When they neared Jerusalem, having arrived at Bethphage on Mount Olives, Jesus sent two disciples with these instructions: “Go over to the village across from you. You’ll find a donkey tethered there, her colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me. If anyone asks what you’re doing, say, ‘The Master needs them!’ He [...]
Click graphic to enlarge… The righteous will be remembered forever. ~ Psalm 112:6, New American Standard translation [HT: Andy Moore on Facebook]
Little by little I will force them out of your way until you have increased enough in number to take possession of the land. ~ Exodus 23:30, God’s Word translation
I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. “Then they will know that I am the Lord.” ~ Ezekiel 7:27b, New International Version
Fear of the Lord gives life, security, and protection from harm. ~ Proverbs 19:23, New Living Translation
Suppose I tell you that wicked people will surely die, but you don’t warn them or speak out so that they can change their wicked ways in order to save their lives. Then these wicked people will die because of their sin, but I will hold you responsible for their deaths. But suppose you warn [...]
O God, the strength of all who put their trust in you: Mercifully accept our prayers; and because in our weakness we can do nothing good without you, give us the help of your grace, that in keeping your commandments we may please you both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who [...]
Their country will be stripped of everything because everyone who lives there is violent. The cities where people live will be destroyed, and the country will become a wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. ~ Ezekiel 12:19-20, God’s Word translation
You shall not murder. Exodus 20:13, New International Version, a good verse for pro-lifers as we work to exodus abortion in 2013. [HT: David Bereit of 40 Days for Life]
The LORD sent Babylonian, Aramean, Moabite and Ammonite raiders against him. He sent them to destroy Judah, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by his servants the prophets. Surely these things happened to Judah according to the LORD’s command, in order to remove them from his presence because of the sins of [...]
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.
So a brief blog post today on one of the more utilitarian reasons that I have heard for abortion/contraception – it saves money….
This sounds to me like something I heard from a colleague last year that the reason that New York’s prison population was down… because of Roe v Wade – since then, thousands of poor people have had abortions and a large number of those aborted babies would’ve committed crime and ended up in jail.
I should have suggested to him that an even better way of reducing prison population would be to kill everyone inside, but that would’ve made things awkward and I had only half-finished my drink at the time (and so no quick escape from the awkwardness).
Surely these sorts of arguments are completely beside the point when it comes to abortion. Either abortion is killing of the most innocent, in which case utilitarian arguments like this are sickening and deeply perverse, or abortion is nothing more than a medical procedure, in which case how much money it may save the state is neither here nor there… unless the state is thinking of using it as an argument for compulsory abortion as a cost saving device, a la China?
So, as with most abortion arguments, they are a smokescreen which obscure the real argument: are we killing a human being or not?
~ Marcus Roberts, Mercator Net, March 28
[Graphic via chillertv.com]
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