a must watch

please make time to watch this.

it will make your stomach churn, but it is something everyone should be aware of.

the lack of media coverage for this case is wrong - just like everything about what was going on at the clinic run by dr.kermit gosnell in philadelphia was wrong.

i couldn't stop thinking about this. i feel like someone who is letting another holocaust happen. remember after the holocaust in germany, the disgust for the people who stood by and let the injustice happen?

i feel just as guilty when i think about abortion. to me it is not a matter of God "letting it happen" and wondering "how He could let it happen." what? no! we are the ones letting this happen. whether by living in our safe boxes and not reaching out to people, by forgetting and ignoring it, and by not doing anything to help. human lives are being snuffed out every day and i feel so guilty for letting that happen, but i want to move past that place of guilt and into action.

did you watch? what do you think? what can we do?

on planned parenthood and abortion

i had to write an article about recently released abortion statistics. went to planned parenthood for the first time and WOW - i was  out of breath when i got back to my car. there were no dogs chasing me. it is just that heavy of an atmosphere inside. and i'm not exaggerating when i say that everyone in the waiting room stared at me when i went in.

their public relations team is so elusive. their comments (when i finally reached them) were vague and practically worthless for a decent article. "that's such a small statistical change it's not even worth speculating why abortions rose in that county ..." and literally the same answer to explain the 65% rate of complications on abortions in PA. i don't know, i think thousands of dead babies is significant whether it's a "small percentage" to you or not.

if you're not sure where you stand about abortion, or find my comments abrasive or uneducated, please check out this excellent post by john piper titled "we know they are killing children - all of us know." oh and what about the disproportionate number of african-american women receiving abortions? care to comment about that? or about the reason margaret sanger founded planned parenthood in the first place? and why they were (and are) strategically located in certain areas?

the whole "thing" saddens me. the way so many people in our country are being conditioned to think that abortion is okay. the way people give up on thinking it is wrong and fighting for it to end. the language created to distort what abortion actually IS in people's minds. it is heartbreaking. my editor kept correcting me whenever i said "pro-life" he would say "anti-abortion." uh, no. please stop trying to trick your mind. why do you get to decide the language used to discuss this? the opposite of abortion is LIFE. the opposite of LIFE is death.