Argue with me if you want. It won’t do any good. I’m pro-life and always will be so. I’ve heard every defense of the pro-choice philosophy. None stand under the weight of the need to defend the dying innocent. Abortion is America’s modern holocaust. Given enough time, I feel America will look back on this atrocity with horror.
Abby Johnson knows this. She was the Director of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. She has repented after seeing an abortion procedure take place. She’s had an experience most pro-choice advocates never have. In fact, most women who have had abortions have never seen what she saw (and if you are reading, I love you and my heart breaks for you). If everyone in America saw it, we’d repent.
Here’s her interview with Mike Huckabee
I know that there are readers of this blog from every perspective. I’m as pro-life and conservative as they come. If you’re not, I still love you, but I think we can all agree that when rising abortion rates correlate to an economic downturn, it’s tragic! The San Francisco Chronicle reports this story about the rising demand for abortion among those who wanted their pregnancies but have lost jobs or otherwise fallen on hard financial times.
I cannot stress how tragic this is to me. I normally try not to “blog on emotion” but my wife and I dedicated an entire day this week to research, prayer, and discussion about our infertility issue. It’s on our minds all the time. We’d lose everything financially to have another child. Meanwhile, children are being aborted because of economic hard times. In our church family are a half dozen homes (minimum) that wold love and nurture those children, people who have suffered and prayed and wept for a pregnancy and can’t have one.
The society in which we live is becoming more twisted every day. I’ve had my fill of the idea that having kids is somehow financially irresponsible. And like it or not, agree or not, we’ll pay for this. We will pay for our “choices” and the abuses of our “freedoms.” If you’re tempted to throw a life away because of the economy… call me!
By the way, at the end of my righteous indignation always remains a heart of compassion for every woman who has made this tragic choice. Even if you’ve had an abortion, I love you, God loves you, and God offers His forgiveness freely on the basis of His Son’s death on the cross for you. Turn to Him and simply ask.
And if you’re considering an abortion… start here.
Feel free to comment on this post, but please don’t argue with me about politics here – this issue is far more personal to me than political, argue your political point on some related post, but not here please.
People should not be required to participate in abortion procedures. Period. In any sensible culture, that would make sense. But we’re currently living in times when social liberals have gone mad and many conservatives who beat around the bush a few months ago have helped them along.
If you haven’t heard, the Department of Health and Human Services is considering repealing a policy instated by the Bush administration protecting the right of healthcare providers to abstain from abortion procedures if they had a moral, religious, or conscientious objection. So we want women to have the freedom to choose abortion, but those who disagree will not be granted the freedom to abstain from a non-emergency procedure. And how does this make any sense?
The Bible speaks of people having their “consciences seared with a hot iron.” We’re there! And Cal Thomas has done a good job of writing about it. Listen to this…
Carried to its logical conclusion, repealing the “conscience rule” would allow hospitals to require pro-life doctors and nurses to participate in abortions. The Catholic Church teaches that elective abortion is a mortal sin, so the government is considering a requirement that would have a Catholic risk excommunication and the eternal damnation of his or her soul. Evangelical Christians regard abortion as equally offensive. Where is the separation of church and state when you really need it?… To repeal the conscience rule is an affront to every American who believes government ought to be under God, not play God.
What is even more shocking is the thought of where our nation will go in the future as our conscience continues to die. Thomas makes a bold assertion that doesn’t seem too far off base to me…
If you are a resident in an assisted-living center, you might consider putting an extra lock on the door, because you are next. By the time our consciences have been reprogrammed, the bureaucrat who decides you have outlived your usefulness will have forgotten how to feel guilty about anything.
It seems that our freedoms are expanding… unless we’re talking about the freedom to do no harm. God, I fear, based on history, what You will do with a people who refuse to feel guilty.
John Piper has written a post with 4 of the most powerful and difficult questions any President could potentially have to answer in defense of abortion. I know that many Christians are struggling with this question and I wanted to pass on the link here on my blog. So check out his brief article.
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In a recent blog, I strongly supported President Bush’s stance against government-supported embryonic stem-cell research. I am a pro-lifer only because of the Bible’s teaching (which I believe to be absolute truth) that life begins as an act of God at conception, and further that the responsibility to terminate life lies solely in His hands. Any society that does not recognize murder as a crime has little basis for any law at all.
This past week, however, President Bush commended Dr. Andrew on Eschenbach (FDA Commissioner) for his decision to allow the “Plan B” pill to be sold over-the-counter to adults. I’m surprised at the President’s tone considering his desire to foster a “culture of life” in America. The data from research on the pill shows divided evidence. The company that produces the pill, Barr Pharmaceuticals, claims that the pill prevents fertilization up to 72 hours after intercourse, but some research has shown that fertilization takes place but implantation is prevented. Essentially, the pill may equal an immediate abortion.
Beyond the issue of aborting life is the issue of sexual responsibility, which America seems to shun as an old-fashioned ideal. I believe that the last forty to fifty years have been a period of rediculous cutting lose of all responsibility in sexuality. Yes, I’m for sex only in the context of a covenant marriage between a man and a woman, but the issue is larger today than mere domestic partners and pre-marital sex. We live in a society akin to that of ancient Corinth or Ephesus. Sexual activity outside the bonds of matrimony has become idol-worship for Americans. Promiscuity and perversion is simply part of our culture.
This pill will further encourage a stripping away of sexual fidelity and responsibility. Sexual predators will see an easy out – lure a young girl into intercourse, then have her take a pill. Whatever happened to the very simple, common sense idea that if we reserve sex for a God-ordained scenario of marriage only, we’ll stay out of trouble?
The bleeding hearts among us will instantly cry “freedom” for women who are inconvenienced by the natural (that means God-designed) results of their own choices. They will also cry “tyranny” toward women who have been victimized through rape or incest. But the bottom line for me has little to do with the woman in question. I have the utmost compassion for a woman who has been the victim of rape or incest, but the reality remains that life only begins if God wills! Think of the face of that beautiful baby that comes forth from the young woman’s womb who became pregnant by no volition of her own. God declared He wanted no child to ever suffer and wants them all to be saved and to live in heaven with Him forever.
Mr. President, I believe we not only need a “culture of life” which would have been supported better by keeping this pill out of the hands of irresponsible people, but we also must have a revival of a “culture of responsibility.”
I know that we cannot change the hearts of sexually irresponsible people by making abortion (even in pill form) illegal. Nevertheless, conscience compels me to speak out continuously on behalf of the innocent unborn and young girls, who will really bear the brunt of this decision. Sex is not a toy! A pill cannot provide the easy out from the emotional damage done by sexual irresponsibility.
Mr. President, I love you and pray for you daily. I agree with your basic philosophy of life, but you kind of blew it on this one.
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