If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.

~ Isaiah 7:9b, New International Version

There are many references in the Bible to child sacrifice, and how much God detests it. For example, II Chronicles 28:1-3:

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

People sacrificed (and still do) their children to please or appease their gods.

A god does not have to be a deity. Idol worship can take many forms – love of money, love of power, addictions, obsession over another person, etc.

In that context, is there any difference between ritualistic child sacrifice and abortion? How are the two alike, or not alike?

This is posted on an Obama campaign website:

“Vote like your lady parts depend on it,” the text in the image says. Underneath, the text reads: “Because they kinda do.”

UPDATE: The image has been removed from the Obama website.

~ The Weekly Standard, October 2

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Moral Outcry wonders why no one raised the issue of the enormous costs of abortion in the first Presidential Debate of 2012:
  

  As a classroom teacher for many years who made anywhere from $27,500 to $40,000, (so let’s average that to $33,750, which is actually very low for a teacher average nationwide, but not too far from starting salaries) I’d like to propose that if we cut Planned Parenthoodfunding for a year we could pay a year’s starting salary to 10,761 new teachers. 

• Mommy Life calls out the Obama campaign on their shameless use of an adult with Down syndrome to push the anti-Romney “47%” rhetoric. It is Obama, not Mitt Romney, who would use our tax dollars to have people like Brittany (pictured left) snuffed out before they are even born.
• ProWomanProLife remarks that comments made recently by both Canadian and UK officials on pro-life issues highlights the fact that any sentiment toward preborn humans is viewed as an attack against women.
• John Smeaton notes how women over 40 can now sue the National Health Service (NHS) if they are denied IVF services because of their age.
• Christina at Real Choice takes apart pro-choice women who choose to dress like female body parts and still expect to be taken seriously.
• Stand True calls out President Obama for turning a blind eye to the number of botched abortions in the last 20 months – that we know of – as he continues to fund Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars:
  

  It is unconscionable that our tax dollars are going to Planned Parenthood, especially with their increasingly high rate of life-threatening abortion emergencies. President Obama’s support for Planned Parenthood in the face of these abortion injuries – including at least one abortion death – is a national disgrace.

Read backstory here.

Per NBC, October 11:

Morocco barred Dutch abortion rights activists Thursday from docking their campaign ship to spread awareness about safe abortion methods in a Muslim country that bans the practice….

Earlier Thursday, Marlies Schellekens, a doctor from Women on Waves, said that Smir harbour was “totally blocked by warships so no one can get in,” a day after Rabat said the activists would be barred from arriving by sea.

More from the Associated Press:

Some 200 protesters in Smir targeted the activists outside the sealed gates of the marina. The protesters, some in conservative Muslim robes and headscarves, carried pictures of bloody embryos and shouted “Terrorist!” and “Assassin!” at Gomperts.

“We are here because we cannot accept these values, the values of massacre,” said protester Abdessamad Zilali, 23. “It is not part of our tradition to kill the unborn.”

Wow, good for them.

And it turns out Women on Waves didn’t send its ship (top), it sent a yacht (bottom)…

From opednews.com, October 5:

Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women’s rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion protesters jeered them on land.

More from the NBC:

But Moroccan sources later said Women on Waves had actually sent only a yacht into Smir several days ago rather than their usual larger main campaign ship in the apparent expectation that Morocco would not let the group in anyway.

“The yacht has now left Smir to head back home. It was a publicity stunt,” an official source said.

“The organizers took everyone for a ride … The people (in the yacht) stayed aboard and did not complete immigration procedures that would have allowed them to enter Moroccan territory.”

Meanwhile Women on Waves personnel had already stationed themselves on the ground and had to be protected by police.

From the Associated Press:

That boat took off around the harbor, about an hour after the group’s founder approached crowds of protesters on the ground, trying to hand out fliers on abortion in Arabic and French….

Police pushed back shouting protesters who tried to get closer to Gomperts, and said she was escorted away for her own protection.

I’m certainly proud of Moroccan Muslims, both women and men, for upholding the sanctity of life. I also appreciated their use of graphic images to show the horror of abortion.

[Top and bottom photos via the Associated Press]

by LauraLoo

Valerie Spruill from Doylestown, Ohio, discovered that her husband, Percy, was also her father, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.  The 60-year-old woman learned the truth six years after Percy’s death.

There were other family lies as well.  Here’s what happened…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWzW_hoJyM[/youtube]

Read here to find out whether or not Valerie felt her father knew about the taboo relationship and how she is healing from years of unknown incest.

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[HT: 89 WLS Chicago]

She further stated that: “The angel did not say that you are going to be the mother of God, the angel said: are you willing to do this? She had the choice”.

Thereby, pro-choice is encouraged in the Bible and is definitely accepted.

~ Feminists for Choice blogger  Elin, quoting Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice board member Jo Ann Dale to make a point that “a pro-choice attitude is definitely compatible with religion and religious views,” October 2

by Hans Johnson

Christian activist Janet Porter has not been a supporter of Mitt Romney  - until now. Here are her top five reasons not to re-elect the president:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eILPwSOtXxI[/youtube]

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