Andy walked up to Tim, demanding "do you know what a tubal pregnancy is?"

"Yes I do," Tim responded, "but they don't handle that here; that has to be done at a hospital."

"We have already been to the hospital," Andy explained. "The baby is growing in her tube -- we have no other alternative! If she doesn't have an abortion she will die!"

Tim offered to arrange for Nita to be seen by another doctor, but Andy responded "are you a doctor?"

"No, but we know that they can't handle that situation here," Tim replied.

"We have already talked to other doctors; they all are telling us the same thing! You think we want this abortion? Pastors have even told us that this is not wrong. She has been crying for a week already!" Andy pointed to his head. "You see these grey hairs? I've never had grey hairs before this past week! This is killing me."

When baby Destiny's mother first found out she was pregnant, her condition was diagnosed as a possible tubal pregnancy. God used this false diagnosis to save baby Destiny's life. Today, baby Destiny is a happy one-year-old. As Tim tried to help Andy understand why the abortion chamber could not operate on a tubal pregnancy, he told him how God saved baby Destiny's life.

"Somebody is lying to you," Tim said.

Andy challenged Tim, "how many times have you been in this place?"

"We're not allowed inside the building," Tim confessed, "but we have dealt with thousands of women here for many years."

"I want to have this baby," Andy insisted. "I make enough money to support 18 kids! We're not here because we want to be, believe me."

"May I pray for you?" Tim asked Andy.

"Sure," Andy responded, but he turned and walked away instead of staying to pray with Tim.

The situation looked hopeless, but Tim contacted Terri* at the LifeHouse to see if she could locate a doctor who could see Nita. Terri would normally have been on the sidewalk, but that morning she had been feeling very dizzy so she sent Tim out in her place.

Inside the waiting room, Andy asked Nita to ask the receptionist if they can operate on a tubal pregnancy.

"No, we don't deal with that here," the receptionist replied. "But your pregnancy is normal."

With tears streaming down their faces, Nita and Andy hurried down the stairs. "We need to see a doctor right now," Andy insisted. "They say that our baby is not in her tube!"

Terri arranged for a doctor to examine Nita that afternoon. The doctor confirmed that Nita was experiencing a normal 13 week pregnancy.

Andy and Nita hugged and thanked Tim and Terri, as Andy told Tim, "when I first came down those stairs, I intended to punch you out."

"I know," Tim smiled.

"But when I saw the sincere look in your eyes I just couldn't do it," Andy admitted.

"Before we came here, my dad told me that there would be people out here and that they could get help for us," Andy said. "But I didn't think there was anything that anybody could do."

The medical facility which referred Nita to the abortion chamber has often been known to send women to the abortion chamber for fraudulent reasons. Andy and Nita intend to file a complaint against this facility and consider legal action because of the emotional distress they suffered.

"If the baby is a boy, we will name him after you, because you saved his life" Andy told Tim. "What was your name again?"

"Tim."

"Well, we hope it's a girl."

O LORD, You induced me, and I was persuaded;
You are stronger than I, and have prevailed.
I am in derision daily;
Everyone mocks me.
For when I spoke, I cried out;
I shouted, "Violence and plunder!"
Because the word of the LORD was made to me
A reproach and a derision daily.
Then I said, "I will not make mention of Him,
Nor speak anymore in His name."
But His word was in my heart like a burning fire
Shut up in my bones;
I was weary of holding it back,
And I could not.

Allow God to speak through you today even though the message you bring may cause others to mock you.