Late-Term Abortions, Gosnell Sympathy, and Push To “Pro”vide Late Term Pro-Life Options.
I don’t know how you can sympathize with a sick sadistic person but some are in the case of Kermit Gosnell, such as the writer for Slate Magazine’s Matthew Yglesias. Mr. Yglesias’s argument for having Gosnell’s deplorable clinic is that because there are not enough late-term abortion providers then you end up with someone that has a deplorable practice trying to handle the large demand.
I went and read this article and it makes one wonder if Yglesia’s could perhaps still be indulging in his marijuana smoking practices, since that is something he starts this ‘interesting’ article off as an example of how something that is prohibited can cause “deplorable customer service”. I of course am not saying that he does, but it would make me feel perhaps a tad more charitable towards his view, (not that there is much if any such feelings towards those that can sympathize with something such as late term abortion let alone the Gosnell’s of the world), but then I could chalk it up to “high”-jinks thinking and not just another “smoke screen” from a pro-choice at all costs sort. Smoke screen is more correct.
What I found more interesting than the actual writer’s words on the topic of Gosnell (mind you he did confirm that yes what is coming forth in the case is deplorable), but the comments from the other readers, is that it’s the pro-lifers fault. Pro-lifer’s are going to in effect cause even worse Gosnell-like clinics to spring up underground, in “back-alley’s” if they use Gosnell to overturn Roe v Wade.
I had to stop and realize though that they are probably just spewing their pro-choice groups indoctrination in regards to a procedure that is not just killing a “fetus” as they like to refer to a baby, human being that is growing and developing but literally a baby. Late term abortions in nine states have laws that require a second physician to be present during late-term abortion procedures in order to treat a fetus if born alive.
Some of the excuses I saw for late-term abortion from the pro-choice side were so predictable, meaning often heard, you just knew they were spouting what Planned Parenthood and their affiliate’s put out there. There was everything from “young girls not knowing they are pregnant because of poor sex-ed in school”, to the difficulties to have an abortion earlier in the pregnancy due to bureaucracy, with the shocker being made by one stating how horrific adoptions turn out to be.
I know it was an exercise in restraint as I read these comments to keep from answering each and every last one on their ridiculousness, at least ridiculous to me. I had to stop, regroup and think about the statements made and why would they think that way? Hasn’t there been nothing but push after push for more and more expanded birth control education in schools as well as funding?
I also noticed that there were some pro-lifers in there addressing these people, but one thing that was often forgotten, was to mention sources or ask, “why do you say that” and give a viable source. I do know that from my past experience of working with battered women, there was an occasion when a pregnant woman told me she didn’t think she could afford the baby, especially considering the fact that she was now living in a shelter due to domestic violence in her home. Oh she knew all about Medicaid, WIC and Food Stamps, but even with providers from Family service, she wasn’t aware of programs that are available through christian organizations. She needed support, human support not a caseworker’s name, case number, and just a roof over her head, although she was very grateful for that, but a caring person’s support, someone to help her through the pregnancy considering everything else that was going on in her life causing turmoil and stress.
I had just seen a pamphlet myself at our church for an organization called Care Net, I told her about that, we looked it up on my smart phone, I wish I could say I knew from there how things turned out, but unfortunately my role with the shelter was to provide a night of dinner and entertainment with my Soroptimist group for the ladies and their children. Most of the shelters give them only a few weeks at that particular location, so they work to get them into housing somewhere at a quick turnover rate. Care Net even had a service center right in the town near her shelter and one nearby my town which is where she was going to go stay for a bit with relatives.
There is also Heartbeat International, Birthright International and lastly Friends of the Unborn.
These organizations shouldn’t be only looked at as sources, but SOLUTIONS. Care Net’s record of 95% success rate with women completing their pregnancy shows that given the right information, help and that personal human touch as well as the message of God’s love for them and their unborn can end these Gosnell horror stories.
I ask you readers, if based upon a small segment of those that weren’t even aware of or appeared to not be aware of these organizations, I wonder how many others are uninformed, thus leading to how many lives can be saved just by knowledge? How as a pro-life advocate do we help spread the word? How do we get more churches to provide this information to their congregation in such a manner as to not judge or embarrass? Do we still have churches that have not affiliated themselves with these christian based organizations and if not, why?
Up With People or Up with Communism……
Up With People Theme Song Lyrics:
It happened just this morning
I was walking down the street
The milkman and the postman
And policeman I did meet.
There in every window
At every single door I recognized people
I’d never noticed before
Chorus:
Up, up with people
You meet ‘em wherever you go
Up, up with people
They’re the best kind of folks we know
If more people were for people
All people everywhere
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care
There’d be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people who care.
People from the Southland
And people from the North
Like a mighty army
I saw them coming forth
‘Twas a great reunion
Befitting of a king
Then I realized people
Were a lot more important than things
Chorus:
Inside everybody
There’s some bad and there’s some good
But don’t let anybody
Start attacking peoplehood
Love them as they are
And fight for them to be
Great men and great women
As God meant them to be.
Chorus:
It stemmed from the ideology of a group called Moral Re-Armament (MRA). “The movement had Christian roots, but grew into an informal, international network of people of all faiths and backgrounds. It was based around what it called ‘the Four Absolutes’ (absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love) and encouraged its members to be actively involved in political and social issues. One of the movement’s core ideas was that changing the world starts with seeking change in oneself.” Moral Re-Armament (MRA) was an international moral and spiritual movement that, in 1938, developed from the American minister Frank Buchman’s Oxford Group. Buchman headed MRA for 23 years until his death in 1961.In 2001 the movement was renamed Initiatives of Change. “Initiatives of Change (“IofC”) is a global organization dedicated to “building trust across the world’s divides” of culture, nationality, belief, and background. The organization is committed to transforming society, beginning with change in individual lives and relationships.”
All of the organizations were based on getting all people together “helping” each other and “caring” about each other. They promote the idea that everyone is the same. They are not just talking about the US either, they are promoting this concept all over the world. Take a browse through YouTube and listen to their music! It breeds Socialist ideas and Communism in out young people! That’s why the group Up With People TARGETS the young (in order to tour with and be apart of the Up With People crew you must be ages 18-29)!!! Take this song that Up With People sings:
Lyrics to Up With People’s song “What Color is God’s Skin”:
“Good Night” I said to my little son
So tired out when the day was done
Then he said, as I tucked him in
“Tell me, Daddy- What Color is God’s Skin?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
He looked at me with those shining eyes
Well I knew that I could tell no lies
When he said, “Daddy, why do the different races fight
If we’re the same in the good Lord’s sight?”
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
“Son, that’s part of our suffering past
But the whole human family is learning at last
That the thing we missed on the road we trod
Was walking as the daughters and the sons of God”.
CHORUS
What color is God’s skin? What color is God’s Skin”
I said it’s black, brown, it’s yellow… it is red, it is white
Every one’s the same in the good Lord’s sight.
I used to love this song as a child, but as I got older, I realized that not everyone followed the same God as I had been taught to follow growing up. Also, people may be the same in the Lords sight, but as the human race, we are not all the same! We have many differences in the human race! Many different cultures, ideologies, religious differences, and just plain differences period.
The promotion that people all follow the same God and that people all the same reminds me of another theme song from a more present time, LOL!
Little Boxes Lyrics (Theme Song from Showtime’s mini-series called “Weeds”:
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same,
There’s a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
The only people who will really take to heart the messages that Up With People, (and other organizations like it), are people who have the same thinking and ideology already. I don’t think the Muslim Countries will take any of this, run with it, change their religion, change their God, and change their beliefs. Nor do I think it will change any other Communist/Socialist Country because they already have Communism and it’s not working out to great for them. The Country it will change dramatically will be our own.
Organizations like these often look good at first glance, but once you start looking into what they are saying and the message they are spreading, they don’t always seem so good after a while! How quickly everyone seems to forget that Communism is promoted under the guise of helping people, sharing, and caring; even religion is used to defend Communism and Socialism. Communist and Socialists love to tug on your heart-strings and make Religious People feel it is their duty to do their “Fair Share” and give to those less fortunate over and over again…..
What people need to remember is that giving all the time, has gotten us in a real mess! Hand-Outs have hindered our society more than it has helped! Self-reliance and self-responsibility has gone out the window in our society because we have allowed Socialist and Communist ideology to take over and push too far. We have allowed Organizations like these to slip into our children’s mind that everyone is the same, everyone deserves the same, and that it is up to us to give everyone the same even though they aren’t doing the same work in order to get the same things.
It is one thing to help a person, it is another to have a society that is completely dependent on handouts from their Government because of helping ourselves into oblivion……
What do you think????
