HUNTSVILLE — Wednesday, 1819 News founder and CEO Bryan Dawson and State Rep. Ernie Yarbrough (R-Trinity) visited the University of Alabama in Huntsville for a "Prove Me Wrong: Christ or Chaos" debate on campus.
Among the topics addressed by the pair at the event was the process of abortion and the need for Christians to support mothers who decide to have children rather than the procedure.
"The heinousness of a woman having a child in her womb, the safest place where a child should be, and what we're doing in this culture of death is we're chopping that baby into pieces, and we're shop-vacuuming it out," Dawson told the crowd of approximately 60 students. "That is why there's such a focus on abortion in the church, because it's heinous. In Christ or Chaos, we want to live in harmony with God, which means we want to do things that please Him."
He added, "There's no way we could be more against nature than going into the safest place that should exist on Earth for a child, which is its mother's womb, and slaughtering that child."
Dawson then referenced adoption organizations that support mothers in need, such as Huntsville's Kids to Love.
"I have seen an immense amount of work by Christians to create places for women to go who have decided to have their child," Dawson continued. "There is Kids to Love, right here in Huntsville. It's an amazing ministry that works to place children in those situations, going around the standard foster care system and privatizing it. They have an incredible amount of resources where they provide everything from diapers and formula to clothes and school books to women who don't have that."
Yarbrough spoke about the church's early practice of saving unwanted children in Roman times, while stressing the need for Christians to assist with adoption and foster care.
"It is incumbent upon Christians to present the whole package, a healthy marriage, healthy sexuality, home care of the child," Yarbrough said. "In fact, in the early church, when it was a common practice of Romans to throw their babies they didn't want to be eaten by wild dogs, the Christians became famously known as standing under the bridge, taking those babies up and raising them as their own, which is one of the ways the church exploded in growth."
He added, "I do think it's incumbent that the Christians be involved, that we as a nation be involved in hospitals, adoption, foster care. All of those in our country all have Christian roots."
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