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The Rest of the Story

Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. (Yeremiahu 1:5) A mother in a delivery with a high temperature, waits to deliver a premature baby.  The doctor comes in with the grim news.  In order to save your life you must have an abortion otherwise you will die. A young woman gets brutally raped and becomes pregnant as a result.  What should she do?  What would you do? There are people both famous and not who were born out of rape and other forms of abuse.  I am not condoning the actions of rape, etc because those actions are absolutely wrong.  I am stating that the child produced from the abuse has a reason to live. Solomon was the child of King David and Bathsheba.  David [...]