This beautiful baby, Gideon Wilberforce Thybault, is a miracle—one year ago or so he was a frozen embryo, being stored indefinitely as a leftover from in vitro fertilization. Today, he is part of a loving family and beginning to live the life God intended for him. Read this passionate testimonial of life by his mother, Melinda Thybault (who carried and gave birth to him after the age of 50, adopting him as an embryo in obedience to God), contributor to our daily devotional series on life.

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.  (John 1:3-4)

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I woke up shaken from a dream July 2016… this is the dream.

I was standing at my kitchen sink, I had something in my left hand, the water was running and I reached with my right hand to flip on the switch to my garbage disposal and ran my left hand under the water.  I instantly knew I had just crushed an embryo!  I began to weep deeply.  I woke up weeping and heard the Lord say “I’m sorry, I don’t know how else to show you how I feel about this. Whether a human life is so small that the human eye cannot see it or an 8 month gestational baby being torn from its mother’s womb, I knew them both! I stood before them declaring their plans, purposes and destiny’s.  I grieve equally for both!”

My husband and I are pro-life to the core.  We’ve have a ministry to awaken the Church to adoption of the newborn as an answer to end abortion, we also educate on the origins of abortion biblically and historically.  This dream has awakened me in a fresh new way. The Lord values life from the moment of conception.  The question I began to ask Him was what was He trying to show me?

It wasn’t until that someone shared with us that Roe v Wade had never been successfully challenged, we were thrust into prayer and fasting for strategy.  On March 9, 2017 during my prayer time I kept envisioning William Wilberforce rolling out his petition before Parliament bringing an end to the slave trade.

‘Never, never will we desist till we have wiped away this scandal from the Christian name, released ourselves from the load of guilt, under which we at present labour, and extinguished every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country.’  – William Wilberforce, House of Commons Speech April 18, 1791

The great, great grandson of the successful anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, believes his ancestor who campaigned for the end of the slave trade in 1807, which led to the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833, would consider to be the contemporary slavery, abortion….

Over 60 million babies have lost their lives to abortion in our nation since 1973 when Roe V Wade authorized the withdrawing of legal protection by the government from this class of human beings, children in the womb, thus allowing them to be killed without fear of punishment. The United States Constitution, one of the oldest written constitutions in the world today, states that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, in both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

After, I contacted Attorney Allan Parker, President of The Justice Foundation, and shared the idea of a petition to end abortion. His response was “This might be worth its weight in gold with the new administration in office.” So we went into more prayer and fasting seeking the Lords divine wisdom. Was He indeed asking me to do this? The answer came…yes He was, this was His plan! So we went to work and together Mr. Allan Parker and I wrote a petition to the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse, overturn, cancel and annul Roe V. Wade, Doe V. Bolton and Planned Parenthood V. Casey, and restore the right to life as written in the United States Constitution to persons in the womb. Just as William Wilberforce petitioned Parliament to abolish the slave trade, the purpose of the petition is to provide an outlet for the people to show their government they do not accept its decisions on abortion and can never be accepted by a just society.

The petition also educates Americans to the fact that there is another mechanism that women can rely upon for birth control rather than abortion through the Safe Haven laws which are now available in all 50 states.  She can transfer  responsibility for the child to the state by simply dropping the child off at a state approved location within a reasonable time after birth, see www.nationalsafehaven.org  or by choosing an adoption plan for the child with the help of one of the estimated 3000 pregnancy resource and adoption agencies in the United States.  There are 1 million estimated families waiting to adopt a newborn each year.  This is a “change in law” since 1992, the last time the Court evaluated Roe and Doe.  Safe Haven laws were not present in 1992.  The Supreme Court is justified in overturning precedent when facts, circumstances and law have changed that make the original decision no longer just, even if it ever was, which Roe and Doe were not.

Plessey v. Ferguson which made the separate but equal doctrine the “law of the land”, was a 58 year old precedent of the Supreme Court. This decision was a crime against humanity just as Dred Scott (slavery) was another Supreme Court crime against humanity by withdrawing legal protection form African-Americans. Abortion is not only NOT a fundamental right, in fact; it is a crime against humanity. What is a crime against humanity? Here is the Wikipedia definition:

“Crimes against humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, “are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a                 degradation of human beings.: [1]  They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not         identify themselves with this policy)or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority.  Murder; extermination; torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.  Isolated inhumane acts of the nature may constitute grave infringements of human rights, or depending on the circumstances, war crimes, by may fall short of falling into the category of crimes under discussion.”

Note that murder is one of the most basic and obvious crimes against humanity. Why? Because the right to life is one of the most basic human rights of all and has been widely recognized in International documents. The International Declaration on the Rights of Man, which established the United Nations, declares that there is an international right to life as a basic human right. In order to be a crime against humanity, the crime must be widespread and supported by the government. Of course, in every nation where abortion is legal, it is the government that has made it so. In fact, in some countries such as the United States of America, it has been judicial institutions rather than the will of the majority of Americans that has made abortion legal.

All Americans can and should join this petition to the Supreme Court, it is also a right of citizens to petition their government for redress of grievances.

“Why at this time, should we sign?  The Court needs to hear our voices… our voices must be heard for 60 million voices silenced.  Our Founding Fathers used their signature to cry out for freedom and justice for our nation.  We are doing the same for our nation and this chosen general.”  Cindy Collins, Global Coordinator for Operation Outcry (Women Hurt by Abortion)

Why petition the Court?  This is an unusual step, but ending a crime against humanity justifies an unusual action.  The people of the United States did not vote for Roe v. Wade, instead the Supreme Court created the crime against humanity with Roe, Doe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.  It is the Supreme Court which must be petitioned by the people to change its decision.  It is also right and just to give the Court the opportunity to correct their own error. There are significant reasons why the Supreme Court should do the right thing as the Supreme Court did in Brown v. Board of Education ended segregation and reverse this crime against humanity it created.  In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court did not overrule Roe and Doe because the Court stated that Americans had come to rely upon the cases and the Supreme Court was going to settle the abortion controversy for all time.  Obviously the Supreme Court failed to settle the controversy. Abortion is still the most controversial issue in American society today. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which weakened but did not reverse Roe and Doe, has been called the worst constitutional decision of all time because it placed the reputation of the Supreme Court above the lives of innocent children. Michael S. Paulson, The Worst Constitutional Decision of All Time, 78 Notre Dame L. Rev. 995 (2003).
Available at: http//scholarshio.law.nd.edu/ndlr/vol78/iss4/2

We view this petition as a holy document. A Joel 2 call to the nation. www.themoraloutcry.com. No matter where we find ourselves in the storyline of the past 44 years, if we would repent on behalf of the innocent blood that has been shed, and simply believe the Word and what it says is true that God Himself forms each life in the womb of its mother, God will once again show mercy and we will see this atrocity of abortion abolished.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you… “ Jeremiah 1:5

Join us in praying that the Nation will raise their voice for the moral outcry to be heard!

Sign the petition. Share it.  End abortion.
www.themoraloutcry.com
Melinda Thybault ~ Founder of The Moral Outcry