On Saturday morning, April 23, along with several other ministers, I participated in a protest against Planned Parenthood. Here are my remarks given at this event.
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Jesus said, “And you shall
love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your
mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the
second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is
no other commandment greater than these."
Why are we here
this morning to protest Planned Parenthood?
Why am I, a minister of the gospel, standing before you to speak out
against Planned Parenthood? We are here
because we love God and love our neighbor.
Almighty God is
the Creator of all human life. He alone
gives and sustains life. He alone has
the right to decide who lives and who dies.
Since we love God, we love his law and we love life. We also love our neighbors, and that includes
children - even those in the womb. Love
causes us to speak up for the disadvantaged and oppressed. Psalm 94:6 says, They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless. Then Psalm 82:3 tells us to: Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice
to the afflicted and needy.
To defend the
fatherless, we speak up for the unborn because they are defenseless and cannot
speak for themselves. Proverbs 31:8-9 declares, Open your mouth for the
speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth,
judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
So, this morning
we speak on behalf of the unborn children that Planned Parenthood seeks to
kill, dismember and sell. Jesus said
that the devil, who is a thief, came only to "steal, kill and destroy." That pretty well describes Planned
Parenthood, whose main business and profit is from the slaughter of defenseless
pre-born children. Each year, PP kills
over 300,000 babies through abortion.
And our taxes continue to subsidize this evil. This must be
stopped.
Another reason
for this protest is that God's word commands us to expose evil. Ephesians 5:11 says, And
have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose
them. This past year, The Center
for Medical Progress released a series of undercover videos that exposed the
horrible wickedness behind the scenes of Planned Parenthood. They exposed that PP was engaged in selling
the body parts of aborted babies for profit.
Of course the public did not know these things until they were brought to light through these videos. We applaud those who exposed such evil. They have done God’s work.
The Scripture
says, "For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come
to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes
to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in
God."
Planned
Parenthood is evil and does evil deeds.
Of course they will not come to the light lest their deeds be
exposed. It is our job as Christians to
expose their horrible deeds. There is no
justification for our tax dollars to be used to support this institution of
death. Our state must defund PP as soon
as possible. We will have to answer to
God if we do not.
Though PP does
not have a clinic in the upstate, the Greenville Women's Clinic continues to
murder children before they can see the light of day. If we could
actually see what goes on in these abortuaries, we would all be sickened and
stunned. Author Randy Alcorn writes
that, "years ago a pro-life candidate ran television ads showing
aborted babies, and people were outraged. A CBS Evening News reporter declared
the abortion debate had reached a “new low in tastelessness.” Strangely, there
was no outrage that babies were being killed... only that someone had the
audacity to show they were being killed." We need to continue to have
the audacity to say what needs to be said and to expose the fact that babies
are being killed every day in our state and in our city.
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