So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." (John 8:31-32)
When President Obama was asked about the Gosnell abortion trial, he declined to comment specifically, but he did say he agreed with former President Bill Clinton that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
In America, since the legalization of abortion in 1973 until 2011, there have been 54,559,615 abortions. Let that sink in a minute. There have been over 54 million abortions. Over 54 million people (American people) are not here on this earth that should have been. Legalizing abortion didn't make it rare - it opened the floodgates! These numbers could actually be even higher, because there is no law or regulation that compels abortion clinics to report their statistics. It's completely voluntary. But according to the data available, 22% of all US pregnancies end in abortion. One in every five babies are killed. Abortion is not rare.
A safe abortion is an oxymoron, an impossibility. Abortion is a procedure that by its very nature is "un-safe" for babies. At the beginning of the procedure there are two lives; at the end, there is only one. And that one, that woman who may have believed the lie that "it's just a clump of tissue", will for the rest of her life have to deal with the scars and the consequences, physical, emotional and spiritual, of her "choice". Abortion is not safe.
When I first started reading about the Gosnell case, I was, like everyone else, appalled and sickened by what went on in that "clinic". I still am. But what I'm coming to see, as I keep reading, is that this is not an aberration at all. This kind of stuff goes on all the time, and it has got to stop! Thank God, the authorities raided that clinic for illegal use of prescription drugs, because that is how the despicable abortion mill that he was running came to light. We've got to keep the light on it, and bring to light all the others out there, the whole abortion industry, in fact. Because they claim to be all about women's health, and say they are on the woman's side, but they're not. They're all about the money. They don't care about women - they use women, for profit.
There is so much deception surrounding abortion. There's no doubt but the father of lies, Satan, is behind this heinous practice. In fact, legalized abortion in America was "birthed" through lies and deceit. We know this because of the incredible life of Dr. Bernard Nathanson.
In the 1960's and early 1970's, Dr. Nathanson was an ardent, zealous, advocate of legalized abortion. He became an abortionist himself, and was responsible for over 75,000 abortions - over 5,000 with his own hands (one of which was his own child), the others he presided over as an instructor, or as the Director of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health. He was one of the founders of NARAL, which at first stood for National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. (Later it was changed to National Abortion Rights Action League, and is now NARAL Pro-Choice America.) He worked tirelessly to make abortion legal in the United States.
Once Roe v Wade was the law of the land, though, he began to have doubts about all that he had believed about abortion. When ultrasound technology became available, the image of the baby in the womb reinforced his change of heart, and he became an ardent advocate - for life! He wrote about all of this in his autobiography, The Hand of God. He also made the film "The Silent Scream" which showed the abortion of a baby at 12 weeks gestation. President Ronald Reagan, himself a convert from pro-abortion to pro-life, showed that video at the White House. Dr. Nathanson was very upfront about his former actions in support of abortion, and in an article he wrote that is included in a collection of works about abortion, he detailed the strategy he and his co-laborers had used to convince the country that abortion needed to be legal. Bottom line - they lied!
The first thing they did was get the media on their side. They convinced the media that abortion was forward-thinking, progressive, enlightened; that abortion was good for women, and necessary for the health of women. They turned the perception of pregnancy from a beautiful, natural part of a woman's life...to a disease. They knew full well that the majority of Americans opposed abortion. So they lied. They told the media that they had polled the American people, and 60% of Americans supported legalized abortion. They just completely made it up. The media took it and ran with it. Americans heard that 60% of their fellow citizens supported abortion, so if they opposed it, they were in the minority.
At that time, late 60's/early 70's, the number of illegal abortions performed in America per year averaged about 98,000. They told the media, who dutifully reported it, that the annual average of illegal abortions in America was 1,000,000 - over 10 times the actual amount. The average amount of deaths from illegal abortions per year was 200-250. They said it was 10,000. Although over 90% of illegal abortions were performed by doctors, the perception was given that they were mostly done by back-alley abortionists. They grossly inflated the numbers to achieve their desired ends. They just kept repeating these lies, until everyone accepted them as truth. They also fabricated the idea that legalizing abortion would merely give those women who were already having illegal abortions a safe way to do so. In other words, legalizing abortion wouldn't increase the numbers of women having them.
And where are we now, forty years later? We've gone from 98,000 abortions per year when it was illegal, to over 1,000,000 abortions per year - over 54,559,615 abortions since legalization. We bought the lies, and the lies became the truth.
Why do women have abortions today? Well over 75% have abortions for one of these reasons:
- a baby would interfere with work, school, or other responsibilities
- cannot afford a baby
- don't want to be a single parent, or trouble in the relationship with the father
Women are herded through these abortion clinics like they're on an assembly line. They are given a gown, given some medicine, told to lay down on the table, their baby is sucked out of them with a high-powered vacuum that tears the tiny thing into pieces...the doctor may chit chat with the nurse as all of this happens...it's all done very quickly...then he's gone on to the next "patient". You get dressed, and you go home. Empty - in more ways than one.
The lies have to be exposed. We have to speak the truth in love, speak up for the babies, and speak up for women. Dr. Nathanson said it was truth that finally got his attention - the truth that from conception on, there is life. Life worthy of protection, life worthy of living.
Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all the unfortunate.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
(Proverbs 31:8-9)
Really well written and so true. Unfortunately, the liberals have repeated so many lies to the American public about so many things that most people believe them. Those lies need to be exposed and you have done so in this piece about abortion. Thanks, Janet
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