Want to help make a difference? Join other voices on March 8 and call or e-mail your Senators. Respectfully urge them to defund Planned Parenthood.
Why? We have known for years that Planned Parenthood (PP) is the largest abortion provider in the country. It endangers the health of women. Recently, Live Action Films exposed PP officials aiding and abetting individuals posing as criminal sex traffickers seeking abortions for underage girls. You can view the YouTube by visiting Live Action Films, Concerned Women for America, or The Susan B. Anthony List. (See below.)
PP uses our tax dollars to do its work. But, on February 18, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to defund PP. In anger, PP has thrown down the gauntlet and is using its significant war chest to batter members of Congress into submission.
Do you realize that PP:
- Is a $1-plus billion business that rakes in one-third of its budget from government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels?
- Makes an $85 million profit?
- Fails to report many cases of sexual abuse and statutory rape involving girls under the age of 16?
- Aggressively advises pregnant girls under 18 on how to avoid telling their parents about visiting their abortion clinics through a process known as “judicial by-pass”?
On February 18 — and with all common sense — members of Congress voted against giving our $363 million (tax dollars) to the largest abortion provider in the country.
Years ago, two other members of Lutherans For Life and I “toured” PP in Des Moines, IA. I have no doubt that many who work at PP truly believe they are helping women. That day, during the tour, our “guide” expressed thankfulness that young girls, married and unmarried women, and even older mothers could be “helped” by way of an abortion. Today, I could share with you countless stories of friends and acquaintances who were “helped” by PP, but then fell to depression, eating disorders, alcoholism, sexual promiscuity, and anger. Some distanced themselves from God. Others wrote letters to their aborted children asking for forgiveness. All confess to me that abortion did not improve their lives; rather, quite the opposite.
A woman entering a PP clinic in 2009 was 42 times more likely to have an abortion than to receive either prenatal care or be referred for adoption. Through its “award-winning” website, Teenwire, PP normalizes teen sexual activity, peddles their “family planning” services, offers homosexuality as a “choice” and form of birth control, practically ignores the physical and moral consequences of abortion, scoffs at the psychological consequences of abortion, and actually helps build a wall between parents and children.
So, on March 8, please call your Senators and respectfully encourage them to defund Planned Parenthood, the taxpayer-funded organization that does not respect women, protect children, or honor the Creator of Life. You can find more information by visiting Concerned Women for America, Susan B. Anthony List, Focus on the Family, and The Family Research Council.
Then, please pray that we all have mercy on our littlest neighbor — the unborn child — and his or her mother.
After all, Jesus Christ calls us to mercy, not sacrifice.
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Jane Russell Opposed Abortion
Posted in Commentaries of others, Faith & Practice, Life issues, tagged abortion, adoption, celebrities and abortion, film stars, infertility, Jane Russell, Jennifer O'Neill, Lutherans For life, Natlie Portman, Silent No More, Word of Hope on March 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
John Smeaton, Director of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), posted a blog on March 2 that explains why this Hollywood film star of the 40s and 50s spoke out against abortion. At 19, she resorted to an illegal abortion which almost killed her and left her infertile. Jane did not conclude that abortion should be legalized. Instead, she said, “People should never, ever have an abortion. Don’t talk to me about it being a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body. The choice is between life and death.”
I don’t pretend to know much about Jane Russell, but it doesn’t surprise me that her opinion of abortion was kept under wraps. I wonder how many people know that Jane Russell founded an organization called WAIF (World Adoption International Fund) to help people adopt unwanted children from various parts of the world. She, herself, adopted three children.
John Smeaton points out that Jane Russell isn’t the only celebrity to have “stuck out her neck by making comments in support of unborn children or the dignity of motherhood, for example:
Together with John Smeaton and the SPUC, Lutherans For Life, Priests for Life, The National Right to Life, and all individuals, organizations, and ministries that speak up for life, I encourage you to pray for courage to defend our littlest neighbor and his or her mother. Jane Russell’s first and only child died at the hands of an abortionist. Jane was hurt by abortion and could never again bear another child. But, she was encouraged by the truth that choosing life is always better than choosing death. And, so, she welcomed children into her life and home through adoption.
In memory of Jane Russell and her stand for life, please consider giving a donation to your local caring pregnancy center.
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