Thursday, September 6, 2012

Unalienable Right #1 is LIFE

I was deeply saddened to hear a clip from the President of the National Abortion Rights Action League heralding President Barack Obama as someone who really cares about the women in this country. The comment insinuated that Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney doesn't really care about women. What constitutes "caring for women?" From the perspective of those who support the taking of human life during abortion, President Barack Obama is their chief advocate. From his first day in office he has made it known that he is an avid supporter of abortion when he signed an executive order providing federal funds to pay for them. Even before he was elected President he had proven that in his mind the life of an unborn child is expendable. Carol Tobias, President of National Right to Life states. “Not only has Barack Obama heartlessly refused to support a ban on sex-selection abortion and late-term abortions past the point at which unborn children feel pain, he voted four times to deny constitutional protection to children born alive after a failed abortion – preferring to leave their fate to the abortionist who, only moments before, sought to kill them.” Each year there are 1.2 million abortions in the U.S. God's Word is very clear that human life begins at conception (Ps.139:13-15: Jer.1:5) and that taking a life is detestable (Gen.9:6). It is deeply troubling that support for a procedure that leaves one person emotionally scarred and the other party dead can be "spun" so that it is heralded as caring for women. Statistically half of all abortions are females. Which means that 600,000 female lives are willingly, knowingly, and proudly disposed of each year. Are we suppose to understand this as a demonstration of the current President and administration CARING??? I hardly think so. I find the current administrations open support for abortion and their direction of federal funds to support abortions (U.N. funding, Obama Care, Planned Parenthood) deplorable, reprehensible, and unconscionable, but not Caring. I guess the only women for whom CARE applies are those outside the womb. To our peril we remain silent, remain complicit, remain supportive of the evil of abortion. To care for women who are pregnant and don't want to be is to provide them with counseling and support that preserves both the emotional health of the mother and the life of the baby. It also includes assistance in helping with having some of the babies adopted. To care is to offer the love and forgiveness that Christ affords to those who are scarred and torn up by a prior abortion (2Cor.5:21; Ephesians 1:7).

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