Pro-life vid of day: Church takes heat for hosting PP fundraiser
by Hans Johnson
St. James Episcopal Church in Wichita, Kansas, is participating in nationwide celebratory fundraisers for Planned Parenthood on the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Called Chili for Choice. it will charge up to $1,000 a plate.
In 1967, the Episcopal Church supported abortion in the case of the three oft-cited exceptions, and in 1994 further equivocated in opposing legislative impediments to an “informed choice.”
A protest is scheduled at the church this Sunday. They have been flooded with calls about their involvement, hanging up on at least one blunt questioner. Here a man is having a tough time getting a straight answer from a church representative who doesn’t “want to get into if it’s evil or good.”
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I clicked through to the news story. It has the same talking points: women in financial need require access to healthcare.
Besides abortion, the healthcare provided is relatively low-tech. STD screening, Pap smears, clinical breast exam, and prescription of BC is not that high on the list of difficulty for any prescribing professional.
So, outside of abortion, these services are provided at any primary care healthcare provider site. For low-income individuals, and those without health insurance, we now have a pretty well developed set of FQHCs across the nation, and other sites providing indigent care.
Some may argue that these alternative providers, for those with little or no means for payment, are not quite everywhere. Well, that just seems like an argument to do fund-raising for the full range of primary care, not just: STD screen, Pap smear, CBE, and Rx BC.
What about kids? What about elders?
Outside of abortion, there is nothing magical about PP. PP and their advocates make the emotional appeal, but when you break it down like this, the entire issue pretty much fails to stand on its own 2 feet.
I have no respect for this parish’s B.S. about healthcare, cancer screenings, STD testing, etc.. Of all the charity healthcare providers in Wichita, they are fund-raising for the abortion business.
The event is named “Chili for Choice,” and we all know that “choice” is a just a euphemism for killing children by aborting of pregnancies.
Agreeing with the problems of any Church supporting abortion, I’m also at a loss as to HOW you can charge $1,000 a plate for CHILI?!! Is anyone else struck by how odd that is? You can get all kinds of great Chili in Texas for way less. Is it less common in Kansas or other places that they can charge that much or are they just calling it “Chili For Choice” and actually serving a 5-Star gourmet meal?
I can’t imagine PP is THAT hard up for cash and if they are then GOOD! They don’t need to be ending the lives of pre-born human beings anyway.
I went ahead and unpublished my comments so as not to offend anyone. Though I still believe 100% what I wrote and don’t think I broke any rules but my goal isn’t to cause any hurt feelings.
Del
Maybe they need to start a new church called the ‘ecclesiatical community of choice’ and quit making a mockery of what it means to be Christian.
Ichabod
They have no clue. It is the blind leading the blind and they’re heading for a ditch created for satan and his demons.
Repent people before it’s too late.
Until we start licencing people before they can have babies to proove they can raise them-or mandating birth control for folks who don’t have the means to take care of them than abortion is sometimes the sad but only an alternative to bringing one more kid into this world who will be neglected and abused that an overwhelmed society will have to tend to. Especially in conservative states where social programs are being cut right and left (pardon the pun). And its baloney to assume there are enough people in this country to adopt all these unwanted kids.
“…bringing one more kid into this world who will be neglected and abused”
Is dying better than being neglected or abused?
“Especially in conservative states where social programs are being cut right and left”
Maybe we need to have a few Chili for Children fundraisers. Start one up Kathy.
“…abortion is sometimes the sad but only an alternative to bringing one more kid into this world who will be neglected and abused that an overwhelmed society will have to tend to.”
Translation: Life might be tough for unwanted children…
So just kill ’em.
Kill ’em while they’re really young.
“Kathy Butler” left out a few details, but I am sure she will post a bit more, so we all see how reasonable her plan is.
Like: who gets to judge who can have children? We have already tried this in the United States of America, with our vast sterilization programs aimed at African-Americans and Native Americans, and we did not do very well.
Who gets to judge who needs to be on mandatory birth control?
Maybe we can look to China to see how they are figuring this all out.
Hi TLD,
Indeed we had massive forced sterilization in this country, but it was not just bothersome minorities that were targets. Also, American eugenicists and our sterilization program served as an inspiration to German intellectuals and eventually to the Nazis. Lest we ever wag a sanctamonious finger at the Nazis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States