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Copyright: © 2009 Jan White
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WHEN WILL AMERICA RESTORE THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE?

By: Jan White

Stojan Adasevic….you’ve probably never heard of this man’s unusual name unless you’re from the country of Serbia, formerly part of Yugoslavia.  Stojan Adasevic is a doctor there.

Articles published recently in various newspapers and magazines in Eastern Europe tell about how a recurring dream changed Dr. Adasevic’s medical career.  He was converted from being the “champion of abortion” to the most important pro-life leader in Serbia.

For 26 years, this doctor performed abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, totaling approximately 48,000 abortions.  Then, he began having a recurring dream in which he saw a “beautiful field full of children of all ages running and playing.”  But these children would always run away from him in fear.

In every dream, he saw another person - a man, dressed in a black and white robe, staring at him in silence.  Each night the dream was repeated and each morning he would wake up in a cold sweat.

One night, during his dream, he asked the man, “Who are you?” The man replied, “My name is Thomas Aquinas (a 13th century priest, professor and philosopher).  Aquinas continued, “Why don’t you ask me who these children are?”   

Then, Thomas Aquinas startled Stojan Adasevic, telling him these were the children the Serbian doctor had aborted.  When he awoke, Adasevic determined not to perform any more abortions.

The outcome of his decision came at a cost.  The then-communist government reportedly “cut his salary in half, fired his daughter from her job, and did not allow his son to enter the university.” 

Since then, Dr. Adasevic has become the most important pro-life leader in Serbia.  He returned to the faith of his childhood and has studied the writings of Thomas Aquinas.  Today, the doctor continues to fight for the lives of the unborn.

Reading about Dr. Adasevic reminds me of another man who had a dream.  Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream for our country.  In one of his most famous speeches, he described what he envisioned for America. 

The words of Martin Luther King, Jr. also describe what I envision for our country.  “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’”

I have a dream that our nation will, once again, recognize that every life is a gift from God, the creator and giver of all life – Whose eyes sees each person before they are born and Who “knits (us) together in (our) mother's womb” (Psalm 139:13).

I have a dream that one day every life - both born and unborn, from conception until natural death – will be looked upon as precious and to be valued.  I pray that one day our culture of death will become a culture of life.

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