A mother, the President, and abortion

This mother writes,

Dear Mr. President,

I had a conversation with my kids the other day.  We talked about the Gosnell case, as we try to talk about several current events.  I tried to spare them of the gruesome details and give just the short version.  They had so many questions, though.  They wanted to know what abortion was.  I explained that some mommies don’t want to grow a baby just then.  I explained, and pointed out how much work babies were.  I said that when most women have an abortion, the baby is still forming all of the organs, and not all the parts of the body work outside the mother just yet.  I talked about how hard being pregnant was sometimes.  I did not want to glorify anything.

My kids understood how hard it was.  They’ve seen me go through it a few times.  They understood the work, as we live it day in and day out as a family.  However, the reality of what an abortion is…they thought I was making that up.  They could not believe that anyone would do such a thing.  They have an easier time believing in the tooth fairy.  When I told them I was serious, they sat in horror.

I did not show them pictures.  I was determined not to villainize my opposing side of view or seek to give them nightmares.  But I want to teach my children how to form ideas.  I want them armed with facts.  I also told them about my experience with a crisis pregnancy center.  I told them what some of the woman were like, and the challenges they faced.  I talked about how some were forced into abortions by loved ones.  I talked about the ones who faced depression, or were unable to ever have children because of an abortion procedure they had years earlier.  I told them some women have abortions, and never feel bad about it.

All I can say is read the rest. . . well said.

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How should we pray for an abortion doctor?

Here are two biblical requests to pray for men like Kermit Gosnell: pray for justice and pray for mercy.  Stephen elaborates here.

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Horrified but not shocked

A powerful piece by Randy Alcorn. . . please read (all the way to the end) and then pass it on:

I’m a little taken aback that so many Christians are utterly shocked only because of the fact that this man killed some babies after they were born instead of a minute, week, month or three months earlier. As if that makes the slightest difference to the babies or to God. (I’m not talking about thelegal differences, I’m talking about moral and human rights differences.)

The “shocking discovery” that an abortionist who made millions of dollars from child-killing had such a low regard and such a profound disrespect for the lives of babies and women is properly responded to with a “Huh?” As in, didn’t we know that already? And, if we didn’t, what is wrong with us? (And by the way, while Gosnell is on trial for the murder of seven babies, the fact is that he killed thousands and thousands of children. Anyone who only counts them as babies once they get big enough is an accomplice to this man’s evil deeds.)

Could we please stop pretending? Abortion is in fact the ruthless killing of an innocent human being. That’s what it always has been, and that’s what it always will be. When Planned Parenthood and NOW and politicians deny this, they are simply lying. There is nothing new about this. If you are surprised to discover, as in the case of this Pennsylvanian abortion clinic, that those who kill babies for a living are really not very good people, my question is…where have you been, and what have you been thinking goes on in these clinics? And if some abortionists are better at sanitizing the walls and disposing of baby body parts, do you really think that makes them any better in the sight of God Almighty, Creator of these children, and Judge of us all?

Unborn children in America are our equivalent of Jews in Germany seventy years ago. The church’s indifference to them, and failure to stand up in their defense, is a shame of huge proportions. Self-righteously we decry the German church’s failure to stand up for the Jews. Meanwhile we fail to stand up for the unborn. We shake our heads in disgust at the German church’s tolerance of one holocaust while ignoring our own tolerance of another. It is always far easier to see the bloodshed of another country of another time and wonder why the Christians didn’t stand up, than it is to see the atrocities of one’s own place and time, where we are failing to stand up.

. . . could we stop being shocked only when babies are “aborted” an hour after they are born? Could we start being shocked when the same children—with the same beating hearts, measurable brainwaves and preprogrammed DNA—are aborted an hour, month or seven months before they’re born? What, in the eyes of God Almighty, is the difference?

Read the whole article here.

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Three articles on same-sex marriage, Bill O’Reilly and Gosnell

With all the attention this issue is getting, how important it will be for the church to speak with Scriptural authority.  Rick Philips responded to a call against doing this in his post “Bill O’Reilly, Gay Marriage, and the Bible.”  He then responded further with “Follow-up to Bill O’Reilly, Gay Marriage, and the Bible.”

Also see Andree Sue Peterson’s experience of being “At the Gosnell Trial” and witnessing the unbelievable testimony of one of the teenage mother workers at the clinic.

HT: Barry York

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Have you heard about this? Kermit Gosnell trial?

100 babies born alive and killed at an abortion clinic in PA?  Yet hardly any media coverage of the trial of the doctor who lead the clinic.  Here’s a round-up of several articles that bring attention to this ignored, horrific story. Some contain a link to the grand jury report (which is very graphic but exposes the depth of man’s depravity).

Murder Trial of PA Abortionist Kermit Gosnell by Alex Chediak

The Gosnell Case: A Human Rights Tragedy of Epic Proportions by Carolyn McCulley

Kermit Gosnell and the Gospel  by Russell Moore

The Story You May Not Have Heard (Warning: Graphic Reading)  by Jason H

Documentary on Kermit Gosnell’s Abortion Horrors

8 Reasons for the Media Blackout on Kermit Gosnell  Trevin Was

9 Things You Should Know about the Gosnell Murder and Infanticide Trial by Joe Carter

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Tabletalk on personhood

The April edition of Tabletalk is out. This issue examines the nature of personhood. Throughout history, systematic persecution has resulted whenever oppressors redefine human personhood and rights in a way that excludes members of the oppressed group. Scripture, however, reveals that all human beings have dignity, personhood, and rights given to them by our Creator. Christians must affirm God’s perspective on human personhood and dignity, and, therefore, stand against every form of dehumanization in our day, especially the dehumanization evident in the scourge of abortion.

Contributors include R.C. Sproul along with W. Robert Godfrey, Mark E. Ross, Justin Holcomb, Randy Alcorn, R.C. Sproul Jr., Scotty Smith, Ted Turnau and Tim Challies.

Here are links to several free columns and articles from this month:

• The Sons of God by R.C. Sproul
• The Voice of the Church by R.C. Sproul
• Proclaiming Life to Captives by Burk Parsons
• The Gates of Hell by R.C. Sproul Jr.
• Blood in the Streets by R.C. Sproul Jr.
• Honoring Christ Online: An Interview with Tim Challies
• When God is Not Enough by Scotty Smith
• Advice for the Pop Culturally Perplexed by Ted Turnau

HT: Ligonier

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Shocking video: Planned Parenthood defending post-birth abortion

Watch and weep. This is the unvarnished position of the biggest abortion organization in our country.  The position they hold on this issue makes even the spokeswoman uncomfortable and ill-prepared as she defends this position.

Just incredible how calmly and matter-of-factly proponents can talk about such issues.

HT: Z

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Amazing video of baby in the womb

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.” (Psalm 139:13-15)

Watch here

 

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The greatest slaughter in human history

Joe Carter:

The Chinese government recently admitted that over the last four decades the country has aborted 336 million unborn children, many of them forcibly.

To put the numbers in perspective, the 336 million deaths in China are:

• More than the entire population of the world at the time of the Crusades (c. 1100 AD).

• Equal to the entire combined populations of the United States and Australia.

• More deaths than were caused by (in millions): the Bubonic Plague in Europe (100), the Great Chinese Famine (45), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic (40), the HIV/AIDS pandemic (25), the Holocaust (13), the Soviet famine of 1932-1933 (8), the Russian famine of 1921 (3), and the American Civil War (.8).

• More than all the people killed in the 10 ten deadliest wars in human history (Based on highest estimates (in millions): World War II (72), World War I (65), Mongol Conquest (60), An Lushan Rebellion (36), Taiping Rebellion (30), Qing Dynasty conquest of the Ming Dynasty (25), Conquests of Timur (20), Dungan Revolt (12), Russian Civil War (9), Second Congo War (5.4))

• More than all the children that will be born in the world over the next ten years.

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Hats off to North Dakota!

John Knight writes, “On Friday the North Dakota Senate passed two bills:

• The first forbids abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detected.  For some babies, that is as early as six weeks.

• And the second bans abortions in cases of genetic abnormalities or sex selection!

North Dakota House Bill 1305 passed and is now on its way to the governor.  It is the first bill to specifically protect unborn children with genetic abnormalities in the United States.

I know the likelihood of these pieces of legislation surviving court challenges isn’t great, but it is heartening to have an elected body speak so clearly of their desire to protect unborn children with disabilities.:

Find out more on this story from John Knight.

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