"A HORROR WE CAN'T UNKNOW" - Tony Perkins, Washington Watch, February 14, 2019; https://www.frc.org/updatearticle/20190214/horror-unknow
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The truth is a funny thing. Once it's let loose to confront and challenge and change, you can't unknow it. That's horrible news for Democrats, who've spent the last three weeks desperately trying to interrupt America's attack of conscience on abortion. For many people, who've come face to face with this brutal reality for the first time, there is no putting the lid back on this terrible evil our country's spent 46 years justifying.
Most Americans will never unhear the cheers of the New York state legislature the moment it was legal to take an innocent life at birth. They'll never unsee the survivors like Daniel Ritchie, now a 34-year-old pastor who doctors argued wasn't "viable" because he was born without arms. And they'll never understand how a political party can nominate a woman for president who believes that 5,597 babies torn limb from limb every year is too small of a percentage to care about.
Time magazine, the Washington Post, and New York Times can fact-check until the cows come home, but there's no arguing the basic facts. Is late-term abortion legal? Yes. Is it violent and excruciatingly painful? Yes. Is the country opposed? Overwhelmingly. We can quibble over the numbers and argue about exceptions, but the deep-seated horror that Democrats will never be able to overcome remains: we are a country that kills our own children inside the womb -- and refuses to save any who survived outside it.
Stacked against those truths, the old Democratic talking points are powerless. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) fell back on some of those familiar lines Wednesday, when he tried to spin Donald Trump's outrage at what New York has just done. Like other liberals, he wanted to steer the conversation away from the gory realities of late-term abortion to more comfortable ground. "He wants to roll back Roe v. Wade," he fearmongered. "…Take us back to a time when women couldn't get an abortion legally."
Unfortunately for Cuomo, ending abortion no longer sounds like such a terrible idea in a country reeling from stories like Gianna Jessen, who was delivered in an abortion clinic after 18 hours of being burned alive in her mother's womb. If it weren't for nurses, who rushed her to the hospital before the abortionist could strangle or suffocate her, she would be dead. "Do not tell me these are not children," she pleaded. "A heartbeat proves that. So do I."
And yet "doctors" like Kristyn Brandi still claim that stories like Jessen's don't exist. Extreme late-term abortion, she told Time, "is not something that any person would come seeking, and it's not something that any doctor would provide." If that's true, how does she explain the booming business of men like Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen? Or Planned Parenthood's catalogue of fully-developed baby body parts? Their discussions of "intact" babies should be of particular interest to anyone who claims these atrocities don't happen.
These are not outliers, Arina Grossu warned Congress in 2016. Deborah Edge, one of Karpen's staffers, testified with great emotion about how he would routinely kill babies born alive by either snipping their spinal cords, fatally injuring them with blows to the soft spot on their heads, twisting off their necks, or other horrid, unimaginable methods.
"When he did an abortion, especially in an over twenty-week abortion, most of the time the fetus would come completely out before he either cut the spinal cord or introduced one of the instruments into the soft spot [of the head] of the fetus in order to kill the fetus…I think every morning I saw several, on several occasions, if we had, maybe twenty patients of course, maybe ten or twelve or fifteen patients would be large procedures, and out of those large procedures, I'm pretty sure I was seeing at least three or four that were completely delivered in some way or another."
No matter where you stand on abortion, the reality of what's happening is "horrible," President Trump told pro-lifers on a White House conference call earlier today. He knows as well as we do that sometimes the most painful truths are the ones that bring the change we've been waiting for. It will take all of us, but maybe one day America will look back on New York as the bright pink spire pointing everyone up -- to where we should have been looking all along.
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"She Survived a Saline Abortion. Here’s Her Story." - Ginny Montalbano / GinnyMontalbano / February 12, 2019 / https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/12/she-survived-a-saline-abortion-heres-her-story
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PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth; "Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting/resting in His love and grace to accomplish His perfect will in His perfect time and for His greatest glory. Intercession is the one of the great privileges AND responsibilities for EVERY believer." - Stan
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Praying Through the Open Doors World Watch List for persecuted believers:https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/pray/monthly-prayer-calendar/
In February, Open Doors is focusing on the Top 5 places in the world where it’s most dangerous to be a Christian. In these countries, being a follower of Jesus is a death sentence for not only you, but also your family. This month, we invite you to join your hearts with ours as we pray for believers in the darkest places.
February 16 | IRAQ - Pray for the recovery of the Iraqi church. Displaced families are expected to return to their original villages, though many areas lack public services and believers still fear for their safety. Some families are thinking about emigrating entirely. Please pray with believers and for the country’s economic growth and stability.
*Names changed to protect identities
STANDING STRONG THROUGH THE STORM - OpenDoorsUSA.org
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.- 2 Tim. 4:16
SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO SUFFER
The Apostle Paul knew exactly what it was like to be alone, to be deserted by all who called themselves “brothers” and “sisters.” A former colleague who has done considerable travel among the persecuted says, “It is hard to believe that Christians are the largest persecuted group in the world today. But it is even more difficult to believe that this is so seldom mentioned in our gatherings and church services. More Christians know the names of their favorite actors than their fellow believers who are in prison.”
He continues, “With every trip something in my heart breaks as I hear the echoes of suffering:
I remember the echoes of an Egyptian mother as she shared how her young boy was stuck in a haystack because she refused to deny Jesus.
I remember the sounds of weeping as fellow students in Indonesia shared how Sariman, their co-student, was hacked to death.
I remember the cries of anguish as we walked from church to church that was burned to the ground on the island of Lombok.
I remember the tears of Rebecca in Iran as she showed the picture of her father who was stabbed to death for sharing the gospel.
I remember the voice of Pastor Daniel in Vietnam as he shared how he was chained to the ground for six months.
I remember the fear of Grace from Sudan as she shared how her church was attacked and her friend was shot through the head.
Oh, I remember the cries of Caleb in Eritrea as he shared with tears how two dear friends were executed in front of him because of their faith.
And I remember the tears of Joy in the southern Philippines as she shared how her fiancé was shot to death in their church in Mindanao.
But, most all, I remember the deafening sounds of silence every time I return home.
RESPONSE
How can I be silent today? How can I not speak on behalf of those who suffer? How can I desert those that belong to the same body that I belong to and who desperately need the encouragement of my intervention?
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Most Americans will never unhear the cheers of the New York state legislature the moment it was legal to take an innocent life at birth. They'll never unsee the survivors like Daniel Ritchie, now a 34-year-old pastor who doctors argued wasn't "viable" because he was born without arms. And they'll never understand how a political party can nominate a woman for president who believes that 5,597 babies torn limb from limb every year is too small of a percentage to care about.
Time magazine, the Washington Post, and New York Times can fact-check until the cows come home, but there's no arguing the basic facts. Is late-term abortion legal? Yes. Is it violent and excruciatingly painful? Yes. Is the country opposed? Overwhelmingly. We can quibble over the numbers and argue about exceptions, but the deep-seated horror that Democrats will never be able to overcome remains: we are a country that kills our own children inside the womb -- and refuses to save any who survived outside it.
Stacked against those truths, the old Democratic talking points are powerless. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) fell back on some of those familiar lines Wednesday, when he tried to spin Donald Trump's outrage at what New York has just done. Like other liberals, he wanted to steer the conversation away from the gory realities of late-term abortion to more comfortable ground. "He wants to roll back Roe v. Wade," he fearmongered. "…Take us back to a time when women couldn't get an abortion legally."
Unfortunately for Cuomo, ending abortion no longer sounds like such a terrible idea in a country reeling from stories like Gianna Jessen, who was delivered in an abortion clinic after 18 hours of being burned alive in her mother's womb. If it weren't for nurses, who rushed her to the hospital before the abortionist could strangle or suffocate her, she would be dead. "Do not tell me these are not children," she pleaded. "A heartbeat proves that. So do I."
And yet "doctors" like Kristyn Brandi still claim that stories like Jessen's don't exist. Extreme late-term abortion, she told Time, "is not something that any person would come seeking, and it's not something that any doctor would provide." If that's true, how does she explain the booming business of men like Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen? Or Planned Parenthood's catalogue of fully-developed baby body parts? Their discussions of "intact" babies should be of particular interest to anyone who claims these atrocities don't happen.
These are not outliers, Arina Grossu warned Congress in 2016. Deborah Edge, one of Karpen's staffers, testified with great emotion about how he would routinely kill babies born alive by either snipping their spinal cords, fatally injuring them with blows to the soft spot on their heads, twisting off their necks, or other horrid, unimaginable methods.
No matter where you stand on abortion, the reality of what's happening is "horrible," President Trump told pro-lifers on a White House conference call earlier today. He knows as well as we do that sometimes the most painful truths are the ones that bring the change we've been waiting for. It will take all of us, but maybe one day America will look back on New York as the bright pink spire pointing everyone up -- to where we should have been looking all along.
[italics and colored emphasis mine]
----------------------------------------------------------
The truth is a funny thing. Once it's let loose to confront and challenge and change, you can't unknow it. That's horrible news for Democrats, who've spent the last three weeks desperately trying to interrupt America's attack of conscience on abortion. For many people, who've come face to face with this brutal reality for the first time, there is no putting the lid back on this terrible evil our country's spent 46 years justifying.
Most Americans will never unhear the cheers of the New York state legislature the moment it was legal to take an innocent life at birth. They'll never unsee the survivors like Daniel Ritchie, now a 34-year-old pastor who doctors argued wasn't "viable" because he was born without arms. And they'll never understand how a political party can nominate a woman for president who believes that 5,597 babies torn limb from limb every year is too small of a percentage to care about.
Time magazine, the Washington Post, and New York Times can fact-check until the cows come home, but there's no arguing the basic facts. Is late-term abortion legal? Yes. Is it violent and excruciatingly painful? Yes. Is the country opposed? Overwhelmingly. We can quibble over the numbers and argue about exceptions, but the deep-seated horror that Democrats will never be able to overcome remains: we are a country that kills our own children inside the womb -- and refuses to save any who survived outside it.
Stacked against those truths, the old Democratic talking points are powerless. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) fell back on some of those familiar lines Wednesday, when he tried to spin Donald Trump's outrage at what New York has just done. Like other liberals, he wanted to steer the conversation away from the gory realities of late-term abortion to more comfortable ground. "He wants to roll back Roe v. Wade," he fearmongered. "…Take us back to a time when women couldn't get an abortion legally."
Unfortunately for Cuomo, ending abortion no longer sounds like such a terrible idea in a country reeling from stories like Gianna Jessen, who was delivered in an abortion clinic after 18 hours of being burned alive in her mother's womb. If it weren't for nurses, who rushed her to the hospital before the abortionist could strangle or suffocate her, she would be dead. "Do not tell me these are not children," she pleaded. "A heartbeat proves that. So do I."
And yet "doctors" like Kristyn Brandi still claim that stories like Jessen's don't exist. Extreme late-term abortion, she told Time, "is not something that any person would come seeking, and it's not something that any doctor would provide." If that's true, how does she explain the booming business of men like Kermit Gosnell and Douglas Karpen? Or Planned Parenthood's catalogue of fully-developed baby body parts? Their discussions of "intact" babies should be of particular interest to anyone who claims these atrocities don't happen.
These are not outliers, Arina Grossu warned Congress in 2016. Deborah Edge, one of Karpen's staffers, testified with great emotion about how he would routinely kill babies born alive by either snipping their spinal cords, fatally injuring them with blows to the soft spot on their heads, twisting off their necks, or other horrid, unimaginable methods.
"When he did an abortion, especially in an over twenty-week abortion, most of the time the fetus would come completely out before he either cut the spinal cord or introduced one of the instruments into the soft spot [of the head] of the fetus in order to kill the fetus…I think every morning I saw several, on several occasions, if we had, maybe twenty patients of course, maybe ten or twelve or fifteen patients would be large procedures, and out of those large procedures, I'm pretty sure I was seeing at least three or four that were completely delivered in some way or another."
No matter where you stand on abortion, the reality of what's happening is "horrible," President Trump told pro-lifers on a White House conference call earlier today. He knows as well as we do that sometimes the most painful truths are the ones that bring the change we've been waiting for. It will take all of us, but maybe one day America will look back on New York as the bright pink spire pointing everyone up -- to where we should have been looking all along.
[italics and colored emphasis mine]
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"She Survived a Saline Abortion. Here’s Her Story." - Ginny Montalbano / GinnyMontalbano / February 12, 2019 / https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/12/she-survived-a-saline-abortion-heres-her-story
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PRAYER MATTERS:
"To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world." - Karl Barth; "Prayer is inviting God into a seemingly impossible situation and trusting/resting in His love and grace to accomplish His perfect will in His perfect time and for His greatest glory. Intercession is the one of the great privileges AND responsibilities for EVERY believer." - Stan
------------------------------------------------------------
Praying Through the Open Doors World Watch List for persecuted believers:https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/pray/monthly-prayer-calendar/
In February, Open Doors is focusing on the Top 5 places in the world where it’s most dangerous to be a Christian. In these countries, being a follower of Jesus is a death sentence for not only you, but also your family. This month, we invite you to join your hearts with ours as we pray for believers in the darkest places.
February 16 | IRAQ - Pray for the recovery of the Iraqi church. Displaced families are expected to return to their original villages, though many areas lack public services and believers still fear for their safety. Some families are thinking about emigrating entirely. Please pray with believers and for the country’s economic growth and stability.
*Names changed to protect identitiesSTANDING STRONG THROUGH THE STORM - OpenDoorsUSA.org
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.- 2 Tim. 4:16
SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO SUFFER
The Apostle Paul knew exactly what it was like to be alone, to be deserted by all who called themselves “brothers” and “sisters.” A former colleague who has done considerable travel among the persecuted says, “It is hard to believe that Christians are the largest persecuted group in the world today. But it is even more difficult to believe that this is so seldom mentioned in our gatherings and church services. More Christians know the names of their favorite actors than their fellow believers who are in prison.”
He continues, “With every trip something in my heart breaks as I hear the echoes of suffering:
I remember the echoes of an Egyptian mother as she shared how her young boy was stuck in a haystack because she refused to deny Jesus.
I remember the sounds of weeping as fellow students in Indonesia shared how Sariman, their co-student, was hacked to death.
I remember the cries of anguish as we walked from church to church that was burned to the ground on the island of Lombok.
I remember the tears of Rebecca in Iran as she showed the picture of her father who was stabbed to death for sharing the gospel.
I remember the voice of Pastor Daniel in Vietnam as he shared how he was chained to the ground for six months.
I remember the fear of Grace from Sudan as she shared how her church was attacked and her friend was shot through the head.
Oh, I remember the cries of Caleb in Eritrea as he shared with tears how two dear friends were executed in front of him because of their faith.
And I remember the tears of Joy in the southern Philippines as she shared how her fiancé was shot to death in their church in Mindanao.
But, most all, I remember the deafening sounds of silence every time I return home.
RESPONSE
How can I be silent today? How can I not speak on behalf of those who suffer? How can I desert those that belong to the same body that I belong to and who desperately need the encouragement of my intervention?
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This isn't another "you do you" issue. It's a life or death issue. In light of New York's new law allowing abortion up to birth, this article discusses the horrors of abortion and the reality of infanticide when abortions fail. In particular, the article claims that the Democrats' extreme stance on abortion will backfire because of these realities. It's been said to me (and stated in the article in a way) that sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Let's hope it's not long.
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