The Most Marginalized

Luke 15:4

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?


Hear, Jesus alludes to a magnificent truth.  God cares for the one 

most marginalized: the one that wandered off, the one that didn’t keep up, the one that wasn’t like all the others, the one, perhaps, that no one else wanted. 

While I have been preparing for the first Board meeting for the newly formed Savethe1, I have been poring over the governing documents.  The foundational premiss of the group and its mission is to advocate for that one that is most marginalized.  We are that one.  

I love the vision of Jesus reaching out with his staff and as He reaches for that one afar off, He catches all as the curved staff brings the outlier in.

We are a group of people who were conceived and born as a result of rape or incest, or are women who have conceived by rape, or some who were born with fetal anomaly. We are used by the pro-abortion movement to prove the ‘need’ for abortion and we are used by the proLife movement as a concession or exception in an attempt to pass legislation that would presumably save some babies from abortion.  

Some even say 99% would be saved, because 1% of all abortions are committed in cases of rape, incest and fetal anomaly, including Down Syndrome. 

The biggest problem with this logic is that we are people, not exceptions.  We are no less human beings than someone conceived with wine and roses.  There is either a baby worth saving and protecting, or there is not.

Obviously, the pro-abortion crowd, knows this.  That is why they used the argument of the need for abortion in case of rape in Roe v Wade.  The fallacy of adding the trauma of abortion onto the trauma of rape as a means of helping the first victim is absurd.

When a woman conceives due to rape, there are two victims. Both need our care and neither should be punished, especially not by the death penalty.  

In what ways do you think Jesus would advocate for the 1%?


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