Life Issues

Everyone let out a sigh of relief when officials announced the arrest of Vance Boelter, suspected assassin of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband.  He’s also accused of shooting another lawmaker and his wife who are expected to survive.  The suspect is facing second-degree murder charges.  Police found a disturbing list of seventy people Boelter planned to kill.  On that list were pro-abortion activists and details presumably about abortion facilities.  Let me be clear.  Speaking on behalf of Life Issues Institute we are adamantly opposed to using illegal means or violence of any kind to oppose abortion.  These murderous acts are pure evil just as killing millions of preborn children is vile.  Pray for the wounded and the families of those killed.  Dear Lord, may justice prevail.

Senator Ted Cruz and Congressman Chris Smith proposed a resolution that June, instead of Pride Month be designated Life Month.  During June the US Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade with the Dobbs decision.  In part the resolution says every June we “recognize that every human life is a sacred gift from God, possessing inherent dignity and worth.”  Congressman Smith said, “It calls our nation to reject willful blindness to the realities of abortion.”  The resolution has the support of many senators and members of the House.  Life Issues Institute has joined together with other pro-life organizations in support of this resolution.  This is an opportunity to change the past meaning of June for good.

When your tax dollars are denied to Planned Parenthood, good things happen.  President Trump froze Title Nine tax funds and the abortion dominos began to fall.  The abortion industry saw the House pass legislation ending their tax funding if the Senate agrees.  Planned Parenthood North Central States is closing four abortion referral centers in Minnesota.  And three abortion referral centers in Iowa, plus the state’s only abortion center.  The abortion giant is laying off sixty-six staff and offering an additional thirty-seven reassignment.  If taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood ends we’ll witness the collapse of their nationwide infrastructure.  Because most state legislatures, corporations and individuals don’t want to financially support abortion until birth either.

Delaware became the twelfth state or territory to legalize assisted suicide.  The effort of endorsed suicide is a metastasized cancer.  States feverishly work to combat veteran suicides while making it a sacred right.  Our brave veterans have targets painted on their backs.  France looks like the latest country to legalize euthanasia. The parameters of those who qualify are vaguely written, but it doesn’t really matter.  One of the French right to die campaigners said, “It’s a foot in the door, which will be important for what comes next.”  This is a textbook approach to these bills.  Every state or country that’s initiated assisted suicide has quickly loosened the protections of those qualifying.  Check out our global map following every timeline for proof.  Visit life issues dot org.

A tragic situation in the news covers a severely brain-injured woman being kept alive until her unborn baby boy reaches viability.  According to the media and abortion supporters you’d think this was a grotesque violation of human rights.  Two decades ago, a similar situation unfolded, also in Georgia.  A young pregnant woman was assaulted and kept alive by the woman’s mother to give her grandson a chance at life.  For sixteen weeks doctors hounded her with doomsday predictions for her grandson, none of which came true.  Emmanuel Hawkins is now twenty-two years old. Today, family also appear to support continued medical treatment.  Please pray the doctors will have success bringing him into the word.

You may have heard about the Missouri Supreme Court upholding protections for women having abortions.  Here’s a closer look at just what’s at stake.  The Court ruled it’s okay to protect women from coerced abortions, moldy equipment, unqualified abortionists, and unsanitary conditions.  They also upheld the need for emergency protocols, a woman’s right to an ultrasound, and informed consent.  Planned Parenthood said they can’t do abortions under such appalling requirements and stopped performing them until the Court gives its final ruling.  This paints a clear picture.  The abortion industry is so greedy, so money hungry it doesn’t care about affording women basic safety standards.  I pray the eyes of Missouri citizens will be opened and see the abortion industry for what it truly is.

Those who are blessed in years inevitably look back and wonder how time moved so quickly.  That moment came for me recently. I marked the fiftieth year I’ve been active in pro-life advocacy.  The occasion brings back a flood of memories as I reflect on the absolute honor it’s been to work in the pro-life movement.  My initiation to the abortion issue was a persuasive speech my senior year of high school nineteen seventy five.  Roe v Wade was two years old, so I chose the topic of abortion.   Afterward the class unanimously opposed abortion.  God used it to light a fierce passion in my heart to seek justice for America’s unborn babies.  Pro-life education is the foundation on which we build legislative and political victories.  So, let’s never stop defending life.

Those fighting for decency and the protection of children enjoyed a victory in Colorado.  The University of Colorado Boulder and a local abortion facility were going to hold a Sex Ed Summer Camp for kids in fifth to eighth grades.  Topics included “bodies beyond the binary” and “gender and sexuality.”  The website read the camp “is everything your camper won’t always get to learn in school!”  What frightens me is the word “always” meaning some public schools are actually teaching this stuff.  The far Left always plays the victim and said the cancellation of the camp was “Due to safety concerns.”  It was instead due to a widespread opposition by those protecting kids.  Parents, you have a full plate just protecting your precious children from stuff like this.  You have my prayers.

Those who support abortion claim they follow science when they say life doesn’t begin at fertilization.  These flat-earth activists ignore settled science established in nineteen-forty-two.  The Carnegie Stages of Human Embryonic Development are the gold standard of life before birth.  Their research is continually reviewed and verified by the world’s leading Ph.D’s in human embryology.  When professional embryology textbooks are written they must incorporate the Carnegie Stages.  It states when fertilization occurs there is an “actual” human being not a “possible” human being.  It’s pro-lifers who follow the science, not abortion advocates.  You can learn more by visiting this broadcast link at life issues dot org where you’ll understand the flat-earth activists have it wrong.  Dead wrong.

This late development should give the abortion industry and its supporters heartburn.  Missouri Senator Josh Hawley asked Dr. Marty Makary, Commissioner of the FDA to do a full review of the safety of chemical abortion pills.  Dr. Makary responded that he would.  This should make distributors of these dangerous pills sweat bullets because they’ve been hiding its serious health impact on women for the last decade.  It’s all politics to promote zero accountability for those who’re mailing these pills with no medical supervision into states that protect the unborn.  The pills designed to kill preborn children can’t stand up to fair scrutiny because they’re harming the health, fertility and even lives of unsuspecting women.  And they’re used by sexual predators to cover up criminal activity.