Life Issues
In February, a conservative political group besought the Lord in prayer, and encouraged others to pray that the Lord would foil the efforts of a state Governor who was pushing for a state law that would declare abortion to be a "fundamental right" for women. This dangerous state law had the potential to overturn Roe v. Wade, but not in the manner that conservatives envisioned. This Governor's legislation could have the potential to force states to pay for abortions.
According to Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, this Governor "has tried to license homosexual marriages... [and] harassed pro-life crisis pregnancy centers." This Governor "has embraced anti-family planning public policies since day one." In 2002, this Governor tried to shut down all Crisis Pregnancy Centers in his state by charging them with practicing medicine without a license.
The Family Research Council described this Governor as "long-time abortion advocate who rose to power with support from NARAL and Planned Parenthood." On February 28, the FRC made this Governor one of its "prayer team targets."
Here is the letter to my child... you have permission to put this on the site , but please keep it anonymous. thanks and thank you for all the love and support, if only i had stopped to talk to you before i walked in, but i was too concerned if your cameras could see past my hoodie.. i heard a man yell.. "ma'am that baby...", but i blocked out the rest.. i was set on what i was to do... if i had talked to you i would have turned it around, but now is too late.. heaven and god have accepted my inncent child and one day we shall meet again.. here ya go..
To my child:
I wanted to write you a letter and I know even though you're not with me, I know you will hear every word. I live my life full of regret everyday. I wonder what your face would be like, how it would be to hold you. I think of the formula I never bought and the diapers I will never change. Your brother and sister don't even know you exist, maybe someday I will have the courage to tell them. I was so scared when I found out about your existence.. I was alone and afraid, but more than anything I was selfish. I never researched abortion and I wasn't really aware of how it really went. I thought you were undeveloped, a mass of tissue. It was weeks after your death that I found out this wasn't the case. I couldn't eat or sleep.. all I could do was think of you. Boy or Girl? What would I have named you? You would have cried your first cries in June, but instead you cried in January.. you wept for the world you would never know. I know you will never understand the mother who didn't want you. Everyday I wish you were here in my arms. You would be rolling over and laughing by now. How sweet your voice would be. Take God's hand, my child.. he will lead you through the darkness as he did on surgery day. I live life a selfish mortal, with much regret. I am sorry I didn't accept you as I had my other children. I don't understand myself now. I think of your cries and remember how I was only concerned about the pain I would feel. My pain was nothing compared to yours. Your arms were ripped from your body, and for what reason? I had no good reason. There is no good reason. I thought I couldn't afford you and I could see no way out.. the only people I had were inside the clinic. Little did I know there were people outside who actually cared for you, I was told they were harassers and not to stop for them. I was taught to fear them, but now I have been embraced by them and their love and even though I did something they believe so firmly against, they took my under their wing to guide me and help me to heal. I am healing and I hope you are too.. I'm sure you are, God is with you. Oneday we will see eachother again, please don't resent me, let me embrace you in heaven as I should have on Earth. Until that day, goodbye my child.. precious little boy or girl, I dream of your face every night.. and know that despite the ridiculous, uninformed decision I made, I do love you, but most of all, know that I'm sorry.
Love, Your Mother
This morning my sons girlfriend was 21 weeks pregnant. This afternoon Dr. Samuel killed my unborn grandson. I am sick, appauld and grieve. I begged, pleaded and offered assistance with this child, but she chose murder. I appreciate all your efforts at www.StopColumbusKilling.org. For I can never understand what type of person can perform such a horrible and violent act.
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As this committee considers House Bill 228, the Ohio abortion ban, we must focus on the primary question to be asked in this debate: “When Does Life Begin?” This question can be answered conclusively in scientific terms.
There is a diverse array of religious, philosophical, and social opinions on this subject, but it is my object to set before you the unambiguous scientific facts proving when life begins. The only religious presupposition I bring to the table is one with which everybody in this room, I am sure, find themselves in complete agreement, the validity of the divine commandment that forbids intentionally killing innocent people (sixth commandment, Protestant Bible, and fifth commandment for Catholics).
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Unfortunately, you will rarely find the question of when life begins debated in scientific terms. It is important to be circumspect to identify and avoid the “smoke and mirrors” in this debate.
This debate is not primarily about:
- Personal autonomy – “I have a right to my own personal choices”
- Women’s rights – “I have a right to do what I want with my own body”
- What’s most beneficial for women – “An abortion of an unwanted pregnancy is best for my career, my relationship, my well-being, etc.” or “An abortion of my pregnancy caused me great emotional distress and illness…”
- The right to privacy
- Subjective and arbitrary calculations on the quality of another human life
"The Father of Modern Genetics," Dr. Jerome Lejeune, M.D., testified before the Senate in 1981, "To accept the fact that after fertilization has taken place a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion . . . it is plain experimental evidence."
Letter to the editor, The Dispatch, submitted 3-21-06
Monday's editorial "No protection" argued against Representative Faber's House Bill 469, which would protect medical professionals from litigation and penalty if they refuse to prescribe the morning-after pill. In the Dispatch's defense of the morning-after pill, all we got was more of the same smoke and mirrors. Why does the Dispatch continue to beg the question in this debate?
"The morning-after pill does not interfere with pregnancy," the Dispatch claims, and yet two paragraphs later admits, "If fertilization has occurred, the pill might prevent implantation on the uterine wall." This medication, dear Dispatch editors, does interfere with pregnancy because it prevents implantation. Implantation is when pregnancy becomes measurable, but life begins before pregnancy is chemically measurable. Life begins about a week earlier when the sperm fertilizes the egg in the fallopian tubes. That is when you were conceived. This is an unambiguous, scientific fact. No arbitrary point after fertilization makes us any more alive or any more human than we were the moment before. We're all just fertilized eggs grown up!
True, the morning-after pill may act as a contraceptive. But a significant percentage of the time (the majority of the time according to a study published in the American Journal of Obstretrics & Gynecology in 1994) it acts after conception, when it causes the death of a living, growing human being by not allowing him or her to implant in the uterus. The Ohio revised code already allows medical professionals to refuse to perform surgical abortions without penalty, and H.B. 469 is just a consistent application of the principles enshrined in current law. Prescribing the morning-after pill is equivalent to shooting at someone with three bullets in a six-shooter. Just as the three empty barrels do not justify pointing and shooting at someone, so the contraceptive potential of the morning-after pill does not justify prescribing it. Dispensing it is a reckless disregard for human life, all of its contraceptive potential notwithstanding. Not only should medical professionals have the right to refuse to dispense this medication without penalty, civil authorities should ban it, as they should all other forms of chemical and surgical child-killing.
The devil doesn't want to overthrow God's law - he just wants you to make an exception now and then. Our exceptions to God's commandments, however, are indeed a challenge to God's authority and an assault against His Word-law. If the commandment "Thou shalt not murder" has an exception, then in that instance, "Thou shalt murder." All sophistry aside, there are no exceptions to the divine ordinance against intentionally killing innocent people, and to fancy exceptions is to usurp God's rule and set up a counterfeit moral standard after Lucifer's example.
By Dr. James P. Johnston
For every two Ohioans born today, one is killed by a chemical or surgical abortion. About 246,000 innocent human beings were aborted in Ohio from the 2000 election to mid-2005. Our state's general apathy about the killings would convince an unbiased observer that pro-lifers in Ohio don't really consider the aborted fetus or embryo a real living human being. Do we really believe that unborn children are people? One could only wonder if Ohio's pro-life legislators would be more enthusiastic about ending the slaughter of 50,000 Ohioans annually if it were voters getting ripped to pieces.