To say I dislike abortion is a major understatement. I believe in my heart that the practice of contraception through abortion is beyond unjustifiable. Let me start by saying I am not interested in the “what about rape and incest” argument because those account for less than 1% of all abortions. I don’t want to discuss the “what if the mother’s life is in danger” because that has always been legal as a medical emergency. I’m talking about the 99% of abortions in which a man and woman have unprotected (or failed protected) consensual sex that results in pregnancy. That pregnancy is unwanted and the result is the destruction of the unborn child.
Sex, as an action has ramifications. They are not negative or positive, just natural outcomes. If I throw a rock up in the air, it comes down. Throwing stones has positive and negative outcomes. If I throw it just right, I can skip is across a lake, play a game of stick ball or even kill a giant threatening to destroy my people. I can also break a window, hurt someone or myself if I throw it straight up. Sex is the same way, my wife and I have three wonderful and beautiful children. We wanted each of them and feel blessed to have them. Some people engage in sex and get pregnant with a child they didn’t particularly plan for. It’s a reality of the activity of sex, it makes babies. We have known this for all of human history, the entire animal kingdom knows this, sex makes babies. To have sex, make a baby and then destroy the baby is a barbaric and inhumane action that doesn’t belong in a civilized society. It’s unjustifiable killing of a child.
Let’s face it, birth control in our day and age works pretty good. Condoms come with built in spermicide and are 99% effective. If you get pregnant on accident, it was because you were irresponsible. That might seem harsh, but you got caught in the moment without having protection and you did it anyway. Things fail, but they fail rarely, most of the time it’s because the proper precautions weren’t taken. What we have done is allowed people to be irresponsible and destroy the new life, and let’s be clear, it’s alive. It’s living cells, living tissue, and by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, it has it’s own heartbeat. It’s a living being, a life that deserve an opportunity to live it’s life.
We have found out that planned Parenthood is taking the aborted babies and selling the body parts. There is video of a national leader of the organization talking about what parts are often sold and how they can make sure when they do the procedure, they can keep the desired parts intact. They have become a business enterprise to farm human organs and body parts, at tax payers expense. This is butchery of a human being to sell off, and it’s unconscionable. They have duped the American people, using terms like “it’s a woman’s right to choose” and having no concern for the woman or the baby. Their concern is clearly the financial gain that comes from the harvesting of human tissue with the blessing of the American people and the Government.
Christians have protested, picketed, campaigned and above all prayed. We need to continue to do these things, but we must convince others that abortion is barbaric murder. We must convince our Senators, our congressmen, our leaders and of course our neighbors. We are a government of the people and by the people. We as Americans must convince people that abortion does not belong in a civilized society. We have the means to prevent pregnancy, if pregnancy happens that we have individuals who would love to adopt and raise a baby. As a foster parent, I know there are people who wish to bring in children to their homes and care for them. Children and precious, and the idea of killing them, chopping them up and selling their parts should bother you. We must find a way to change the heart and mind of America to make this heinous activity a thing of the past.
You are too light on PP. Include the barbaric language from the videos: “crush above and below”, “less crunchy techinque”
I think the public reached a saturation point years ago on rhetoric from anti-abortion folks. It gets tuned out. Let PP speak with their own words. Let the photos of ultrasounds be seen. Those are more likely to persuade.
There is no moral ambiguity here. I don’t buy all of Owen Strahan’s stuff but his piece “A less crunchy technique for more whole specimens: The Banality of Planned Parenthood” is good. A level of knowledge is necessary to understand the “banality” phrase. Google it.
Does this evil research sound familiar?
“Mengele decided to study its causes and treatment methods. On his instructions, in November 1943, prisoners affected with noma were placed in a separate barrack, 22, in the compound of the Gypsy camp hospital. Also on his instructions, some children afflicted with the disease were put to death and their bodies transported to the SS Institute of Hygiene at Rajsk for histopathological study. The institute prepared specimens of selected body organs and preserved heads of children in formaldehyde jars, which were delivered to the SS Academy in Graz, among other places.”
Helena Kubica, “The Crimes of Josef Mengele,” in Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, eds. Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum (Indiana University Press, 1994), 320.
Hannah Arendt wrote of Adolph Eichmann, Nazi SS Lt. Colonel who was one of the chief organizers of the execution of Jews, in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
The phrase “banality of evil” has migrated to the popular lexicon; hence, “the banality of Planned Parenthood” etc.
Eichmann said during his trial “I sat at my desk and did my work,” His work was “setting schedules and quotas for Jews to be transported and gassed.”
The PP videos show, over salad and drinks, PP people speaking of routine, workaday, boring mutilating and harvesting baby body parts – banality. Most of us would call it evil.
very evil…very cruel….Hitler would’ve been proud of the USA.
Mengele would’ve been ecstatic.
Dear God, be patient with us.
David
Planned Parenthood is a blight on society….any society.
I’ve been fighting to end abortion even before the SCOTUS ruled it a “right”. Glad you guys finally decided to come to the party.
Keep fighting, Jake. Don’t forget who the enemy is. You are ignorant of what “you guys” have done, are doing, or have decided.
Yeah, Jake, I’m not sure what that meant.
Southern Baptists have been strongly opposed to abortion for quite some time. Not sure who “you guys” is.
Russell Moore is eloquent and forceful on this issue, as is Dr. Mohler and many others within SBC leadership. Land was anti-abortion the whole time he led the ERLC.
This is not a new thing for the SBC.
We’ve always known that Planned Parenthood was evil. This video evidence is helpful in proving it. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is fully supportive of PP and their abortion factories.
What I am saying is that “the church” not just SB’s have been silent for far too long. If you have not been preaching from the pulpit and stood for hours in protests, holding signs describing the horrors of abortion, then you need to. You can be an influence for stopping this murder. You can’t leave it to the big wigs at “denomination” hq’s to speak against abortion. Put some skin in this game, step on some toes, organize a protest march, picket an abortion clinic……those of you in the larger towns/cities have one near you. If not then it’s an open secret that some doc in town does them for cash customers with no questions asked.
I’m sorry, I’ve held a few signs, but I’m not sure what good that does. Picketing abortion clinics, that sort of thing.
I certainly don’t think it’s helpful for those who do that to act as if those who don’t aren’t “on the team.”
I see great benefit. The most immediate benefit is to those who frequent the killing centers. Quiet picketers are a very real reminder of what they are doing.
It also keeps the issue in the public eye of those that are driving by. It seems to me to “pray and picket” is much more effective than to pray. Also, most picketers (and I’ve been one many times) are changed themselves.
So, I agree with you, nobody should be put down for not picketing, but I am certainly glad a new generation is taking my spot as I fade out.
Southern Baptists have been strongly Pro-Life and against abortion since at least the early days of the SBC Conservative Resurgence, from about 1980 through today. We are certainly not late to the party.
David R. Brumbelow
David B. ,
What gives? You did not cite any resolutions to back up your assertion. That seems out of your posting character. 😉
(this is totally a playful jab, and I expect most will know that – but some might be all sensitive so thought I”d clarify)
I apologize to Tarheel. 🙂
Here is the SBC Resolution on Abortion, passed the first year after the beginning of the SBC Conservative Resurgence in 1979.
Like alcohol and gambling, this resolution shows Southern Baptists have also stood for the sanctity of human life, including unborn human life.
Resolution On Abortion
St. Louis, Missouri – 1980
WHEREAS, Southern Baptists have historically affirmed the biblical teaching of the sanctity of all human life, and
WHEREAS, All medical evidence indicates that abortion ends the life of a developing human being, and
WHEREAS, Our national laws permit a policy commonly referred to as “abortion on demand,”
Be it therefore RESOLVED, That the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirm the view of the Scriptures of the sacredness and dignity of all human life, born and unborn, and
Be it further RESOLVED, That opposition be expressed toward all policies that allow “abortion on demand,” and
Be it further RESOLVED, That we abhor the use of tax money or public, tax-supported medical facilities for selfish, non-therapeutic abortion, and
Be it finally RESOLVED, That we favor appropriate legislation and/or a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother.
David R. Brumbelow
I almost said something about that, but I decided not to open the door to the whole CR thing. David went ahead and did it. Prior to the CR, there was some waffling in the SBC on the abortion issue. In some circles at least.
“Like alcohol and gambling, this resolution shows Southern Baptists have also stood for the sanctity of human life, including unborn human life.”
SBs stand for alcohol and gambling? This is not your grandfather’s SBC, boys.
Good catch, adam!
This is evident in that we baptize between 100,000 – 150,000 less people a year.
You’re right Adam. I should have stated it better.
This states it more acurately:
Just as Southern Baptists have stood against alcohol and gambling, they have also stood against abortion.
And I would argue they have done so out of love for their fellow man, not out of hate or judgmentalism.
And Dave is right.
Before the Conservative Resurgence (CR), moderates kept SBC conservatives from passing strong resolutions against abortion.
The pre-CR resolutions on abortion always had a loophole placed there by the moderates.
Often, both sides could claim victory, because it depended on how you read it the resolution.
Thank God for the CR and our present unambiguous pro-life stand.
David R. Brumbelow
I know, David. Just giving you a hard time. If there is one thing those of us who frequent this blog know, it is that you and the SBC resolutions committee are against beverage alcohol and gambling.
Adam,
Oh, you noticed that? 🙂
By the way, I’m finishing our VBS tonight. I’m about ready to curse God and die.
But, as always, it has been a good VBS and God has blessed.
David R. Brumbelow
One blessing of being in a multi staff church – I can turn over VBS duty to staff.