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• Abortion Proponent Asks: Why Would God Care About Abortion?

  By Ian Kelly • July 14, 2010 12:43 PM

  

  From the Abortioneers:

  I have a confession. I'm having a mini - tiny even - crisis. OK. "Crisis" is a bit dramatic; but I could totally use your help. The dilemma: I can hardly relate to clients who worry about god and if this god is going to forgive them for their abortion(s).

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  I don't understand. I just want to say to said bright, capable young woman, "You know. I hate to break it to ya, but there is no god. Or if there is a god, this god is sooooo not going to care about if you have an abortion or not. If there's a god, it might be a teensy bit more caught up with more important matters like, um, global warming, civil wars across the world, genocides. That sort of thing." Yet, I can't bring myself to say that (at least not to her), because....well, she believes in some god who is going to care if she has an abortion or not.

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• Adoption Basics

  By Jess Clark • July 12, 2010 01:23 PM

  I had really been the driving force behind wanting to adopt, with Richy waiting for some kind of angelic visitation or divine revelation. Lucky for me, there’s a lot of divine revelation in the Bible about adoption. We filled out our pre-application in February, and were finished with the paperwork and the homestudy process by late May. Now, we wait.

  I am going to talk about the practicals of adoption in upcoming posts- today, I’m just going to give a quick run-through of some adoption basics.

  Adoption is confusing to a lot of people. It’s intimidating, the time, the paperwork, the money and the fear of not loving a non-biological child. Oh, and the concern that you may be adopting a hell-spawn that will terrorize you and end up having glowing red eyes and kill your pets.

  And why does it cost so much? How could anyone ever adopt when figures are being thrown around are $20,000 to $40,000? Should people adopt when they can’t “afford” to pay for a baby? Why should you contribute to someone else’s adoption?

  The overarching questions are, why adopt? Who should adopt? Who should not adopt? What is our Biblical responsibility toward orphans?

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• Do I Have The Capacity To Adopt?

  By Jess Clark • July 05, 2010 02:41 PM

  What would possess someone with 2 small toddlers and a medium-size special needs child to consider adopting? Let me explain. No, explaining would take too long. Let me sum up. It was God.
  
  Our firstborn was born at 24 weeks. That he lived was a miracle, and years later I had twins at 24 weeks that only survived a few days. We started considering adoption after the twins were born, but my heart started really being wrecked for orphans several years ago. We prayed and we looked at the process, and then we got intimidated by the process and quit. After that, I spent about 2 years on bed rest and had 2 more preemies.

  In the 3 years of relative peace following their births, I again found my heart so desperate to find the heart of God for orphans. I would weep while I heard stories of rescued ones, babies who had almost been aborted, or who had been snatched from foster care or overseas orphanages and placed in families. I started to get a picture of redeeming destinies.

  I won’t be terribly theological here, since I’m not terribly theological. In the next weeks, I will talk about what God says about orphans, and what He says about adoption, but for today, I’ll talk about my own journey.

   

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• Nature's God - Part 3

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 28, 2010 12:47 PM

  Part III-Birth pangs bring forth labor

   

  Judgment isn’t a issue any of us like to look at closely. Let’s face it; we probably were drawn to Jesus because of His mercy. Most of us have grown up hearing how there’s nothing we can do to separate us from God. That’s true, but very often the Western church has forgotten the very important tag at the end—as long as we repent. There’s no salvation outside of repentance, and there’s no hope for a nation outside of it either. It’s not a reflection on God’s character that we are a culture pressing towards judgment; it’s a reflection on our character as a people.

   

  In this series I’ve looked at the oil spill, earthquakes and the possibility of environmental damage as a result of our sin. Whether we encase the words in judgment (God’s anger poured out directly) or we encase it consequence (we pollute the land with dangerous carcinogens and the atmosphere is hurt), the idea is from the same root: Sin has consequences.

   

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• Nature's God - Part 2

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 25, 2010 11:41 AM

  Part II- The Birth Pains

   

  Recently I wrote a series on the fetal research industry, which explained where a lot of aborted babies ended up—in a research lab. However, there is more to it than that. Those lab remains, as well as the babies not used in research, have to be disposed of properly (or should be). As the news this year has been flooded with earthquakes and the oil spill, devastating the land and seas, I began to look at the biblical consequences of bloodshed upon a land. If the spiritual and the natural meet, what could that look like?

   

  Technically, the remains of the baby are disposed of as organic medical materials  or medical waste. While we have heard stories such as the babies in a river in China and other horrific examples, there is allegedly a protocol, which involves incineration. I realize this sounds horrifying. It should because it is.

   

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• Nature's God

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 24, 2010 12:30 PM

  Part I- A Time for Mercy

  It wasn’t that long ago that a Muslim cleric endured much ire and ridicule for making a statement that women who dressed indecently increased earthquakes. Unfortunately, his statement got linked together with Christian leader Pat Robertson’s statementthat the earthquake in Haiti was the judgment of God, and suddenly any religious leaders proclaiming judgment were taboo. Right or wrong, there was no allowance for anything so cruel, they said. Recently, undertones of judgment have risen again as people have speculated what could have been the root of such a massive oil spill that no man, apparently, can seal. While the accusations have been more freely hurled at BP, this time an interesting phenomena occurred—political leaders decided to call on God.

  As oil continued to spill into the Gulf, Louisiana officials, on Father’s Day, issued a cry to the Father of creation. Lawmakers took a vote and unanimously agreed on a day of prayer for the state. State Senator, Robert Adley said, "Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail. It is clearly time for a miracle for us."

  Perhaps the oil spill is a perfect, natural example of the fact we can affect our environment. In this case, it’s been tragic, devastating the waters, wildlife, lives, and livelihood. And with all the anger directed at BP, no one questions that we control our environment; it’s a very natural picture of this. But behind the scenes many ask quietly if there is any spiritual connection. The natural and the spiritual parallel, so what does this mean? Are oil spills, earthquakes, and other natural disasters really judgment? And if they are, will American really judged for its holocaust of abortion?

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• Labor Of Love

  By Christina Martin • June 16, 2010 03:13 PM

  Love is a compelling force. It should be the main motivator for all we do and say in this life. I was recently meditating on 1 Corinthians Chapter 13. These verses declares the attributes of love. It speaks of love as patient, kind, without envy, pride or boasting. Love doesn't rejoice in evil, but always protects, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

  One morning I was driving to a siege when I began to wonder, "Why am I doing this"? I took a moment and considered what I do. I pray for the unborn, speak to others about abortion, write, preach, and share the truth about God's view of life whenever I can.  I've done this for five years and it's become normal to me, a consistent, familiar part of my life. People know that I have a heart for the unborn, and standing for the ending of abortion is something that is expected of me. Yet that morning I questioned, " What is driving me to continue in this work"? Is it something I do out of routine, religious obligation, or fear that God and others might be disappointed with me if I stopped?

  Through the midst of the pondering and soul searching, a truth surfaced in my heart. I do it for love. Oh, don't get me wrong. My motives are mixed, all of ours are. Yet deep down, I know I stand for LIFE because I love people.

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• When The Past Becomes The Future

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 14, 2010 02:53 PM

  Last week I wrote a series for Bound4LIFE on abortion’s financial industry and its connections to the holocaust, which took me back a decade. In 2000 I wrote my master’s thesis, which happened to be on children's literature, using the novels Number the Stars and The Giver. The former is a beautiful story set in the Danish resistance in the Holocaust, the is latter a futuristic tale where society neutralizes everyone, getting rid of anything deemed inferior for the sake of the larger community. The title of my thesis was Hurtling Forward into the Past. The point I asserted was that if we continued in our present culture we would literally march forward into the past by creating a society in which we had a new and bigger holocaust because it would no longer be limited to only one people group.
  
  Writing that thesis occurred in the same season as my revelation of real Christianity as it crashed against secular humanism in academia. Graduate school gave me a master’s degree, but it felt more like it was in theology than English. I was challenged, and I found my faith in my secular university. Writing that thesis taught me what I live by now; you have to know what you believe and why you believe it before it is challenged, or it won’t survive. The family in the Holocaust novel already has that firm foundation and they do not hesitate to join the resistance movement. In the futuristic novel, the community has been desensitized by accepting things without challenge. No one can remember back to the time when people thought and acted freely. They have become a non-thinking people, subject to the control of very nice but inwardly wicked rulers.

   

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• The Game Of Life

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 10, 2010 11:37 AM

  We hear often of the dangers of online games and internet addictions, but I never thought of it as a pro-life issue until I read this tragic story and realized how easily such actions could occur.

  Three-month-old Kim Sa-rang died of malnutrition in September while her parents were engaged in 12-hour sessions of Prius Online. In the 3-D fantasy game, players nurture an online girl who gains magical powers as she grows.

  While this seems isolated, I would argue that in our era, it’s probably not. Like car crashes, we only hear of the ones that are bad.  The Bible has much to say about the destructive power of imagination and fantasy. While it’s not talking about neglecting your children while playing video games, the signs of the times are clear. We are a people fascinated by entertainment, often to the detriment of truth. We like what tickles our ears and stirs our excitement. In this case, it’s cost a baby her life as the parents, ironically, raise a fake little girl on a computer screen.

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• Passive Love And Compromised Peace

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 09, 2010 03:23 PM

  I learned of the arrest of Rev. Mahoney for praying on public property just before I left for the evening. When I came back, my heavy heart was met with more comments than I have ever seen on a Bound4LIFE blog. At first I was excited. Christians were upset; we were going to stand. And there was some of that. But there were comments that implied we needed to be quiet, not cross lines to pray, not stand up publicly or we might not look like real Christians.
  
  I certainly understand the desire to project the right image of Christianity. I honor that. We are supposed to epitomize love. Everything we do should be in a right spirit and with honor even to those who oppose us. But let me say this: Being loving does not mean laying down our swords. At no time did Jesus not speak when the laws of God were in violation. He spoke in love, but He spoke.

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• The Space Between Life And Death

  By Christina Martin • June 09, 2010 12:17 PM

  Most of us are familiar with Ezekiel 22:30, the verse is frequently quoted from pulpits and in prayer meetings. " God is looking for a man to stand in gap on behalf of the land, so He will not destroy it".

  We hear that scripture and eagerly shake our heads in agreement. "Yes", we say, "We must stand in the gap, we must be faithful to pray".

  Watching the video tape of Rev. Mahoney's recent arrest outside of a Planned Parenthood in D.C, brought this question to mind. What if the "gap" is sometimes more than a spiritual position before God, but literally a physical location, perhaps a tiny space of sidewalk, right in front of a chamber of death?

  It is easy to get caught up in arguments about private and public space, property lines and boundaries. We can be so concerned about being " politically correct" and observant to the laws of the land, that we forget the true issue at hand.

  We lose sight of what is occurring before our eyes. There are children being murdered daily in buildings throughout our nation. Behind closed doors, and fences, little children are having their lives sucked away. Do we understand the magnitude of this? If we did truly see it for what it was, I doubt we would get offended when a man desires to pray in front of a clinic, even if it costs him his liberty.

  If there was a building in our town that was slaughtering toddlers, or massacring puppies, we would all be up in arms. There would be few arguments about space and lines. Activists would be lining around the block, protesting and demanding it's closing. The uproar would be loud and consistent, until the place closed down.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 6

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 08, 2010 11:09 AM

  Conclusion - Hurtling forward into the past
  

   

  Last December I had a dream I still vividly recall. In it, I went down the road to a major drug store chain to buy things like toothpaste and shampoo, but there was a side room. It wasn’t until I heard the sucking sound and saw the secretive clerk that I realized they were doing abortions with the same ease someone bought nail polish, and the clerk was disposing of the remains.

  Writing this series has brought that dream to the surface. After my research, the bulk of which was academic and scientific, I imagine that my dream could be a reality in the near future. Why couldn’t it? Drug stores have “convenience clinics.” Abortion is legal. And we have learned that even Congress wouldn’t stop body parts selling. Just this past week we found a late-term abortion clinic in FL offering a special $50 off a late term abortion if the customer comes on Sunday.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 5

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 07, 2010 02:40 PM

  Part V - America's Nuremberg

   

  “Some research may, by necessity, involve deception.” This line doesn’t come from the villain’s secret lab in an old movie, rather it comes from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s (UTHSC-H) research handbook. The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) covers research that involves human participants. Institutions receiving federal funds must have an Internal Review Board (IRB) even for the non-funded research. As UTHSC-H’s link above explains, this review process has its origins in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg trials actually were a catalyst in ensuring that medical research was ethical; hence, the creation of the Nuremberg Code.

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• No Safe Place

  By Christina Martin • June 04, 2010 04:44 PM

  I recently had a dream where I was in a hospital room with an African-American nurse. She looked at me and plainly said "They are opening up an abortion clinic in your hometown." In the dream I began to weep and cried out  "No, there is no safe place!". As I wept, I glanced at her face and saw tears streaming from her eyes.

   

  When I awoke I knew the dream wasn't about the place I grew up, but rather my current town in Georgia. Just a few days later, I found out what I dreamt was a sad reality. Planned Parenthood has opened a new facility, just minutes away from the place I work and my home.

   

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• Industry Of Death - Part 4

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 04, 2010 11:55 AM

  Part IV - From clone to cadaver
  

   

  Until Dolly the Sheep made world headlines in 1996, cloning was an issue we reserved for sci-fi stories. Then suddenly we were presented with the reality of the viability of cloning. And the abortion industry already knew it. Cloning makes for great movies about doppelgangers, but in the real world, cloning is planned abortion.
  
  As 2004 opened, New Jersey passed a frightening law that essentially allowed human cloning of an embryo to be implanted in the womb as long as the baby was aborted. Some believe this restriction on growing a new life would actually result in fetal farming by cloning the baby and then killing it before birth and taking the fetal remains for research. Although the bill’s text bans the sale of humans, it allows for “reasonable” payment of service. Ethicist Robert P. George from Princeton University, was one of several on a presidential ethics council who addressed this concern to the governor of New Jersey who wrote:

  Although the legislation purports to ban trafficking in fetal body parts for "valuable consideration," it expressly permits "reasonable payment" for "removal, processing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue." This is a virtual invitation to cloning entrepreneurs to conduct …what would amount to fetal farming for research...

   

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• Industry Of Death - Part 3

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 03, 2010 11:15 AM

  Part III- Babies in the lab
  

  The last couple blogs we’ve been looking at some of the underside of the abortion industry that goes beyond the insidious ways of Planned Parenthood and into the universities, medical labs, and even our bodies. Much of this was highlighted through current research by Vicki Evans, although aspects of this have been known by many for some time. One aspect that Evans addresses is the subject of fetus farming. The name itself plants a horrific image in our minds, and it should because it’s exactly what it sounds like, literally creating life to destroy it. The tentacles of this industry of death extend throughout all of society and have roots in stem cell research. Many of us have heard about this and even ethical applications of it, but the way in which stem cells play into the abortion industry are the underpinnings of fetus farming.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 2

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 02, 2010 11:17 AM

  Part II - When improving our lives costs the lives of the unborn

  Are you on medication? Have you had a vaccine? Do you use wrinkle cream? Chances are you may have part of an aborted baby in you. In 1980 the Bayh-Doyle Act created the right for universities to patent federally-funded research and then to grant exclusive license to drug companies ( Vicki Evans 42). Repeatedly cited as some of the highest profiting industries, the pharmaceutical companies are benefiting vastly off of abortion and have great power and control over resources in this nation. Evans points out that “The drug companies through their lobbying arm, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), had become one of the most powerful political forces in the country” ( Evans 43).

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• Nancy Pelosi And Her Favorite Word...

  By Ian Kelly • June 01, 2010 03:00 PM

  I'm not entirely sure on what she thinks Jesus may be thinking about partial-birth abortion but she is aware that she will have to give an account of her life, including, her support of abortion rights.

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• Industry Of Death - Part 1

  By Susan Tyrrell • June 01, 2010 12:36 PM

  Part I - When Abortion and Human Trafficking Meet

  Often in the pro-life movement we think of abortion as an isolated thing. We see it as the debate between those who know life begins at conception and those who think abortion is choice, but the depths of this industry lead so much further into darkness than we can imagine.  Recently, a disturbing but substantiated piece of research was presented to me. So alarming were the findings that I found my cries for mercy for our nation more desperate than ever.

  Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns wrote her thesis last year on the side of the abortion industry pro-aborts don’t want us to discuss: The financial side. I encourage you to take time to actually read a PDF of this research. I’ve read it. It’s credible and it’s terrifying.

  Fetal research is a profitable industry that goes far beyond the abortion clinics themselves. While we know that Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics profit nicely off abortions, what happens when those babies are killed is more alarming. Technically, fetuses are reported to be disposed of as organic medical waste, but Evans points out that that doesn’t always happen and cites that “Stericycle, the largest medical waste disposal company in the country, refuses to dispose of fetal remains due to a clause in their drivers’ labor contract that allows the drivers to refuse to accept fetal waste. Typically, cremation of the remains takes place or they are released into the sewage system” (27).

  Evans goes on to cite a study by Life Dynamics regarding wholesaling fetuses:

  Three participants are commonly involved---the “seller,” the “buyer,” and the “wholesaler.”  The wholesaler (or middleman) enters into a financial agreement with an abortion clinic (the seller) to pay a monthly “site-fee”, comparable to rent, to the clinic. In exchange, the wholesaler is allowed to position a retrieval agent inside the clinic, where he is given access to the dead fetuses and a workspace to harvest their parts. (27)

   

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• The Gift Of Belief

  By Ian Kelly • May 26, 2010 01:42 PM

  I pray. In fact, I have given myself over to the idea that God does answer prayer and that intercession can change the course of history. But let me be honest with you... sometimes believing for the ending of abortion in America can be difficult. That's not to say I have stopped believing or have been devastated by doubts, no. It simply means some days are harder than others. A sentiment, I think, everyone can agree with.

  In praying for the ending of abortion and for just and righteous leaders I have often felt the burn of misplaced hope. As well as desires left unfulfilled. It seems like whenever I have a good idea of how God could bring down the abortion industry... nothing happens. Or the exact opposite happens.

  Facing defeats and setbacks is something everyone has to live with and learn from but when you believe God to do the impossible and know that he is fully able to do whatever he wants to do, you can become hurt by not "seeing" results.

  I have bordered on the line of anger at God for not "responding" in a manner befitting him. That is to say, they way I think he should.

  However, in my bout with anger God taught me a few things. Some knowledge that I hope will help you as you pray for the ending of abortion.

   

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• Designer Children Sold To The Highest Bidder

  By Susan Tyrrell • May 17, 2010 12:37 PM

  Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger whose infamous eugenics quest sought to use birth control and abortion to root out the poor and those not deemed intelligent enough, has an evil twin haunting the Ivy Leagues and seeking out only the top eggs of their brightest female students to make deposits into further the rich and more intelligent.

  Stunned, I read this article, on the income women can make for donating eggs for everything from stem-cell research to helping other women have pregnancies with “good” genes.

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• Beyond Partisan Agendas

  By Susan Tyrrell • May 14, 2010 11:24 AM

  After hearing the announcement that former first lady Laura Bush supported abortion, my heart was grieved. The fact is, many of us have probably been guilty of living out a sort of comparison-contrast essay between the Obama and Bush administrations. Laura Bush’s announcement, which she notes differs from her husband’s, doesn’t compute with our partisan agendas...

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• Unyielding Strategic Prayer

  By Ian Kelly • May 10, 2010 03:12 PM

  Since the last week of April, victories have been won and momentum is building in the state of Florida on behalf of the unborn. Seeing that we have not yet come out from this great battle, here is an update and report of these past events, which, I pray will stir faith and urgency in your spirits and give some direction in these coming days.

  Every Wednesday morning for the past six months or so, our Bound4LIFE Tallahassee chapter has been conducting a Silent Siege in front of the FL Supreme Court and the FL Capitol. Some weeks we have clear strategies to pray for; others we simply take our place on the wall and stand for God's burdens (Ez 22:30).

  Last week, our team had been invited by a few pro-life representatives to meet and pray with them after our morning Siege. This meeting unfortunately was canceled as members of the House were debating bills and passing laws as it was the last week of session. We heard that there was some pro-life legislation hopefully to be presented in the Senate. To be honest, this was surprisingly under the radar to us and seemingly came out of nowhere. So, to the Senate gallery we went.

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• Today Is A National Day Of Prayer

  By Susan Tyrrell • May 10, 2010 01:48 PM

  Today is a national day of prayer. If you’re saying “wait, that was last week,” then that’s the whole point. On May 6, most of the people in this nation who call themselves Christians probably said a prayer for the nation and possibly even attended a prayer gathering in their cities. There was a national excitement and fervor, and this was further fueled by the controversy over Franklin Graham being disinvited to pray at the Pentagon, as well as Judge Crabb in WI who called the day unconstitutional. But that’s not good enough.  
  
  We serve a God who tells us to ask (James 4:2; Matthew 7:7—the verb tense here means to keep on asking). On the National Day of Prayer, it’s actually cool to pray but what do we do when it’s not? Are we committed to pray for life and justice, or are we responding only to trends?

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• Justification Of Deceit

  By Susan Tyrrell • May 05, 2010 11:17 AM

  One thing the abortion industry thrives on to keep itself alive as it kills unborn babies is its justification of deceit. I was reminded of this again as I read that Oklahoma County District Judge Noma Gurich delayed the recent action that would require women to have an ultrasound prior to an abortion. Already bounced around after the governor vetoed the bill and then the state legislature overrode the veto, Gurich’s action puts another delay on a process that makes me wonder what the pro-abortion folks are so terrified of happening.
  
  If it’s not a baby but “only a fetus,” as we hear time and again, then why would an ultrasound be worrisome? The Christian Post reports that according to the Center for Reproductive Rights the law is "detrimental to women in the state." The Center argues that the ultrasound requirement profoundly intrudes upon a patient’s privacy and is the most extreme ultrasound law in the country.”
  
  The opposition to this law came from, of course, two abortion providers, who sued to stop its implementation. But it’s not a violation of patients’ rights to privacy; it’s a violation of doctors’ incomes. And that’s exactly why there has been such a battle nationwide lately for laws requiring ultrasounds prior to abortion.

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• Survivor Of Saline Abortion Speaks Out

  By Ian Kelly • April 30, 2010 10:03 AM

  Meet Gianna Jessen. She was aborted on April 5, 1977. On April 6 she was born alive, a month and a half early, burned and left with cerebral palsy from the failed attempt to end her life. She now sings, writes, and speaks about God and abortion.

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• Arizona Drops Abortion Funding In Health Care

  By Tiffani Edwards • April 29, 2010 10:50 AM

  On Saturday evening I was so blessed to attend the Center for Arizona Policy Family dinner. The CAP organization has long been fighting for righteous government in Arizona. This year the highlight guest was, Gov. Sarah Palin.
  
  I, personally, love going to these types of events…dressing up, being in a room filled with people who are fighting day in and day out for your same values. I have been to many events of this nature but little did I know that this year it would be one I would never forget.
  
  At the very end of the evening, Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer and about 40 legislatures from came on the stage. I along with 1600 guests at the dinner witnessed the first bill in the nation to prohibited taxpayers funding of abortion to be signed into law! As I stood there, I knew I was seeing God answer the prayers of the church right before my eyes.

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• A Tale Of Two Mangers

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 28, 2010 01:32 PM

  Five hundred yards from where Jesus was born in Bethlehem sits the Holy Family Hospital. It was known as a rescuer of orphans who, by all accounts, should have been killed if their parents had listened to their culture.
  
  This was where my life began.
  
  Many are fascinated by the fact I was born in Bethlehem. When I was young, they asked, predictably, “was it in a manger?” A couple years ago, I found out the answer was yes. They called the area where the babies were kept, the crèche, or manger. Today, it’s a full maternity hospital, but when I was born, the crèche was a place for abandoned children. One story said:

  “The ‘La Crèche,’ as the orphanage is called, is committed to the care of children, most of whom are illegitimate and rejected by Palestinian families, ‘ashamed’ of a daughter’s pregnancy out of wedlock.”

  I’ve have had brief email correspondence with Sister Sophie, the nun in charge who told me I was “placed in the crèche.” Otherwise, I was met with stunning replies from government offices in Jordan, where my adoption was processed. One wrote an official letter, saying if my birth were discovered, even now, “great harm” would come to my mother. The tone was so matter of fact, that I believed it.

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• Unspotted From The World

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 26, 2010 12:17 PM

  Last week I wrote about adoption. Saturday I read this article on adoption, in which Kay Warren, wife of megachurch pastor Rick Warren, asserts that not being actively involved in adoption might mean you aren’t a Christian at all. Warren’s assertions are bold, but they are also biblical. She addresses an important scriptures on Life, James 1:27:

  “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”

  Most of us know the first part of that verse, but we tend to not discuss the last part. How does caring for orphans and widows keep us unspotted from the world?

  Warren says:

  "It has nothing to do with personality, it has nothing to do with spiritual gifts, it has nothing to do with economic status, it has nothing to do with your season in life," she stressed. "It has to do with accepting the responsibility that God will one day hold us accountable."

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• The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban

  By Ian Kelly • April 23, 2010 02:37 PM

  It's shameful we even need this petition:

  A North Dakota grassroots pro-life organization is announcing the official beginning of an effort to circulate petitions for an initiated measure that would prohibit physicians from decapitating and crushing the skulls of living unborn children.

  ‘The Baby Decapitation and Skull Crushing Ban’ was approved for circulation by the North Dakota Secretary of State and Attorney General on Thursday. Daniel Woodard, head of the state-wide Stop Decapitation Network, aims to collect 12,844 signatures in order to place the measure on the 2010 or 2012 ballot. The ban would become law if a majority of North Dakotans vote for it.

  The Petition Title reads: “This initiated measure would create a new chapter to the North Dakota Century Code making it a crime for a physician to knowingly decapitate or crush the skull of a living unborn child or to incidentally cause serious bodily injury to the mother due to a resulting skull fragment; medical treatment could be used to save the life of the mother if the death of the child is incidental to the treatment.”

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• Social Justice vs. Abortion

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 22, 2010 03:38 PM

  This week I wrote a blog on the charities American Idol was funding on its “Idol Gives Back” show, noting that at least two of these charities funded abortion directly and believe this funding is a basic human right in the cure for poverty. In the response, which was significant, a common argument arose and that is my concern about this whole issue . We have made it, at times in the church, even, into an either/or fallacy of logic. This logic is what is setting us up for a false social justice movement which compromises Jesus while using His name.
  
  Since I have been involved with the fight against abortion I have had many discussions of this nature, and they usually end up with me being labeled an uncaring, insincere Christian if I bypass any opportunity at all to help the poor, even if the opportunity would support abortion.

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• Tonight On American Idol...

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 21, 2010 01:04 PM

  

  America’s favorite show wants you to support abortion. Tonight’s American Idol episode will feature celebrities urging American’s to make a donation to charities, claiming that “Idol Gives Back.” What it is giving back to is abortion funding for the nations.
  
  This article gives details of the organizations, which include Save the Children and UNICEF. According to the article:

  Save the Children has a working relationship with what it calls "prominent international organizations." Several of these groups are actively pro-abortion, including Better World Fund, Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Population Action International, and the U.S. Committee for UNICEF.

  While some of this language is sanitized for reading audiences to believe the guise of compassion, these organizations are following the lead of Planned Parenthood which uses key terms such a “reproductive health” to euphemize abortion so people think they are saving the children when, in actuality, they are helping kill them.

  What’s especially reprehensible is that so many families and pro-life people love American Idol. They are being deceived into thinking their favorite show is helping the poor. But it is deceit.

  The Bible says, “No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14)

  American Idol is making itself as an angel of light. It’s perpetuating the idea that by listening to famous people we might admire, we can help the nations of the world by helping the poor. It’s a false social justice ideology that actually is contrary to the true social justice of the Bible.

  Social justice apart from Jesus is no real justice. Abortion is utterly against the word of God and the true light of Jesus.  We cannot fund the destruction of those He created and call it justice. It is not helping the nations if we give to organizations that kill babies, no matter what guise they use to deceive us, including our favorite television shows and celebrities. 

   

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• The Reality Of Adoption

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 21, 2010 11:35 AM

  Adoption saved my life. It’s personal to me. So the past several days I have been wrestling with how to address the horrific story of the boy who was adopted and returned as damaged goods. The 7-year old was labeled as severely troubled by his adoptive family and placed on a plane back to Russia—alone. Russia was livid and threatened to end all adoptions with US families. The whole thing was such rotten publicity that my first instinct was to sit on it; it goes against all we are fighting for. But it’s tugging at me. There’s so much wrong with this whole scenario that we can’t let the simple news story affect us to a negative change. We don’t dare let this isolated incident be our lone example for a why not.
  
  CNN decided to get in on the adoption game when it ran a story decrying the negative sides of adoption and noting that unknown children might have a score of mental and physical problems which are unseen at the outset.
  
  To that I have only one response: The very same things can happen to naturally born children.
  
  Don’t misunderstand me, please. I know there are some real issues that sometimes do come with adoptions, but I have seen those issues overcome with love and good parenting, with the power of the Holy Spirit and a lifestyle of prayer. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a place for medicine and therapy, or sometimes a combination of it all. But articles like this, along with the other “I didn’t really love my child” articles appearing after this scandal as some sick trend to get readers might scare away people who don’t know otherwise...

   

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• National Day Of Prayer - A Response

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 19, 2010 11:41 AM

  This past week the story of the judge who ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional has gripped me. While it’s disturbing and sad, what’s notable to me is that there’s been such a mass of folks all over the interwebs responding to this like their very right to pray has been snatched away by some dark creature from the underworld.
  
  This is good in many ways. It’s wonderful any time Christians will rise up and speak out for the what their rights are. I rejoice that we are upset and this unjust ruling. But it also brought a question to my mind.
  
  What about the 364 other days?
  
  The National Day of Prayer is rooted in the call to the nation to pray for awakening. In fact, it’s not that far from what we at Bound4LIFE do every time we call a Silent Siege or a corporate prayer meeting. While our focus is more specific, obviously, we pray for awakening in our nation, in government, for the history of our founding fathers to be honored and upheld, for righteousness to exalt our nation. Our mission of prayer isn’t that different from the National Day of Prayer.
  
  In my city, we Siege at a federal courthouse. We stand under a U.S. Flag, peering at long columns on a court of justice, seeing President Ford’s name, the man who signed the designation that our courthouse be named an historic property in 1976. As I reflect on this history, I pray for our nation. One nation under God.

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• National Day Of Prayer Ruled Unconstitutional

  By Ian Kelly • April 16, 2010 01:43 PM

  Judge Barbara Crabb, a federal judge from Wisconsin has ruled that the National Day of Prayer is "unconstitutional" saying:

  “It goes beyond mere acknowledgment of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context,” she said. “In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”…

  She continued with...

  I understand that many may disagree with that conclusion and some may even view it as a criticism of prayer or those who pray. That is unfortunate. A determination that the government may not endorse a religious message is not a determination that the message itself is harmful, unimportant or undeserving of dissemination. Rather, it is part of the effort to “carry out the Founders’ plan of preserving religious liberty to the fullest extent possible in a pluralistic society.” McCreary County, 545 U.S. at 882 (O’Connor, J., concurring). The same law that prohibits the government from declaring a National Day of Prayer also prohibits it from declaring a National Day of Blasphemy.

  It is important to clarify what this decision does not prohibit. Of course, “[n]o law prevents a [citizen] who is so inclined from praying” at any time. Wallace, 472 U.S. at 83-84 (O’Connor, J., concurring in the judgment). And religious groups remain free to “organize a privately sponsored [prayer event] if they desire the company of likeminded” citizens. Lee, 505 U.S. at 629 (Souter, J., concurring). The President too remains free to discuss his own views on prayer. Van Orden, 545 U.S. at 723 (Stevens, J., dissenting). The only issue decided in this case is that the federal government may not endorse prayer in a statute as it has in § 119.

  This, of course, flies in the face of our nation's history...

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• Raising Counter-Culture Children

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 12, 2010 04:10 PM

  Since I’d been around children praying for the ending of abortion with more vigor than some adults, this was a new dilemma to me. As I listened to their concern, I saw it was truly well-intended. Pro-LIFE parents who are horrified by abortion don’t know how to expose children to such a thing when they haven’t even learned fractions.
  
  The reality, though, is that in our current society, they are probably going to learn about abortion before fractions...

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• Some Numbers To Think About...

  By Ian Kelly • April 05, 2010 04:19 PM

  Ninety-seven percent (97%) of Evangelical Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead, compared to 87% of Catholics and 86% of other Protestants.

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• Redux: The Passover Lamb and the Great High Priest

  By Ian Kelly • April 02, 2010 05:06 PM

  The blood that He shed has made a way for us! He is both our Passover Lamb and the Sacrifice of Atonement. Two Jewish holy days came together in Jesus. The Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Hebrews from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. The Day of Atonement was set up for the high priests to present blood for the sins of the people. Jesus presented his own perfect blood in the heavenly tabernacle as our Great High Priest.

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• Behind Closed Doors

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 02, 2010 03:37 PM

  We in Bound4LIFE know the answer is not abortion but adoption. Dr. Kopf addresses this, too, when he discusses offering adoption counseling in his office:

  “It's sort of a misconception in some circles that ladies who choose pregnancy termination would be interested in adoption, that's one thing people don't understand. Abortion is birth control. Adoption is giving up your child and not accepting your duties as a mother. Most women are not interested in that. It's only in a religiously-altered mind that that's a true option.”

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• VIDEO: Interview With Abby Johnson

  By Ian Kelly • April 02, 2010 02:13 PM

  Abby Johnson, a former Director of Planned Parenthood, shares the truth about the abortion industry.

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• Searing Our Consciences

  By Susan Tyrrell • April 01, 2010 03:16 PM

  We are a nation of many with seared consciences. We have opened our eyes to so many things in the name of grace and freedom and become like Laodiceans who think we have everything and really are poor and blind. As the lines get drawn in our nation, and world, we need to be a people who, like Job, declare “I have made a covenant with my eyes” (Job 31:1) and determine to walk uprightly and not even gaze on ideologies that could lead us astray. Experimenting with darkness is the first step to searing our consciences...

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• It's Official: Mississippi Will Vote On Personhood Amendment

  By Ian Kelly • April 01, 2010 02:10 PM

  

  Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has notified Personhood Mississippi that enough valid voter signatures have been certified to ensure a spot on the November 2011 ballot.
  
  The Mississippi Personhood Amendment states "The term 'person' or 'persons' shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof."

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• Bodies Of Babies Deemed "Medical Waste"

  By Ian Kelly • March 30, 2010 02:48 PM

  The bodies of 21 babies, believed dumped by hospitals, have washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China, state media reported Tuesday.
  
  Video footage showed that the bodies -- stashed in yellow plastic bags, at least one of which was marked "medical waste"...

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• Oklahoma House Approves 3 Pro-LIFE Bills

  By Ian Kelly • March 30, 2010 12:00 PM

  The Oklahoma House has approved three anti-abortion bills by wide margins...

  The first prohibits abortions based solely on the sex of the child. A second known as the Freedom of Conscience Act allows health care professionals to refuse to participate in abortions.
  
  The third bill makes it illegal for anyone other than a physician who is physically present to administer the chemical abortion pill, RU-486.

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• Prenatal Non-Discrimination Ban Passes Georgia Senate

  By Christina Martin • March 30, 2010 11:27 AM

  On March 26th, 2010 the Georgia Senate passed SB-529, the Coercion and Non-discrimination ban. With 33 yes’s to 13 no’s the bill passed through the Georgia Senate and now heads to the Georgia House of Representatives. The bill is a companion to House Bill 1155, the Prenatal Non-discrimination act. The House bill is partly based upon federal legislation that Arizona’s congressman, Trent Franks, introduced in the U.S congress.
  
  This legislation seeks to make it a crime for anyone to coerce or solicit a woman to abort based on the race or sex of her child. It would also make it illegal for women to choose to abort based on those factors.

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• America's Prophet

  By Ian Kelly • March 29, 2010 02:20 PM

  

  But it was Cecil B. DeMille who turned Moses into a symbol of American power in the Cold War. The 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time, opened with DeMille appearing onscreen.

  "The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God's law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator," he said. "The same battle continues throughout the world today."

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• Revival Of The Hot-Button Issue

  By Ian Kelly • March 26, 2010 03:20 PM

  Just days after the historic health care bill became law, abortion activists on both sides of the political aisle are preparing the battleground for November's mid-term election, which could see a revival of the hot-button issue...

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• A Simple Question

  By Ian Kelly • March 26, 2010 02:20 PM

  If a woman is pregnant, then what is she pregnant with? It's not a riddle nor an enigma...

  As I see it, you have limited choices:

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• Reality Check

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 25, 2010 03:01 PM

  The majority is not reality. This phrase came out of my mouth in personal prayer the other day and ended up taking on deeper meaning for me in light of our national crisis with abortion and health care.
  
  At the risk of sounding redundant, prayer is so obviously and simply the solution to what ails us as a nation. What’s happening in the heavenly realm is the reality we need guiding us in this time in our nation...

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• The Cadence Of Justice

  By Ian Kelly • March 22, 2010 03:52 PM

  

  Last night, Congress passed the Health Care legislation 219-212. To be sure, there are some good things in the bill and some bad. Regardless, the question being asked by the readers of this blog as well as the pro-life community is: What now?

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• Debacle Of Democracy

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 22, 2010 02:00 PM

  The debacle of democracy that was carried out as Christians celebrated the Lord’s day Sunday had us waking up to religious freedom and going to sleep to liberties denied. There’s little I can say that will give anyone any new political commentary or analysis over this situation. I am not a political pundit or a media marvel. What I am is a Christian in all seasons. I am a Christian when things go my way and a Christian when they don’t. I serve one Lord, and I serve Him even if the law tells me not to. And as I write this, that’s, indeed, what’s happened

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• More Than Words

  By Ian Kelly • March 19, 2010 02:12 PM

  Intercession to be sure is verbal. But intercessors are connecting with God not through words and actions but through emotions and agreement. Words can only take you so far then comes the breaking point. Most people get to the edge but then retreat because of the need to fill the void of quietness. They feel useless unless they can get loud or can articulate what is going on inside of them. They pray and read hoping to somehow put into words the prayers burning inside of them all the while not realizing that the inexpressible is expressing, through them...

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• Circus Of Distortion

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 18, 2010 04:21 PM

  As the health care debate progresses, it seems that some who like to call themselves pro-life are looking into those funky funhouse mirrors and seeing distortion as reality...

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• Emphasis Given

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 16, 2010 02:42 PM

  Bound4LIFE director Matt Lockett wrote this blog Sunday to make us aware of what’s happening in the ever-changing health care process which includes abortion funding with tax dollars. He emphasized,

  “I SINCERELY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO THINK THIS WEEK ISN'T THE MAKE-IT-OR-BREAK-IT WEEK.”

  I was struck by Matt’s emphasis. There’s a good reason for it, and even as I read his statement and the rest of the blog, which you need to read completely if you support LIFE and want to be informed, I was enlightened on an important spiritual point as well.

  One of the number one rules of writing is to know your audience. So why does the director of a pro-life organization need to emphasize anything so strongly to readers of a pro-life blog? Because the enemy of our souls is also the author of confusion...

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• Remember America

  By Christina Martin • March 15, 2010 04:53 PM

  This health care bill will change the face of America. Some may welcome this change, believing it will be a benefit to our nation. They assume it will get us closer to our goals of reaching the needy and providing for the poor. Perhaps in a measure this is true. I am not saying there can be absolutely no potential benefit from this bill. However, I will say this; I do believe time will prove this bill is more damaging to America than we will ever know. A bill that is being paraded as helpful is in reality, destructive to the core of who we are as a nation...

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• Dystopia

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 12, 2010 03:41 PM

  Dystopia is the opposite of utopia. In literature, dystopian communities are those where everyone supposedly lives equally and is treated fairly, but when we look behind the curtain, we see only one wizard controlling the show. In actuality, the perceived utopia (ideal place) becomes a dark and despairing pit where only the select few have any rights. Does this sound like the current discussion about the health care plan that calls itself equal coverage for citizens under the guise of democracy?

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• The Lottery

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 11, 2010 04:08 PM

  For years, I have taught a classic short story by Shirley Jackson called “The Lottery.” Students who read it for the first time are horrified by the culmination of the story. The town fertility ritual includes the annual stoning to death of a randomly selected innocent citizen, and even the victim’s young son is seen picking up pebbles to throw at Mommy, while Mommy screams how it’s not fair as the townspeople pounce...

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• Which One Will You Worship?

  By Susan Tyrrell • March 05, 2010 02:32 PM

  One of the problems with the atrocity of abortion and the attitude we have toward it is our cultural desensitization of the Bible. We talk often about how abortion is a term that’s lost its meaning to many, but we neglect the undertones that drive abortion, which are financial. The classic parallel Scriptures in Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 are ones most of us have heard since we were children:  “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” (Luke 16:13) We’ve grown up knowing worshiping money instead of God is bad, and we don’t do it. Do we?
  
  Mammon can’t simply be translated money, as we often use it. It’s about more than money. Mammon was actually the god of riches. The word itself encompasses more than just how much money we have, but it also places value on wealth, possessions, and our heart toward these things.

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• Baby Claire Beats Abortion Odds

  By Tiffani Edwards • March 04, 2010 12:25 PM

  A dramatic pro-life rescue recently took place in Las Vegas, after a woman who had already started the process of a late-term abortion was convinced to reverse the procedure and save her unborn child, and in the process overcame a drug addiction.
  
  The National Catholic Register reports:

  ...most pro-life activists and doctors are not aware that the process of some late-term abortions can be reversed once it has begun. But luckily for Jamie Stout and her healthy unborn baby, two pro-life activists knew this was the case and were able to reach out her and convince her that she still had a window of opportunity to stop the death of her child.

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• Abortion Could Spell Doom For Health Care

  By Ian Kelly • March 03, 2010 12:11 PM

  This is a follow up to this morning's Health Care Is Going Nuclear post.

  Via The Daily Caller - Republicans on Capitol Hill said Tuesday evening they are confident that a key bloc of pro-life House Democrats who voted for President Obama’s health-care reform last fall will vote against it now, as the White House tries to push a bill across the finish line.
  
  Such resistance from even a few of about a dozen committed pro-life Democrats would almost certainly doom a health-care bill. It is not the only challenge complicating Obama’s attempt to pass a bill, but could be the biggest.

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• Health Care Is Going Nuclear

  By Ian Kelly • March 03, 2010 08:27 AM

  

  "During the 111th congress, opponents of Democratic legislative initiatives incorrectly began to refer to the budget reconciliation process as the nuclear option."

  We have been talking about "reconciliation" for some time now. And while it has only been rumored that Senate democrats will use this method to push through health care legislation, I think everyone saw this coming.

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• Legislation To Outlaw Abortion Introduced In Florida House

  By Ian Kelly • March 02, 2010 03:23 PM

  A Clay County legislator's plan to outlaw abortion in Florida has gained quick traction with the anti-abortion community but faces numerous obstacles, from skeptical House colleagues to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  
  State Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights and a Baptist minister, filed a bill this month that would make nearly all forms of abortion a first-degree felony for the provider, punishable by up to life in prison.
  
  "I just felt like we're destroying a lot of Florida's children, and we need to stop," Van Zant said, "and I felt led by the Lord to do that."

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• What Is Spiritual Violence?

  By Susan Tyrrell • February 23, 2010 11:01 AM

  It’s not okay to be silent and claim peace in the name of tolerance and love. Increasingly, I’m struck by the passivity of believers on the issue of abortion.
  
  As I read John 17 the other day, a familiar verse took on deeper meaning for me. Scarcely a Christian alive doesn’t recognize that this is Jesus’ prayer for the unity of the believers when He says:

  I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. (John 17:9)

  When I read Jesus specifically saying His request was only for believers, I began meditating on this. I know many Christians who think that we should be peaceful at all times, including being silent about abortion. They tell me we have no right to judge what another person does as long as we don’t do it since we know it is wrong.

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• Medicine And The Holocaust

  By Susan Tyrrell • February 18, 2010 02:51 PM

  The more I learn about World War II, Hitler, eugenics and extermination of people groups, the more stunned I am at the double talk which emits from the mouths of those who would dub themselves pro-choice but who would, with another breath, condemn Hitler.
  
  The fact is, supporting the alleged right to an abortion is tantamount to making a pact with Hitler to destroy people deemed less valuable. Hitler called them Jews. Pro-abortion folks call them “unplanned pregnancies.” There exists no difference in the outcome. Semantics never change reality.

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• Red Lights And LIFE Prayers

  By Christina Martin • February 18, 2010 12:17 PM

  I had an ingenious idea this morning. You know those red lights? The ones that stop you in your tracks when your least expecting it. You’re soaring down the road, blasting your favorite tunes, hoping to get to work before the boss sees your cubicles empty. You're right about to pass through the promised land, when the beautiful yellow turns a darker shade. “Noooo!!! you cry..not red..ahh!”. Next thing you know that 20 second pause turns into an eternity of waiting...
  
  This morning I was in that predicament when a thought came to my mind.  "What if I prayed the LIFE band prayer”?  It was a new and quite wonderful thought. I saw the light (no pun intended...ha), glanced down at my LIFE band and before you know it I was praying for the ending of abortion.
  
  I realized something today when I was staring at a box of life bands. On the package plain and clear it proclaims  "Bound 4 Life Covenant“…. 

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• Performing Abortions Without Restrictions

  By Susan Tyrrell • February 11, 2010 12:33 PM

  As winter approached last month, and health care debates brewed, an article slipped through the New York Times with little notice. In it, late-term abortionist, Dr. LeRoy Carhart, admitted that he has expanded his abortion services to include abortions as late as 24 weeks and, in some cases, will consider them even later, including after 27 weeks.

  Despite the fact that most abortion laws forbid performing abortions past the earliest point of viability, as Carhart’s state of Nebraska does, he continues to practice freely. Though he admits to one of the most widely-read newspapers in the nation, that he does these late-term abortions, the state of Nebraska has taken no disciplinary action against him. Carhart continues to legally murder babies who could survive outside the womb.

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• Wanted By God

  By Christina Martin • February 09, 2010 02:39 PM

  I recently had the pleasure of attending a baby shower held on behalf of a beautiful, 15 year old girl. This African-American teenager went through the shock and pain of a “crisis pregnancy”. Her mother and then boyfriend strongly encouraged her to abort her unexpected child. Her believing Grandmother spoke up and refused to let that happen. She stepped in and offered to take the girl into her home and help her raise her baby. As the grandmother later told me “Abortion is murder, and no matter how this child has come into the world, I would not let my granddaughter kill her”.

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• Goodness and Mercy: My Truth About Abortion

  By Ian Kelly • February 04, 2010 03:01 PM

  Caution: I am going to share some things in this blog that are tough to write and will be hard to read…but the truth will set you free, and I know that this is part of my journey to being whole.

  In my early twenties, I was incredibly stupid…as many in their early twenties are. Looking back, I could blame my addictions, promiscuity and poor choices on so many things. I’ve felt rejection since a very early age. I’ve felt abandonment and a lack of affection since I can remember. I would cling to whoever paid attention to me, and numb myself with whatever was closest.

  When I met Matt, he was 20, and I was 23 with a three-year-old daughter. I had just left a tour singing backgrounds for Britney Spears because I was raped. Matt wouldn’t know that until years later and neither would anyone else. Matt and I both carried baggage including addictions to pornography and alcohol into an incredibly tumultuous relationship with each other.

  A few months into our relationship, I found out I was pregnant...

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• Mugged By Ultrasound

  By Tiffani Edwards • February 04, 2010 11:50 AM

  86% of abortion-minded women who see an ultrasound of their baby decide to parent their child instead. I’m sure you have heard this stat several times from pro-life organizations, your church, or a maybe even a politician. But when you are actually in an ultrasound room and experience a mother seeing life in her womb for the first time you are never the same.

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• Before The Throne

  By Susan Tyrrell • February 03, 2010 11:27 AM

  Obviously, the phrase itself isn’t the problem; it’s when it’s used for absolution, not action.

  God is on the throne. God uses His people to carry out His work. These facts are not mutually exclusive. Throughout the Bible, we see God telling His people to petition Him to move to solve a problem. The oft-quoted corporate prayer verse, II Chronicles 7:14, actually is nestled between two verses we don’t hear so much...

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• Stand Or Fall

  By Susan Tyrrell • January 13, 2010 12:25 PM

  As we prepare to take a massive stand this weekend in Houston against the Planned Parenthood clinic being erected, my heart has been stirred by a Scripture that hold s a principle we in America often like to ignore.

  Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. (Ecc. 8:11)

  In our nation, we have not begun to see trouble on a widespread basis. One reason 9/11 stunned us so much is because we felt invulnerable. It seemed unless we chose to go to war, we were immune. But just like war, sometimes if we don’t choose to go, we will suffer greater. A delayed judgment isn’t an absence of judgment.

  It can be easy, when years go by and we remain comfortable, to think that that judgment stuff is “Old Testament law” and since God is merciful and it will be okay. We say things like “I hate abortion but there are so many problems in the world, and we can’t fight them all.”

  But we can fight this...

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• The Largest Altar In America

  By Christina Martin • January 07, 2010 04:03 PM

  The hour is late and we are at a turning point in America. A time where our nation could plunge deeper into depravity and death or be lifted up to life. The hour is urgent and every single second counts. What you do now, in this very minute, counts in the courts of heaven. As I write this, the 2nd largest abortion clinic in the world is being built in Houston, TX. I feel impressed from the Lord, to not just consider this a massive abortion clinic. The term is too normal, too familiar for many of us. This is much more than a abortion clinic. This is an altar for child sacrifice and demon worship.

  Throughout history men have slaughtered their children to appease the gods and offer them worship. Think of the nations of this world filled with temples and monuments built for ritual killings. We visit those nations and shudder to see the altars they've erected to false gods. Yet those altars pale in comparison to what is being built in Houston, TX.

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• Surprising Opposition

  By Susan Tyrrell • December 10, 2009 11:49 AM

  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."
  

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• Something Is Wrong

  By Micah Meisburg • December 02, 2009 03:01 PM

  Just 70 years ago, there was a catastrophic war that devastated the earth: World War II. This has been described as the deadliest conflict in human history, with over 70 million people killed. At this time was also an epic and horrific genocide of the Jewish people, where 6 million lives were lost. In our generation, we face a death toll of a different kind, but possibly just as devastating. It is estimated that worldwide, there are 46 million abortions every year. Statistics show that yearly in the United States, the lives of over 1.2 million children are ended in womb.

  Something is wrong.  

  There is a modern holocaust that has yet to be recorded. In the past 50 years, the killing of babies has been integrated into the global conscience, and as a whole, we remain mostly undisturbed! In less than a century, there have been nearly a billion lives lost to abortion.

  Can we begin to grapple with the implications of innocent bloodshed at this magnitude?

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• Saving The Status Quo

  By Susan Tyrrell • November 17, 2009 01:36 PM

  President Obama is arguing that it’s necessary to pull the Stupak Amendment banning federal funding of abortions because he doesn’t think we should alter the status quo. The definition of status quo is the existing state of affairs, the ways things are. With that definition, he is arguing against himself because currently my money does not pay for the shedding of innocent blood without my having a choice. The status quo, in this case, works for me.  There is a cultural definition of status quo that it appears the president likes better. It says:

  “The existing order of things; present customs, practices, and power relations: ‘People with money are often content with the status quo.’ ”

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• Relentless

  By Micah Meisburg • November 12, 2009 01:17 PM

  On the siege line, there is a battle that rages around and within. Shouts of profanity might fill your ears. Sorrow might fill your heart as you witness firsthand such brazen infamy. What seemed so noble at first begins to feel distasteful. “Don’t you have anything better to do? Mind your own business!” Or so the voices say.
   
  Yet there is a motivation that surpasses the discouragement of injustice and disdain. It is a motivation that surpasses human ability, and has strengthened my hope, time and time again. It is something more powerful than death, and to which all resistance must ultimately give way – the persevering love of Jesus Christ.

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• Our Action Plan

  By Susan Tyrrell • November 11, 2009 11:12 AM

  While we rejoice over the victory of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which would create a ban on public abortion funding under the proposed national health care plan, a Planned Parenthood leader is seething. Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, sent out this letter to her mailing list Sunday afternoon. Some of the things she said struck me, not only for obvious reasons but because of the parallel we as Christians should be noting. We could actually learn a lot from them.

  “At Planned Parenthood, we fought together with you until the bitter end (thank you), and once we lost the vote on women's health, we started to do what we do best — gear up for our next fight.” - Richards

  The warrior attitude Richards is portraying should be our attitude as we battle in the heavenlies for the lives of the unborn. Jesus makes a striking point when the Pharisees accuse Him of being of Satan when He casts out demons. He says:

  "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? ... Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Mat 12:25-26, 29-30)

  We want the “goods”—the ending of abortion in America. This isn’t the time to cry, “Democrat!” “Republican!” It’s the time to cry, “JESUS!”

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• Passion Is Not Passive

  By Susan Tyrrell • November 04, 2009 03:03 PM

  The nation was gripped a couple weeks ago when up to 20 people watched a gang rape of a 15-year old girl take place and no one spoke up or called the police. CNN reported on the psychology of bystanders and looked at the history of those who have stood passively by while acts of violence occurred.

  Often we remain horrified at these acts, declaring we would certainly intervene, but don’t see the parallel in our own call to contend for the ending of abortion in America.

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• Pregnancy Is An Encounter With God

  By Micah Meisburg • November 03, 2009 02:41 PM

  Pregnancy is an encounter with God Himself. Every child newly formed in the womb reveals the presence of our Father in heaven. It is God at the height of His loving wisdom and brilliant artistry. It represents His commitment as our Creator to newness of life, the wellbeing of humanity and our very redemption. It represents hope.

  One of the schemes of the evil one in our generation has been to shroud pregnancy with shame. Yet the Word of God portrays it as a cause for great rejoicing!...

   

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• Doctrine Of Demons

  By Ian Kelly • October 14, 2009 03:21 PM

  We (Bound4LIFE) are a prayer focused organization. It's what we do. It's who we are. Before anything else, we believe that prayer is our greatest weapon in the ending of abortion AND we believe firmly that history belongs to the intercessor!

  Needless to say, when I hear "ministers" praying for God to bless abortion doctors and nurses and enable them to continue to provide abortion services to all women, I get more than a little creeped out.

  “Gracious and loving God, be with all of those brave souls who make abortion possible. Hold them in your loving embrace and keep them safe— doctors, nurses, clinic staff, administrators, janitors and counselors and receptionists—all those who labor to provide abortions to those in need. Bless them and keep them safe from harm and harassment, intimidation and fear. Hear us, O God, as we lift up our voices to you, and say in all your many names- Amen.”

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• Winning A Complex Battle

  By Tyler Vaughn • October 01, 2009 01:15 PM

  As we continue in this season, of turmoil and tension, in our nation it is good to be reminded how we are to fight. There is a huge difference between being politically minded in attacking a giant like abortion and being spiritually minded. Thinking only politically will always have you watching the headlines, using only common sense, and thinking out loud constantly. It really is impossible to fight the logic driving abortion with our own man made logic. For example, activist that are “pro-life” and go protest yet use hate as their derivative for propaganda. This is beneficial to no one.

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• OUTRAGE: Premature Baby "Left To Die"

  By Ian Kelly • September 09, 2009 04:04 PM

  Doctors left a premature baby to die because he was born two days too early, his devastated mother claimed yesterday.

  Sarah Capewell begged them to save her tiny son, who was born just 21 weeks and five days into her pregnancy  -  almost four months early.

  They ignored her pleas and allegedly told her they were following national guidelines that babies born before 22 weeks should not be given medical treatment.

  Miss Capewell, 23, said doctors refused to even see her son Jayden, who lived for almost two hours without any medical support.

  She said he was breathing unaided, had a strong heartbeat and was even moving his arms and legs, but medics refused to admit him to a special care baby unit.

  Miss Capewell is now fighting for a review of the medical guidelines.

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• Baby Found Alive

  By Ian Kelly • July 30, 2009 11:07 AM

  A baby girl cut from her mother's womb was found and a woman arrested after acquaintances became suspicious of her claims that she had just given birth, police said.

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• I AM

  By Ian Kelly • July 03, 2009 03:38 PM

  I am not my bible college study,
  
  I am not my favorite store,
  
  I am not my unique brands,
  
  I am something deeper to my core.

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• Come One, Come All

  By Ian Kelly • June 29, 2009 05:01 PM

  When Vic Pentz opens his arms to welcome newcomers, it takes on a different meaning now. That's because the Atlanta pastor recently made a promise from the pulpit to take in any newborn baby brought to the church.

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• Worth So Little

  By Ian Kelly • June 08, 2009 04:40 PM

  A woman named Temeka said her mind was made up before she took a day off from work to visit the clinic. Six weeks pregnant with twins, she decided that giving birth and raising the children would be too much -- on top of her marriage, her mothering of a 1-year-old, her full-time job at a sandwich shop and her studies at a junior college.
  

  "I have doubts, but I know what I've got to accomplish," said Temeka, 26, who asked that only her first name be used. "I already asked God for forgiveness."

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