Satan Stood No Chance Poem by Willem VanVoorthuysen

One day in that four-zeroes year BC.,
the owner of a chock-full Bethlehem inn,
had rented out his dirty, smelly stable
to a quite pregnant Nazarene woman
and a man she was not even married to.

The well-intentioned owner of that inn
might have reminded them how dfficult
would be the care of a newborn baby
in times as hard as those prevailing,
but that there was a safe way out for her.

'Didn't you know that a pregnant woman
has the legal right to choose between
the awful burden of forced motherhood,
or the freedom to enjoy her life again,
after removing some troublesome tissue? '

We know that Mary and Josef would have
rejected such devilish advice on the spot,
whereby we accept Christ's human birth,
and every unborn baby's right to be born,
so help us God, Creator of all human life!