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Lisa and Stan Musil (FOXNews.com)
COSTA MESA – Stan Musil did not let legal technicalities sway him from adopting his wife's previously aborted fetuses as a way of helping his wife, Lisa, heal from the years of feeling pain and loss, he said.
The couple signed adoption papers created by attorney Ron Stoddart of Nightlight Christian Adoptions Monday and the documents were executed live on radio. Rich Buhler's radio program Talk From the Heart on KBRT AM-740 hosted the event.
ASSIST News Service published an article Tuesday about the Christian couple's ceremonial adoption process and Lisa's life story that includes a difficult decision at 19 years old to abort her first child. By the time she was pregnant with a second child, she said she could not even say the word “abortion” and preferred to describe the pregnancies as “terminated.”
Now, Lisa is a part of a ministry in Riverside called White As Snow that helps women in crisis pregnancies, as well as women and men who are dealing with the pain of abortion.
“There is such a huge void after an abortion,” explains Lisa. “Once a mother realizes what has happened and that there was a living child in her womb and who would be alive today had it not been for the abortion, the pain is almost too much to bear.”
It has become common for women who have experienced abortion or miscarriage to imagine whether their child was a boy or a girl and to give the baby a name. “Some of us have asked God to reveal that information to us so we can further acknowledge the person-hood of the child and grieve the loss more concretely,” Lisa said.
A cemetery plot at Pierce Brothers Crestlawn Memorial Park in Riverside is to be the site of a memorial to aborted children, a granite monument on which the names of the children will be engraved, according to ANS.
Stoddart said that it wasn’t possible to do an adoption in the eyes of the law because there was no birth certificate for the aborted children, no legal acknowledgments that they ever existed. But it would be possible for Stan and Lisa to do a ceremonial adoption.
He said they could sign paperwork with each other that reflected their desire for the adoption to take place and their desire to honor the person-hood of the two children Lisa had briefly parented. "Before each other, before God, and before witnesses, they would be embracing the children as a part of their marriage," he said.
When the intended memorial is erected in Riverside, among the names will be Alicia Anne Musil and Vincent Matthew Musil.
Lisa said that abortion is such a lonely place to be that she feels blessed that her children are acknowledged and love by others, especially by Stan. “He’s the man I never prayed for,” said Lisa. “I could never have prayed for anyone as wonderful as him.”
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