Jivin J’s Life Links 3-8-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
Every Tuesday since then, Wilkinson and a handful of like-minded Christians have driven into the city in a donated motor home equipped with an ultrasound machine and parked it near the Imperial Courts housing project….
They come here because Watts is one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and abortion rates tend to be higher in low-income areas, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, a leading authority on sexual health issues. For 4 hours, Wilkinson’s group offers free pregnancy tests, using the ultrasound to show women images of their fetuses and leading prayer-filled counseling sessions in which they urge the women to keep their unborn babies.
The bottom line: Stupak and the blue dog Democrats in the House have no leverage if they go along with Pelosi in a reconciliation strategy. The only way they can ensure that the abortion language and other provisions they oppose are eliminated is to reject reconciliation entirely — and demand that the House and Senate start over with clean legislation.
Piper knows that to link the 2 explosive issues is to invite misunderstanding and criticism. Nevertheless, in his 2007 sermon he makes clear that he is not associating the 2 in a “sly or subtle way,” but rather in an “open and intentional” way. He clarifies that his aim is not to “equate” the 2, but rather to “associate them. “It’s not a biblical declaration; it’s a cultural observation.”
Piper makes his aims in linking these 2 manifestly clear:For the sake of full disclosure let me tell you one of my main aims in this message: In the name of Jesus Christ and rooted in the gospel of his death and resurrection for sinners (including abortionists and pastors), my aim is to stigmatize abortion by associating it with racism. I would like you to link abortion and race the same way you link lynching and race.
My aim is that those who abhor racism will abhor abortion–“Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good” (Romans 12:9). My aim is that abortion would be as culturally taboo as racism is. My aim is to hasten the day when being publicly pro-choice will be as reprehensible as being publicly racist. My aim is to hasten the day when declaring yourself pro-choice would be like declaring yourself a white supremacist.
[Photo attributions: RV photo: LATimes.com; Piper photo: uniprayerforum.wordpress.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Wow, I’m really starting to like John Piper. He seems to have a knack for articulating very clearly what I have been trying to say but having been finding the words for. And yeah, I vote like that, too. There’s a lot of bad pro-life candidates out there. There are no good pro-choice ones.