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The Legacy Collection

Things Unfinished

Volume IV

"For Sarah"

By
Dennis Fischer & Randy Vild

Summary: By Blow the Trumpet

In 2011 Blow the trumpet explored the idea of creating high end audio commentaries and publish them monthly. Each commentary would last approximately five minutes and address some of the critical issues facing God’s Church as well as the times we live in. Because of our commitment to exceptional quality we anticipated the investment in manpower as well as production costs may make this a mountain too steep to climb. However, we became determined to pursue this endeavor—in the hope it might encourage others to become more committed in proclaiming the gospel as a witness to a world totally defiant against its Creator.

With the realization that this project might be short lived we felt it was critical that the messages reflect emotion and a force that would animate the passions of a secular audience. Because just a few years before Blow the Trumpet under the artistry of Randy Vild produced a touching video on abortion called The Great Massacre—a work that received considerable attention, even including praise from those who opposed our Pro-life position, a decision was made to feature this topic again.

At this point Mr. Fischer began to compose the narrative to be used. Additionally, a decision was made to release it the following January on the anniversary of Rowe V Wade. Although virtually everyone associated with the project assumed Fischer would give the message, he had some reservations and they may have been due, in part to his own ego. Mr. Fischer absolutely hated his voice and some life experiences didn’t help. One occurred when Art Braidic his co-author of A Sabbath Test informed him that he received a note regarding a split sermon they had given. The writer of the note couldn’t remember Fischer’s name so he referred to him as “the guy with the squeaky voice.” Even his father with whom he had a great relationship would occasionally refer to him as “Boy Soprano.” Not exactly a confidence builder to say the least.

Mr. Fischer even considered contracting a professional voice-over to do it but the additional cost as well as studio time made it impractical. As with so many projects of this type there were overruns, not the least of which was the length of the commentary. Instead of being five minutes in length it was SEVEN (ouch). However, after much deliberation a decision was made to roll the dice because the message was deemed very compelling.

On the day of recording everyone was ready and things couldn’t have gone better. The entire message was presented in one take. For those familiar with such projects this is unheard of. It is not unusual for such productions to take several hours if not longer. Additionally, at the conclusion Mr. Vild arranged a sound track with a perfect score befitting the message leading Fischer to heap praises on his collaborator. “Randy, you’re a genius. The music even softens my voice. Thank you.”

As you listen to the actual broadcast on the link provided you will notice Mr. Fischer uses the word “heartbroken” when signing off. This was totally spontaneous and not a part of the original script. When the message was over, he apologized and offered to do another take. “I don’t know what happened. It just came out.” The decision to keep it was a “no-brainer." Some have suggested that the message seemed to be deeply personal to him perhaps even touching a part of his own life. But of course we are only speculating.

In the aftermath of the commentary our entire wing on abortion has received much appreciated attention. Even Right to Life organizations have posted links to it.

And Now, we at Blow the Trumpet are honored to include “For Sarah” as the fourth installment of our Legacy Collection.

Sermon

This month the United States marks the 39th anniversary of Roe v Wade in which the nations highest court ruled that a woman's "right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy was somehow protected by the constitution. It is difficult to imagine how anyone could honestly believe that the framers of this nation’s greatest document would ever draw such a conclusion, but seven justices on the court did just that.

One of the great tragedies embodied in this decision is that it did not come about as a result of legislative action but rather as a result of judicial activism. In other words, Roe v Wade became the law of the land without the involvement of one elected member of congress (the branch of government whose purpose is to make laws). Instead, abortion was pronounced legal by a handful of unelected jurists who have never been accountable to one voter.

This ruling went so contrary to the purpose of the High Court as originally intended by our founding fathers that Dr. John Hart Ely, the Dean of Stanford University Law School wrote that its decision “was NOT based on constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be so."

President Ronald Reagan once characterized abortion as “radically at odds with our history, our heritage, and our concepts of justice.”

But now it is the law of the land. And it has been so for nearly four decades. What seemed to be so lost on those esteemed legal minds back in ‘73 was that the issue being set before them didn’t simply concern an unborn child, it concerned every member of the human family. This is because it is impossible to diminish the value of one category of human life—the unborn—without diminishing the value of all human life. Perhaps the notable English poet, John Donne, said it best:

"any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Since the rendering of this landmark decision over 50 million innocent unborn children have been sacrificed to the god of convenience. And no matter how hard proponents of this practice try to rehabilitate it, abortion stands as an evil of unspeakable magnitude. It is the oppression of society’s weakest members and their voices cry out.

One such voice belonged to a sweet child named Sarah Brown whose remarkable story stands as an indictment against all who condone this brutality. In 1993, Sarah’s pregnant teenage mother and her parents traveled nearly a thousand miles to a clinic specializing in late term abortions. After completing the appropriate paperwork it was time. Sarah of course had no idea what was about to take place—and there was no voice arguing on behalf of her life. On this day she was all alone.

The doctor began the procedure by injecting a poisonous syringe through the mother’s uterus and into the upper left side of Sarah’s face. When he was finished, he instructed the mother to return the next day when the life she was carrying would be dead and could be extracted.

However, when morning came her baby was still alive. Her mother then began to complain of serious abdominal pains. Her parents rushed her to a local hospital where this tiny infant was eventually born—ALIVE. But in horrible condition. As the physician and his staff beheld the grotesque figure that lay before them they concluded that any attempt at life-support would be futile, so none was offered. At this point Sarah’s mother and grandparents quickly left.

Meanwhile, the little child was wrapped in a blanket and placed in a bassinet to die alone. However, even without medical care, she remained alive. After many hours had passed, the delivery room staff decided to give her treatment. Miraculously, she managed to survive through the entire ordeal.

"Sarah", as her adoptive parents later named her, lived until the age of 5, when she succumbed to the developmental harm done to her body during the abortion. The solution that had been injected into the side of her face left her permanently blind and brain damaged. But it certainly didn’t have to be that way. Prior to her mother’s first visit to the abortion clinic, Sarah was a perfectly normal yet to be born baby girl. All medical records indicated that she had no disabilities or deformities. Had her life not been so violently assaulted, Sarah Brown would be celebrating her 19th birthday this year (2012).

The 127th Psalm calls children a heritage of God and the fruit of the womb His gift. I’m just curious, but how do you think He views Row v Wade?

Now for all of us at Blow the Trumpet, this is Dennis Fischer, heartbroken, thanks for listening.

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