Posts tagged “Abortion”

How much of Planned Parenthood’s grisly work is abortion?

Posted on May 7th, 2013

Planned Parenthood claims that 97% of its work is unrelated to abortion. In Planned Bullyhood, Karen Handel explains why that is misleading: Planned Parenthood distorts its numbers through the way it defines a “service.” In calculating its claim that 97 percent of its services are not abortion-related, Planned Parenthood counts the distribution of a single condom as a service, just like an abortion is counted as a service. So in a given day, a clinic could give away 97 condoms, perform three abortions, and say that abortion is a minuscule part of their work. However one plays with the numbers, Planned Parenthood has an annual budget in excess of $1 billion – with millions from federal, state, and local government funding. In other words, this…

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The untold story of the Philadelphia Massacre

Posted on April 5th, 2013

David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner wonders why major news outlets—always in a rush to cover the sordid, the gruesome, the sensational—have declared a blackout on one of the most sensational court cases we’ve seen in some time. You might not know it, but there’s a mass murder trial going on in Philadelphia. There has been plenty of courtroom drama, and the death penalty remains a possibility. The media are seldom shy about such sensational affairs, but they have been with one. Perhaps it’s because the accused mass murderer is an abortion doctor, who along with his medically untrained staff is accused of killing a female patient and several babies who had already been born, alive and breathing. Gosnell’s preferred method of murder was…

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Schizophrenic doctors

Posted on April 1st, 2013

You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room, you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity in the fetal heart is not important, that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then, in the next room you assure another woman, on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it is a good thing that the heartbeat is already irregular … she has nothing to worry about, she will NOT have a live baby … All of a sudden one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion there was a lot of activity in the uterus. That’s not fluid currents. That’s obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the concentrated salt solution and kicking violently and that’s to…

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Physicians destroying life

Posted on March 28th, 2013

Even now I feel a little peculiar about [abortion], because as a physician I was trained to conserve life, and here I am destroying it. -Dr. Benjamin Kalish, abortionist LifeDate, Spring 2013, p8 (reprinted from Live Action News, 1/5/13)

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[Sermo Dei] Judica—Lent 5, 2013 (Genesis 22:1-14)

Posted on March 17th, 2013

What is worse than the killing of a child? Our society rightly recoils when some children are murdered. You must understand that the Church’s opposition to abortion from the beginning had nothing to do with the oppression of women. The child conceived in the womb is a member of the human race, a creature endowed with unalienable rights by her Creator, and we are commanded by God not to murder our fellow brothers and sisters. We are all, collectively, guilty of this evil, and we must work to stop it. And for those of you who have special guilt and pangs of conscience because of abortion, cling to those words we heard in today’s Epistle, and find in the blood of Christ that which…

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“My baby was clogging the drain of the shower”

Posted on February 22nd, 2013

The tragic, yet hopeful story of a woman who took the abortion pill RU486: It was the third day when I finally had enough energy to shower. I felt so dirty and shameful that I couldn’t wait to clean myself. It was the first time I had stood for more than a minute and I was starting to feel a little bit better by then. I got about halfway through my shower when I started to bleed again. I bled so much that it clogged the drain. It was in that moment, me trying to cleanse myself from my sin of the abortion that the truth was exposed. It was the “blood clot” or the “blob of tissue” that the clinic talked about. It…

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Our littlest neighbor needs our help

Posted on January 31st, 2013

Peter Scaer’s presentation at the recently held LCMS Life Conference was pointed and convicting, prophetic speech to a slumbering synod. His article in the recent Lutheran Witness is also vital reading. Here’s a paragraph: Some might say that [abortion] is a religious matter and that we should stay out of politics. But Christians can and must act as we are able. Many of those who fought against slavery or championed civil rights were motivated by Christ’s love for people of every race and tribe. Now, our time has come. We must put our faith into action by defending the most defenseless among us. With Christ, we must speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves. The child in the womb is our littlest…

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[Sermo Dei] LCMS Life Conference: We Must Help the Weak (St. Titus, Acts 20:35)

Posted on January 26th, 2013

“All life is not equal.” These are the words of Mary Elizabeth Williams, in her Jan. 23 Salon article, “So what if abortion ends life?”  Williams acknowledges the humanity of the aborted child, yet justifies the taking of life with that chilling statement, “All life is not equal.” She observes that we make other judgments regarding the taking of life, such as by drone strikes, capital punishment, or allowing a patient with a terminal illness to die. But of course, the unborn babies in question are not criminals or terrorists, nor in the throes of death. “All life is not equal” is the lie that upheld slavery for so long in this great land. “All life is not equal” is the lie that upholds…

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Abortion: Not a Partisan Issue

Posted on January 18th, 2013

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ JESUS, When pastors talk about politics, they tend to lose sight of their calling: to preach JESUS Christ and Him crucified for the redemption of the world. But in the matter of abortion, we are not dealing with the usual political matters such as health insurance costs, taxation rates, gun control, or foreign policy. Abortion is, quite simply, the taking of a human life. To oppose abortion is not to side with a political party: it is to take your stand with the right of every human being to live. Thus among my favorite signs at the annual March for Life are the ones from Secularists for Life, Atheists for Life, Feminists for Life, and Democrats for Life.…

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