What makes fighting abortion our responsibility? We're not supposed to be in the world, right?
Wrong.
Yes, you read correctly. And you might be going, "Whaaa??"
Me too, for a while. Christ tells us to be in the world, but not of it.
So now you get it.
Some examples to back up my point. Think of almost any godly character in the Bible: Moses. Abraham. Lot. Joseph. Jacob. Isaac. Daniel (big one here!).
October 21, 2011
Abby Johnson post
I was reading on Abby Johnson's blog the other day (abbyjohnson.org) and I came across this post:
Last year, I took my whole family to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., including my 4 year old daughter, Grace. She frequently goes out to the abortion clinics with me to pray. She knows what it means to be pregnant. She has a very simplified understanding of abortion. She had never been exposed to any graphic signs. I knew she would be at the March for Life. I didn’t know what she would say or how she would handle it, but I didn’t want to hide them from her.
Last year, I took my whole family to the March for Life in Washington, D.C., including my 4 year old daughter, Grace. She frequently goes out to the abortion clinics with me to pray. She knows what it means to be pregnant. She has a very simplified understanding of abortion. She had never been exposed to any graphic signs. I knew she would be at the March for Life. I didn’t know what she would say or how she would handle it, but I didn’t want to hide them from her.
October 13, 2011
40 Days for Life story
Since 40 Days for Life is the featured organization of the week, I thought it fitting to share this story. I got this email from Shawn Carney the other day:
A visibly upset young woman and her mother had just
walked out of the abortion center where the 40 Days
for Life vigil is going on -- and walked right up to
one of the prayer volunteers.
She had been advised to have an abortion because she
had difficulties in her life.
A visibly upset young woman and her mother had just
walked out of the abortion center where the 40 Days
for Life vigil is going on -- and walked right up to
one of the prayer volunteers.
She had been advised to have an abortion because she
had difficulties in her life.
October 9, 2011
Weekly Featured Pro-life Activity...New This Week!
Have you ever wondered, okay, so I know why I should do something about abortion, but I don't know what to do!!! Yeah, realized, we haven't been too good about giving you options, because there are a lot of them. So, here is how we are attempting to remedy that problem.
We will have Weekly Featured Pro-life Activity! And that's just a fancy title for things to do in the Pro-life movement. This could be as simple as a website that has some special quirk about it, or it could be as major as a National Organization that you can become a part of. We'll have a page where the information on the activity idea will be posted and a button on our main blog that leads to the page. Feel free to copy that button to your site every week! It will give us more publicity and it will help those interested in doing something active to get ideas of what's out there.
So, I hope this is helpful to some of you, and thanks, as always, for reading our blog!
In CHRIST,
The We Can't Ignore Team
We will have Weekly Featured Pro-life Activity! And that's just a fancy title for things to do in the Pro-life movement. This could be as simple as a website that has some special quirk about it, or it could be as major as a National Organization that you can become a part of. We'll have a page where the information on the activity idea will be posted and a button on our main blog that leads to the page. Feel free to copy that button to your site every week! It will give us more publicity and it will help those interested in doing something active to get ideas of what's out there.
So, I hope this is helpful to some of you, and thanks, as always, for reading our blog!
In CHRIST,
The We Can't Ignore Team
October 6, 2011
The Scarlet Letter
But she named the infant 'Pearl,' as being of great price--purchased with all she had--her mother's only treasure! How strange, indeed! Man had marked this woman's sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonored bosom, to connect her parent forever with the race and descent of mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in Heaven!~Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter
Are you familiar with the book, The Scarlet Letter? It really is an amazing piece of literature, and it has to do so much with what is happening in the pro-life movement! It offered me so much insight about the problems we face today in the pro-life movement. This piece of gold in particular I'm going to share with you.
September 28, 2011
I MET ABBY JOHNSON!!!
Okay, sorry we haven't posted in a while. I will get more regular, I promise! But...
...You read correctly. I met Abby Johnson!! I think I have the right to scream.
So, story behind that.
I'm going to be starting volunteer work at my local Crisis Pregnancy Center (well I guess I already kind of have, sort of), next Monday. I'm going to be the Administrative Assistant for the Volunteers Coordinator (I know, fancy title, and I'm only a volunteer, haha) which I'm super super super excited about.
...You read correctly. I met Abby Johnson!! I think I have the right to scream.
So, story behind that.
I'm going to be starting volunteer work at my local Crisis Pregnancy Center (well I guess I already kind of have, sort of), next Monday. I'm going to be the Administrative Assistant for the Volunteers Coordinator (I know, fancy title, and I'm only a volunteer, haha) which I'm super super super excited about.
August 22, 2011
LOVE will overcome abortion: Part 2
Sorry it took me so long to post this!! Here is part 2 of a mini-series I started a couple months ago. To read part 1, click here.
Sometimes, when two sides of an argument sounds so right it is very hard to figure out who really is. After all, someone has to be right!
Sometimes, when two sides of an argument sounds so right it is very hard to figure out who really is. After all, someone has to be right!
August 16, 2011
The Holocaust of Jews and the Holocaust of Babies
Sorry it's been so long since we've posted!
So, recently, we received an email from Ray Comfort, the founder of Living Waters, an organization dedicated to helping Christian churches learn how to reach out to their communities. Mr. Comfort has also made a video about abortion and the Holocaust. He interviewed several people on their thoughts on the Holocaust, abortion, and morality.
Here is kind of a summary of the video, and my thoughts on it.
You all know who Adolf Hitler was, right? Two years ago, I read a book that was basically his diary called Mein Kampf which means My Struggle. This book is huge, I'm looking at it right now. It's big, black and about three inches thick. And it is filled to brimming with reasons why Hitler hated the Jews. Why Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Yes, he killed 6 million Jews.
He didn't just kill Jews though. The common number of deaths associated with the Holocaust is 11 million. In a span of four years alone (from 1941-1945), 11 million innocent people were killed for no reason at all except that they were a nuisance, and the Nazis didn't want them around. And all this was caused by the government of Germany.
You might start to see now what the Holocaust has in common with abortion.
Now fast-forward about 30 years. 1973 saw abortion become legal in the United States. That year, 1.25 million abortions were performed. The next year, that number increased by 100,000. Every year, the number of abortions grew to reach a peak of 1,700,000 abortions performed in 1990. Now, on average, about 1.2 million babies die a year due to abortion in the United States alone.
So, we have two somewhat different scenarios: the Holocaust of Jews, and the Holocaust of babies. I would call this reckless abortion of babies a holocaust because the definition of "holocaust" according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition) is, "A thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life" or "A mass slaughter of people; esp Genocide." This seems to describe both scenarios.
Now we come to what is really similar about both. Hitler claimed that Jews were not human, they were a race, yes, and they were alive, yes, but they were not human. Sound familiar? Insert "fetus" for "Jews" and you have almost exactly what the majority of Americans say about a baby in the womb!
Would you say that the intended murdering of a Jew is wrong? I'm assuming, yes. Would you say that the intended murdering of a "fetus" is wrong? Some would adamantly say, "Yes!" Some would say, "That is a tricky subject," or "That's completely different." But is it? You have to decide for yourself.
If you have specific questions about abortion or would like to learn more, email us at wecantignore@gmail.com. I would also encourage you to visit http://abort73.com/ for more information about statistics on abortion.
Thank you for reading my thoughts.
In Christ,
Aubry
So, recently, we received an email from Ray Comfort, the founder of Living Waters, an organization dedicated to helping Christian churches learn how to reach out to their communities. Mr. Comfort has also made a video about abortion and the Holocaust. He interviewed several people on their thoughts on the Holocaust, abortion, and morality.
Here is kind of a summary of the video, and my thoughts on it.
You all know who Adolf Hitler was, right? Two years ago, I read a book that was basically his diary called Mein Kampf which means My Struggle. This book is huge, I'm looking at it right now. It's big, black and about three inches thick. And it is filled to brimming with reasons why Hitler hated the Jews. Why Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Yes, he killed 6 million Jews.
He didn't just kill Jews though. The common number of deaths associated with the Holocaust is 11 million. In a span of four years alone (from 1941-1945), 11 million innocent people were killed for no reason at all except that they were a nuisance, and the Nazis didn't want them around. And all this was caused by the government of Germany.
You might start to see now what the Holocaust has in common with abortion.
Now fast-forward about 30 years. 1973 saw abortion become legal in the United States. That year, 1.25 million abortions were performed. The next year, that number increased by 100,000. Every year, the number of abortions grew to reach a peak of 1,700,000 abortions performed in 1990. Now, on average, about 1.2 million babies die a year due to abortion in the United States alone.
So, we have two somewhat different scenarios: the Holocaust of Jews, and the Holocaust of babies. I would call this reckless abortion of babies a holocaust because the definition of "holocaust" according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th edition) is, "A thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life" or "A mass slaughter of people; esp Genocide." This seems to describe both scenarios.
Now we come to what is really similar about both. Hitler claimed that Jews were not human, they were a race, yes, and they were alive, yes, but they were not human. Sound familiar? Insert "fetus" for "Jews" and you have almost exactly what the majority of Americans say about a baby in the womb!
Would you say that the intended murdering of a Jew is wrong? I'm assuming, yes. Would you say that the intended murdering of a "fetus" is wrong? Some would adamantly say, "Yes!" Some would say, "That is a tricky subject," or "That's completely different." But is it? You have to decide for yourself.
If you have specific questions about abortion or would like to learn more, email us at wecantignore@gmail.com. I would also encourage you to visit http://abort73.com/ for more information about statistics on abortion.
Thank you for reading my thoughts.
In Christ,
Aubry
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