It's hard to read this story at Philly.com because it graphically reminds me of this society's death works: How many local neighborhood Fetal-Auschwitzes does Planned Parenthood have, and how many body parts and bodies does it "dispose" of over the course of a day, a month, a year, a decade? Folks could decry Auschwitz easily enough because nobody defended a monster like Hitler who had plunged the world into war. Planned Parenthood, on the other hand, was founded by a social activist libertine, Margaret Sanger, who is regarded as a heroine, racist eugenicist that she was. God will not be mocked.
That's horrible, there is no other words. The Planned Parenthood is a shame.
Posted by: Chrétiens persécutés | January 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Do you feel the same horror about those we murder in the name of "Liberty and Freedom"" You are not pro-life. You are pro-fetus, pro-unborn child. Pro-Life means Pro-Life - for all. Are you against the death penalty? Are you against violence used by guns? Probably no!
Posted by: CToBM | January 28, 2011 at 09:00 PM
CToBM, so unless one is absolutely pure don't even bother to raise an objection?
Nonsense!!!!!
Abortion is the murder of an innocent child, a helpless infant that can hurt no one.
War and the death penalty are proper uses of state power (scripturally supported). Certainly there need to be restraints on the state on the use of that power, but both war and the death penalty are instances when deadly force can be applied in the defense of life. (emphasis on can, that does not mean always is).
State approved and sponsored abortion is an illegitmate use of state power that corrupts the state and makes the state illegimate.
So, CToBM, calm down and expand your understanding a bit.
I have come to suspect that the abortion/death penalty/war trilogy is intended to torpedo any objection to abortion. I suspect that those who raise the issue are profoundly uncomfortable with the traditional Christian stance on abortion. The trilogy certainly can be used as a way to derail any serious consideration of how to stop abortion. The fact that the parts of the trilogy are not linked in law, in scripture or in historical Christian teaching makes no difference to them apparently.
Posted by: Michael Bauman (not Dr.) | January 29, 2011 at 09:32 AM
I found this sentence interesting -- the woman who wants to offer funerals for the babies is described as "not a religious zealot" because "she is more often showing her horses on Sunday morning than going to church."
So, is a religious zealot defined these days as someone who goes to church on Sunday morning?
Posted by: Deacon Michael D. Harmon | January 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Every Christian should be against capital punishment when it is applied without certainty of guilt. It is disturbing that DNA is uncovering some examples of justice miscarried. While we affirm that the death penalty is scripturally warranted we should also adopt the rather stringent Biblical laws against perjury. These laws state that anyone who gives false testimony in a court shall incur the very penalty intended for the accused. In our current system these considerations should also apply to police and DA's who tend to put conviction rates ahead of justice. Withholding and/or planting evidence, obtaining confessions through coercion, intimidating witnesses --all of these should be under the rubric of giving false testimony and subject to the appropriate penalty, which in a capital case is a capital punushment.
Posted by: Bob Srigley | January 29, 2011 at 01:37 PM
And here we go, the stategem worked. The attention on the evil of abortion is shifted into a debate on the death penalty. It is a separate issue entirely other than it is quite possible that the easy acceptance of the killing of innocents by abortion hardens the heart of the culture so that there is less concern for the killing of possible innocents vis a vis the death penalty.
Posted by: Michael Bauman (not Dr.) | January 29, 2011 at 08:21 PM