Life Issues

Last week President Biden awarded Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian award.  During the White House ceremony Biden said Richards left an “inspiring legacy.”  Let’s see.  During her time at the helm of Planned parenthood she oversaw the killing of nearly four million babies.  The organization went political and saw their federal funding increase by over two-thirds.  Your tax dollars at work.  Under her watch the kingpin of the abortion industry was accused of Medicaid fraud and covering for child predators by violating federal mandatory reporting laws.  Undercover journalists documented her organization selling aborted baby body parts.  I’d call Richards’ legacy many things but never inspiring.

During the recent election cycle, ten states faced extreme pro-abortion amendments to their constitutions.  Amendments in five states actually mirrored the legislative status quo.  This was more grandstanding than achieving pro-abortion gains.  Florida is one of three states defeating the onslaught of abortion extremism.  George Soros and other dark money types pumped over seventy-five million dollars into Florida and lost.  This represented almost half of what these radicals spent in all ten states.  Much credit goes to Governor Ron DeSantis who publicly opposed Amendment 4 and encouraged other elected officials to do the same.  He held press conferences with physicians combating the lies from the other side.  But most importantly, we thank God for answering our earnest prayers.

The Left have lost their ever-loving minds.  Here’s the latest example.  Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin is urging her fellow Democrats to say and I quote, “Republicans want to kill your kids.”  Do they not stop to listen to themselves?  The Democrat Party is on record supporting abortion until birth with literally no restrictions.  And they want to force you the taxpayer to fund the killing.  They’re on record supporting abortions in the eighth and nineth months, discrimination abortions of children with Down syndrome or other disabilities, sex-selection abortions.  And Rubin claims Republicans, the party defending unborn life want to kill children!?!  This is total insanity.  These people are unhinged and they put it on display for all to see.

Gina Warden was only fifteen when she became pregnant and in spite of her nineteen-year-old boyfriend’s pleas to give their baby life, she had an abortion.  At the abortion center she wasn’t given any information on her baby, nor the physical and emotional trauma she would endure.  Gina was the last abortion of the day and the staff wanted her out in spite of her  complications.  They ushered her out the door even though she couldn’t stand and her ride hadn’t arrived.  Gina found herself laying on the parking lot asphalt with her head against the curb sobbing, begging God to end her life.  If you were to ask Gina if abortion empowered her, her answer would starkly contradict the claims of the abortion industry who simply use women for the blood money.

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned exclusively on unrestrained abortion and her hatred of Donald Trump.  Abortion was her number one theme.  She even paraded ten abortionists on stage at one of her rallies.  Yet, an analysis of the election shows that Harris underperformed with women voters.  A majority supported Trump.  Radical pro-abortion amendments failed in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota.  This was the second time it failed in South Dakota since the Dobbs decision.  And get this.  South Dakota has a law that protects unborn babies from the moment of fertilization with no exceptions.  What does this tell you about the abortion issue?  It’s a winning issue!  Politicians who stand for life and expose their opposition’s radical stand of abortion until birth win.

With the election well in our rearview mirrors, I humbly offer this.  The Lord again heaped blessings upon an underserving nation.  I thank God that good Christian citizens came out to vote because many races were defined as good versus evil.  I believe the Lord will use your votes to deliver additional blessings upon His people.  Even so, we are well to remember that we don’t put our faith in mere men and women.  We place them in God.  But we have seen in the Bible where God has placed good women and men in places of authority to advance His kingdom and the good of the people.  Please join me in continued thanks to God for this victory and His undeserved mercies.  Ask that we as a nation will turn from our wicked ways and that He would guide us as we move forward.

Whenever a woman dies from a pregnancy-related illness in a pro-life state, they blame the existing pro-life law.  Recently Neveah Crain died in a Texas hospital and abortion advocates went nuts.  But the truth behind her death was malpractice of two hospitals, not the pro-life law.  The hospitals seemed to ignore this young woman’s symptoms and neglected to provide the appropriate care.  The family of Neveah agrees.  They say abortion advocates are using their daughter’s and grandchild’s deaths for political purposes.  Neveah’s mother said, “I want them to be going after Baptist and Saint Elizabeth [hospitals] because they’re to blame for her death…I feel like they murdered my daughter and they just got away with it.”  Our prayers go out to this grieving family.

The more stories I read about successes in front of abortion centers, the more convinced I am a prayerful presence makes a big difference in the lives of women and couples who were abortion bound.  Three who came from different pro-life states to have an abortion, changed their minds at an abortion center in Wichita, Kansas.  A woman with her baby was praying as a couple went in, but the mere presence of the baby convinced them to leave.  Another woman felt a strong urge to run out of the abortion center and get away.  Another couple was offered a free ultrasound before going in for an abortion.  After seeing their baby, they chose life.  Imagine the joy of being something so important.  Please reach out to 40 Days for Life to help save lives.

Earlier I told you Army soldiers stationed at Fort Liberty in North Carolina were told pro-life groups like pregnancy centers and people with state issued pro-life license plates were labeled as terrorists on a training slide.  Turns out they were doing this for seven years and had worked to indoctrinate ten thousand soldiers that we pro-lifers are a threat to our nation.  Army brass said there was nothing in place to approve such disturbing slides.  But when questioned by congress, they refused to say whether anyone had been held accountable.  Keeping all this secret just makes matters worse.  If the political landscape erodes any further, what’s to stop the military from training soldiers to see law abiding Americans as enemies of our nation?  This is not a far-fetched question to ask.