URGENT PRAYERS/PETITIONS:
"How Roe vs. Wade Gave Us Gosnell," by Eric MetaxasMay 1, 2013; http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-archive/entry/13/22104
Same -Sex "Marriage"- PLEASE PRAY WITH ME (every day untill the decision is revealed around mid-June) THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL VOTE TO UPHOLD THE 2 LAWS REVIEWED SUPPORTING A TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE.. PRAY that the Court will resist any pressure to MAKE new law based on "cultural trends." PRAY as though the very future of the institution of the family is at stake because it is. PRAY! - for the sake of possibly millions of children, and for our country if it is to continue to be shown any more favor by our Heavenly Father, who I promise you will be very displeased if homosexual marriage is legalized; "GOD IS NOT [TO BE] MOCKED..." - (Gal. 6:7) - Stan [Be sure to check out my brief essay at post #478.]
CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PASTOR SAEED (Iranian-born AMERICAN pastor) who just started an 8 year sentence for helping the underground churches in Iran) If you have not already, please join over 500,000 (was recently250,000) who have signed the petition for Pastor Saeed's release and tell your friends about it. http://aclj.org/iran/save-american-pastor-from-iranian-prison-sentence As the Lord leads, please pray: *For Pastor Abedini as he endures one of Iran’s most deadly prisons, potentially beaten and abused regularly, simply because of his Christian faith. *For the pastor’s wife and family and the Holy Spirit’s comfort upon them. * For God to visit his tormenters and all in his cell with him with supernatural dreams of the risen Christ, and use the pastor's actions and words to draw them to repent and turn to Christ; that God would use the pastor's time in that prison to spark a genuine spiritual revival that will bring scores of Iranians to Christ..*For the growing world pressure to finally obtain the pastor’s release.
LATEST Update - April 15 - 1)".. During the weekly prison visit today, Pastor Saeed's family reported that his physical condition is worsening - seeing first-hand the marks and symptoms left by the recent beating. These beatings and the internal injuries are causing Pastor Saeed frequent fainting spells. Iranian officials are telling Pastor Saeed it could be an additional two months before he will receive medical treatment. Such a delay is inhumane and a gross violation of Iran’s international obligations. ...In addition to refusing to give Pastor Saeed the medical care he needs, it now appears authorities are stepping up their physical abuse and psychological torture. Pastor Saeed reported that cellmates, who appear to have connections to the Iranian intelligence police, recently threatened they would suffocate Pastor Saeed in his sleep, making his death look like an accident. The daily threat that his life could be taken by his internal injuries or by the hands of cellmates, weighs heavily on Pastor Saeed. .."(http://aclj.org/iran/beatings-intensify-american-pastor-saeed-condition-worsens-in-iranian-prison PRAY that Pastor Saeed might finally receive the medical treatment he needs. 2) More than 550,000 people from 180 countries have signed the petition to Save Saeed. Your voice has moved the U.S., the European Union, and many others to call for his release. But as Pastor Saeed's May 7th 33rd birthday approaches, it's time to encourage him directly. At the ACLJ, they've obtained the address of Evin Prison, and their goal is to flood the prison with thousands of messages of encouragement for Pastor Saeed. Just write a letter (or simply sign your name to one proposed greeting) and they will be sure that its delivered. These messages will let Pastor Saeed know that we're praying for him and his release, as well as send a signal to the Iranian leaders that Americans will not give up standing up for him. Go to Save Saeed.org and add your name to those sending letters to him.
"How Roe vs. Wade Gave Us Gosnell," by Eric MetaxasMay 1, 2013; http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-archive/entry/13/22104The testimony coming out of the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell paints an indelible picture of human depravity. Gosnell is charged with killing a 41-year-old woman patient as well as seven babies who’d been born alive after their abortions failed.As the liberal commentator Roger L. Simon has written, “The trial of Dr. Gosnell is a potential time bomb exploding in the conventional liberal narrative on abortion itself.” The grisly details of the case have been strangely clarifying. By confronting what happened in Gosnell’s chamber of horrors, as well as what havoc legal abortion-on-demand has wreaked on the culture, even people who would not identify themselves as pro-life are saying it’s time for a change.
One is James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal, who has written a comprehensive indictment of the status quo, which he calls “a grave evil that ought to be abolished. It is murderous, if not categorically then at least in its extreme manifestations. Maintaining it,” he goes on to say, “requires an assault on language and logic that has taken on a totalitarian character. And it is politically poisonous.”
Taranto finds himself part of what he calls “the mushy middle.” On the one hand, he sees a time and a place for legalized abortions. On the other hand, he finds the arguments in Roe v. Wade completely unconvincing. “A funny thing happens,” he writes, “when you dissent from Roe v. Wade: You come to see that there’s not much else by way of intellectual content to the case for abortion on demand.” While his “moral intuition is that an early-term abortion, or the use of abortifacient to prevent implantation, is different from a late-term abortion or infanticide,” he acknowledges that this intuition “is irreconcilable with the scientific fact that the difference between zygote and an infant—or, for that matter, an adult—is one of degree: All are human beings at different stages of development.”
And though he doesn’t want to draw the line between abortion and homicide at conception—resulting in no line at all—he understands that as a result he is on the slippery slope toward infanticide, the crime with which Gosnell is charged. “The abortion lobby,” writes Taranto, “opposes restrictions on late-term abortions. But surely at least they agree that infanticide—the killing of a child after birth—is murder. Or do they?” He then cites testimony given in the Florida House by a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood. When asked what should be done with an infant born alive from a “botched abortion,” the lobbyist replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.” In addition, Taranto notes that the “Journal of Medical Ethics” published a paper that argued for legalized “after-birth abortion,” which is to say, infanticide.
Taranto says that the Supreme Court, which had hoped a consensus would develop after its 1973 decision legalizing abortion, has instead further polarized the country—locking us in bitter, never-ending conflict. While he says a Human Life Amendment for the Constitution is impossible politically, Taranto nonetheless advocates overturning Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, thus sending the issue back to the states to fashion a compromise.Taranto’s piece is very thoughtful and deserves to be read in full. Please go to BreakPoint.org for the link to his article.
Meanwhile, as people who believe in the sanctity and dignity of all human life—from conception to natural death—we must do all we can to end abortion, understanding that it will take more than changed laws. It will take changed hearts and minds. So let’s get to work, friends. For, as Paul Ryan recently said, “We don’t want a country where abortion is simply outlawed. We want a country where it isn’t even considered.”
[bold and ialics emphasis mine]
Further Reading and Information
How Roe vs. Wade Gave Us Gosnell - Next StepsThe link between the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision and the monstrous case of Kermit Gosnell is clear: if a woman's "choice" trumps the rights of her unborn child, then why should anything change immediately following birth?
As this gruesome reality sinks in, Americans are more ready than ever to hear the pro-life message. The time is nigh for historic legal changes to protect the rights of the unborn, especially the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But changing laws won't happen unless we first change hearts and minds. Fortunately, pro-lifers have a growing arsenal of winsome, compassionate and compelling tools at their disposal. Check out some of our favorite resources below as well as the Wall Street Journal article we mentioned in today's commentary. You can also support some of the life oriented movements represented at the recent 2013 Wilberforce Weekend, including Live Action and Save the Storks.
Articles:
From Dehumanizing Word Games to Gosnell; Andrew C. McCarthy | National Review Online | April 13, 2013, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/345483/dehumanizing-word-games-gosnell-andrew-c-mccarthy
Paul Ryan Tells Anti-Abortion Advocates to Broaden Their Reach; Shushannah Walshe | ABC OTUS News | April 12, 2013; http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-tells-anti-abortion-advocates-broaden-reach-131628672--abc-news-politics.html
"More undercover video of late-term abortion inhumanity," b John Hayward,
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