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Adoption

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Do those pro lifers ever adopt?? Ask the Hardins of TN...

 How many of those pro lifers ever adopt???

  Well the Hardin family, whom I am proud to call friends, are as pro life as they come.   Just take a look at their van covered in pro life stickers...their 8 home-schooled children.....their entry into pro life oratory contests.....avid and trained sidewalk counselors and  in several  pro life arenas.....I can count on them  to march in the parade and help with any pro life event.  

They have worked and fund raised for over two years to raise the money  to adopt this special needs child from Armenia who had never been outside her orphanage in her 4 years of life. While the prayed and waited for the bureaucracy  to move, they almost lost her as Kathy Hardin received a call to make an emergency trip as  their to be daughter, Karene was critically ill.

She  was sick and down to only 15 pounds.  This  hospital was without the basic necessities to treat her. I must admit when I received  the broadcast email of what was happening, I was greatly discouraged. The Hardins have a strong faith and when they finished the email by telling us to take a front row seat and watch what God can do;  I must admit I felt that she could not possibly survive even if  they were able to raise the funds for an air ambulance from Armenia to Nashville.   

Fast forward ... they were able to get the adoption accomplished in an emergency period of time, fly home on a commercial flight, get her into Vanderbilt for the needed surgery literally in the nick of time. Yea God !!!.....slap me across the face for  my lack of faith.


Channel 5  covers the story here, here and  here.
"For two weeks it was pretty touch and go and I was working on adrenaline," Hardin said.
Karine suffers from Spina Bifida and lives with a shunt to reduce swelling in her brain. Just weeks before she was scheduled to make the journey, the Hardin's said she underwent surgery to correct the shunt, then developed meningitis, and lost nearly 20 pounds when the Armenian hospital withheld pain medicine and antibiotics.
If you'd like to help with her medical costs, you can make a donation to the Karine John Hardin fund at the Hendersonville branch of Regions Bank.
You can also visit the following Facebook page for updates: http://www.causes.com/causes/588490-rescue-karine-hardin




2 comments:

roddma said...

It is amazing how pro-choice preach choice and turn the noses up to other solutions. If you say adoption, they act like you are forcing it on the mother. They talk about how adoptions are bad and the baby is better off not being born. I think some abort becuase they feel there is no other option. But if pro-life should adopt what about them? Does this mean they should pay for every abortion? Some of us would like to do more ut lack resources. The power of the Constitution grant sme free speech and the right to believe what I want. I know most of us are against drunk driving about does this mean we should all become police and examine all vehicles? It's all about rights for pro-choice and not solutions.

Anonymous said...

roddma, as a pro-choicer I can tell you pro-choice do not turn up their noses at adoption. We do, however, turn our noses up at others who try to tell women they should not be able to choose whether to continue a pregnancy or not. Adoptions aren't "bad". Do you have any idea the level of scutiny involved now in order to adopt. I would say some situations where a child is kept by it's mother and/or father are bad because quite frankly some are unfit and ill-prepared to support themselves let alone children.

As for the rest of your comment, I find it hard to address as it is so rambling.

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