Gianna Jessen is a tremendous and a very courageous young lady who is also a survivor of a botched abortion. She should be dead, but God in His infinite grace and mercy has allowed this young lady to share her testimony of God's goodness and truth. She is truly the face of abortion, and the face that those who feel unborn children are nothing more than a "choice" and the "freedom of privacy" would like to keep hidden.
I was able to hear her share her story last year as well as use the beautiful singing voice that God has blessed her with in a worship service at First Baptist Church of Texarkana and i was blown away. I do hope this television ad does get plenty of air time between now and election day.
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Are you kidding me!?!?!?
Barack Hussein Obama was giving a speech where he apparently is pandering to those who feel that unborn children should be denied the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness because of a woman's so called "right to choose" death...and made one of the most shocking statements i think i have ever heard from the left. He claims that he wants to teach his own daughters moral values, which i do applaud if this is true, but then said that if either one of them makes a "mistake" then he doesn't want them to be "punished with a baby." I guess if you feel the birth of a child is nothing more than a "mistake" and a "punishment", then you have no reason to let that child live.
As bad as that was he went on say he also didn't want them to be punished with an STD at the age of 16. So, not only would a child be punishment in Obama's twisted world, but it is also comparable to an STD!!! And this is the leading candidate for the White House for the democrat party? This is the person that the left in our country want to carry their banner as the leader of their party? Stop the world...i think i want off!
Not once have i thought Barack Hussein Obama as being the answer for our country, unless it was a really stupid question, but this should seal the deal for conservatives who are considering supporting this man. This is absolutely disgraceful.
Friday, March 07, 2008
The Audacity of Hope: A Second-Generational Query (An open letter to Senator Obama)
Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, has been one of the great defenders of the sanctity of life and traditional marriage in our time. One of his students, Sherif Gergis, a 2008 Princeton Graduate and Rhodes Scholar, has written a powerful letter to U.S. Senator Barack Obama on the subject of the protection of unborn human life. Professor George has asked that the following letter be read carefully and distributed widely.
Dear Senator Obama:
As an immigrant from Kenya, your father found new hope in America’s noble principles and vast opportunities. The same promise brought my parents here from Egypt when I was still too young to thank them. Now you have inspired my generation with your vision of a country united around the same ideals of liberty and justice, “filled with hope and possibility for all Americans.”
But do you mean it?
As a legislator, you have opposed every effort to protect unborn human life. Shockingly, you even opposed a bill to protect the lives of babies who, having survived an attempted abortion, are born alive. Despite your party’s broad support for legal abortion and its public funding, most Democrats (including Senator Clinton) did not oppose the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. You, however, opposed it. Your vision of America seems to eliminate “hope and possibility” for a whole class of Americans: the youngest and most vulnerable. You would deny them the most basic protection of justice, the most elementary equality of opportunity: the right to be born.
As a prerequisite for any other right, the right to life is the great civil-rights issue of our time. It is what slavery and segregation were to generations past. Our response to this issue is the measure of our fidelity to a defining American principle: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”
You have asked me to vote for you. In turn, may I ask you three simple questions? They are straightforward questions of fact about abortion. They are at the heart of the debate. In fairness, I believe that you owe the people you would lead a good-faith answer to each:
1. The heart whose beating is stilled in every abortion — is it a human heart?
2. The tiny limbs torn by the abortionist’s scalpel — are they human limbs?
3. The blood that flows from the fetus’s veins — is it human blood?
If the stopped heart is a human heart, if the torn limbs are human limbs, if the spilled blood is human blood, can there be any denying that what is killed in an abortion is a human being? In your vision for America, the license to kill that human being is a right. You have worked to protect that “right” at every turn. But can there be a right to deny some human beings life or the equal protection of the law?
Of course, some do deny that every human being has a right to life. They say that size or degree of development or dependence can make a difference. But the same was once said of color. Some say that abortion is a “necessary evil.” But the same was once said of slavery. Some say that prohibiting abortion would only harm women by driving it underground. But to assume so is truly to play the politics of fear. A compassionate society would never accept these false alternatives. A compassionate society would protect both mother and child, coming to the aid of women in need rather than calling violence against their children the answer to their problems.
Can we become a society that does not sacrifice some people to help others? Or is that hope too audacious? You have said that abortion is necessary to protect women’s equality. But surely we can do better. Surely we can build an America where the equality of some is not purchased with the blood of others. Or would that mean too much change from politics as usual?
Can we provide every member of the human family equal protection under the law? Your record as a legislator gives a resounding answer: No, we can’t. That is the answer the Confederacy gave the Union, the answer segregationists gave young children, the answer a complacent bus driver once gave a defiant Rosa Parks. But a different answer brought your father from Kenya so many years ago; a different answer brought my family from Egypt some years later. Now is your chance, Senator Obama, to make good on the spontaneous slogan of your campaign, to adopt the more American and more humane answer to the question of whether we can secure liberty and justice for all: Yes, we can.
(Crosspost at CGC)
Dear Senator Obama:
As an immigrant from Kenya, your father found new hope in America’s noble principles and vast opportunities. The same promise brought my parents here from Egypt when I was still too young to thank them. Now you have inspired my generation with your vision of a country united around the same ideals of liberty and justice, “filled with hope and possibility for all Americans.”
But do you mean it?
As a legislator, you have opposed every effort to protect unborn human life. Shockingly, you even opposed a bill to protect the lives of babies who, having survived an attempted abortion, are born alive. Despite your party’s broad support for legal abortion and its public funding, most Democrats (including Senator Clinton) did not oppose the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act. You, however, opposed it. Your vision of America seems to eliminate “hope and possibility” for a whole class of Americans: the youngest and most vulnerable. You would deny them the most basic protection of justice, the most elementary equality of opportunity: the right to be born.
As a prerequisite for any other right, the right to life is the great civil-rights issue of our time. It is what slavery and segregation were to generations past. Our response to this issue is the measure of our fidelity to a defining American principle: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.”
You have asked me to vote for you. In turn, may I ask you three simple questions? They are straightforward questions of fact about abortion. They are at the heart of the debate. In fairness, I believe that you owe the people you would lead a good-faith answer to each:
1. The heart whose beating is stilled in every abortion — is it a human heart?
2. The tiny limbs torn by the abortionist’s scalpel — are they human limbs?
3. The blood that flows from the fetus’s veins — is it human blood?
If the stopped heart is a human heart, if the torn limbs are human limbs, if the spilled blood is human blood, can there be any denying that what is killed in an abortion is a human being? In your vision for America, the license to kill that human being is a right. You have worked to protect that “right” at every turn. But can there be a right to deny some human beings life or the equal protection of the law?
Of course, some do deny that every human being has a right to life. They say that size or degree of development or dependence can make a difference. But the same was once said of color. Some say that abortion is a “necessary evil.” But the same was once said of slavery. Some say that prohibiting abortion would only harm women by driving it underground. But to assume so is truly to play the politics of fear. A compassionate society would never accept these false alternatives. A compassionate society would protect both mother and child, coming to the aid of women in need rather than calling violence against their children the answer to their problems.
Can we become a society that does not sacrifice some people to help others? Or is that hope too audacious? You have said that abortion is necessary to protect women’s equality. But surely we can do better. Surely we can build an America where the equality of some is not purchased with the blood of others. Or would that mean too much change from politics as usual?
Can we provide every member of the human family equal protection under the law? Your record as a legislator gives a resounding answer: No, we can’t. That is the answer the Confederacy gave the Union, the answer segregationists gave young children, the answer a complacent bus driver once gave a defiant Rosa Parks. But a different answer brought your father from Kenya so many years ago; a different answer brought my family from Egypt some years later. Now is your chance, Senator Obama, to make good on the spontaneous slogan of your campaign, to adopt the more American and more humane answer to the question of whether we can secure liberty and justice for all: Yes, we can.
(Crosspost at CGC)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Why an abortion?
I found this interesting survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute from 2004, which is affiliated with Planned Parenthood:
Reasons for an abortion:
Parents are unready: 25%
Can’t afford baby right now: 23%
This includes:
*unmarried
*student or planning to study
*can’t afford baby and child care
*can’t afford basic life needs
*unemployed
*can’t leave job to care for baby
*would have to find a new place to live
*not enough support from husband/partner
*husband/partner unemployed
*currently on welfare or public assistance
Has all the children she wanted or children are all grown: 19%
Has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood: 8%
Is too immature or young to have a child: 7%
Some other unlisted reason: 6%
Concerned about how having a baby would change her life: 4%
This includes:
*would interfere with education plans
*would interfere with career plans
*would interfere with care of children or dependents
Mother has health problems: 4%
Possible fetal health problems: 3%
Rape or incest: <0.5%
Woman’s parents want her to have an abortion: <0.5%
Husband or partner wants her to have an abortion: <0.5%
Doesn’t want others to know that she had relations or is pregnant: <0.5%
So, this suggests that less than 8% of abortions are for health issues or rape/incest and less than 1% are "forced" abortions...meaning that 91% of abortions are for nothing more than late term birth control.
That just doesn't seem right to me, nor does it seem right to God.
Let's see what He has to say about it:
"Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves." Psalm 100:3
"Thus saith the LORD, they redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb; I am the LORD that maketh all things." Isaiah 44:24
"But now, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand." Isaiah 64:8
"Before I formed thee in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you..." Jeremiah 1:5
"And God spoke all these words, saying...thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:1,13
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." Deuteronomy 30:19
Reasons for an abortion:
Parents are unready: 25%
Can’t afford baby right now: 23%
This includes:
*unmarried
*student or planning to study
*can’t afford baby and child care
*can’t afford basic life needs
*unemployed
*can’t leave job to care for baby
*would have to find a new place to live
*not enough support from husband/partner
*husband/partner unemployed
*currently on welfare or public assistance
Has all the children she wanted or children are all grown: 19%
Has problems with relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood: 8%
Is too immature or young to have a child: 7%
Some other unlisted reason: 6%
Concerned about how having a baby would change her life: 4%
This includes:
*would interfere with education plans
*would interfere with career plans
*would interfere with care of children or dependents
Mother has health problems: 4%
Possible fetal health problems: 3%
Rape or incest: <0.5%
Woman’s parents want her to have an abortion: <0.5%
Husband or partner wants her to have an abortion: <0.5%
Doesn’t want others to know that she had relations or is pregnant: <0.5%
So, this suggests that less than 8% of abortions are for health issues or rape/incest and less than 1% are "forced" abortions...meaning that 91% of abortions are for nothing more than late term birth control.
That just doesn't seem right to me, nor does it seem right to God.
Let's see what He has to say about it:
"Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves." Psalm 100:3
"Thus saith the LORD, they redeemer, and He that formed thee from the womb; I am the LORD that maketh all things." Isaiah 44:24
"But now, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand." Isaiah 64:8
"Before I formed thee in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you..." Jeremiah 1:5
"And God spoke all these words, saying...thou shalt not kill." Exodus 20:1,13
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." Deuteronomy 30:19
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Roe and The Painful Legacy
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling on the Roe v. Wade case, which has amounted to being nothing more than bad law based on lies (by Norma McCorvey's own admission) that helped usher in a culture of death. As a result of this poorly made decision by our nation's highest court nearly 49 million children have been denied the most principle right promised to us as Americans...the "right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"Jane Roe" of the infamous Roe v. Wade case was actually Norma McCorvey, and she has fought for the most of the last 13 years since becoming a born again believer to see this horrible law overturned. In her book Won By Love and on her website www.crossingoverministry.org she states:
"Norma," I said to myself, "They're right." I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!
I felt "crushed" under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception.' It wasn't about 'missed periods.' It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion--at any point--was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."
Abortion is murder, plain and simple. It ends a life, a life that in God's eyes is precious. Psalm 139:13-16 tells us, "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When i was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them."
There are no "accidents" in God's eyes, and even a child that came about "unintentionally" based on our own sinful, human standards is never unintentional in God's sight. He has a purpose for each and every child...and for 49 billion children, that potential went untapped in most cases because of some one's selfishness.
God has blessed America, and i believe that He continues to bless us and protect us today, but until we end this culture of death that began with a bad law built upon lies...i'm afraid that hand of blessing and protection may one day be lifted from us.
As an aside, one of the great ironies of this ruling is that Norma McCorvey never had that abortion that the Supreme Court's decision was based on. She had a baby girl who she put up for adoption.
"Jane Roe" of the infamous Roe v. Wade case was actually Norma McCorvey, and she has fought for the most of the last 13 years since becoming a born again believer to see this horrible law overturned. In her book Won By Love and on her website www.crossingoverministry.org she states:
"Norma," I said to myself, "They're right." I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!
I felt "crushed" under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about 'products of conception.' It wasn't about 'missed periods.' It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion--at any point--was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."
Abortion is murder, plain and simple. It ends a life, a life that in God's eyes is precious. Psalm 139:13-16 tells us, "For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When i was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them."
There are no "accidents" in God's eyes, and even a child that came about "unintentionally" based on our own sinful, human standards is never unintentional in God's sight. He has a purpose for each and every child...and for 49 billion children, that potential went untapped in most cases because of some one's selfishness.
God has blessed America, and i believe that He continues to bless us and protect us today, but until we end this culture of death that began with a bad law built upon lies...i'm afraid that hand of blessing and protection may one day be lifted from us.
As an aside, one of the great ironies of this ruling is that Norma McCorvey never had that abortion that the Supreme Court's decision was based on. She had a baby girl who she put up for adoption.
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