So Much For...

I have so much to tell about my recent trip to Southeast Asia and had planned on doing that with this edition of my blog, but those plans have been waylaid as a result of the statement of one of the current candidates for high office in this land. I’m sure you must have heard the statement by now, “look, I’ve got two daughters…9 years old and 6 years old. I’m going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

*So much for the oft cited ‘preeminence of decision making’ between a doctor and patient.
*So much for health concerns of the mother.
*So much for [real] choice - knowing all the options.
*So much for teaching and living out values and morality…assuming the morals being taught are truly Christ's morality.
*So much for the ‘punishment’ they will likely feel for the rest of their lives for taking the life of their innocent child(ren).
*So much for all the women who have made the courageous decision for life for their child
*So much for protecting daughters.
*So much for grandchildren.
*So much for God Who opens and closes the womb.
*So much for Life.

It is unbelievable to me that someone who professes faith in Jesus Christ, who proclaims in interviews that for the past 20 years praises are sung to His name in church, could so cavalierly condemn a grandchild to death without even thinking about the blessing their children could receive by placing their children with adoptive parents who desperately are praying for children of their own.

The callousness of the statement frankly sends chills down my spine – particularly since according to recent reports, 56% of all abortions in the United States are within the Black community of American women. Apparently this person has bought into the lie perpetrated on African Americans for more than 90 years since Margaret Sanger began Planned Parenthood. This is the legacy of the woman who promoted and popularized eugenics in America.

It is also interesting to note that the national organization in England for psychiatrists, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, recently reported that women should be told abortions can cause mental health problems and that abortions shouldn’t be done unless women are counseled on the possible (emotional, social, physical and spiritual)** risks.

I have to admit, with my experiences over the last 18 years, I just plain don’t get this candidate’s statement. My prayer is that you don’t either.


**my addition