2 Tim 3:16-17 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
Obama's plan for national health care would provide for abortion. See here (Wall Street Journal) , here (Reasoned Audacity) and here (The Heritage Foundation).
How would abortion insurance work? Here are the cost below from an abortion clinic:
Maybe they need visual aids so that persons wanting to purchase abortion insurance can see why the cost go up as the baby increases in size--so does the cost!
7 Weeks
Up to 12 weeks- $395
24 weeks
More than 23 weeks LMP- $2250
But if you read the articles linked above, you will see that all taxpayers will really be paying for this large expansion of abortion coverage. Those wanting to have abortion coverage will have to contribute no less than a dollar a month.
As always--equip yourself to engage others in this American Holocaust (are you offended that I would use that phrase? please check out Unsure About Abortion... links )
“[Gonzales v. Carhart*] marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman’s right to choose...”
Barack Obama
“I am extremely concerned that [Gonzales v.Carhart*] will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman’s right to choose, and that the conservative Supreme Court justices will look for other opportunities to erode Roe v. Wade.”
John Edwards
Voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
“I could not disagree more strongly with today’s [Gonzales v. Carhart*] decision....This...is a stark reminder of why Democrats cannot afford to lose the 2008 election.”
Rudy Giuliani
“I support the ban on partial-birth abortion...but ultimately I think when you come down to that choice, you have to respect a woman’s right to make that choice differently than my conscience.”
Fred Thompson
Voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
“The Supreme Court was absolutely right in the… [Gonzales v. Carhart*] partial-birth abortion decision. The very idea that we could even have a debate over whether or not that atrocious activity should be allowable is very unfortunate...”
Mitt Romney
“[The] Court [in Gonzales v. Carhart*] reaffirmed the value of life in America by upholding a ban on a practice that offends basic human decency. [It] represents a step forward in protecting the weakest and most innocent among us.”
John McCain
Voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
“Today’s Supreme Court ruling [in Gonzales v. Carhart*] is a victory for those who cherish the sanctity of human life.”
Mike Huckabee
Signed the Arkansas Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act into law.
“I applaud the Court’s action [in Gonzales v. Carhart*], which also sends a strong reminder that we must stay vigilant in our cause to protect those who cannot protect themselves.”
A moral, medical, and ethical consensus exists that the practice of performing a partial-birth abortion--an abortion in which a physician deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living, unborn child's body until either the entire baby's head is outside the body of the mother, or any part of the baby's trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother and only the head remains inside the womb, for the purpose of performing an overt act (usually the puncturing of the back of the child's skull and removing the baby's brains) that the person knows will kill the partially delivered infant, performs this act, and then completes delivery of the dead infant--is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited.
Check out other articles concerning Partial Birth Abortion:
April 11, 2013
"Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it
was delivered alive during an abortion procedure. Haven’t heard about
these sickening accusations?" It's not your fault. Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show and front page.-- So says USA TODAY Column--Philadelphia abortion clinic horror: Column
In the Grand Jury report, the opening paragraph states: "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy – and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors."
In February of 2010 government officials raided the abortion clinic operated by Dr. Gosnell. You have to read the whole report for yourself to see how unbelievably horrific this story really is. The report says, "The search team discovered fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic– in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers. Some fetal remains were in a refrigerator, others were frozen. Gosnell admitted to Detective Wood that at least 10 to 20 percent of the fetuses were probably older than 24 weeks in gestation – even though Pennsylvania law prohibits abortions after 24 weeks. In some instances, surgical incisions had been made at the base of the fetal skulls" (p.21).
When Latosha Lewis began work at the clinic in 2000, the practice would perform approximately 20 first-trimester and 5 or 6 second-trimester abortions every procedure night.
On page 4 of the report it states:
When you perform late-term “abortions” by inducing labor, you get babies. Live, breathing, squirming babies. By 24 weeks, most babies born prematurely will survive if they receive appropriate medical care. But that was not what the Women’s Medical Society was about. Gosnell had a simple solution for the unwanted babies he delivered: he killed them. He didn’t call it that. He called it “ensuring fetal demise.” The way he ensured fetal demise was by sticking scissors into the back of the baby’s neck and cutting the spinal cord. He called that “snipping.”
Dr. Gosnell performed hundreds of late term abortions. The problem is that he destroyed most of the files. Gosnell wasn't the only one doing the killing. According to the report:
"Ashley Baldwin remembered Gosnell
severing the neck of a baby that cried after being born. The baby had
“precipitated” when the doctor was not in the clinic. Lynda Williams
placed the baby in a basin on the counter where the instruments were
washed and called the doctor to come.
Ashley heard the infant
cry. She saw the baby move while it was on the counter. She estimated
the infant was at least 12 inches long. When Gosnell arrived at the
clinic, she recalled, “he snipped the neck, and said there is nothing to
worry about, and he suctioned it.”
If
Gosnell was absent, his employees would kill viable babies. Ashley
Baldwin saw Steve Massof slit the necks of babies that moved or breathed
“five or ten” times" (p.103).
Further it states (p.104): Kareema Cross testified that, between 2005 and 2008, she saw Steve Massof sever the spinal cords of at least ten babies who were breathing and about five that were moving.
When Massof left the clinic in 2008, Lynda Williams took over the job of cutting baby’s necks when Gosnell was not there. Cross saw Williams slit the neck of a baby (“Baby C”) who had been moving and breathing for approximately twenty minutes. Gosnell had delivered the baby and put it on a counter while he suctioned the placenta from the mother. Williams called Cross over to look at the baby because it was breathing and moving its arms when Williams pulled on them. After playing with the baby, Williams slit its neck.
Adrienne Moton also killed at least one baby by cutting its spinal cord. Cross testified that a woman had delivered a large baby into the toilet before Gosnell arrived at work for the night. Cross said that the baby was moving and looked like it was swimming. Moton reached into the toilet, got the baby out and cut its neck.
Here a few other cases that were documented.
"Baby A" : His 17-year-old mother was almost 30 weeks pregnant – seven and a half months– when labor was induced. An employee estimated his birth weight as approaching six pounds. He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal. The doctor joked that this baby was so big he could “walk me to the bus stop” (p.5, 101-102). The workers were so shocked that they took a picture of the child.
"Baby Boy B, whose body was found at the clinic frozen in a one-gallon spring-water bottle, was at least 28 weeks of gestational age when he was killed."
You can see how his neck was slit (see p. 115).
"Baby C was moving and breathing for 20 minutes before an assistant came in and cut the spinal cord, just the way she had seen Gosnell do it so many times."
In 2007 Gosnell did an abortion on a 14 year old girl that ended up going to a local hospital where she delivered a 30 week old baby pictured below (see p. 84-85). When a baby was past the 24 week stage the abortion process could be a two or three day procedure. According the the report, "The neonatologist told us that the survival rate for babies born at 29 weeks is 95percent; at 30 weeks, the survival rate is nearly 100 percent."
Gosnell began an abortion on a 29-week pregnant woman and then refused to take dilators out when the woman changed her mind (see p. 86).
"We learned of another illegal, third-trimester abortion only because the mother changed her mind. In 2004, a 27-year-old woman went to Gosnell, pregnant with her first child. She testified that she was surprised when Gosnell told her she was 21 weeks pregnant. On the first day of what was to be a two-day procedure, Gosnell inserted dilators in the woman’s cervix. After Gosnell had finished inserting the laminaria, the woman asked him what happened to the babies after they were aborted. She testified that Gosnell told her they were burned.
At home, thinking over how Gosnell disposed of the fetuses, the woman had a change of heart. She called her cousin and the cousin called Gosnell to tell him that they wanted him to take the laminaria out. Gosnell said that he could not do that once the procedure was started. And he did not want to return the $1,300 that the patient had already paid. The pregnant woman ended up going to the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania to have the laminaria removed. It was determined at the hospital that she was 29 weeks pregnant. A few days later, the 27-year-old delivered a premature baby girl. She was treated at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is today a healthy
kindergartener."
Do a Google search of premature babies and you will find many stories of babies surviving 24, 25, 26, 27 weeks early and are doing well TODAY.
Grand Jury Report, p. 79 states, "The Philadelphia medical examiner
analyzed the remains of 45 fetuses seized from the clinic. Of these, 16
were first-trimester; 25 were second-trimester, ranging from 12 to 21 weeks; 2 were 22 weeks; 1 was 26 weeks; and 1 was 28 weeks."
Gosnell, according to the report, "Gosnell left dozens of damaged women in his wake. His reckless treatment left them infected, sterilized, permanently maimed, close to death, and, in at least two cases, dead. Their injuries and deaths resulted directly from Gosnell’s utter disregard for their health and safety. However, if their fate was entirely foreseeable, it was not necessarily the product of specific intent to kill. The same cannot be said of untold numbers of babies – not fetuses in the womb, but live babies, born outside their mothers – whose brief lives ended in Gosnell’s filthy facility. The doctor, or his employees acting at his direction, deliberately killed them as part of the normal course of business" (p.99).
Here are a few articles concerning the present trial (April 2013 articles): *maybe other major news organizations will get on board....
Planned Parenthood recently claimed that the possibility of infants surviving late-term abortions was "highly unusual."
The irony is that in the Gosnell trial you have a doctor that saw more
babies born alive because he failed to kill the child while it was still
in the womb. They were born alive and then he and others would kill
the child. On p. 111 of the Grand Jury report it states, "He tried to inject a drug called
digoxin into the fetus’s heart while it was in the womb. This was
supposed to cause fetal demise in utero. But because Gosnell was not
skillful enough to successfully administer digoxin, late-term babies
continued to be born alive, and he continued to kill them by slitting
their necks."
So many see this abortion clinic as a
house of horrors and it really is. However, just because other doctors
are better at making sure the child is killed in the womb, the horror
continues in clinics across our nation as children are killed in the
womb.
Is it unusual for a baby to be born alive?
Absolutely! You have a small baby that can be killed easily by chemicals
and instruments... but they have been known to survive their attempted
murder.
Here is a well written article on Obama's Abortion Extremism [ listen to Robert George on the Albert Mohler program from Oct. 14th here ] by Robert George Oct 14, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama's views on life issues ranging from abortion to embryonic stem cell research mark him as not merely a pro-choice politician, but rather as the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to have ever run on a major party ticket.
Barack Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United States.
HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ARTICLE (read the full article here )
-- He supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest.
--He has promised that ''the first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act'' (known as FOCA). This proposed legislation would create a federally guaranteed ''fundamental right'' to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. . .
FOCA would abolish virtually every existing state and federal limitation on abortion, including parental consent and notification laws for minors, state and federal funding restrictions on abortion, and conscience protections for pro-life citizens working in the health-care industry-protections against being forced to participate in the practice of abortion or else lose their jobs. The pro-abortion National Organization for Women has proclaimed with approval that FOCA would ''sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.''
--Obama, unlike even many ''pro-choice'' legislators, opposed the ban on partial-birth abortions when he served in the Illinois legislature and condemned the Supreme Court decision that upheld legislation banning this heinous practice.
-- He wishes to strip federal funding from pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women in need. There is certainly nothing ''pro-choice'' about that.
--Obama opposed legislation to protect children who are born alive, either as a result of an abortionist's unsuccessful effort to kill them in the womb, or by the deliberate delivery of the baby prior to viability.
Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics and previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He sits on the editorial board of Public Discourse.
Hillary and Obama answered a variety questions at the CNN’s Compassion Forum. This blog post is the extended edition of the “Compassion Forum” with a “view from the womb.” For the original transcript you can Google: conception, Hillary, Obama, Compassion Forum and get a slew of references …or view it on Youtube… Below are Obama’s and Hillary’s response to the abortion issue with an added “view from the womb”...which I have provided.
MEACHAM: Senator, do you believe personally that life begins at conception?
CLINTON: I believe that the potential for life begins at conception. I am a Methodist, as you know. My church has struggled with this issue. In fact, you can look at the Methodist Book of Discipline and see the contradiction and the challenge of trying to sort that very profound question out.But for me, it is also not only about a potential life; it is about the other lives involved. And, therefore, I have concluded, after great, you know, concern and searching my own mind and heart over many years, that our task should be in this pluralistic, diverse life of ours in this nation that individuals must be entrusted to make this profound decision, because the alternative would be such an intrusion of government authority that it would be very difficult to sustain in our kind of open society.And as some of you've heard me discuss before, I think abortion should remain legal, but it needs to be safe and rare. And I have spent many years now, as a private citizen, as first lady, and now as senator, trying to make it rare, trying to create the conditions where women had other choices.I have supported adoption, foster care. I helped to create the campaign against teenage pregnancy, which fulfilled our original goal 10 years ago of reducing teenage pregnancies by about a third. And I think we have to do even more.
HUMAN IN THE WOMB: Senator Clinton, How am I “potential life”? Before my mother even knew she was pregnant, my heart was beating. I am 7 weeks old and will be in this womb for many more weeks, but if I understand you correctly, you believe that it should be legal to kill me? I can be suctioned to death and you think that is morally acceptable? I can have instruments cut my limbs apart. I can be deluged in a saline solution and you think that is a right?
MEACHAM: Senator, do you personally believe that life begins at conception? And if not, when does it begin?
OBAMA: This is something that I have not, I think, come to a firm resolution on. I think it's very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don't presume to know the answer to that question. What I know, as I've said before, is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we're having these debates.
HUMAN IN THE WOMB: Senator Obama, I am seven weeks of age and be honest, you believe that it should be a legal right to kill me throughout the full nine months of my life in the womb, and if I survive an abortion, you believe that I should be left to die without intervention. There is something very powerful about my human life in the womb, which you call potential life, which has moral weight to it, sir.
I heard through the wall of the womb, an article read aloud that was written by Sherif Girgis, that was addressed to you--Mr. Obama. Here is what got me kicking: "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? [read the full article here: http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YzM2YTc2NDc1ODMyNTM5MTBhZjcyOTBlNmRkMTgwY2Y ]
Thank you Sherif Girgis! I know you are a senior philosophy major at Princeton University and a 2008 Rhodes Scholar, but it doesn't take Rhodes Scholar to figure out that abortion is a moral outrage does it? Way to go Sherif!
Here are some of my own thoughts from the womb: * A human being is a human being no matter how small they are.
*How am I not a living human being?
*Should I have the right to live?
*Why should someone have the right to tear me limb from limb?
*My heart was beating around 24 days of being conceived.
Thank you to Life Issues who gave me permission to use this great photograph. You can check them out at http://www.lifeissues.org/
HUMAN IN THE WOMB: Senator Obama and Senator Hillary, as post womb human beings, would you please check out the research that your fellow senators did in 1981? In 1981, a United States Senate judiciary subcommittee received the following testimony from a collection of medical experts (Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, Report, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981):
Professor Micheline Matthews-RothHarvard University Medical School "It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive...It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception."
Dr. Alfred M. Bongioanni, Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania "I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at the time of conception."
Dr. Jerome LeJeune, Professor of Genetics, University of Descartes "After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being. [It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception."
Professor Hymie, GordonMayo Clinic "By all the criteria of modern molecular biology, life is present from the moment of conception."
Dr. Watson A. Bowes, University of Colorado Medical School "The beginning of a single human life is from a biological point of view a simple and straightforward matter – the beginning is conception."
The official Senate report reached this conclusion: Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings.
"Before you is a collection of 50 million pennies! Each penny represents one child who has been aborted since the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade in 1973. A penny like a baby seems to be so small and sometimes of very little worth, but when seen in a collection of 50 million it becomes enormous.
Each coin is a person, but in many cases it also represents the difficult process of decision-making, fear, and loneliness. While some speak of pro-choice, these babies had no choice. While some speak of a mother's right to control her own body, 50 million babies were not given their right to live.
Fifty million missing children represented by these pennies must be cause for us to stop, pray, consider what we are doing as a nation, ask God to forgive us, seek ways to help those who are struggling with the decision, and look to the Lord to restore each of us."
There is help for the hurting men and women that are dealing with post abortion issues:
Randy Alcorn, Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Press, 2000).
Francis J. Beckwith, Politically Correct Death: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1993).
C. Ward Kischer and Dianne N. Irving, The Human Development Hoax: Time to Tell the Truth (1997)
Stephen Schwarz, The Moral Question of Abortion (Loyola University Press, 1990).
Proverbs 31:8-9 Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
A MUST SEE:
Part 1 of 2 Gianna Jessen, abortion survivor (she was aborted) speaks at Queen's Hall, Parliament House, Victoria. Australia - on the eve of the debate to decriminalize abortion in Victoria.
40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program: Prayer and fasting Constant vigil Community outreach 40 Days for Life takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families. It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion in America.
LIFE CHAIN is a peaceful and prayerful public witness of pro-life Americans standing for one hour praying for our nation and for an end to abortion. It is a visual statement of solidarity by the Christian community that abortion kills children and that the Church supports the sanctity of human life from the moment of conception.
Sunday Oct. 4, 2009 2:00-3:30 p.m.Burlington
Meet at 2 pm at Salvation Army’s Park Shelter (behind Aldi’s on Agency St.) for corporate prayer and to get a sign. From 2:30-3:30 pm, we’ll stand on the sidewalk along Agency Street (east to Roosevelt and west till across from Hy-Vee)
We’ll pray in silence, being careful not to block the sidewalk for walkers, or to block access to any driveways for businesses.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
In the early 90's, as a new believer, one of the first Pro-Life books that I read was by Chuck Swindoll called, The Sanctity of Life: The Inescapable Issue [read it here]. Swindoll said, "Because I am a military veteran, for years I have been especially interested in Americans who were killed in combat. The number of American war casualties is a gripping reality, for sure. But when compared to the number of unborn children who have been killed since abortion was legalized, the contrast is shocking." Then he compares the numbers. The following is much like the one found in his book:
Revolutionary War (1775-1783) 4,435 War of 1812 (1812-1815) 2,260 Mexican War (1846-1848) 13,283 Civil War (1861-1865) 623,026 Spanish-American War (1898) 2,446 World War I (1917-1918) 116,708 World War II (1941-1945) 407,316 Korean War (1950-1953) 36,914 Vietnam War (1964-1973) 58,169 Persian Gulf War (1991) 269 Afghanistan (2002-2007) 350+ Iraq (2003-2007) 4,000+ TOTALS 52 years+ 1,269,195 Abortion totals 35 years + 48,000,000
Swindoll goes on to state, "This is no minor skirmish that is happening. This is war. And the pathetic tragedy of it all is that those who are being killed can neither represent themselves before a court of law nor defend themselves from sure death. Lives are being taken brutally, tragically, and thoughtlessly. It has come to the place where, more often than not, abortion is little more than a convenient method of contraception."
If you have never watched the two clips below of Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor, speak, you must. It is one of the most powerful speeches that I have ever heard.
Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia Part 1
Gianna Jessen Abortion Survivor in Australia Part 2
For 35 years we have denied the unborn human beings the right to life. The Declaration of Independence states,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers form the consent of the governed.
What about the 14th Amendment, "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"?
"All advocates of legalized abortion, all candidates who defend abortion, and all who vote for those candidates, have one thing in common—they were not aborted. Had they been, they would not be here to run for office. And you would not be here to vote."
Denny Burk has written a heart wrenching blog post on the horror of China's one child policy and forced abortion. Read his article here and also the link in his article from a website called, All Girls Allowed.
Today is the sad 46th anniversary of Roe V Wade with 60 million human beings denied the right to life. We must continue to share the truth and dispel the myths surrounding abortion. Two years ago I responded with a video that critiques Bill Nye twisting the truth about abortion.
