abortion

Ultrasounds and Sonograms Save Babies’ Lives—A Call to Support Pregnancy Care Clinics

Grant Van Leuven
Dec 5, 2023
Editor’s Note: Pregnancy care clinics in San Diego County—the author’s residence, have recently been under serious attack to be shut down. Please see the footnote below about today’s December 5 meeting with San Diego County Supervisors and how to influence them. [1] My wife and I had determined we...
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The Story of Abortion in America

Mortification of Spin
Apr 12, 2023
“Citizen Carl” Trueman flies without a co-pilot as he interviews author Leah Savas. She joins the legendary Marvin Olasky in writing The Story of Abortion in America: A Street-Level History, 1652-2022 . The book offers a unique historical perspective that digs deep between the milestones of the...
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Life after Roe

Mortification of Spin
Aug 31, 2022
Reaction from both sides of the debate to the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade has been swift and predictable. So, what exactly happened that Friday in June? Did the Supremes actually vote to make abortion illegal? And where do we go from here? Frank Beckwith is a philosopher...
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Babies Are a Big Blessing

Grant Van Leuven
Dec 29, 2020
[Originally submitted in December of 2019, but retracted; see footnote number six.] Two weeks ago my wife went to Urgent Care during our morning Sabbath service to get important treatment. When she returned while I was leading our singing of the closing Psalm, she jubilantly waved at me through the...

A Matter of Life and Death

Amy Mantravadi
Dec 4, 2019
The issue of abortion is one of the most divisive in modern political discourse. The option for a woman to end a pregnancy has been proclaimed by some to be a basic right, while others have decried it as the murder of a fellow human being. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult for so-called "pro-...

The Unthinkable Sin

Joseph Randall
Feb 8, 2019
One day I had the opportunity to preach with John Barros outside of an abortion mill in Orlando. In the message I preached, I made the point that I am also a murderer because Jesus said: "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to...

He Won't Be Silent Forever

Nick Batzig
Jan 26, 2019
6 years ago this week, John Piper posted, " We Know They are Killing Children--All of Us Know ." 6 years later, New York has passed and celebrated a bill that would allow a mother to abort her baby up until the point that the baby was born. CBS actually posted an article with the title, "New York...

The Consequences of Ideas in New York

Richard D. Phillips
Jan 25, 2019
By now, most Christians in America have seen the images : thunderous applause at the New York State Assembly and a festively decorated World Trade Center spire. And what is the great deliverance celebrated by this applause? The legal freedom to terminate babies until the moment they are born. One...

No Mere Morality Issue

Nathan Shurden
Jan 25, 2019
I was gutted this week when I heard that the New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act, giving women the right to abortion up to the point of birth. I welled up with grief imagining the thousands of boys and girls who will be killed as a consequence of this expanded abortion law. Why...

Understanding the Single-Issue Voter

Anne Chamberlin
May 3, 2018
Moving around often as a child and as an adult, I had the privilege of joining or regularly attending many different American churches in different regions. I've been a member of small (40-80 people), medium (200 members), and large (multi-service) churches. All of these churches have been non-...