“If we can change what happens in the home, we can change what happens in the world.”
Jill Greer, Director of International Planned Parenthood.
After the latest sensational failures of Planned Parenthood personnel (and thus training, and in moral parameters) in the United States alone, it would seem Planned Parenthood would just keep their mouth shut.
But part of the Big Lie strategy is to keep on telling the Big Lie, marching on past collateral damage (implying and often proving it is in fact a big lie), which, in the care of women after an abortion, is water under the bridge to PP.
Just a couple of thoughts from someone who has been burned in the past by seemingly innocent language and terms that ended up being loaded with agenda:
Who is “we”? What happens in “the home” that is targeted for change? Why are the members of that “home” being considered powerless as agents of their own change, that is, that someone else — apparently self-appointed — feels the need to make the “changes” for the people in that home?
And repeat questions for second half of quote.
The quote is taken from comments made at a United Nations gathering. As people who highly value family, we should be grateful for the work going on by various groups who are actively pro-family. Who, you might ask, would ever be anti-family?!
But the things that are being promoted at such high level conversation and influence have in fact proclaimed the family unit as a no longer useful institution, and, to many, the source of too much pain and suffering and repression. And lack of enlightenment when it comes to “gender” issues. Even our own Presiding Bishop was quoted (and I am paraphrasing) as saying that intelligent people have fewer kids, and that is why The Episcopal Church has a lower baptism rate, as compared to, say, Roman Catholics. All that in the context of over-population of the world. The implication being that others in the world, including Roman Catholics, just aren’t as smart as “we” are. Is that really the issue?
On the other hand, reports from a few years ago in Uganda, and now from Zimbabwe, are that abstinence actually works as a deterrent to pregnancy, and the huge problem of the continued spread of HIV/Aids. Go figure. And to think that “…for the bible tells me so.” In this case, preaching and instructing biblical moral value is more effective than simply being intelligent.
I know FULL well that rhetoric emanates from every side of contested issues. But I would direct your attention to what I just read, the “Family Watch” newsletter, not really aware of their purpose and work until today, because what they are doing in presentations on the Status of Women at the UN matches the variety of anecdotes which affirm their work.
It is easier to read stories about people, of course, so I’ll direct you to their website page of anecdotal good and bad stories. And then if you will click on the “Newsletter” link in the left margin you will find ample discussion of their current work and struggles among delegates, ambassadors, observers, governmental attaches, and other advocates and lobbyists at the United Nations.
My primary concern as a Christian spiritual counselor and pastor is that women (and men) who have had abortions cannot expect the emotional and physical effects of the abortion to be, again, just water under the bridge. If you have had an abortion, or were instrumental in the decision for someone else to have an abortion, I encourage you to contact me, and confidentially we will talk it through, and pray for any private hurts, pains, shame and grieving that still need to be dealt with in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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