Planned Parenthood is a huge organization. A 2007 Wall Street Journal report said their budget now exceeds $1 billion. Read that again and let it soak in for a moment. Of this budget $336 million comes from the government, thus from our taxpayer monies. Planned Parenthood is responsible for helping one in four mothers have an abortion in the United States. Planned Parenthood also remains deeply involved in the politics of abortion. (If you think this issue is not political then you are fast asleep.)Read the rest of this important post.
Planned Parenthood has what they call an "Action Fund" and this fund will give $10 million to political campaigns this year. The goal is to elect pro-abortion leaders. The major effort is to elect Barack Obama president since they know the Supreme Court may have two openings in the next four years. This is why massive support goes to his campaign. These people know that the Illinois Senator has delivered for them 100% of the time.
What disturbs me is how Christians have become persuaded that this issue is no longer quite as important as they once thought it was. And younger Christians are particularly prone to not be passionate about the pro-life issue in recent studies. When I talk to them I see less and less interest in this subject.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Pro-Life, Planned Parenthood and Younger Christians
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Some of what I'm hearing from evangelicals who are willing to vote for "pro-choice" (choice to murder) candidates leads me to think that these evangelicals would rather work to stop *any* suffering of people who have already been born than work to stop the legal murder of unborn children. War, other kinds of suffering, and the environment seem more important than abortion to these evangelicals.
Working to better peoples' lives, physically and emotionally, is a very good thing. Christians should care about peoples' suffering. For example, war is evil-- sometimes, a necessary evil, but one which causes great suffering. Christians should think carefully about particular wars and oppose them if they are unjust (I'm not referring to any particular war here). Poverty is certainly terrible, and Christians should do what they can to help those in need. Racism is evil and should be opposed by Christians. Needless abuse of the planet (God's creation) is a sin. Christians should act to help people in their suffering, and Christians should take care of God's creation.
However, what is more important, ultimately-- stopping any and all suffering of people who have already been born (as if that were possible), or stopping the killing of unborn children who have not even had a chance to *be* born? Earthly suffering is temporal. It can even be used by God for good in His plan for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). The lives of unborn children who are aborted are *eternal* matters. Too many evangelical Christian are prioritizing temporal (although important) matters over eternal ones in their voting choices.
From your post, 2 quotes: "Of this budget $336 million comes from the government, thus from our taxpayer monies" and "...This fund will give $10 million to political campaigns this year. The goal is to elect pro-abortion leaders."
I guess that is what Robert Tilton, and Richard Roberts (Oral Roberts' son) and all of those prosperity false prophets would call "Seed money."
I'd laugh, if it were funny.
Christopher Lake, thanks for articulating that distinctive between temporal suffering and the eternal implications of abortion. That's a gem I'll return to often. God bless you! Keep 'em coming.
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