While watching a little TV and working on a paper, a commercial for "Plan B" came on the TV. It's claims were amazing. If your birth control failed you - condom broke, forgot to take a pill, or whatever else - just take some "Plan B."
And, don't worry, it will not cause an abortion the commercial assures you.
Unless, of course, you bother to read the fine print, and you happen to believe that human life begins at the moment of conception - the moment the embryo has all the chromosomes necessary to be identified as human.
Read for yourself from their "Patient Pamphlet" available here, or just take my word for it.
The pamphlet states, "Plan B® contains a dose of the hormone levonorgestrel that is higher than in a single birth control pill. Levonorgestrel has been used in birth control pills for over 35 years. Plan B® works like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B® may also work by preventing fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7 days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B® will not do anything to a fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue."
Did you catch that? Plan B has redefined pregnancy. For them, a woman is not pregnant from the moment of conception but from the moment of implantation. Therefore, their drug does not cause an abortion. If abortion only means killing an embryo after it is implanted, they are accurate. However, if abortion includes killing an embryo before it is implanted, Plan B does cause abortion. It is all a matter of who gets to define the terms.
Christians know and DNA evidence confirms that human life begins at conception.
Plan B does not call what their drug does "abortion."
Abortion or not, it is still murder.
Interestingly enough, virtually all birth control pills on the market do the same thing from time-to-time. While it is not the first-line defense, the pill does prevent the implantation of a fertilized egg - a boy or a girl whom God allowed to be brought into being - if only for a few days before the drug takes the life we had thought it was impossible for the pill to take.
How do you feel about "PlanB" now? How about the pill?
Can we keep on taking the pill as Christian couples on the one hand while scolding Obama for allowing experimentation with human embryos on the other?
Discuss.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Christians and the White House's Culture of Death
Brothers & Sisters in Christ,
Let us not be negligent in reminding the people we worship with each week that elections have consequences. In this case, the election has had deadly and conscious-debilitating consequences. Obama has already 1) provided tax-payer funding for agencies that administer abortions around the world, 2) removed protections for medical professionals who object to performing abortions on moral grounds, and, 3) on Monday, he will begin funding the killing of human embryos (embryos are human, they have all their chromosomes just like you do) for the harvesting of stem cells.
Has your pastor been keeping you up to speed on the culture of death that is emanating from the White House? If not, press the issue with him.
Where are the pastors who gave Obama a forum with evangelicals? Where is Rick Warren? Where is T. D. Jakes? Why are they not demanding a meeting with President Obama to discuss these terrible measures? Why are black pastors not calling Obama out on an issue which takes so many African-American lives each year? Where are they now?
We cannot make these pastors give words to their faith, but we can give words to ours. This is cause for outrage that gets expressed to our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not "bringing politics to church;" this is government-sanctioned; tax-payer-funded murder, and we are duty-bound to oppose it at every turn. Will you remind your Sunday School class/small group/etc. to both pray for a change of heart in our President, to oppose his policies of death, and to vote for life in every election?
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself (Ezekiel 3:17 - 19).
Let us not be negligent in reminding the people we worship with each week that elections have consequences. In this case, the election has had deadly and conscious-debilitating consequences. Obama has already 1) provided tax-payer funding for agencies that administer abortions around the world, 2) removed protections for medical professionals who object to performing abortions on moral grounds, and, 3) on Monday, he will begin funding the killing of human embryos (embryos are human, they have all their chromosomes just like you do) for the harvesting of stem cells.
Has your pastor been keeping you up to speed on the culture of death that is emanating from the White House? If not, press the issue with him.
Where are the pastors who gave Obama a forum with evangelicals? Where is Rick Warren? Where is T. D. Jakes? Why are they not demanding a meeting with President Obama to discuss these terrible measures? Why are black pastors not calling Obama out on an issue which takes so many African-American lives each year? Where are they now?
We cannot make these pastors give words to their faith, but we can give words to ours. This is cause for outrage that gets expressed to our brothers and sisters in Christ. This is not "bringing politics to church;" this is government-sanctioned; tax-payer-funded murder, and we are duty-bound to oppose it at every turn. Will you remind your Sunday School class/small group/etc. to both pray for a change of heart in our President, to oppose his policies of death, and to vote for life in every election?
"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to a wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his evil ways, he will die for his sin; but you will have saved yourself (Ezekiel 3:17 - 19).
Sunday, March 1, 2009
That Giant Flushing Sound
That giant flushing sound that you hear is the "recovery" money being thrown down the toilet to fix up public housing, get rid of lead paint, and install green technologies in public housing as well. So much for creating long-term jobs with the money that the Democrats are stealing from our children and grandchildren.
How much are we spending on this?
Read for yourself from Obama's website.
"The money opened up today includes:
$3 billion to develop, finance, and modernize public housing; $255 million for Native American and Native Hawaiian Housing; nearly $100 million for lead hazard reduction; $2.25 billion to kick-start the production of stalled affordable rental housing projects under the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP); $2 billion to undertake much-needed project improvements to maintain the quality of critical affordable housing; $1 billion to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities under the Community Development Block Grant Program; $1.5 billion to reduce homelessness, and prevent it among those facing a sudden economic crisis; and a temporary increase to the loan limits of mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)."
The lunacy has just begun.
How much are we spending on this?
Read for yourself from Obama's website.
"The money opened up today includes:
$3 billion to develop, finance, and modernize public housing; $255 million for Native American and Native Hawaiian Housing; nearly $100 million for lead hazard reduction; $2.25 billion to kick-start the production of stalled affordable rental housing projects under the Tax Credit Assistance Program (TCAP); $2 billion to undertake much-needed project improvements to maintain the quality of critical affordable housing; $1 billion to rehabilitate affordable housing and improve key public facilities under the Community Development Block Grant Program; $1.5 billion to reduce homelessness, and prevent it among those facing a sudden economic crisis; and a temporary increase to the loan limits of mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)."
The lunacy has just begun.
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