Letters From Grandpa #381

LETTERS FROM GRANDPA

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Dearest grandchild,

As you know, on January 22, 1973, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that unborn babies are not legal “persons.” More than sixty million unborn babies have died in the United States alone as a result of this decision. Abortion is the leading cause of death in the United States and also in the world. 42.6 million unborn babies were killed in 2021.

Now, forty nine years later, the Supreme Court is finally considering a Mississippi law that may result in overturning Roe v. Wade. Whether or not this happens is yet to be seen. I want you to know, however, that the original case in 1973 was a scam built upon lies. The following facts have been condensed from WORLD, March 29, 1997. There was obviously something rotten in Denmark!

The woman named as “Jane Roe,” was actually Norma McCorvey. When she became pregnant in 1969, Lawyers Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee asked her to become the plaintiff in their famous class-action suit. She reluctantly did so against her better judgement. She knew from the start it was wrong! For years she would drink herself to sleep, only to be haunted by nightmares of live infants being carved up in front of her. In 1995, as you probably know, McCorvey became a Christian and began working against abortion. Norma passed away Feb. 18, 2017 at the age of 69.

The second part of the suit involved Mary Doe, who was really Sandra Besing. Sandra also became involved in this case against her better judgement. She came forward to say: “Abortion is against every belief I have. I’ve never been for abortion. I never went for an abortion. I was not the person they say I was. This case was based on lies.” Here is how it happened. In 1970, Sandra was pregnant and alone. Her husband was in jail and two of her children had been taken from her by county welfare workers. She went to a legal aid clinic looking for help in divorcing her husband and regaining custody of her children. ACLU lawyer, Margie Pitts Hames, gave some vague promise of help but instead steered her in the direction of the abortion suit. Mrs. Hames gave the Supreme Court the following account of “Mary Doe’s” struggle for reproductive rights. “Her reasons for abortion were several . . . She applied to the public hospital for an abortion, where she was eligible for free medical care. Her application there was denied. She later applied through a private hospital abortion committee, where her abortion application was approved. She did not obtain the abortion, however, because she did not have the cash to deposit and pay her hospital bill in advance.” Apparently these “reasons” given to the court were not true.

Grady Memorial Hospital is the public hospital Mrs. Hames was citing. After 32 hours of searching, however, the Grady Health System was unable to locate any records to substantiate lawyer Hames allegations.

Sandra Besing remarried, and became Sandra Cano. She repeatedly charged that the whole case was built upon lies. Not only did she never want an abortion, she fled to Oklahoma to keep them from forcing her to have one. She refused to come back until Mrs. Hames assured her over the phone that she wouldn’t have to have the abortion. On Nov. 6, 1970, she gave birth to a baby girl named Melissa. Due to her troubled life at the time she put her precious baby up for adoption.

Partial birth abortion is particularly cruel. The baby is twisted in the womb so it will be born feet first. It’s head is purposefully kept in the birth canal so it will be legal to kill it. Then an instrument is inserted in the back of the baby’s head and it’s brains are sucked out. This painful procedure is done for financial reasons. It preserves the baby’s body parts and makes them more valuable. Ron

Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, said he intentionally “misled” investigators in previous remarks about this procedure. Mrs. Hames, however, never owned up to anything. In 1989, Mrs. Cano with the help of some Christian lawyers, sought to get her records unsealed and discover the truth about her involvement in this famous case. Mrs. Hames objected and told the court there was nothing more to be gained, that the case had been decided 16 years before, and that was that. So, for more than 25 years Mrs. Cano has carried the guilt of participating in “legalized murder.” She says, “I know there are babies being killed and I know that I have something to do with it. I didn’t know about it and I didn’t consent to anything, but that’s my name on the affidavit. That’s something that’s going to be linked to me forever.”

The abortion issue became even more real to Sandra when her daughter, Melissa, whom she had given up for adoption, reentered her life in 1992. Melissa gave birth to a premature baby at only 20 weeks. Her baby weighed only 9.2 ounces. Mrs. Cano was hysterical trying to get someone to help her grandson. She said: “They told me that’s not a baby, it’s a fetus. And I knew it was because 20 years before I was stupid and I let them use me, that this could happen. Little Cody was given no oxygen, or other life support, and lived only two hours. Mrs. Cano’s first public appearance was at a Chattanooga memorial. On the wall of a former abortion clinic, repentant, grieving families have placed markers with messages to their aborted children. “We loved you too late,” reads one, “I’ll hold you in heaven.” In June, 2020, Kwek Yu Xuan was born in Singapore. She weighed only 7.5 oz., but lived. She weighed a healthy 13.9 lbs. when dismissed from the hospital. Sandra Cano died Sept. 30, 2014 at the age of 66.

• The book of Proverbs declares: “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him”.
• 3 on the list are “Hands that shed innocent blood” (Prov. 6:16-17). No one is more innocent than an unborn baby. Yes! Unborn babies do have blood and God hates the hands of those who shed it. No matter what they say, the unborn baby is not a part of the mother’s body! Every cell in the mother’s body has the same genetic code, but her baby’s code is different. The mother has a right to have her tonsils or appendix removed because they are a part of her body. They share the same genetic code as every other part of her body. No woman who has her tonsils removed, however, needs a support group in order to cope with it. Her unborn baby is obviously different from her tonsils. As we have said, the baby is not a part of her body for every baby has it’s own unique genetic code. Just as no two people have the same fingerprints, no two people have the same genetic code. Women who make the mistake of killing their unborn babies are quite often haunted by the horror of what they have done. Sandra Cano, as we have said, was one such woman.

Thankfully, having an abortion is not an unforgivable sin. God is waiting with open arms for anyone to repent of having an abortion. Dr. Bernard Nathanson presided over 60,000 abortions in a New York clinic before repenting of shedding innocent blood. He became “pro-life” and is famous for producing a documentary exposing the evils of abortion called The Silent Scream. While Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton grew out of lies, The Silent Scream documentary grew out of the truth. Dr. Nathanson passed away Feb. 21, 2011, but will forever be remembered for his change of heart. It took great courage for David to kill Goliath, but it takes no courage at all to kill an unborn baby.

I love you,

Grandpa Boyce