Pro-life vid of day: This pastor’s wife works at an abortion clinic
by Hans Johnson
Christians have been at the forefront of civil rights movements over the past two centuries, from the abolition of slavery to the present-day drive to abolish abortion. So does it fall on those of a purportedly pro-life church to hold members, and leaders especially, accountable?
A pro-life group filmed Pastor Louis Chatman of the Elam Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, pull up in his Mercedes at the Reproductive Health Services abortion clinic.
He dropped off his wife Callie (pictured above right), a certified medical technician who admitted to the Christian Post that she does work there one day a week (as a counselor).
I feel that we have all sinned. None of us are perfect. No sin is greater than any sin. I don’t know why, other than that’s the only decision [abortion] that a woman could make. That’s her right to make that decision because that’s her body.
Chatman, whose son Jerome also works there as a security guard, says her husband has no objections. Chatman also tells women about to abort their children that “God is a forgiving God.” As for those who who disapprove of her job: “You know what? The activists need to get their lives together. When they become sin-free then you call me back.”
Columnist La Shawn Barber is not buying her justification, noting that while we are not to judge, we are also to avoid the appearance of evil (much less cooperate with it).
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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.
Well, Mrs. Chatman: is it perfectly fine, since, as you note, it is the woman’s body and so is her choice, or is there some sin involved, but none of us is in a position to call out that sin, since none of us are perfect?
Which is it?
So just because God is merciful and forgiving we should chuck our consciences and what we know is wrong and just say “Oh well, God will forgive us”? How is that right?
God doesn’t call the perfect, He makes perfect the called. And true, we won’t be perfect in this life, but that doesn’t change we’re supposed to stand up for what’s right. Those of us who know abortion is wrong are supposed to say so. Just because we aren’t perfect and sinless yet doesn’t change responsibility. I hate it when people make this excuse. I’m not judging a person’s SOUL when I say the action of abortion is WRONG. We’re SUPPOSED to judge ACTIONS based on the formation of our consciences.
How can a mother teach her children right from wrong if she adopts Mrs. Chatman’s mentality?
As anybody with a BRAIN knows by now –
a pre-born baby is a SEPARATE HUMAN BEING. He/she is NOT a bodily organ !
The old “My body, MY choice” doesn’t work anymore (not that it EVER really “worked”).
God has ALREADY “judged” the sin of child-killing:
He calls it MURDER , Mrs. Chatman.
I wonder if this woman would confront people if they worked at clinics that killed newborns or toddlers. Wouldn’t want to be all judgy now.
I wonder if she would confront her husband if he used his body to patronize prostitutes. Or confront a friend who shoots up drugs. Their bodies, their choice, right?
Imagine this if you will; God cried out when Cain killed Abel: “And He said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” -Genesis 4:10
Yet today in America, we have spilled the blood of over 50 million innocent baby’s onto our Nations soil and this woman, a self professed Pastor is repetitively leading these mothers time and again onto an operation table where they will rip out yet another and another and another helpless baby from the comfort of its mothers womb where that child should be kept at its most safest by his/her mother and not destroyed by her….
We have the blood of over 50 million aborted (murdered) baby’s crying unto our Father from our Nations soil, and I cannot imagine the consequential wrath that is going to fall upon our heads for the innocent blood of these babes that we have allowed to be spilled….
There is absolutely No Excuse that can be given here on behalf of this woman, or any other who works in these clinics, and God will hold them accountable!
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” -Jeremiah 1:5 (KJB)
And we dare allow their lives be taken from them….May God forgive us all, for we know what we do!
In all fairness, we also need to look at the fact that it is the pastor who drops his wife off at the mill. Their son also works there. Why is the pastor not putting his foot down? Chances are that neither of them are volunteering their time.
Sometimes people do what they know deep down is wrong, but they’ve been brainwashed/threatened to do as they’ve been told. I’m not making excuses for the role the wife plays, but the pastor plays a big part as well.
Praxedes,
That crossed my mind, too. If the pastor is pro-life, then why is he dropping his wife off there? Why doesn’t he suggest to his son that he work security elsewhere?
I mean I get that all the women–going in and coming out–need ministry, but making “allowances” for sin isn’t right and the fact that the pastor just drops her off, no big deal isn’t right, either.