The Presbyterian Church (USA) was one of 234 organizations signing a letter to U.S. Senators protesting the Graham-Cassidy proposal, saying it “will eliminate affordable quality health care for millions of Americans by gutting the Affordable Care Act (ACA); slash federal funding and destroy Medicaid by turning its funding into per capita caps; eliminate the Medicaid…
(By Jessilyn Justice, Charisma News.) Presbyterian-affiliated Whitworth University openly partners with the area’s Planned Parenthood, according to several reports. The same students who are encouraged to be dedicated Christian scholars are also given the opportunity to work with the local abortion clinic. “They are not equipping their graduates to be Christians and follow Christ,” Katie…
The macabre celebration of the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood and the specter of what such eugenicists have planned for the world in the next 100 years got me thinking about what it means to take a 100 year view. One hundred years ago, Margaret Sanger envisioned society free of the people she considered a…
By Patricia Lee June, M.D. and Martha E. Leatherman, M.D., Presbyterians Pro-Life. A reply to Rev. Nelson’s article on Planned Parenthood 11-21-15 We disagree with most of Rev. J. Herbert Nelson’s article on Planned Parenthood in its assumptions, and in its conclusions. His article contains factual errors as well as poor logic and theology. Never-the-less, we can all…
By Betsy Childs Howard, First Things. In December 13, 2012, the liver of a male infant at 17 weeks gestation was mailed from San Jose, California, to Massachusetts. The baby’s brain was sent to Stanford, same day delivery. On January 10, 2013, the liver of a baby at 16 weeks gestation was sent via FedEx…
By Joe Carter, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has released the tenth video in an investigative series on Planned Parenthood’s selling of aborted fetal tissue. The video includes comments from Deborah VanDerhei, the National Director of the organization’s Consortium of Abortion Providers, describing the harvesting of fetal body…
By Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint. Planned Parenthood supporters paint a scary picture of what will happen if the organization is defunded. But one New York Times columnist isn’t buying it. Nor should we. The ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal has shone an unwelcome light on the way abortion-on-demand actually works in this country—as opposed to the way…
By John Piper, DesiringGod.com (originally posted 8/22/15). This morning [8/22/15] I was one of several thousand people who gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota, to say to Planned Parenthood that killing children is not an acceptable response to crisis pregnancies. And to say to our government that killing children should not be funded by tax dollars….
By Clay Smith, A Christian Manifesto. I recently took care of a young woman who miscarried 15-week gestation twins in the Emergency Department. As I looked at the two tiny boys she delivered, there was a sense of loss and helplessness. There was no way to help them survive when they were so premature. Their…
Evangelical Left figures have begun responding to an unfolding scandal involving Planned Parenthood and the alleged sale of organs from aborted children for profit. The authors and columnists join officials from the Southern Baptist Convention, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and others in expressing concern about the allegations. Controversy erupted last week when an anti-abortion organization,…