"One Man's Opinion"
by Jim M. Roane, Ph.D.
by Jim M. Roane, Ph.D.
Recently, Andrea Lafferty the president of the Traditional Values Coalition hit the nail squarely on the head when she wrote:
"Kermit Gosnell may have been the one convicted on three counts of murder today, but it was abortion that was on trial. I'll spare you the details. But the difference between snapping the neck of a 24-week old baby in the womb and outside of the womb has been finally reduced to meaningless word games. What of the 28-week old baby? The 34-week old baby?"
Kudos to you, Andrea.
How much of a victory we have won, though, is not clear. There are however several things that I have been able to deduct from the whole episode. One is—do you remember part of the argument used against a pro-life stance was that we just had to take unsafe abortion clinics out of the back alleys, and bring them out in the clear sunshine so everyone would have access to a clean and safe abortion that wanted one? Afterall, the argument went, abortion was a fundamental Constitutional right! Well, so much for that. I’ve seen pictures and read reports of the filthy clinic that Dr. Gosnell ran. My veterinarian’s clinic is run better, and is a whole lot cleaner too. And, what about the Constitutional rights of the poor helpless child?
How much of a victory we have won, though, is not clear. There are however several things that I have been able to deduct from the whole episode. One is—do you remember part of the argument used against a pro-life stance was that we just had to take unsafe abortion clinics out of the back alleys, and bring them out in the clear sunshine so everyone would have access to a clean and safe abortion that wanted one? Afterall, the argument went, abortion was a fundamental Constitutional right! Well, so much for that. I’ve seen pictures and read reports of the filthy clinic that Dr. Gosnell ran. My veterinarian’s clinic is run better, and is a whole lot cleaner too. And, what about the Constitutional rights of the poor helpless child?
“Oh, he was a nice man,” I heard one interviewee say. “He made house calls when mama was sick.” Now that is just the point. Just a whole lot of “bad people” can do “good things.” Hitler did a lot of “good things” for the German Republic, but he also tortured, slaughtered, and cremated a whole lot of good people in the process.
Seems to me that liberal Christians would get the point; but some don’t.
If you don’t believe me drop by the Episcopal Diocese office in your neck of the woods when you have a little spare time and have a chat with the local bishop. Chances are that he or she will look you straight in the eye without one ounce of remorse and defend a woman’s choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. And, oh, yeah, while you are there ask the fine bishop what he or she thinks about sanctioning a gay marriage with the dignity of a church ceremony. Sure, he or she reads the same Bible you do; but the difference is they get to interpret theirs to meet their politically correct whims, and, of course, we don't want to stoop that low, nor do we have that choice.
Seems to me that liberal Christians would get the point; but some don’t.
If you don’t believe me drop by the Episcopal Diocese office in your neck of the woods when you have a little spare time and have a chat with the local bishop. Chances are that he or she will look you straight in the eye without one ounce of remorse and defend a woman’s choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. And, oh, yeah, while you are there ask the fine bishop what he or she thinks about sanctioning a gay marriage with the dignity of a church ceremony. Sure, he or she reads the same Bible you do; but the difference is they get to interpret theirs to meet their politically correct whims, and, of course, we don't want to stoop that low, nor do we have that choice.
Now back to our convicted murderer Dr. Kermit Gosnell. Why single him out? So he was off by a few days. Maybe it was just a little over 26 months into the pregnancy in some cases; but, you know pregnancies do have a way of fooling us time wise. So, the poor little fellow came out crying? He can’t make it on his on now anyway, so what’s wrong in severing his little neck to stop the suffering and especially the crying?
Of course, I am being sarcastic, and you know it.
Now—just in case you think the battle is over—I found it interesting to read what Ilyse Hogue the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America had to say in defense of their stance on abortion. Firstly, she goes on the attack by advocating the role of the victimized woman who is not allow to terminate her pregnancy—ignoring, of course, the poor child who never got a chance to breath one breath of fresh air. Here’s what she said:
Now—just in case you think the battle is over—I found it interesting to read what Ilyse Hogue the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America had to say in defense of their stance on abortion. Firstly, she goes on the attack by advocating the role of the victimized woman who is not allow to terminate her pregnancy—ignoring, of course, the poor child who never got a chance to breath one breath of fresh air. Here’s what she said:
[Pro-choice advocates] are exploiting the Gosnell case to boost their 40-year-old agenda to ban abortion altogether. These opportunists are shamelessly using the case of these victimized women to take even more control away from our ability to make private decisions about how, when, and with whom we have families.
And, her only qualm seemed to be providing a sanitary environment with a surgically adept physician to perform the procedure. In other words, make it a clean, fast, and hopefully painless procedure—the latter of which, Gosnell provided by severing the spinal cord with some razor sharp scissors; unfortunately according to her, his big mistake is that he wasn’t as sanitary as he should have been. Here’s that statement.
“Women, regardless of their background, deserve access to high-quality health care. Women deserve the opportunity to determine if and when they want to have families. Women deserve the dignity of controlling their own lives and, without a doubt, women deserve a lot better than the likes of Kermit Gosnell.”
Problem is America is not weeping loudly enough. May God rouse us into a holy righteousness that will fearlessly confront this horrible crime on every legal front we have.
With that in mind, I must say that America is not the only country that is guilty of such unspeakable Godlessness; the Ukraine, where Bonnie and I are presently, has one of the highest abortion rates on the globe. So, friends, there is still work to be done.
One of the joys I had today was to give the Commencement address here at Evangel Theological Seminary and witness a small class of graduates from countries that most people have never heard of graduate with their master’s degrees and commissioned to return to their homes with a mandate to reach their generation for Christ. Pray for them.
Pray for us also. There are more ministry opportunities than we can fulfill so we need guidance from above to make some hard decisions in the future. More about that later.
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