Life Issues

The New York Times reported a small group of so-called clergy gathered at a Maryland abortion center.  The purpose of their assembly was to perform a “ritual blessing” over the killing center, complete with burning incense.  Reverend Katy Zeh, a Batist minister told the abortion center staff, “You all are blessings to those who come to you.”  Let’s be clear.  The women and men who come to them do so to kill their unborn babies.  Abortion is a brutal and violent death for these innocent children.  This blessing is from Satan, from the pit of hell.  I’m not saying those involved are going to hell.  I am saying they are responding to the lies of Satan.  Abortion is one of Satan’s most effective tools to drag souls away from Jesus.  See this for what it is.

While most people were celebrating the birth of our Savior, a battle of sorts was being waged within two nationwide pharmacies.  Since the Biden administration jettisoned protections for women who take chemical abortion pills, pro-abortion members of congress have aggressively lobbied pharmacy chains to sell the dangerous death drug.  Both Kroger and Sam’s listed the abortion pill on their online pharmacies.  It would not be an exaggeration to say it hit the fan.  In both cases the grocery giants blamed it on a third-party mistake and the drug was pulled from their websites.  It might be understood if consumers questioned the truth of their statements, but in the end good prevailed over evil.  CVS and Walgreens continue to sell the pill whose only function is to kill babies.

A notorious late-term abortion mill in Wichita, Kansas continues to live down to its reputation.  This killing center is ironically called Trust Women.  But that trust is limited.  Don’t even think about having an abortion without first paying in advance.  The facility was forced to close for two months to deal with “compliance issues” and installing new safety measures.  The goal was to prevent any more women from being seriously injured during an abortion.  It reopened in July and this is already the second documented botched procedure.  Yikes.  The most recent harm inflicted upon the woman appeared to be a perforation of her uterus, a very dangerous injury.  Nothing has changed.  Women are leaving a place called Trust Women on ambulance gurneys.  Little trust, mostly pain.

Diego Salina, a senior at Sonia Sotomayor High School started up a Students for Life chapter.  He used Instagram to get the attention of his fellow students who joined the club.  School officials said Diego couldn’t use the name of the school on social media because it made it look like the group was school sponsored.  So, he deleted the Instagram account but that wasn’t good enough.  Officials at a school named after an aggressively pro-abortion Supreme Court justice couldn’t have pro-lifers hanging around. So, they suspended the club.  Even though other groups continued to use the school’s name on social media without question.  The kids’ attorneys are getting involved and it should be a no brainer.  Time and time again school officials discriminate against pro-life students.

The lead advocate for an assisted suicide bill in the United Kingdom tabled her bill after coming face-to-face with reality.  A key element was diagnosing the time a patient has left, say six or twelve months.  Senior professors of palliative care uniformly said you can’t predict how long a patient had to live.  Professor Katherine Sleeman said “It is not possible to accurately determine.  This is an arbitrary line in the sand.  It’s not a firm foundation.”  Baroness Finlay said, “I have known people who live well and actively for years after they were thought to have no more than a few weeks to live.”  One study showed those who predicted such timelines were wrong over half of the time.  Let’s give patients the care they need and leave the exit to God.

Money is king in the abortion industry.  Missouri was one of a growing number of states where deceitful practices opened the floodgates of blood money from abortions.  They collected signatures with vague wording.  George Soros and other dark money types swooped in spending tens of millions of dollars on slick deceitful ads.  Voters cast ballots not knowing it would legalize abortion until birth.  Hours after the extreme amendment passed Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest chain of abortion centers filed a lawsuit to negate every pro-life law in the state.  Informing women about abortion’s impact, ending abortions because of a disability or unwanted sex of the child, licensing and inspecting abortion centers.  This is what abortion’s about, back-alley killing babies for money.

This is chilling.  A fifty-one-year-old grandmother was prepped for surgery to undergo a mastectomy for breast cancer.  Just before being wheeled in, the doctor asked her about Medical Aid in Dying, Canada’s gentle term for their euthanasia program.  She told him absolutely not but went into surgery fearful about her wellbeing during a procedure meant to save her life.  Later, before undergoing a second mastectomy the doctor again asked about euthanasia and then again during her recovery.  Doctor Leonie Herx said staffing shortages in many Canadian hospitals means many patients not at risk of imminent death are being offered euthanasia.  The UK has a thirty-seven-billion-pound deficit with their healthcare.  Where will this go?  We don’t want to go down the same deadly path.

Pro-life advocacy takes all shapes and sizes.  The group LIFE Runners recently participated in a marathon.  They chose Portland because Oregon allows abortion for any reason until birth.  The runners place a banner at the starting point reading Remember the Unborn.  They also wear bright blue shirts with the same message.  A central part of their mission is to be a joyful, peaceful witness to the truth about abortion, and the beautiful humanity of the unborn child.  The group was founded by Doctor Pat Castle and their first marathon was in Chicago.  Since then, they’ve grown to hundreds of chapters nationwide with over twenty-four thousand members spanning nearly fifty countries.  Running isn’t my bag, but I wish them all the best in their joyful defense of LIFE.

Taylor and Drew Deras are nurses in a NICU in Omaha, Nebraska.  It’s where they found love and a daughter.  Little Ella was born at their hospital, weighing in at just over one pound at twenty-three weeks and placed in their NICU.  Taylor signed up to care for the baby and Drew later also formed a bond with the tiny and fragile child.  When Ella became a ward of the state, the couple offered to become her foster parents.  Then, on National Adoption Day, Taylor and Drew adopted Ella.  Taylor said she’s “walking and talking and meeting developmental milestones” for any two-year-old.  Their story shows God brings unexpected blessings in unexpected ways.  Be open to the Lord’s will for your life and you never know what’ll happen.

I greatly admire Joseph, Mary’s husband.  Imagine being told the woman you’re engaged to is pregnant and you are dead certain the baby isn’t yours.  It’s a time in history when she could be stoned.  All you had to do was give the word.  But an angel comes to Joseph in a dream and tells him he’s going to be the stepdad to the Savior of the world!  He stepped up and endured the arrows of gossip and accusations.  By taking Mary as his wife, many thought he too was guilty of sex outside of marriage, his spotless reputation shattered overnight.  Imagine if every father of a baby outside of marriage emulated Joseph and sacrificed to stand with the mother of his child.  Christmas has a lesson for men everywhere.