Pro-Life Conservatives WILL Take In Babies That Are Not Aborted

Eli Boyd: Adoption Day, July 2017

It's a lie that pro-life conservatives don't want to adopt unwanted babies. Progressives see through their own behaviors and attitudes. Many of the most vehement pro-abortion activists simply don't want babies themselves and can't understand anyone who would want to adopt. 

But we over on the Christian Conservative side do embrace adopted kids. Christian families of all kinds take babies and children into their homes all the time - babies like my grandson Eli. Our church in Tyler loved this little guy from the time Grieta Talios took him in as a foster kid at his birth. Grieta began taking in medically fragile babies a short time after her husband passed away. She became a leading foster parent in the area at an age when most of us retire, specializing in crack babies and kids with genetic and physical issues. And God bless her, she picked out my daughter and son-in-law to take in Eli. She gave him a great start his first year, but soon began handing off Eli to Meghan at church. I think the rest of the church was kind of in on the plot, making sure Meg and Eli got together often during church and church activities.

Much loved by Grammy & Poppy

After a time, this little fellow became so dear to my daughter and son-in-law that they couldn't live without him. They'd fallen in love and shortly after his first birthday, signed up to be his foster parents. Months later, they and half the church crammed into the courtroom on his adoption day as witnesses. 

Nobody can tell me pro-life Christians won't welcome the little guys with open arms into their congregations. The Tyler SDA Church has practically adopted Eli as well. Meg is never short for baby sitters and playmates for him. His grandparents (that's us) adore him and do our best to spoil him. I wouldn't mind if they got another one (hint, hint). If we weren't so old and arthritic, we'd probably have picked up an adopted child ourselves along the way. As it was, we started and managed two day care centers (one that doubled as a senior day center). We worked with special needs kids and several that had been kicked out of other daycare centers. I spent 9 years helping start one treatment center and working at two residential treatment centers for children with multiple psychiatric, physical and emotional disabilities. Sheila worked with seniors with age-related disabilities. We raised 3 kids of our own and they worked with children themselves at daycare centers, treatment centers, Boys & Girls Clubs and in youth groups. Lots of our "kids" still write us and follow us on Facebook. Many have gone on to become teachers, therapists, nurses, firemen and artists. We are proud of them all.

My young cowboys circa 1984

Millions of innocent babies have been lost during the abortion epidemic. I know the estimated two million families that want to adopt would have taken in many of those lost children. If we don't get them here, in Heaven and the New Earth, I think God will raise them and give them to new parents in the new world. God can certainly give some of them to me - 10 at a time if He would, so I can raise a ball team or a crew for the schooner I plan to build. What a joy to raise kids in heaven or the new Earth. (They'll be dogs and cats and horses there too).

Sheila and her seniors.

So, if one of the guys, that posts memes about how cruel conservatives are unwilling to take in unwanted children, drops such an accusation on your newsfeed, tell them they're wrong. We don't just take in American babies either. We go all over the world helping children and families anywhere we can. The pro-abortion folks just don't know us very well. They look at us through their own prejudices and beliefs. We, who choose life, put our money, our time and often our very lives on the line where our beliefs are concerned. We don't just talk about it or vote for people who claim they will do all that pesky hard work helping people on our behalf. We can be bothered. And when we are, we do what needs doing ourselves. We don't wait for the government to take 40-60% of the money in admin costs and then take decades to get around to doing the job the money was taxed for. Jesus told us to do it ourselves, to visit the poor and sick and prisoners. To care for widows, orphans and the unwanted. Hard to believe for a progressive maybe, but for us, it is our great joy to obey.

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