Have you heard those stories about German churches that sang their hymns louder and louder so as to drown out the screams of the Jews being transported to the death camps on a nearby railway? Well, something horribly similar is happening again today, this time in the state of Texas.
Pro-abortion forces are not happy that a state law now requires abortion clinics to have patients watch a sonogram of their unborn baby, receive a medically accurate explanation of what they are seeing, and listen to the baby's heartbeat.
This last part was too much truth for pro-choice blogger Denise Paolucci. She came up with the idea of raising money in order to purchase iPods for abortion clinics. Her idea was to offer them to patients to allow them to drown out the sound of the baby's heartbeat. After raising a thousand dollars, Paolucci made the iPod offer to several Planned Parenthood clinics, some of which enthusiastically took her up on this offer.
Now, you kind of have to wonder why anyone would want to help women drown out the truth about abortion. After all, how much choice does a woman really have if she's kept in the dark about what she's doing? And you have to wonder what's next? Eye patches to prevent women from seeing their babies kick and hiccup on the sonogram? Yikes!
The hypocrisy of abortion advocates becomes even more evident when you recall their attacks on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. Abortion proponents demanded that signs be placed outside crisis pregnancy centers informing women that abortions are not offered there. Why? Because as Nancy Keenan, a spokeswoman for NARAL, put it, “We should all agree that a woman should not be misled or manipulated when she's facing an unintended pregnancy. ... Being honest to a woman facing an unintended pregnancy should not be too much to ask for.”
Well, unless, it seems, the “honesty” leads a woman to decide to carry her baby to term.
Sadly, a refusal to tell women the truth about abortion goes back to the very beginning of legalized abortion.
In the interest of making money, abortionists told women their unborn babies were simply blobs of tissue. But eventually — when it was too late — women learned the truth. They realized that they had been lied to, and that realization, that TRUTH, traumatized many of them. And that's why we have so many groups like Project Rachel, an organization that helps women deal with post-abortion trauma. My wife works at a pregnancy care center, and she meets far too many of these poor women.
It all comes down to worldview. Those who run abortion mills believe that inconvenient babies are disposable, and that it's perfectly acceptable to deceive vulnerable women in the interest of making money. But Christianity teaches that all women should be treated with respect and dignity, and that all babies, born and unborn, have great value because they are made in the image of God.
It's natural for women to want to protect their unborn babies. And this is why abortionists try to prevent women from learning the truth about fetal pain and fetal development. Because once they do, women are far less likely to abort their babies.
You and I should ensure that the women in our lives understand the reality of abortion. We never know who among us — even daughters raised in the church — might one day face an unplanned pregnancy. They deserve nothing less than the truth.
For more on this topic and a Christian response to abortion, be sure to visit our website BreakPoint.org.
Publication date: May 29, 2012