Happy Morbid 36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade!

More properly titled: Happy Morbid 36th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade!

(This BT post is NOT suitable for the young or faint of heart)

“A sound is heard in Ramah,
a sound of crying in bitter grief.
It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone.”
-Jeremiah 31:15

Excerpted from One News Now:

As he promised during the election campaign, Barack Obama on Friday struck down a ban against taxpayer funded abortions abroad.

RM: Goodie, Obama IS a man of his word!

Obama’s move was warmly welcomed by liberal groups and denounced by defenders of unborn children.

RM: Denounced! Why would that be?

The ban has been a political football between Democratic and Republican administrations since GOP President Ronald Reagan first adopted it 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office.

RM: Um…should be self-explanatory…but…babies are NOT “political footballs”.

“For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.”

RM: You heard him, Obama thinks that to murder or not to murder our babies is a “stale and fruitless debate”.

“In the coming weeks, my administration will initiate a fresh conversation on family planning, working to find areas of common ground to best meet the needs of women and families at home and around the world,” the president said.

RM: “Common ground”? That is hysterical…and tragic. Today I heard that, Democrat Nancy Pelosi said in essence that abortion and contraception helps the economy! You can read part of her interview here http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm or listen to a clip of it at lauraingraham.com under Audio Corner-free stuff, dated 1/26/09.

Obama issued the presidential memorandum rescinding the Bush policy without coverage by the media, late Friday afternoon.

RM: Come on Media…where were you?? Let me guess…hair washing day??

The abortion measure is a highly emotional one for many people, and the quiet signing was in contrast to the televised coverage of Obama’s announcement Wednesday on ethics rules and Thursday’s signing of orders on closing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and banning torture in the questioning of terror suspects.

RM: Silly Christian-Right wing…we get so “emotional” over the darndest things!

His action came one day after the 36th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.

RM: ::sigh::

The Bush policy had banned U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion as a family planning method.

RM: “Family planning” is my fav phrase.

The ban has been known as the “Mexico City policy” for the city a U.S. delegation first announced it at a U.N. International Conference on Population.

Pro-life groups and lawmakers condemned Obama’s decision.

“I have long supported the Mexico City Policy and believe this administration’s decision to be counter to our nation’s interests,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

“Coming just one day after the 36th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, this presidential directive forces taxpayers to subsidize abortions overseas – something no American should be required by government to do,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., called it “morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans to promote abortion around the world.”

RM: Don’t know a lot about what these men have done towards solutions but I am grateful for their comments.

“President Obama not long ago told the American people that he would support policies to reduce abortions, but today he is effectively guaranteeing more abortions by funding groups that promote abortion as a method of population control,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.

In a related move, Obama also said he would restore funding to the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA).

The Bush administration had barred U.S. money from the fund, contending that its work in China supported a Chinese family planning policy of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization.

Here is a haunting video clip. Note the name of the abortuary.

If you want to know more about the woman in the above clip you can google her or go the site that features her movie which is based on her actual experience here.

I’ll be honest I probably won’t see it. Obviously I support her, but literally I wouldn’t sleep for days if I watched it. Just thinking through the possibility of submitting this article to BT I was awake until about 4 am this morning. The scripture I began with has been running through my mind for days. Although it does not deal directly with abortion, it is effective and appropriate to meditate upon.

Let me just put my unique spin on the subject of abortion. While the methods of the actual abortion procedures are cruel and grotesque, beyond words, I KNOW that God remains sovereign. I UNDERSTAND that my King has conquered death and that He is JUST. The aborted babies, that is their souls, will be judged perfectly by our God. I TRUST Him. What keeps me up at night then? It is the wickedness of my fellow man. Wickedness that moves from the decision, by the mother, to murder baby Doe to the doctor/staff who offer the choice of murder weapon and subsequently carry out the murder. These murders are performed daily with the chanting in the background of the mind that “a woman has the RIGHT to do what she wants with her own body”!! Feminazis applaud…government officials (our Herod) wink…Rachel weeps.

Join me, Christian, in praying in an imprecatory manner for the unsaved who go about doing the devil’s will (2 Tim.2). Go here http://www.the-highway.com/articleJune00.html for an article by Jay Adams on imprecatory prayer. Consider this excerpt:

“Luther’s exposition of John 17:9 gives us careful instruction and a true illustration of this prayer for our enemies:

We should pray that our enemies be converted and become our friends, and if not, that their doing and designing be bound to fail and have no success and that their persons perish rather than the Gospel and the kingdom of Christ. Thus the saintly martyr Anastasia, a wealthy, noble Roman matron, prayed against her husband, an idolatrous and terrible ravager of Christians, who had flung her into a horrible prison, in which she had to stay and die. There she lay and wrote to the saintly Chrysogonus diligently to pray for her husband that, if possible, he be converted and believe; but if not, that he be unable to carry out his plans and that he soon make an end of his ravaging. Thus she prayed him to death, for he went to war and did not return home. So we, too, pray for our angry enemies, not that God protect and strengthen them in their ways, as we pray for Christians, or that He help them, but that they be converted, if they can be; or, if they refuse, that God oppose them, stop them and end the game to their harm and misfortune.”

May God’s grace flood our lives…