Moral Outcry

"So...what does this mean?"

That has been the-most-asked-question at every single stage of the process as this health care bill moves through Congress. Every step has been a great opportunity to pray for the protection of the unborn. The legislative process is lost on most Americans leaving them confused and frustrated. If you fancy yourself an aficionado on procedure, then you should probably be in DC. Otherwise most folks are limited to what they learned watching Schoolhouse Rock.

Senator Harry Reid has filed a procedural motion called "cloture" that would end debate on the health care bill. If it passes with the 60 votes required, then a vote on Reid's abortion funding health care bill would only require 50 votes to pass which is easily done in this majority liberal Senate. As of today, it is unclear whether Senator Reid has the 60 votes he requires.?? Senators need to hear from you all weekend that you oppose the "vote to end debate on this bill."

Weekly updates from Bound4LIFE with Executive Director Matt Lockett.

National Healthcare System

Recently, I sent an E-Blast with Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, calling the nation to join an urgent national webcast prayer convocation to ask God to restrain federally funded abortion in the health care system. On that E-Blast I wrote:

On Friday, December 4th, I was awakened early in the morning with a burden to pray, as I considered the consequences of abortion being mainstreamed into the national health care system if the senate health care bill is passed as it is right now.

I turned to 1 Chronicles 21 where the destroying angel had come to the threshing floor of Ornan. God, in his heart of mercy, restrained the angel of death, saying, “Enough! Restrain your hand.” The angel of death still hovered between heaven and earth with its sword drawn. Even with God’s restraint, the verdict was still in the balance as to whether or not the death march would continue. An earth being, namely David, had to agree with God’s restraint through repentance, paying the full price, and offering up the atoning blood. When David went up to the threshing floor in repentance and erected the altar and offered the sacrifice, God heeded the prayers and the angel of death sheathed its sword.

The second largest abortion clinic in the world is being built at this present moment in Houston, Texas. This six-story Planned Parenthood abortion "Super Center" is right in the middle of four (4) minority neighborhoods. Three average to 85% Latino in population and the other is 85% Black American. Planned Parenthood is targeting these minority pro-family communities, both for their finances and the restriction of their populations. But, there is a voice rising out of Houston and out of Texas, declaring, "We don't want this in our neighborhoods!"

On Martin Luther King Jr.'s holiday, January 18th, 2010, thousands are gathering to march against this Goliath to pray, fast, and peacefully siege this massive injustice in the spirit of that great liberator Martin Luther King Jr. This is a great hour for the Hispanic pro-LIFE people, Catholic and Evangelical, to raise their voices against abortion and for adoption. Public opinion over abortion is shifting radically in America to pro-LIFE at the same time this facility is exalting itself above the humble and oppressed.

While we have known that some Christian denominations have swayed to a liberal side on issues such as abortion, even the United Methodists have now joined the ranks of publicly petitioning against the very amendment we cry out to God and to our nation’s leaders to support. This letter to the Senate appeared Monday and is a disturbing reflection of a tolerant religious spirit that is sweeping across Christianity. The amendment, once again, doesn’t even take away abortion; it simply means we don’t have to pay for it. Some people within the streams of Christianity now feel that we should not limit abortion at all:

The groups say their position is that there is a "social and moral obligation to ensure access to" abortions "at every stage in an individual’s life."

The abortion issue in our nation is often one the coincides with the selfish attitude we perpetuate in Western culture. It goes something like this: I live in America. I want the American Dream; you can’t stop me from getting what I want.

The problem with the health care reform issues is that the pro-abortion side has taken this idea to the nth degree. With their demand for choice at any cost, they have attempted to remove my choice to not pay for their choice...