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The Hypocrisy of Abortion

Science recognizes that an eagle egg is a developing eagle. So, to protect the eagle the government has levied severe penalties for destroying or even disturbing an eagle egg.

Science also recognizes that a fetus in the womb of a woman is a human being with unique DNA and fingerprints. But instead of protecting that human being against harm, the Pro-Choice movement claims the “right” to violently destroy that developing human being.

Is not a human life infinitely more precious than that of an eagle? Have we sunk so low morally? Have we devalued human life to nothing but waste to flush down the toilet, or part-out to clinics for experimentation?

Or consider the one million women every year in America who experience the profound loss and trauma of a miscarriage or stillbirth. Losing a child through miscarriage or stillbirth is not merely a disappointment or an unfulfilled longing. Miscarriage or stillbirth is LOSING A CHILD, and the grief and trauma that goes with it is very real.

So, how do we reconcile the profound sense of loss a woman experiences in miscarriage with the absence of love and nurturing in abortion?

We need to wake up to reality and end the hypocrisy of abortion!

If you have suffered the loss of a child through miscarriage or stillbirth, please contact www.srtservices.org.

Is Abortion Really Good for Women?

by Rob Fischer ·

Pro-abortionists claim that abortion is a woman’s right and that it is good for women. But is this true? In what way is abortion even remotely good for women?

If abortion is so good for women, why is it that so many women quail under an oppressive load of guilt and shame following their abortion? Why does abortion so often result in chronic depression, self-loathing, and self-harm?

Post-abortive women who are seeking emotional healing from a past abortion testify that their abortion drove them into depression and self-destructive behaviors including: alcohol abuse, drug addiction, cutting, sexual promiscuity, and suicidal thoughts and attempts.

How is abortion good for women?

Dr. David Reardon is one of the nation’s leading researchers on the effects of abortion. His research indicates that half of all post-abortive women experience some short- or long-term physical complications, “and almost all suffer from emotional or psychological aftershocks.” ¹

The trauma that many post-abortive women experience when they recognize and accept that they have willingly participated in the murder of their baby is akin to PTSD and is called PASS (Post-Abortive Stress Syndrome).²

Studies also show that post-abortive women have a higher occurrence of miscarriage following an abortion. And the unwanted loss of a child bears with it its own emotional trauma.

Finally, “Fifty-eight out of 74 worldwide studies dating back to 1957 have shown that abortion increases a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer. Nineteen of the 23 studies from the United States show that abortion is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.”³

Granted, an unplanned pregnancy can pose monumental challenges for a teen or unmarried woman. But these challenges have been overcome by many courageous women who have stepped up to their responsibility. And there are many individuals, families, and organizations who will stand with those women and help them through these challenges.

But to live with the knowledge that one has willingly participated in the death of their child is a challenge of another magnitude that women do not easily overcome.

No, abortion is not good for women.

¹David Reardon, Aborted Women, Silent No More (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1997), p. xi.

²Susanne Babble, PhD, MFT, “Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS) – Does it Exist?” Psychology Today, October 25, 2010.

³ “Epidemiologic Studies: Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk,” Breast Cancer Prevention Institute, 2014, https://www.aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/BCPI-FactSheet-Epidemiol-studies_2014-2.pdf.

“God Could Never Forgive Me for What I Did”

by Rob Fischer ·

The chaplain had just finished preaching a sermon about God’s great love and forgiveness to a group of elderly in a nursing home. But he noticed a woman in a wheelchair at the back of the room who was weeping.

He approached her and dropped to one knee beside her. “I see you’re troubled about something. May I help you?” he asked.

The woman looked up with tears in her eyes and said, “God could never forgive me for what I did.”

The chaplain responded, “Ma’am, whatever it is that you have done, God’s grace and mercy is big enough to cover it.”

Then she blurted out, “When I was 15, I got pregnant out of wedlock and had an abortion. I killed my baby! God could never forgive me for that!” And with that she broke into convulsive sobs of remorse.

The chaplain took her hand gently and asked, “May I tell you something?”

With difficulty, through her sorrow, she agreed.

This is what he shared with her that day…

The Apostle Paul was perhaps the most ardent evangelist and follower of Jesus Christ in the first century. Much of the book of Acts is devoted to telling how God used Paul hugely to spread the Gospel throughout the known world at that time. Paul and his companions launched countless churches and suffered extreme persecution in the process. In addition, Paul wrote 13 of the 27 New Testament books.

But before his conversion to Jesus Christ, Paul aggressively persecuted followers of Jesus. In fact, Paul’s mission in life was to snuff out Christianity and prevent its spread. He obtained official authorization and went from town to town and house to house arresting followers of Jesus, confiscating their property and throwing them in prison. He even cast his vote to put some of them to death.

In his own words, Paul says, “I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.” (Acts 26:11) And, “I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man.” (1 Timothy 1:13) In that same letter to Timothy, Paul makes the bold claim that his sins made him the worst sinner in the world. He doesn’t make this claim out of a sense of false humility. He truly believed it as “a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance.”

But Paul experienced what countless others have experienced. He found that God’s love and forgiveness are infinitely greater than any sin he had committed. In fact, here’s what Paul wrote after coming to Christ:

This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life. – 1 Timothy 1:15-16

In other words, Paul expressed that God used him as an example of His great mercy and forgiveness so no one else could say, “God could never forgive me for what I did.”

Many people look at sin and good works like a scale, hoping their good works will outweigh the bad. But it doesn’t work like that. The Bible says, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) We all fall short. No matter who we are or what we’ve done, we all stand guilty before God.

Here is perhaps a more accurate analogy for sin. Imagine that I baked a fresh pan of brownies and I offer you one. They’re warm, right out of the oven. But just before you take a bite, I confess to you that I only put ¼ teaspoon of rat poison in the recipe. Would you still eat the brownie? Of course not!

Sin in our life is like that rat poison in the brownie recipe. It doesn’t matter whether there’s ¼ teaspoon or half-a-cup! It doesn’t matter that 99.9% of the recipe consisted of good, wholesome ingredients. Any amount of rat poison ruins the brownies! In the same way, sin has spoiled our life, no matter how great or small our sins.

“You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)

When we say that God could never forgive us for what we’ve done, it is simply because we don’t understand how infinite and gracious God’s love and forgiveness is. Could our sin be greater than God’s forgiveness? I.e., are we greater than God? I don’t think so!

The guilt and shame you feel over your sin is there to lead you to repentance, so you’ll trust the sacrificial death of Jesus as payment for your sin. Put your faith in Him now and receive His free gift of forgiveness. The Bible promises, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)

And, “If we confess our sins to God, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:9

Then, the chaplain asked the woman, “Would you like to trust Jesus today for the forgiveness of your sins and be free from the burden of this awful guilt?”

And now, with tears of joy streaming down her face, she responded, “Yes!” And that very day, after carrying the heavy weight of her guilt for 70 years, this woman experienced God’s rich love and forgiveness.

How about you?

Can You Help Me Understand This?

by Rob Fischer ·

I have wrestled with whether to post this article on my discipleship website. But as a follower of Jesus I cannot remain silent on this issue for it saddens the heart of God and should sadden us as well.

Consider this:

In the US, the penalty for destroying an eagle egg can be anywhere from a $10,000-to-$250,000 fine and one to five years in prison, depending on state law. (Answers.com)
The penalty for premeditated murder of a human in the US is usually the death sentence or life imprisonment. (Answers.com)
However, there is no penalty for the premeditated murder of an unborn child. In fact, our government has legalized, promotes and subsidizes this practice with our tax dollars.

I love the outdoors. I spend a lot of time in the wilderness hiking and camping. So, I like eagles and other wild animals and seek to protect them.

What I don’t understand is how our morals, laws, and conscience rationalize protecting eagle fetuses while we callously exterminate millions of human fetuses?

As far as I can tell, the way we’ve rationalized this legalized murder is by claiming that one class of individual has the right to terminate the life of another class of individual. And we’ve elevated the right of choice for one class of person over the right of life for another class of person.

As a nation, we claim to adhere to a high standard of civil rights. But we’ve quickly forgotten that just fifty-some years ago, our nation was in turmoil over the prejudice, discrimination, injustice, and atrocities we were committing against African Americans and other non-white people groups.

But here we are again!

Only this time, it’s not just a matter of prejudice and discrimination. In the US, we have exterminated nearly 60 million babies since Roe v. Wade in 1973.[1] To put this in perspective, this is more than double the combined populations of the ten largest cities in the US.[2]

Imagine if New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and San Jose were all mercilessly and heartlessly wiped out. All their inhabitants exterminated at the whim of someone else. Gone. Dead. And imagine that such horrific extermination was legalized and even promoted by our government and by the taxes that you and I pay.

Shocking?

That’s what we’ve done—and worse!

Unborn babies have no voice. They have no Dr. Martin Luther King among them to appeal for mercy and justice. The unborn cannot protest, march, or stage a demonstration.

No, you and I must stand up and be their voice for them. They cannot cry out, but we can.

How do we do this?

Speak out against abortion, but do so peacefully and tactfully.
Support your local pregnancy resource centers financially and/or with your time.
Vote only for candidates who support life. Don’t be duped by the thinking that abortion is “just another political issue.”
Support measures that will bring an end to abortion.
Seek to love and heal the post-abortive, many of whom are in terrible distress over their abortions. Show them compassion, mercy and grace. Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins is more than adequate to forgive abortion or any other sins, but we must repent. (See abanon.org.)
Pray for our nation to return to God and put an end to this barbaric, ungodly practice.

[1] Jason Noble, “FACT CHECK: 50 million abortions claim checks out,” Des Moines Register, March 6, 2015, https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/reality-check/2015/03/06/million-abortions-claim-checks/24530159/. “Data from the Guttmacher Institute—a research organization that supports legal access to abortion—does indeed show more than 50 million abortions were performed between 1973 and 2011.” Since 2011, nearly one million babies have been aborted in the US each year.

[2] Marian White, “The Top 10 Largest U.S. Cities by Population,” Moving.com, 07/05/2019, https://www.moving.com/tips/the-top-10-largest-us-cities-by-population/.

The Shocking Truth about How the Pro-Choice Movement Dupes Women

by Rob Fischer ·

Under the guise of ensuring women their rights over their own bodies, the Pro-Choice movement has lied to women and strips them of the very rights they claim to support.

Here is what’s really happening:

“Men continue to be the number one reason that women choose abortion over giving birth.”[1] The woman’s boyfriend, husband, father, the father of her boyfriend, and even male doctors are the ones who wield their choice against women in what is called “coerced abortion.” “The most pro-abortion category in the United States (and also in other nations is white males between the ages of twenty and forty-five.”[2] So much for women’s right to choose.
Abortion increases the likelihood that a woman will contract breast cancer by 30%.[3] This makes Abortion the greatest single preventable cause of breast cancer.[4]
Countless women suffer horrific trauma following an abortion. Post-Abortive Stress Syndrome, a form of PTSD, manifests itself in depression, self-loathing, shame, guilt, and a host of unhealthy behaviors typical of someone who has experienced severe trauma.[5]^, [6] “Soon the abortion industry will find that it can no longer hide the fact that the only way to kill an unborn child is by maiming and traumatizing the child’s mother.”[7]
83% of woman who have had an abortion say they would have carried their baby to term if the father of the baby had stood by them.[8] Once more, it is the man, not the woman with the real choice when a woman aborts her child.
Groupthink and pressure from other women strip a woman of her individual choice.[9] Groupthink occurs when a group chooses a specific course action that is contrary to the true wishes of the group’s members, because its members don’t believe they have a voice. “The pro-choice movement could just as well be called the no-choice-but-abortion movement. Many women will testify that for them ‘pro-choice’ really meant ‘no choice.’”[10]
Abortion defies a woman’s moral, emotional, and physiological instincts. The Pro-Choice movement violates a woman’s innate desire to nurture and protect a child. Whether a woman ever bears a child or not, her mothering instincts are deeply woven into her womanhood. Frederica Mathewes-Green of Feminists for Life of America explains, “No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.”[11]
Selective abortion targets girls. The world over, including in the United States, society chooses to abort girls over boys by a huge margin.[12] How ironic and sad that a movement purporting to support women seeks to destroy them.

In defense of women who find themselves pregnant and “in trouble,” there are so many healthy, pro-women choices other than abortion. Abortion may seem like the easy way out now. But the testimonies of thousands of women who chose that route and now deeply regret it urge you to seek another more humane choice that truly honors women and respects their rights.

[1] John Ensor, Answering the Call: Saving Innocent Lives One Woman at a Time (Colorado Springs, CO: Focus on the Family, 2003), p. 94.

[2] John Wilke, quoted by Randy Alcorn, Why Pro-Life? Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004) p. 59.

[3] https://www.care-net.org/abundant-life-blog/researchers-uncover-a-hidden-cause-of-breast-cancer

[4] Dr. Joel Brind, professor endocrinology at City University of New York, quoted by Randy Alcorn, p. 71.

[5] Susanne Babble, PhD, MFT, “Post Abortion Stress Syndrome (PASS) – Does it Exist?” Psychology Today, October 25, 2010, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/somatic-psychology/201010/post-abortion-stress-syndrome-pass-does-it-exist.

[6] Elliott Institute study quoted by Randy Alcorn, p. 71.

[7] David C. Reardon, PhD., Making Abortion Rare: A Healing Strategy for a Divided Nation (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 1996) p. viii.

[8] “Key Facts About Abortion,” Elliot Institute, n.d., www.after-abortion.org.

[9] “Key Facts About Abortion.”

[10] Randy Alcorn, p. 96.

[11] Quoted by David Reardon, p. 105.

[12] Randy Alcorn, pgs. 59-60.

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