come sit in

00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:26.039
 on a meeting of our

00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:27.000
 local pro-life group

00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:28.119
 and ask questions.

00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:30.619
 No commitment

00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:31.280
 necessary.

00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:32.740
 You can do some

00:41:32.740 --> 00:41:33.840
 research online about

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:34.900
 what's happening with

00:41:34.900 --> 00:41:36.260
 this in our province or

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:36.700
 our country.

00:41:36.860 --> 00:41:37.580
 You can watch the

00:41:37.580 --> 00:41:39.680
 movie Unplanned, sort

00:41:39.680 --> 00:41:41.700
 of a docudrama following

00:41:41.700 --> 00:41:42.560
 the story of Abby

00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:42.980
 Johnson.

00:41:44.080 --> 00:41:44.820
 There are lots of

00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:46.760
 good websites that have

00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:47.720
 good information about

00:41:47.720 --> 00:41:49.080
 the issue and how to

00:41:49.080 --> 00:41:50.100
 talk about it with

00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:50.760
 other people.

00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:53.160
 You could attend an

00:41:53.160 --> 00:41:54.240
 event or a conference

00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:55.860
 on the subject that

00:41:55.860 --> 00:41:56.800
 will help you see what's

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:57.700
 going on behind the

00:41:57.700 --> 00:41:57.920
 scenes.

00:41:58.040 --> 00:41:58.800
 In fact, our local

00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.540
 pro-life group will do

00:42:00.540 --> 00:42:01.980
 whatever we can to pay

00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:03.200
 your way to go,

00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:05.960
 including hotel fees

00:42:05.960 --> 00:42:07.019
 if we can swing it.

00:42:07.259 --> 00:42:08.039
 We're a small group,

00:42:08.319 --> 00:42:09.079
 but we would love to

00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:10.460
 see people go and be

00:42:10.460 --> 00:42:11.319
 informed on this.

00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:12.439
 There are excellent

00:42:12.439 --> 00:42:13.399
 books on the subject

00:42:13.399 --> 00:42:14.339
 that you could read.

00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:15.980
 And as you learn more

00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:17.039
 about what's going on

00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:18.379
 with this issue, you

00:42:18.379 --> 00:42:19.399
 can begin to prayerfully

00:42:19.399 --> 00:42:20.379
 make some goals about

00:42:20.379 --> 00:42:22.259
 what fits for you,

00:42:22.399 --> 00:42:23.799
 what you can manage to

00:42:23.799 --> 00:42:25.779
 do that's regular and

00:42:25.779 --> 00:42:26.719
 beneficial to the

00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:28.619
 cause over the next

00:42:28.619 --> 00:42:28.939
 year.

00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:30.460
 Let me just give you

00:42:30.460 --> 00:42:31.379
 some ideas of what

00:42:31.379 --> 00:42:32.559
 kind of opportunities

00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:33.199
 exist.

00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:36.360
 Wouldn't it be great

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:38.619
 to see the attendance

00:42:38.619 --> 00:42:39.759
 at the March for Life

00:42:39.759 --> 00:42:42.920
 explode from just 200

00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:44.440
 to suddenly 5,000?

00:42:45.699 --> 00:42:46.599
 Think about the message

00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:47.539
 that would send to our

00:42:47.539 --> 00:42:48.279
 province and our

00:42:48.279 --> 00:42:49.159
 government year after

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:49.480
 year.

00:42:49.900 --> 00:42:51.000
 It's one day a year.

00:42:51.420 --> 00:42:52.719
 It's a couple hours of

00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:53.239
 that day.

00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:57.199
 Or maybe you know of a

00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.239
 young single mother or

00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:01.539
 a pregnant gal in our

00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:02.000
 community.

00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:04.099
 maybe you could simply

00:43:04.099 --> 00:43:05.099
 offer to help that

00:43:05.099 --> 00:43:05.820
 person out with

00:43:05.820 --> 00:43:06.900
 babysitting every other

00:43:06.900 --> 00:43:07.239
 week.

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:09.440
 For many young women,

00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:10.400
 the deciding factor

00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:11.099
 between getting an

00:43:11.099 --> 00:43:12.579
 abortion or not is

00:43:12.579 --> 00:43:13.139
 whether they have

00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:14.420
 people in their life to

00:43:14.420 --> 00:43:16.179
 support them and get

00:43:16.179 --> 00:43:17.139
 and help them.

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:18.900
 Perhaps you could be one

00:43:18.900 --> 00:43:19.719
 of those people for

00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:19.940
 them.

00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:22.079
 I know of a young gal in a

00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:24.619
 nearby community who not

00:43:24.619 --> 00:43:26.119
 too long ago told a

00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:27.320
 Christian woman that she

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:27.920
 was pregnant.

00:43:28.820 --> 00:43:29.700
 She was thinking about

00:43:29.700 --> 00:43:30.420
 getting an abortion.

00:43:31.619 --> 00:43:32.500
 And by talking to this

00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:33.420
 Christian woman, the young

00:43:33.420 --> 00:43:34.579
 gal decided to keep her

00:43:34.579 --> 00:43:36.300
 baby and is very glad that

00:43:36.300 --> 00:43:36.720
 she did.

00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:38.179
 And it wasn't anything

00:43:38.179 --> 00:43:41.179
 special that this Christian

00:43:41.179 --> 00:43:42.000
 woman said to her.

00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:43.320
 She just encouraged her not

00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:44.980
 to have an abortion, to

00:43:44.980 --> 00:43:46.159
 think carefully about making

00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:47.280
 that decision, to think

00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:48.960
 about carrying the child to

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:50.240
 term and putting it up for

00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:52.519
 adoption and offered to

00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:53.500
 help her out however she

00:43:53.500 --> 00:43:53.820
 could.

00:43:55.420 --> 00:43:56.860
 Simple conversation for

00:43:56.860 --> 00:43:57.539
 women to have.

00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:00.760
 Along those lines, even

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:01.720
 just building a friendship

00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:04.099
 with a young person is a

00:44:04.099 --> 00:44:05.840
 great way to participate.

00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:08.980
 Maybe just do a fun

00:44:08.980 --> 00:44:10.039
 activity with them, take

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:10.880
 them out for a round of

00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.159
 golf or an ice cap from

00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:14.440
 Timmy's, whatever you do,

00:44:14.900 --> 00:44:15.960
 build a friendship with

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:16.159
 them.

00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:18.599
 Guy or gal,

00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:20.740
 both could be responsible

00:44:20.740 --> 00:44:22.019
 for a pregnancy somewhere

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:22.740
 down the line.

00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:24.940
 And you could easily have

00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:26.159
 opportunity to speak into

00:44:26.159 --> 00:44:27.139
 their lives at just the

00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:27.639
 right moment.

00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:30.860
 They might even take what

00:44:30.860 --> 00:44:32.440
 you say to them and speak

00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:33.380
 that same wisdom and

00:44:33.380 --> 00:44:34.240
 encouragement to their

00:44:34.240 --> 00:44:35.320
 friends and offer their

00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:36.079
 support to them.

00:44:38.380 --> 00:44:40.740
 Or, maybe you decide to

00:44:40.740 --> 00:44:41.720
 make it your participation

00:44:41.720 --> 00:44:43.460
 to pray every week about

00:44:43.460 --> 00:44:44.559
 this issue for a year.

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:44.619
 prayer.

00:44:47.299 --> 00:44:48.320
 Maybe you find another

00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:49.739
 person to share that with

00:44:49.739 --> 00:44:51.320
 and to keep accountable to

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:51.779
 that goal.

00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:53.619
 Or even better, meet with

00:44:53.619 --> 00:44:54.579
 them and pray with them.

00:44:54.619 --> 00:44:56.000
 Even if it's just 15 minutes

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.440
 a week, pray with them

00:44:58.440 --> 00:44:58.820
 about it.

00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:00.900
 God does amazing things in

00:45:00.900 --> 00:45:01.619
 answer to prayer.

00:45:03.279 --> 00:45:04.099
 Then there's the whole

00:45:04.099 --> 00:45:05.299
 political side of the issue.

00:45:05.420 --> 00:45:07.480
 We need to get more pro-life

00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.539
 butts in the decision-making

00:45:09.539 --> 00:45:12.019
 seats in our province and in

00:45:12.019 --> 00:45:12.780
 our country.

00:45:13.820 --> 00:45:14.860
 And the amazing thing about

00:45:14.860 --> 00:45:16.500
 this is, is that it can

00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:19.300
 require very little effort

00:45:19.300 --> 00:45:19.840
 sometimes.

00:45:20.539 --> 00:45:21.539
 It can be as simple as

00:45:21.539 --> 00:45:22.239
 taking out a cheap

00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:24.259
 membership for a year and

00:45:24.259 --> 00:45:25.860
 voting in a nomination race

00:45:25.860 --> 00:45:27.400
 for a pro-life candidate or

00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:27.679
 leader.

00:45:28.719 --> 00:45:29.759
 In fact, there's such a race

00:45:29.759 --> 00:45:31.000
 going on right now for the

00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:31.659
 leadership of the

00:45:31.659 --> 00:45:32.500
 Conservative Party.

00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:35.000
 And whatever you think about

00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:36.139
 the Conservative Party and

00:45:36.139 --> 00:45:37.860
 that whole thing going on,

00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:39.320
 let me ask you this.

00:45:39.380 --> 00:45:40.480
 Who would help the cause of

00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:42.500
 the unborn more in Canada?

00:45:43.539 --> 00:45:45.599
 Jean Charest or Leslyn

00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.699
 Lewis, an unashamedly

00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:48.639
 pro-life member of

00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:49.780
 Parliament who has openly

00:45:49.780 --> 00:45:51.099
 promised to bring it up in

00:45:51.099 --> 00:45:52.159
 Parliament if elected?

00:45:54.539 --> 00:45:55.980
 Your vote can help make the

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:57.079
 difference between those two

00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:58.260
 for ten bucks in a few

00:45:58.260 --> 00:45:59.139
 minutes of your time.

00:46:01.219 --> 00:46:02.480
 If you're interested in that,

00:46:02.539 --> 00:46:03.440
 you'll have to get your party

00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:04.699
 membership by next Friday.

00:46:06.420 --> 00:46:07.760
 Or if you're just interested

00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:08.820
 in that in general, you can

00:46:08.820 --> 00:46:09.820
 look up the pro-life

00:46:09.820 --> 00:46:11.280
 organization right now.

00:46:11.820 --> 00:46:13.700
 It starts right now, .ca.

00:46:14.200 --> 00:46:15.580
 Their sole purpose is to

00:46:15.580 --> 00:46:17.260
 connect pro-life people with

00:46:17.260 --> 00:46:18.800
 those significant voting

00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:20.640
 moments that can make all the

00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:23.039
 difference in getting pro-life

00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:24.740
 people into those positions in

00:46:24.740 --> 00:46:27.080
 political parties and in the

00:46:27.080 --> 00:46:28.400
 decision-making seats in our

00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:28.740
 nation.

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:33.519
 Maybe as you think of having

00:46:33.519 --> 00:46:35.740
 conversations about this issue,

00:46:35.739 --> 00:46:37.559
 you know that you struggle.

00:46:38.619 --> 00:46:40.059
 You find it tough to talk about

00:46:40.059 --> 00:46:42.799
 this with people, not sure what

00:46:42.799 --> 00:46:43.259
 to say.

00:46:44.659 --> 00:46:46.079
 But what if I told you that there

00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:48.299
 were young men and women here in

00:46:48.299 --> 00:46:50.679
 Canada today who aren't just

00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:52.279
 having conversations with people

00:46:52.279 --> 00:46:54.079
 about abortion all the time but are

00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.179
 changing the minds of people about

00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:57.599
 abortion all the time?

00:46:59.399 --> 00:47:00.179
 There are.

00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:02.439
 What if you could enable them to

00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:03.980
 have more conversations with

00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:07.119
 people full-time through some

00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:08.240
 regular monthly giving?

00:47:09.700 --> 00:47:11.760
 Local pregnancy counseling centers

00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:13.539
 are on the front lines and they

00:47:13.539 --> 00:47:14.720
 need financial support.

00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:16.980
 Other groups like the Canadian

00:47:16.980 --> 00:47:18.840
 Center for Bioethical Reform are

00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:21.280
 training young people to engage our

00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:23.619
 culture effectively with the truth

00:47:23.619 --> 00:47:24.200
 about abortion.

00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:26.059
 And they have countless stories about

00:47:26.059 --> 00:47:28.159
 women who changed their mind, who

00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:29.900
 made a different choice than they

00:47:29.900 --> 00:47:32.160
 were planning to make, and kept

00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:32.700
 their babies.

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.639
 There are all kinds of ways to be

00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:36.980
 involved.

00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.079
 If you live on land outside of town,

00:47:39.260 --> 00:47:40.860
 you can raise awareness by putting

00:47:40.860 --> 00:47:41.400
 up a sign.

00:47:41.500 --> 00:47:43.079
 We got a whole bunch of signs we

00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:43.639
 just ordered.

00:47:44.900 --> 00:47:46.079
 Charles is getting two of them.

00:47:46.220 --> 00:47:47.139
 They're great signs.

00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:49.680
 We'd love to put one up on your yard

00:47:49.680 --> 00:47:53.720
 by the road if you have land.

00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:56.079
 We got the pro-life flag up at the

00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:56.400
 back.

00:47:56.579 --> 00:47:58.380
 That's the new international pro-life

00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:58.780
 flag.

00:47:58.780 --> 00:48:00.940
 We're going to fly that in the month

00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:01.280
 of May.

00:48:01.720 --> 00:48:03.500
 If you want a bumper sticker or a lawn

00:48:03.500 --> 00:48:05.200
 sign of that flag, we can get you

00:48:05.200 --> 00:48:05.540
 that.

00:48:07.060 --> 00:48:08.860
 Or if you're online, if you are on

00:48:08.860 --> 00:48:11.019
 social media and you regularly post

00:48:11.019 --> 00:48:12.940
 things on there or share things on

00:48:12.940 --> 00:48:14.320
 there, you could post and share the

00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.080
 occasional video clip related to the

00:48:16.080 --> 00:48:16.400
 issue.

00:48:17.600 --> 00:48:19.960
 I'm not talking news clips, but clips

00:48:19.960 --> 00:48:22.000
 that are made to change people's

00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:22.380
 minds.

00:48:23.780 --> 00:48:26.060
 The Choice 42 satire clips, we watched

00:48:26.060 --> 00:48:26.940
 a couple, are great.

00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:28.880
 The live action clips are great.

00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:32.139
 The 3D animated clips of development in

00:48:32.139 --> 00:48:33.280
 the womb are great.

00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:36.500
 You never know what somebody will see

00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:37.760
 as they're stumbling through your

00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:41.639
 profile looking at stuff and oh, they

00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:44.200
 watch this and that seed is sown in

00:48:44.200 --> 00:48:44.780
 their minds.

00:48:44.780 --> 00:48:49.560
 There are so many opportunities out there

00:48:49.560 --> 00:48:51.200
 and as I said before, it might take some

00:48:51.200 --> 00:48:54.100
 exploration to find your niche, your

00:48:54.100 --> 00:48:57.180
 thing, the thing that fits you.

00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:00.880
 But it's one of the worthiest causes in

00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:01.680
 Canada today.

00:49:02.540 --> 00:49:05.380
 The life of every child in the womb is

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:07.700
 absolutely worth fighting for.

00:49:07.699 --> 00:49:10.099
 And so let's not give up the fight.

00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:13.279
 Let's not sit on the sidelines and wait

00:49:13.279 --> 00:49:15.019
 for someone else to come and do it for

00:49:15.019 --> 00:49:15.279
 us.

00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:16.699
 Let's get in the fray.

00:49:17.059 --> 00:49:18.559
 Let's see if we can do something.

00:49:20.179 --> 00:49:21.460
 I'm going to end with this.

00:49:22.339 --> 00:49:25.039
 On Friday evening, I gave a talk and led

00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:26.899
 discussion on abortion with the youth.

00:49:27.899 --> 00:49:30.039
 I gave them freely the opportunity to be

00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:31.659
 honest and just tell me whatever they

00:49:31.659 --> 00:49:32.419
 think about it.

00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:33.579
 What's their opinion?

00:49:33.879 --> 00:49:34.779
 When is it okay?

00:49:35.220 --> 00:49:36.180
 When is it not okay?

00:49:36.260 --> 00:49:37.740
 Up till what point in the pregnancy?

00:49:39.700 --> 00:49:41.880
 Most of them were somewhat okay with it

00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:43.880
 up to a point in the pregnancy.

00:49:45.300 --> 00:49:47.540
 And one of them afterwards, a 15-year-old

00:49:47.540 --> 00:49:50.900
 girl said to me, this was after the time,

00:49:51.620 --> 00:49:53.200
 she said, you changed my mind.

00:49:55.640 --> 00:49:58.200
 And I thought, if everything I've done and

00:49:58.200 --> 00:50:01.300
 said and put into this saves only one

00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:03.980
 life, it will have been worth it.

00:50:04.780 --> 00:50:08.280
 God's not asking us to change the whole

00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:08.600
 world.

00:50:08.740 --> 00:50:11.340
 He's just asking for us to be faithful and

00:50:11.340 --> 00:50:14.640
 to lovingly move towards whatever needs we

00:50:14.640 --> 00:50:16.500
 can in our neck of the woods.

00:50:17.620 --> 00:50:19.720
 And there are some little ones in our neck

00:50:19.720 --> 00:50:22.280
 of the woods who are deeply in need.

00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:25.100
 Let's pray.

00:50:25.100 --> 00:50:25.140
 Let's pray.

00:50:25.139 --> 00:50:32.739
 Father in heaven, this is a heavy topic.

00:50:34.139 --> 00:50:37.239
 And we pray and ask that you would work with

00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.920
 great power in our country.

00:50:40.599 --> 00:50:44.119
 We pray for just laws that protect the life,

00:50:45.219 --> 00:50:47.519
 the lives of human babies in the womb.

00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:53.559
 We pray for the change of hearts in people all across our

00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:54.139
 society.

00:50:55.380 --> 00:50:59.960
 And we pray and ask that you would show each one of us how

00:50:59.960 --> 00:51:00.980
 we're meant to participate.

00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:02.460
 Lead us in that.

00:51:02.579 --> 00:51:03.280
 Guide us in that.

00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:04.019
 Give us wisdom.

00:51:04.759 --> 00:51:08.320
 Show us how we can join in this fight.

00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:13.240
 And we pray and ask that you would bring glory and grace

00:51:13.240 --> 00:51:16.760
 and life through us.

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 We ask in Jesus' name.

00:51:19.220 --> 00:51:19.460
 Amen.