I saw a shirt somewhere that had printed on it something to the effect that we were once embryos.  Yes, you and I were once one of those small, developing babies called embryos – the stage of human development in which all of the basic tissues and organs are being CREATED, until 8 weeks of gestation.  If we were aware and could remember our own development, what would it be like I wonder.  But that wasn’t the plan for us human beings – God develops us all on his own, without our awareness!

Jesus also was an embryo, developed by his Father.  That is so amazing.  Do we think on this enough?  Do think of it.  He left the glories of Heaven to come into the womb of a virgin, giving up all his heavenly power and glory and going through the same process you and I went through to become a living, breathing human being.  His conception was, of course, uniquely, totally and miraculously different.  But once begun, we must assume that He was brought into the world in the same way we were, after developing according to plan in his mother Mary’s womb. 

This is not news.  We’ve known about this on our planet ever since God began communicating with individual people such as Adam and Eve, for starters.  Christ’s coming as (first as an embryo) is spoken of all through the Old Testament, leading up to the New when he made his human appearance.  But perhaps in thinking upon how our Lord and Saviour was developed in the same manner as we were, we can draw a little closer to Him because we share this parallel history.  We share the miracle of God’s plan for birth with Him.  How grateful we should be. 

Lord, help us to ponder, although we really can’t totally understand, this reality of your coming into our world, and help us to tell others, especially those most vulnerable, about it all.  About You!

Topics:  Pray that the wonder of birth will be pondered and that this will bring new appreciation for created life and for God.
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Out of everything God created, think of the significance of His choosing a baby to become the way to salvation.  And a baby born to poor parents at that.  Of course, we don’t know exactly how much Joseph earned for his family, but they certainly did not know anyone in “high places” in Bethlehem, thus bringing God’s son into the world in a stable. 

But, a baby.  A baby.  How incredulously beautiful it is:  a baby.  When we think of newborns, we see them as totally helpless unless taken care of—unable to walk, feed themselves, clothe themselves or communicate in any way but the most effective one:  crying!  I guess we’ll have to modify that helpless-categorization:  We see that they are not entirely helpless in that regard – loud screeching crying can produce immediate results from adults nearby! 

Instead of a swashbuckling knight, the wisest of philosophers, the most accomplished musician, God sent a baby.  What more of a model do we need to pursue the pro-life cause?  None.  Baby Jesus is the model of the universe; life through a baby.  (That’s the way life is perpetuated on our planet.  Through babies.)

Lord God, help us never relent in our efforts to save babies.  Our Saviour was once one.

Topics:  Pray for the thoughts of a child to pierce hearts hardened toward LIFE.  Pray for those thoughts to convict against abortion.

All state governors, that their thoughts will be toward LIFE, regardless of party or the work they promote

Pray as you are led directly from God or from postings on prolifeunity.com and the Prayer Pivot for Life.  Choose as led, any or all topics, events, groups, organizations, states, Pro-Life Action Calls, Prayer Action Calls, Peter and Patrizia Shinn and more.  With information about what is going on “out there,” we can pray more knowledgeably and with focus.  God hears from Heaven.  He moves valiantly in Heaven and on Earth. 

I’ve issued this revised cartoon to underscore a remarkable fact: America’s first black president aids and abets the slaughter of African-Americans. And he does so with the guile and determination of the Ku Klux Klan in its heyday.

As part of their abortion initiative, Barack Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress recently shut down Washington DC’s very successful and extremely popular school voucher program for low-income families-- the majority of whom are black-- and diverted its funding to local abortion mills, including Planned Parenthood. (See my December 16 post, Black Genocide, Courtesy Obama & Congress at http://veritatisthecartoon.blogspot.com/2009/12/black-genocide-courtesy-obama-congress.html and Sheryl Henderson Blunt’s astute commentary, Shutting a Door on Opportunity in DC, at http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-shutting-a-door-of-opportunity-for-children-in-dc/19319911.) By the way, Planned Parenthood’s racist founder, Margaret Sanger, was an ardent supporter of the Klan; she spoke at numerous Klan rallies, sharing her vision of a lily-white America and her organization’s plan to bring it about.

Long ago, American slaveholders denied the personhood of African-Americans, just as today’s abortion advocates deny the personhood of unborn children. Even so, slaveholders valued their slaves, keeping them sheltered, clothed and fed. And they valued their slaves’ children, if only for their economic potential. So little do Obama and like minded politicians value human life that they cannot appreciate even so much as our children’s potential to contribute to the tax base upon which their own socialist agenda depends.

You’d think such self-serving politicians would look upon African-American children as latent votes for elections yet to come, if nothing more. But I suppose they expect to be comfortably retired by then and, like former slaveholders after the Civil War, have no more use for black people.

God loves the world, Planet Earth.  But how does knowing this, affect us human beings?  If God loves our planet (and, indeed, the universe and forever), does this lofty love of God have anything at all to do with our managing our lives, either in general or microscopically?

It has everything to do with all of us.  We are to look at the world and love the world as God does.  We are to have his view of the world!  As Christians, we believe in a moral Almighty Creator who actively involves himself in the workings of everything.  He tells us that not even a tiny bird’s demise escapes Him and that He totally takes care of what we call the natural world. 

As for human beings, He loved the world enough to send His Son to die for all of us.  We cannot really estimate that love-extent, but we can pattern after that love by loving everything God creates, whether in the natural world, or in the peopled world.  By loving, we care about, and care for.  We look out for—stand up for, whether it’s the redwoods in California or gorillas losing habitat.  We love and stand up for persons, from conception to natural death. 

Lord, let this view of our world and our lives bring honor and glory to our You, God, who does love the world!  Thank you, Lord. 

Topics: That more and more people will join the ranks of those of us who have God’s view of the world, that of love – especially toward our most vulnerable citizens.
Abortion providers in all states

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.

By

CHARMAINE YOEST

It’s now becoming clear that Barack Obama is willing to put everything on the table in order to be the president who passes health-care reform.

Everything, that is, except a ban on federal funding for abortion.

Last September, the president promised that “no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.” Yet the legislation most likely to move forward in Congress would be the single greatest expansion of abortion since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The White House knows how to turn Mr. Obama’s September commitment into legislative action. I met with senior White House officials and told them that only adding a so-called Hyde Amendment to the health-care reform bills would fulfill the president’s promise to protect Americans from subsidizing abortion.

The Hyde Amendment dates back to the 1970s, when congressional leaders discovered that Medicaid was paying for nearly 300,000 abortions a year. This had not been an intended outcome of the Medicaid program, which was created in 1965 with strong bipartisan support. So in 1976 Rep. Henry Hyde introduced an amendment to the Health and Human Services appropriations bill prohibiting taxpayer funds from paying for abortions.

Full article here . Be sure to read the comments at The WSJ.

Thank you (foot)notes:

A number of Obama supporters are confusing Tax dollars for abortion and Tax payer funding for abortion. See Commonweal’s misunderstanding and argument.

The Alert Reader will note that The Wall Street Journal uses a ‘Ms.’ honorific for Charmaine and not ‘Dr.’. This is a WSJ style book issue and not a slight to holders of a terminal degree.  The WSJ uses ‘Dr.’ to address only medical doctors and not mere Ph.D.’s.

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In a memorandum from NRLC on February 24, they stress the point that H.R. 3590 “will allow direct federal funding of abortion, without restriction, in about 1,250 Community Health Centers.” This can be found in the Manager’s Amendment, which was tacked onto the end of H.R. 3590.  CHC’s can legally perform abortions, and since this amendment would allow federal monies to be funneled to CHC’s, they would essentially be funding abortion.  In addition, President Obama has shown no scruples in regard to this matter, and even wants to increase the $7 million appropriated to $11 million.  To read the entire NRLC memorandum, please visit this link: http://www.nrlc.org/AHC/NRLCMemoCommHealth.html

The ACLJ has also been especially helpful in clarifying H.R. 3590 and the goings-on of the Congress and White House.  Almost every evening I listen to their half-hour radio broadcast, led by their Chief Counsel, Jay Sekulow, and his son, Jordan.  On February 23, the ACLJ provided a legal analysis of the bill: http://www.aclj.org/media/pdf/ACLJ_PresidentsProposalexpandedabortion_20100224.pdf One troubling fact that they have presented is that Planned Parenthood will be allowed to run clinics in the public schools.  Even though Planned Parenthood could not perform abortions at the schools themselves, nothing prohibits them from referring students to get abortions or to seek “counsel” at freestanding Planned Parenthood clinics.

In short, the entire bill needs to be killed.  Democrat Representative Bart Stupak has continued to stand by his pro-life principles, acknowledging that he and at least 11 other Democrats “are willing to kill President Obama’s health care overhaul over abortion language.” (See Fox News coverage: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/04/dems-wary-obamas-final-health-push/) While the Stupak Amendment in the House health care bill is not completely pro-life, it seeks to limit the funding of the majority of abortions and is the best we have at the moment.  We need to stand behind Rep. Stupak, whether we are Republican or Democrat, and help him kill the bill, not the babies.