Pro-life video of the day: Iowa protesters pray for more abortions
by Hans Johnson
Before a hearing last Wednesday held by the Iowa Board of Medicine concerning tele-med abortions, a group of 50 protesters rallied at the State Capitol. Leading a 5 1/2 minute prayer was Midge Slater (pictured right) of Des Moines, thanking God for abortion rights, abortion doctors, and taxpayer funding for abortions.
Attending with heads bowed were Democrat gubernatorial candidates State Representative Tyler Olson and State Senator Jack Hatch. They thought better of joining in the applause afterward. The prayer went unanswered as the Board voted on Friday to end tele-med abortions.
These are excerpts:
“We pray for women who have been made afraid of their own power by their paternalistic religion.”
“Today we pray that all women will know that they are created in the image of God, good and holy, moral and wise.”
“Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice.”
See the whole transcript here.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/CwJu_DkXgwg[/youtube]At RedState, Rick Yuzzi offers his translation of the prayer:
“Thank you, oh Lord, for doctors who are willing to use their medical skills to help kill over a million unborn children each year, most of the time simply for the convenience of the mother.”
“We pray for elected officials that they may always support a women’s right to make our own medical decisions, and we say it that way so people will think Republicans want to take those rights away… conveniently leaving out the fact that we’re talking about killing our unborn children.”
“We pray that poor women will be given money by our government so they can kill their unborn children, too, and we pray that they would have access to birth control. May they know that it’s the government’s responsibility to make sure there are no consequences for their bad choices or their irresponsibility in having children they cannot afford.”
“Today, we pray that we can export these progressive ideals to developing countries, so they too can kill their unborn children.”
“We pray for women who are afraid to break away from backward religions that value human life at any stage. May they learn to be brave so they can kill their unborn children without the thought that it might be wrong in Your eyes for some reason.”
“Today we pray for the families that have already chosen to kill their unborn children. May they know the blessing of having that choice, instead of the regret that so often follows.”
“Today we pray that all women will know that they are made in the image of God… good and holy, moral and wise, but that they are able to ignore the fact that they are choosing to kill an unborn girl or boy who is also created in the image of God.”
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Stay classy, Iowa Democrats.
“Today we pray that all women will know that they are created in the image of God, good and holy, moral and wise.”
It’s evident to me that Midge Slater has no understanding of what she said:
– being created in the image of God. Does God condone abortions or did God create a woman to give life (not take it).
– good and Holy, moral and wise. Does God mandate that in order for a woman to be all that in the first sentence, she must abort, or the opposite.
Dem logic (101) gives me such headache that even an aspirin won’t alleviate. Midge either has no understanding of God, missed a logic class in college or is not that bright. Or all of the above.
Of course, unlike the deception of the headline, they weren’t praying for more abortions.
Praying to whom?
Death, death however young you be “I am the politician for death,” said she
“I’ll kill their souls however young they be, I will kill them all to death,” said she
“Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice.”
So ‘merit’ this sentence does not tell you that in fact they were praying for more abortions? As a a non-native English speaker I can decipher that and you can’t? Just in case you were not paying attention the part that exclaims the blessing of choice is a dead giveaway.
What do we make of this blasphemy? What are they trying to do? Are they invoking Molech?
Most pro-life groups are filled with Christian members, and we open and close our private gatherings with prayer. Of course, we also fill our public gatherings with prayers. We sincerely believe that this is a spiritual battle, just as Rev. Martin Luther King believed his was a spiritual battle. So we pray.
My first guess is that these people are mocking pro-lifers. Does anyone believe that Democrat politcos and pro-abortion groups ever pray at their private gatherings? Their public behavior is for show, and does not reflect their hearts. They do not know the God whom they are invoking. They have no relationship with Him.
If this is mockery, what then? I suggest that this is a desperate act by a pagan culture who know they are beaten! This is much classier than the abortion mob that we saw in Texas — but it also indicates that the abortion crowd have nothing left to offer. From Gosnell to Abortion Barbie, voters are no longer buying what the abortion industry is saying. These Democrats have hitched their cart to a dead pony, and they know it.
“Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked.”
Um, yeah. It is more likely that there is no god than that God is pro-abortion. And a pro-abortion god is no God at all. Praise the author of life and of love!
WOW!! Unbelievable.
Del, if I could I would give you 10 likes. You are seeing through this sham for what it really is a mockery of Christian prolifers who pray every day to end the slaughter of millions of innocent unborn babies. For those with spiritual insight this is not only blasphemous but demonic, but also pagan in that it is connected spiritually with child sacrifice on the altar of Molech in the Old Testament and spiritually connected with Herod’s mandate for the midwives to slaughter all the Jewish babies in the NT as he tried to destroy Jesus Christ, the Messiah. ”In Ramah a cry was heard, Rachel weeping for her children and could not be comforted” The same spirit embodies pro-deathers like these today who swear their allegiance to abortion and will even justify genocide (remember BAIPA and BHO). Abortion is to be protected at all cost. Abortion now and abortion forever. I think Hisman who used to post here years ago wrote it in his poem something like “Abortion is an attempt to destroy God himself by destroying His creation.” Hisman if you are still reading this blog occasionally it would be great to have your poem posted again.
“We pray for women who have been made afraid of their own power by their paternalistic religion.”
Now this one is a riot. We pro-lifers put women on a pedestal precisely because they maintain our species by giving life. In other words, they have power. The only party that is taking away all their power are the dems with their PATRONIZING policies and promotion of abortion.
Paternalistic religion? This statememt is hilarious to me too. Ever heard of the Virgin Mary Midge? Mary, Mother of God…. Midge needs a course on the veneration of the blessed Virgin Mary by Christianity and the reason for doing so…
Thomas as far as I can tell a lot of them see the Catholic reverence for Mary as “keeping women in their proper place” and glorifying female sacrifice for male benefit. That’s all I know, I usually stop listening and start rolling my eyes. Don’t worry, they pick on Protestants too. Mostly for supposedly having no female role models at all.
The cries of the babies/toddlers in the background reverberating throughout the building is the perfect soundtrack to accentuate the creepy nature of everything about this “prayer”.
Prolifer L says:
September 3, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Del, if I could I would give you 10 likes.
Ahw, shucks! (blushes)
Jack–You just explained the lack of understanding people have of the Catholic faith and their veneration (honor) of Mary.
(Some of you may already know this, but I’m going to say it for those who don’t):
Mary is HONORED not because of some sort of “keeping women in their place” subjugation of women, but because she showed tremendous amount of faith. Not that her life was easy, but she was honored by her son Jesus (The Wedding At Cana, and on the Cross). She always points to her son Jesus (“Do whatever he tells you.”–from The Wedding At Cana in the Gospel of John, chapter 2).
In every Marian appearance that I’ve read about Mary has said something about following God’s will and having a relationship with her Son. Any obedience to her is to draw people closer to Christ (Fatima, Lourdes, and St. Faustina’s experiences, just to name a few off the top of my head). She doesn’t seek glory for herself, she seeks it for her Son, Jesus Christ and for God the Heavenly Father. (The Magnificat in the Gospel of Luke is a Biblical example of that).
When I had my offspring I marveled at the fact the little one could fit INSIDE me. I marveled that my body could do something like that. That something as small as an egg and a sperm could equal a new human being–in particular, my offspring. I had such a sense of awe for the way God decided on things…for the way Nature works in that respect.
Sitting down thinking about it pretty much blows my mind (figuratively speaking of course!) It’s really something. It’s unfortunate more people can’t recognize that.
I get it’s not easy–I get that there’s difficulties, fears, and worries. I get that. But when you are pregnant you can’t let those fears, worries, and difficulties get in the way of what is truly right and abortion–the willful ending of that life–is NOT right.
Mother in Texas,
I just had a funny thought, of Mary scolding a child Jesus! “Put those figs down, you’ll ruin your dinner!” followed by a booming voice from the sky, “Listen to your mother!” LOL!
Jack, Xalisae and Mother in Texas, thumbs up!!!
“Mother in Texas, I just had a funny thought, of Mary scolding a child Jesus! “Put those figs down, you’ll ruin your dinner!” followed by a booming voice from the sky, “Listen to your mother!” LOL!”
LOL, ninek! I think you just made my day!
I love the smell of desperation!!
Ninek,
That was awesome. You’re right. That would be so funny.
I’m combating their “prayers” if you can call them that with prayers for the babies lives and for people who are close to thinking like them. I pray something will touch someone who hears their “prayers” heart and make them realize how wrong abortion really is and they’ll start working to save those lives. <3
Pro-Life Teen,
Every little bit helps! Keep up the prayers so that people have a change of heart and mind and realize what a horror abortion truly is. God bless!
Women deserve better than abortion. THAT is the original slogan.
http://www.feministsforlife.org/news/feminists-for-life-demands-abortion-advocates-stop-misusing-ffls-women-deserve-better-slogan/
Maybe they should have stuck with the ol wire coat hanger!!
“Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice.”
Hmmm…I guess the ‘families’ they’ve ‘chosen’ need to be grateful/feel bessed by the fact the choice was not to abort in their case.