Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Let them perish in disgrace, that they may know that You alone, Whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth. (Verses 17-18)
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women burdened with sins and led astray by various passions. 2 Timothy 3
"This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy--and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors." This is from the grand jury report concerning the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell now being played out in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the trial, an unlicensed medical school grad described the process by which the spinal cords of babies were snipped--a literal beheading. Another employee described the screaming of the last trimester babies as they were murdered. Dozens of jars of severed baby feet lined office walls of the man who provided abortions for cash to pregnant women who had passed the twenty-four week cutoff legal for abortions in Pennsylvania.
The FBI raided the clinic, Women's Medical Society, on February 18, 2010, late in the evening. Expecting only to find evidence of illegal drug prescriptions, the agents were overwhelmed by the understanding that something way more sinister was happening behind the closed doors of the clinic. Blood covered the floors, a cat wandered around, leaving its feces on the stairway and beyond, semi-conscious women were moaning in the waiting area as they rested on filthy recliners and were covered with bloody blankets. The women had been sedated by unlicensed staff. Of course, now we know at least two women had recently died as a result of services there. Babies, and their remains, were stored in desultory fashion in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons and cat food containers. Gosnell's clinic "insured fetal demise." One child whose demise was imminent was a baby boy born at 30 weeks. "This kid could walk me to the bus stop,"quipped Gosnell right before he snipped the baby dead. Accidents on the abortion table that left women convulsing in pain, with tears in their uteruses and bladder, were unreported as Gosnell wouldn't allow ambulances to help. At least one young woman had to have a hysterectomy because the companion who brought her to the clinic wasn't allowed to call for help. Babies were typically born over the toilet bowl. And it goes on and on. His own little Auschwitz exterminating people born alive and viable for monetary gain because, for whatever reason, women carrying third trimester babies decide they don't want them, either.
The media isn't carrying this story. I understand the sordid nature of it, but what did we expect? Abortion on demand, without parental consent, has hardened us to the fact that women carry precious life when we are pregnant. Mother Teresa gave a speech at the national prayer breakfast in 1994 and said, "But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child--a direct killing of the innocent child--murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" The real murderer at Women's Medical Society is the mother who has felt her baby kicking and rolling in her womb for months by the time she decides to "insure demise." What is wrong with us? Really! The child has no idea its mother, and perhaps father, daily discuss what to do with him or her. It is an "it" to be disposed of out of lack of discretion in the beginning and lack of pity at the end.
The villain is us. We have become a society drained of natural affection and imbued with a sense of our own entitlement. I know there are arguments on every side of the abortion issue and it's not my purpose to argue that. It's the heart I'm concerned with. Mine and yours. As we become desensitized to the horrors of the abortion mill. To actually legislate morality so that women have the right to choose to kill their children. And we have. 52 million of them. Laid to rest in trash cans or flushed with aplomb, as if they were the pet goldfish, into the toilet of our ease. Christ must vomit when He sees us in our hubris.
Our semantics have brought us to such evil in our day. Not just late term abortionists and mothers killing their children, but the malaise and creepiness of life as usual. Newton shooter killing children their parents wanted to keep. Molestations in mainstream churches and civic organizations. People growing up, as Paul states in Romans 1, "without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful." But if we call babies fetuses in order to separate the fact that the mother is "eating for two," we can distance what is going on in a woman's body so that she can, like the man with whom she wants equality, possess his same sexual freedom. That's how it all began. I know. I was there during the sexual revolution. Fifty-two million "fetuses" later, now close to 3500 per day. We are naive to think their blood doesn't cry out to God. "If you harm one of these, my little ones, it would be better for you that you have a millstone tied around your neck and be thrown into the bottom of the sea." Jesus, Luke 17.
There is pure evil. Gosnell is the face of it, as are the weak women who went to him--paid him--to destroy their near full term children. He isn't alone in his culpability. May he have to wear his shame. And may God have mercy on him and on our souls, for He is the Lord, the Most High over all the earth. He loves His creation--all of it--and He will not be silent forever.
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women burdened with sins and led astray by various passions. 2 Timothy 3
"This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy--and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors." This is from the grand jury report concerning the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell now being played out in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the trial, an unlicensed medical school grad described the process by which the spinal cords of babies were snipped--a literal beheading. Another employee described the screaming of the last trimester babies as they were murdered. Dozens of jars of severed baby feet lined office walls of the man who provided abortions for cash to pregnant women who had passed the twenty-four week cutoff legal for abortions in Pennsylvania.
The FBI raided the clinic, Women's Medical Society, on February 18, 2010, late in the evening. Expecting only to find evidence of illegal drug prescriptions, the agents were overwhelmed by the understanding that something way more sinister was happening behind the closed doors of the clinic. Blood covered the floors, a cat wandered around, leaving its feces on the stairway and beyond, semi-conscious women were moaning in the waiting area as they rested on filthy recliners and were covered with bloody blankets. The women had been sedated by unlicensed staff. Of course, now we know at least two women had recently died as a result of services there. Babies, and their remains, were stored in desultory fashion in bags, milk jugs, orange juice cartons and cat food containers. Gosnell's clinic "insured fetal demise." One child whose demise was imminent was a baby boy born at 30 weeks. "This kid could walk me to the bus stop,"quipped Gosnell right before he snipped the baby dead. Accidents on the abortion table that left women convulsing in pain, with tears in their uteruses and bladder, were unreported as Gosnell wouldn't allow ambulances to help. At least one young woman had to have a hysterectomy because the companion who brought her to the clinic wasn't allowed to call for help. Babies were typically born over the toilet bowl. And it goes on and on. His own little Auschwitz exterminating people born alive and viable for monetary gain because, for whatever reason, women carrying third trimester babies decide they don't want them, either.
The media isn't carrying this story. I understand the sordid nature of it, but what did we expect? Abortion on demand, without parental consent, has hardened us to the fact that women carry precious life when we are pregnant. Mother Teresa gave a speech at the national prayer breakfast in 1994 and said, "But I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child--a direct killing of the innocent child--murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" The real murderer at Women's Medical Society is the mother who has felt her baby kicking and rolling in her womb for months by the time she decides to "insure demise." What is wrong with us? Really! The child has no idea its mother, and perhaps father, daily discuss what to do with him or her. It is an "it" to be disposed of out of lack of discretion in the beginning and lack of pity at the end.
The villain is us. We have become a society drained of natural affection and imbued with a sense of our own entitlement. I know there are arguments on every side of the abortion issue and it's not my purpose to argue that. It's the heart I'm concerned with. Mine and yours. As we become desensitized to the horrors of the abortion mill. To actually legislate morality so that women have the right to choose to kill their children. And we have. 52 million of them. Laid to rest in trash cans or flushed with aplomb, as if they were the pet goldfish, into the toilet of our ease. Christ must vomit when He sees us in our hubris.
Our semantics have brought us to such evil in our day. Not just late term abortionists and mothers killing their children, but the malaise and creepiness of life as usual. Newton shooter killing children their parents wanted to keep. Molestations in mainstream churches and civic organizations. People growing up, as Paul states in Romans 1, "without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful." But if we call babies fetuses in order to separate the fact that the mother is "eating for two," we can distance what is going on in a woman's body so that she can, like the man with whom she wants equality, possess his same sexual freedom. That's how it all began. I know. I was there during the sexual revolution. Fifty-two million "fetuses" later, now close to 3500 per day. We are naive to think their blood doesn't cry out to God. "If you harm one of these, my little ones, it would be better for you that you have a millstone tied around your neck and be thrown into the bottom of the sea." Jesus, Luke 17.
There is pure evil. Gosnell is the face of it, as are the weak women who went to him--paid him--to destroy their near full term children. He isn't alone in his culpability. May he have to wear his shame. And may God have mercy on him and on our souls, for He is the Lord, the Most High over all the earth. He loves His creation--all of it--and He will not be silent forever.
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