Showing posts with label Planned Parenthood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planned Parenthood. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Wisdom Wednesdays - Baby Murders - What Can I Do? #2




As more of the Planned Parenthood videos are released, I continue to be grieved in my spirit.  The most recent video (get ready, it's horrible) shows a baby, still alive, having its brain harvested.  My whole body and spirit feels pain when I think of this.  Proverbs 6 speaks about it:

 
There are six things Adonai hates, seven which he detests: 17 a haughty look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, 18 a heart that plots wicked schemes, feet swift in running to do evil, 19 a false witness who lies with every breath, and him who sows strife among brothers.

Can there be any more innocent blood than a baby killed by abortion?  
    I'd like to write "feel good" posts and pretend that all is well, but then I wouldn't be LISTENING* to what G-d is saying. I read an article yesterday that clinched it for me.  I must not turn away from this horror.  I must pray, and I must add feet to my prayers by taking action.  

In addition to the things I listed in my earlier POST, here is something we can all do to take action against this horrible organization.  This week, the  U. S. House of Representatives will vote on the H.R. 3504, titled The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.  Please contact your representative and ask them to vote yes on this bill.  You can send an e-mail, very easily and quickly, HERE.

Also, Life Chain Sunday is coming up on October 4.  Join others is standing on the street with signs, to draw attention to the need to stop abortion in the U.S.  Contact your local organization, and signs will be provided for your use.  If there is not a group near you, make your own signs and ask others to stand with you.  (The  link shows the signs used in the event.) Be prepared for the haters.  They will scream at you, call you names, and give you the finger, but the majority of passers-by will honk, smile really big  and give you thumbs up.  

 

My heart goes out to the women who've had abortions, and are now seeing these stories in the news.  They are suffering great pain and guilt for making abortion their "choice". Let me tell you my story of unplanned pregnancies.

My father was one of eleven children.  My mother was one of twelve.  My mother's family had to "adopt out" two children.  My grandfather was a share cropper, and during and after the Depression, times were very hard.  I'm sure it was an extremely difficult decision.  About fifteen years ago, our family was located by my Uncle Albert.  He was overjoyed to find his family.  Aunt Gloria, the other child adopted out, was reared in the same town as some of her siblings and grew up in a loving, wealthy home. 

Sadly, abortion has touched my family, too.  This relative suffers great mental problems due to the decision to choose abortion (a kinder, clinical word for murder).

Every year, we read and study the Torah through from Genesis to Deuteronomy.  Each year, our faith is reinforced with the story of G-d's guidance, provision, and protection of the children of Israel.  He led them,  fed them, gave them water, and met every other need.  This, and other stories in the Torah, remind us of how faithful G-d is to us when we trust Him.

I have experienced this over and over again in my life.  G-d will make a way when there seems to be no way if we will trust Him, follow Him, and obey Him.  His Word is LIFE.

Sadly, the opposite is true.  When we turn away, disobey and follow our own way, we reap death.  When women choose abortion, they experience death. Not only the death of the aborted baby, but death in their spirits.

The aftermath of an abortion is like a beautiful piece of furniture with a deep scratch across the surface.  Marred, but still beautiful and still useful.   There is hope.   Peace is possible.

Beloved, if you have had an abortion, you must agree with G-d that abortion is murder.
Ask His forgiveness for your sin.
Receive that forgiveness as an unmerited gift.  Yeshua died and rose again to pay for your sin.
Thank Him for it daily.
Make amends by speaking the truth about abortion.  Share your experience so that others will not go through what you did.

REMEMBER:  You are loved and forgiven. G-d can use you to help other women. 

This song is so appropriate to help you or anyone else who is contemplating abortion:



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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Wisdom Wednesdays - Of Lions and Babies


 

I heard last week that thousands are protesting around the world about Cecil the lion being killed in Zimbabwe by an American dentist.  Lots of news coverage about that.

There were  thousands who protested against Planned Parenthood last week, too, but there was little, if any,  news coverage of those protests.  

Doesn't this speak volumes about our country? 

The Roman society cared more for LIONS than human lives....and that society fell. Our society is on the edge of the precipice, too.

This quote on Twitter struck my heart:  "They covered child sacrifices with noise of loud flutes and drums so the cries of the wailing could not reach the ears of the people." -- Plutarch (AD 46 - 120)

I read this quote just after learning that our House of Representatives voted against de-funding Planned Parenthood.   They refused to hear the wailing of the sacrificed children.  The blood of those children is on their hands.  G-d will hold them accountable.  He will exact judgement. 

It doesn't matter whether society agrees with G-d's views on child murder.  It doesn't matter that the major news outlets won't cover the truth about these murders or that thousands are protesting against Planned Parenthood.  What matters is that we, who believe in and follow G-d's ways, stand on the truth.  It is our duty to speak the truth and to stand on the side of life.

Our society is doomed, like the Romans were, if we do not turn back to G-d and follow His ways.  But knowing that does not excuse us from praying and putting feet to our prayers.  

You can watch the Planned Parenthood videos on You-Tube by searching for "Planned Parenthood Exposed."  Let's not just turn away from these gruesome videos.  Let's share them and talk about them, and continue to speak out.   

I've provided a list of action items that you can share with others in my recent post,"What Can I Do ?"Even though the bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood was defeated, we must continue to contact our representatives and let them know we want them to investigate and take action on this issue.  

And let's not forget to pray for the women who've been lied to and taken advantage of by this horrible practice.  Can you imagine the pain of finding out that your little baby wasn't just a clump of tissue, but a fully-formed baby that was ripped apart and then sold?  I pray for them to turn to G-d and ask His forgiveness.  I pray for them to turn to His ways and, thereby, find His peace.


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Friday, July 31, 2015

Wisdom Wednesdays - Baby Murders - What can I do?



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 Are you horrified and broken-hearted over the news of the murder and dismemberment of babies by Planned Parenthood? I am, and I'm also very angry.


This quote says it better than I could  --   "Perhaps the question in the Planned Parenthood debacle should not be whether the body parts were sold or donated. Perhaps the question should be whether killing any living being with hearts, lungs, and livers large enough to be harvested really should be legal. I really don't care if the corpse was sold or "donated." I care that a life became a corpse in the first place. Because killing healthy, vibrant babies in the womb and using their lungs and hearts for "scientific" research sounds more like something one should read about at a Holocaust site then something that should happen in the 'land of the free and the home of the brave.'"
~ Rebecca Frazer
 
Gail-Friends, there is a time for righteous anger, and this is it.  It's not enough to be angry.  It is time to take action.  I read this passage earlier today, and felt great conviction:


Speak up for those who can’t speak for themselves,
    for the rights of all who need an advocate. 
 Speak up, judge righteously,
    defend the cause of the poor and the needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9 
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Please don't sit by and do nothing.  I don't want to stand before G-d one day and say that I didn't do anything to stop these torturous murders.  Here are some things we can do:
  1. Pray - first and foremost.  Ask G-d to move on the hearts of those involved in these horrible crimes.  Pray also for the women affected by these murders. (Are you aware that women who abort their children suffer a form of PTSD, along with depression and anxiety?) Pray for our elected officials to take action to stop this. Pray for them all to repent and turn to G-d and His ways.
  2. Call or e-mail your governor and ask him to cut off any state funding of Planned Parenthood and any other abortion clinic..
  3. Call or e-mail your elected officials.   This link will direct you to the president, your senators, and your U.S. House representatives.   https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
  4. Use Twitter,  #defundplannedparenthood ― so you can help drive the national momentum.  
  5. Speak out on Facebook.  The National Right to Life organization has a Facebook page that shares information that you can post on your Facebook page to keep the issue front and center.
  6. Sign a petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/order-attorney-general-investigate-planned-parenthoods-sale-aborted-baby-parts-2
  7. Stand on the street corner with signs in protest of the murder of babies  (Were you aware that there were nation-wide protests all over the US on Tuesday of this week?  Probably not, because the media doesn't cover those things very often.) UPDATE 8-21-14  -- Protests against Planned Parenthood will be held all over the country on Saturday, 8-22-14.  You can find a protest near you at this link:  http://protestpp.com/protests/  And if there's not one near you, make a sign "DE-FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD" and stand on the street corner.
  8. Support organizations that help pregnant women to deliver their babies, and then have the babies adopted.
  9. Support your local adoption agencies. (Are you aware that many faith-based groups will be shut down now because of their stand against same-sex marriage? )
  10. Encourage families to adopt children.
  11. Share these action items with your rabbi / pastor and encourage him to share them with the congregation. 
  12. Another action items is detailed on this POST. (September 16,2015)
  13. SHARE THIS POST ON FACEBOOK OR YOUR OWN BLOG.

We, as citizens of a free country, have the privilege of being a part of the political process.  We also have freedom of speech.  We are responsible before G-d for taking action.  I often hear Yeshua's quote, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto G-d what is G-d's" like that is an excuse for being silent.  Yeshua was talking about paying taxes.  The Jews of that time did not live in a country that had a representative government and a voice in decision making.  We do, and we are responsible to do all we can.




Are you aware that 55 MILLION babies have been aborted just since Roe v Wade was passed?  I encourage you to let your voice be heard for the little ones.  I'm not asking you to do anything I haven't done myself. The opposite side is loud and proud, and they work very hard to keep their right to murder and maim little babies.  Please pray for and stand on the side of the little ones until abortion is outlawed in America.



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