Celebrate the Closings

Something to celebrate - Abortion clinics are closing at record numbers.

"We are continuing to witness the implosion of the abortion cartel in America. The only things that are preventing total collapse are court injunctions that are blocking several state abortion safety laws from being enforced," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue.

"Once those laws clear the courts, we expect to see even more dangerous abortion facilities close. This is great news for women and babies because when abortion clinics close, lives are saved."

In all, 73 abortion facilities shut down for all or part of the year. The total number of all remaining abortion clinics in the US is currently 739. Of those 551 are surgical facilities and 188 supply medication abortions only.

These numbers represent a net decrease in abortion facilities in America, continuing a trend that has been ongoing for over two decades. In all, 75 percent of abortion clinics have closed since 1991.

Irony So Thick....

Next week is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Next week the annual March for Life will be held in Washington, DC.  This week, it has been one month since the Newtown school shooting. What do these events have in common?  Watch this:





The irony in this video is so thick, you could eat it with a spoon.

Keep marching, until all the children are protected and every human life is treated as sacred.

Pro-Life Cause Advances

On the cover of TIME this week is this headline:

40 Years Ago, Abortion-Rights Advocates Won an Epic Victory with Roe v. Wade. They’ve Been Losing Ever Since.

The story – “What Choice?” – is written by Kate Pickert. The main point of the article is that Roe v. Wade hurt the pro-choice cause by delivering the movement’s main goal and by energizing a generation of pro-life activism....

Read more about this at Kingdom People.

So Many & So Young

Why Americans are more and more pro-life, from an article by Ashley McGuire at The Washington Pots' On Faith Site

Many past civil rights movements in this country, such as the move to end slavery or the fight for women’s suffrage, were deeply rooted in religious conviction. Such is the case with the pro-life movement. But with each of these movements there was a tipping point where Americans saw that one need not be a devoutly religious person to recognize the social justice issue at stake and to get behind the cause. This is happening with abortion in America.

And as it turns out, the religious people behind much of the pro-life movement aren’t actually so nutty, or so old. Speaking about the teeming throngs at the 2010 March for Life, departing NARAL President, Nancy Keenan, said then, fearfully, “I just thought, my gosh, they are so young,” she said. “There are so many of them, and they are so young

Yup. Here we come. Our marches may get measly coverage. We may be the pitied laughingstock of ‘sophisticated’ urban cocktail parties. We may champion the Cinderella of human rights issues.

But we are winning. And our cause is life...

Much more at the link - Read it and rejoice!

Hat tip: Denny Burke

Hands Off!

A traditional cry of the "pro-choice" movement has been "keep your hands off my body."  Well, this video might just change some minds about that argument.




Hat Tip:  Vitamin Z

A Small Crowd Came to DC Yesterday

Yesterday a "small crowd" gathered in Washington DC to proclaim the sanctity of life and pray for an end to legalized abortion. The "mainstream" press never thinks this annual event is important enough to cover.  I thought you might like to see pictures of the "few thousand" who came. 

Pro-Life Passion Shaped by the Gospel

Some interesting ideas from Jared Wilson on A Gospel-Shaped Pro-Life Passion:

If you put overturning Roe v. Wade to a popular vote, I'm in line early ready to vote in favor of protecting the approximately one million unborn babies killed each year, and if you're a politician, the best way to lose my vote is to align with the pro-choice agenda.

Nevertheless, I don't believe laws -- or the protests and petitions and politicking that seek to achieve them -- are the primary way we are going to eradicate abortion. Overturning Roe v. Wade is a win -- and it's a win we should work for, hard -- but in my way of thinking, it is not the win.

The emancipation of the slaves and ensuing civil rights legislation was necessary. But none of it ended racism.

I am not proposing an either/or. What I'm proposing is that evangelicals take the harder route, adopt the harder cause, that we pray for and aim for Spiritual change of hearts more than we aim for legal stay of hands.

Here are some thoughts on how we may do this:....

Read it at the link. I agree with him.

Silent No More

My local paper had a great article Tuesday about the story of a local Christian mother and grandmother, Amy Martin, and her experience of the pain of post-abortion guilt and emotional damage, plus, of course, the healing that came to her in Christ..

It took 20 years after having an abortion for Amy Martin, 45, of Flowood to speak out.

Today, she is one of two state regional coordinators for Silent No More Awareness, an international Christian campaign to inform the public on the possible devastation abortion can cause women and men.

Through gatherings across the country, women share their testimonies of hope and healing after an abortion. Silent No More will hold a gathering at noon Monday at the state Capitol where Martin and other women will share their stories of recovering physically, emotionally and spiritually after an abortion.

I heard Amy speak at Pinelake Church last March. Her testimony is riveting. I recommend viewing and listening to her testimony as I posted it then, and reading the Clarion-Leger article. For info on her ministry see below.

 To contact the Center for Pregnancy Choices with locations in Jackson and Pearl call (601) 713-3113 or visit www.mypregnancychoices.org. Silent No More Awareness - a campaign that seeks to expose and heal the secrecy and silence surrounding the emotional and physical pain of abortion - will hold a gathering at noon Monday at the state Capitol. The public is invited to hear women share their stories of healing after an abortion. For more information, call or email Amy Martin, a regional coordinator of Silent No More, at (601) 818-7273 or jackson@silentnomoreawareness.org or visit www.silentnomoreawareness.org.

From Pro-Choice to Pro-Life in Seconds

Pro-Choice to Pro-life in seconds: What caused the change? Can you guess?

See 180Movie.com

Another Planned Parenthood Manager Quits and Goes Pro-Life

I've written before about Planned Parenthood clinic manager Abby Johnson who quit and became a pro-life spokesman. From LifeSite News comes more exciting news - Another Planned Parenthood manager quits and converts to pro-life.

In a story with clear echoes of the now famous conversion of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson, four months ago a manager at a Planned Parenthood facility in Sherman, Texas resigned from her position with the abortion giant and is now speaking out about her pro-life conversion.
In a press release from 40 Days for Life-Dallas, Ramona Trevino explains that although the particular Planned Parenthood where she worked did not perform surgical abortions, she was struggling “with [her] conscience . . . on contraception, abortion and [her] role in it all.”
Just like Abby Johnson, Trevino credits a 40 Days for Life campaign outside her Planned Parenthood facility with helping her movement towards a pro-life way of thinking....

It's working. It's working! God be praised.

War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers

From Albert Mohler's article - The Culture of Death Grows Desperate: War Declared on Crisis Pregnancy Centers:

The way this issue is framed by many in the major national media was made clear in an August 2, 2011 report in The New York Times. Reporter Jesse McKinley began his article with this remarkable sentence:

“Seeking to stem what they call misleading advertising, San Francisco officials on Tuesday began a two-pronged attack on ‘crisis pregnancy centers,’ which are billed as places for pregnant women to get advice, but often use counseling to discourage abortions.”

Look carefully at that sentence. The conjunction “but” is intended to contrast the phrases linked together. Thus, McKinley writes that the crisis pregnancy centers “are billed as places for pregnant women to get advice,” but they “often use counseling to discourage abortion.” In other words, he insinuates that if crisis pregnancy centers “use counseling to discourage abortions,” they are not “places for women to get advice.” Evidently, the only acceptable “advice” is counseling that encourages a woman to abort the baby within her.

This is the logic of the Culture of Death laid bare for all to see. Crisis pregnancy centers deserve the support of all who cherish the sanctity of life, the defense of the unborn, and the right of free speech.

As defenders of life, crisis pregnancy centers should be committed to nothing less than comprehensive truth-telling. It is the Culture of Death, and not the Culture of Life, that fears the truth.

Much more content at the link above.

For more happy news see Some Positive pro-Life Trends.

Wednesday Link List

Some harvests from my interweb meanderings:

Has the Pro-Life Cause Reached a Tipping Point?

10 Things Submission is Not 

Is Technology Bringing Down the Church?

The Sad Views of Stephen Hawking

 Albert Mohler on The Terrorist and His Porn Stash

Christianizing the Social Network - A review of Tim Chailles' new book

Where to Find the Best Prices for Books