For well over a century, committed Seventh-day Adventist church members have given portions of their lives to share the Everlasting Gospel with precious people in foreign lands. They are the ideological offspring of the Apostle Paul, J.N Andrews and Hudson Taylor. We call them missionaries.
They endure discomfort, heat, cold, travel and isolation in order to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord who said “Go ye into all the world..” (Mathew 28:19-20). Their burden is the salvation of others, the preservation of life, both spiritual and physical.
As our culture has become more self-centered, narcissistic, woke and hedonistic—or “evil” (to quote Jesus in John 3:19) a new kind of missionary has spawned. Calling herself an Abortion Rights Missionary, Karen Musick is an escort for women seeking abortions.
According to the Arkansas Times,
A fifth-generation Seventh Day Adventist, Karen Musick was “raised looking for a missionary challenge.” Her high school was an Adventist academy. She went to an Adventist college.
Musick is one of three volunteers who helm the Arkansas Abortion Support Network. She spent the last eight years donning a rainbow vest with the word “ESCORT” on it, accompanying patients from an often-vitriol-charged parking lot to the doors of the Little Rock Family Planning Clinic, the only spot in Arkansas that was dedicated to performing surgical abortions.
The Times article goes on to describe Musick’s own abortion testimony,
Musick’s own abortion story. “I had an abortion when I was in college,” Musick told me. The pregnancy, she said, “was not God-intended. It was not any-intended.” At her devoutly religious college, continuing the pregnancy would have meant the end of her education, or worse. “I know for a fact my life would have taken turns that I can’t even begin to fathom if I had continued the pregnancy,” she said. “Although I can’t envision that. I seriously would have killed myself before having a baby at that point.” Having committed what her religious upbringing deemed a sin — sex before marriage — she “used that moment to reclaim my life for God. I wasn’t raised in a world where people thought it was a sin to have an abortion. The sin that I did was having sex before I got married. I knew that. But pregnancy is just an outcome of that. I had already sinned.” With that experience in the rearview mirror, along with a subsequent ectopic pregnancy, multiple miscarriages and, eventually, the birth of her daughter — her “pride and joy” — Musick considers herself an “abortion rights missionary” of sorts. “I see myself doing this the rest of my life, making sure that people have access to safe, legal abortions.” Though she doesn’t consider herself a practicing Adventist, she doesn’t bristle at another spiritual label — being called “an angel” by some of those whose lives she’s dropped into at pivotal moments. “I’m going to try and live up to that,” she said.
Online comments regarding the Arkansas Abortion Support Network include those who are grateful for these individuals helping pregnant women kill (abort) their children.
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“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands” (Isaiah 49:15)
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