The Little Shop Of Horrors

A Philadelphia jury, after 10 days of deliberation, considering numerous accusations of horrific killings of born-alive babies as well as deaths of women in his abortion clinic in a poor section of Philadelphia, has convicted Dr. Kermit Gosnell of 3 counts of first degree murder of babies born alive and then murdered by sniping their spinal cords in their necks.  In addition Gosnell was convicted of involuntary manslaughter of a woman from a botched legal abortion after having been given overdoses of anesthetics by Gosnell.

During an abortion process a woman delivered her baby alive into a toilet and after seeing the baby struggling and trying to survive, a medical assistant then pulled the baby out of the toilet and slit its neck.

Medical assistants were paid about $10 an hour, kept low by Gosnell, enabling him to make more money. These assistants were to perform a variety of tasks including giving drugs, performing sonograms, performing abortions, helping with abortions, trashing fetal remains, in spite of most of these assistants, if not all, having little or no medical experience. 

Gosnell made millions by keeping down costs of safety procedures, general cleanliness, cleanliness of instruments used in repeated abortions, pain managing drugs, wages,  etc. Many women suffered pain from not being given sufficient pain medication because they could not pay for it.

Even though Pennsylvania has a state law requiring abortion providers to give credible information to women seeking an abortion so as to consider the risks of, and possible alternatives to, abortion, 24 hours before performing the abortion, Gosnell never did this.

Gosnell's attorney, calling no witnesses or experts, depended on a summation to the jury claiming that no babies were born alive at Gosnell’s abortion clinic, that the babies all died during abortions while their spinal cords were cut afterwards (for what logical reason, he did not say). But Gosnell employees later testified that the babies showed signs of life even after the abortions were over.  

The attorney further claimed that all accusations were based on racial prejudice because Gosnell was Black; however his clinic was in a poor black neighborhood from which most of his clients came, many of whom, having suffered from his botched abortions, were his accusers.

Even officials who finally inspected Gosnell's clinic in a drug raid were shocked beyond belief to see the litter of aborted dead babies of all sizes and ages dumped in trash cans and even in a refrigerator.  There was no need to rush getting rid of such specimens since before the drug raid state officials had for 17 years ignored complaints and saw no need to investigate a legal abortion clinic.

Serious attention needs to be given not just to the butchery of new born babies but to the tragedy involving the abuse, injury and killing of women who seek abortions because they have heard that abortion is not only legal but safe.  

In many of these abortion clinics we need to understand that women are at risk because the name of the game is PROFIT and not care for women.  More and more qualified doctors are opting out of doing abortions so that clinics need to employ unqualified personnel to make the clinic profitable.

The Gosnell scandal reveals the truth about the abortion industry which, rather than helping women, actually harms them, while keeping the nature of the procedures, dangerous to the lives and welfare of women, quiet.   As a result, abortion after Roe v Wade is no better than the “coat-hanger” abortions before Roe v Wade; in reality this industry is more geared to making huge sums of money at the expense of the health and welfare of women.

This spectacular event affecting not only Gosnell, but many other abortionists who murder babies and harm women in  similar ways, should certainly result in all concerned agencies taking a much closer look at the professed “legal and safe” attitude of the abortion industry. 

Sources:

Gosnell Jury Hears About Baby Surviving Abortion Struggling in Toilet

by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 5/9/13 11:15 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/

To My Evangelical Friends

Earlier today, while listening to one of my favorite talk show hosts, a woman called in saying that many of her evangelical friends are starting to believe that they have been too judgmental in their treatment of others and that they should start changing their ways, be more relaxed about things not going the way they think they should, and going to the extreme of wanting to vote for president Obama just to prove to themselves and others that they are being more relaxed in their views and not being judgmental. The talk show host responded that it is necessary to make moral judgments about the way people act without a concern for righteousness that comes about only from faith in God.

One has only to visit Scripture to see what God really wants of us. Jesus Christ made moral judgments concerning the corruption of the Jewish leaders, the Pharisees and doctors of law who did not do what God wanted, but what they wanted. He told his disciples to do what ever these leaders said since they were the leaders of the Jews but at the same time not to do what they do. What this means in our time is that the leaders of our country have authority to tell us that we should follow what they say as authorities, but we should not do what they do. It is becoming more and more evident that the officials within the Obama administration are a pack of liars, including the president himself. To make such a moral judgment is correct, good and moral, and is essential because in so doing we are simply following the way that Jesus acted while he was on earth.

To make this even more clear we see in Scripture Christ associating with sinners; when Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees and the doctors of the law that He should not be associating with such people.  Jesus responds that He has come into the world to heal the sick and so does not associate with those who do not need healing.   So Jesus does not condemn sinners, he heals them.

In another part of Scripture his disciples ask Jesus whether they should not rain down fire from heaven upon towns that will not receive Jesus; Jesus responds that he has come on earth not to destroy but to save.  So Jesus and his disciples simply go around these towns.

Two of the most beautiful encounters Christ has with his sinners are with women. One of the encounters deals with a woman caught in adultery; those who have brought her to Christ remind Him that Moses had said such women should be stoned to death.  They asked Jesus what he thought. Jesus responded that whoever was without sin should cast the first stone; Jesus then, seemingly disinterested, started writing in the sand. One by one the woman’s accusers left leaving the woman standing alone in front of Jesus. Has no one remained to accuse you, Jesus asked. The woman responded, no one sir.   Neither then will I accuse you, says Jesus; go your way but sin no more.

Notice that the people who wanted to stone her judged her just as we as Christians many times condemn others who’ve done wrong and in some way indicate that they should be condemned. Jesus however shows us the way He wants us to respond when we see someone who has sinned. While He wants us to recognize that the person has sinned, he warns us not to judge, that is condemn the person. Necessary judgment can only come either from God directly or through those officials, who by their God given authority, can exercise judgment or condemnation.

The second example is the encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well. He knows that she is a sinner but He does not judge her. He engages her in conversation where He hints at is divinity but asks her to bring her husband to the well which forces the woman to respond that she has no husband. Again Jesus does not condemn her but simply tells her that she has told the truth and that not only does she not have a husband but she has previously had five husbands. The woman then remarks that the Messiah is coming and will tell them everything. Jesus then tells her that He is the Messiah. Her response in leaving her water jug at the well and immediately going to the nearby town and telling others that Jesus is the Messiah, brings salvation not only to herself but to the members of the Samaritan town.

Jesus does not condemn; He reveals to the sinner that He is there to heal if only they desire it.  Condemnation will come only to those who completely reject God’s love and saving graces; but this will be known only to Jesus.  We do not know how great His mercy is so that we dare not condemn anyone.  What Jesus Christ asks us to do is to surrender ourselves to Him so that we, in union with Christ, his love and grace, act Christlike as he directs us through his grace to accomplish His will through us.. 

St. Paul in his epistles makes it clear that we are saved through faith in Jesus Christ but that this entails our complete surrender to Him so that He may use us, His loving servants, in accomplishing His will through us.

Sarah Palin for President? How about Senate?

Who knows who our next president in 2016 will be but, more than any other person, Sarah Palin embodies the spirit needed to bring America from the brink of totalitarianism whose steady growth, for almost a century, has been gaining strength through the auspices of the Democratic Party.  

The Tea Party is working to convince Sarah to run as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alaska in 2014.  We needed to take the Senate with good, strong Conservatives in 2012; having fallen short then, we need the Senate in Strong Conservative hands even more-so in 2014.   Visit  TheTeaPartyLeadershipFund.com

What follows below is an interesting take on the strength of Sarah Palin's qualities as a leader in terms a series of nine photos in a slide presentation with comments on the side interpreting the qualities of style communicated by each photo shot:
Take a look at Sarah's Style:  The fashion plate

In a speech given at CPAC last month Sarah seemed to have no problem in grabbing a needed drink during her speech when she was receiving applause by sipping from a Bloomberg-banned soda in a fashion that brought more applause.  Leadership qualities certainly include a mastering of good humor:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/16/palin-attacks-bloomberg-soda-ban-during-cpac-speech/

Here is a good video with Hannity just 2 days before the 2012 election wherein Sarah makes the point that every State should be in play in a presidential election and not just a few chosen by media polsters − a lesson not learned by the Romney Campaign; in her 2008 run for the presidency Sarah had criticized the campaign for abandoning a state thought to be a sure loss, bringing derision upon her from elite campaign Republicans:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1947588631001/sarah-palin-on-revenge-as-motivation-to-vote/

Sarah respects and honors all people and all voters and writes no-one off which makes her a strong candidate for the Senate from Alaska.  Will she do it?  I hope so.

Why did they become Terrorists

Having followed the tragedy of the terrorism in Boston at the Boston Marathon a few days ago, finally, starting yesterday and last evening law enforcement personnel had been finding clues to the whereabouts of two suspected Chechnya terrorists. Just last night the older of two brothers shot and killed a police officer in his car on the MIT campus; in the ensuing gun battle the older of the two was killed but the younger slipped away and the manhunt was on. He was quickly found in a small pleasure boat atop a trailer parked in the back of the boat owner’s home. The owner spotted blood from the wounded man hiding in his boat and immediately notified police.  After a short gun and bomb battle police captured him alive but seriously injured.  Everyone was elated; the people around the Boston area were able to breathe a sigh of relief.  They joyfully demonstrated their happiness about not having to fear this young man anymore.

In following the events leading up to the death of the older brother and the capture of the younger, many facts were being revealed about what drove these two young people to randomly kill as many innocent people as they could. The family of these young men had come to America when the brothers were fairly young. The boys engaged in various physical activities and became well-liked by the young people and instructors they met in their schooling. Many of the people who knew the boys and their family couldn't understand why they would do such terrible things. They saw these 2 young men as good and decent people who seem to have been leading their lives in the American way. No one suspected any kind of terrorist leanings.

However, the FBI has been probing the backgrounds of these 2 young men. In 2011 they had received information from the Russian equivalent of our FBI that the background of the older brother was sinister. The FBI however, due to restrictions on how far they could probe the background of legal immigrants to America led them to give up their attempt to look too far into the background of the older brother and he was cleared of any wrongful activity. Had they investigated further they would’ve found on the internet statements from each of the men that should have led the FBI to conclude both brothers had terrorist feelings and should have been put on a watch list.

It is interesting to note that the younger brother had written a tweet saying that he had no friends in America and he wanted out. This was actually a revealing comment. He said that he did not understand Americans and yet he seemed to be well liked by many Americans that he associated with. He is 19 and his brother was 26. Both had high school and college learning. The older brother was interested in boxing and wanted to be part of America’s team for the Olympics. They seemed to like their life in America. But the younger had said he didn’t understand Americans and wanted out!  What did he mean?

Then it came to my mind that several years ago I had read a book entitled The Looming Tower written by Lawrence Wright with the subtitle Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Early in the book Wright describes a reasonably well-to-do Egyptian writer and journalist who in 1948 had to leave Egypt and emigrate to America because his writings against the British occupation of Egypt and the autocratic rule of King Farouk had provoked his being arrested.  Wright points out that in this journalist’s mind, even though he was not necessarily a very religious man, he saw that he was leaving a culture of Eastern Islam and going to a culture of Western Christianity.

While in America for several years, this journalist found that the American culture was slowly becoming a culture devoid of moral and religious values and did not characterize a Christian Civilization.  This moved him through the years to become more interested in his Islamic faith; but more than becoming closer to his Islamic faith, he looked upon American society as so evil that it needed to be destroyed. He became radicalized and joined forces back in Egypt which wanted to destroy America, the Satan, causing all the problems in his Eastern Islamic Culture.

This I believe is what happened to the two brothers from Chechnya. They saw in American culture a substantial lack of any kind of religious faith, with its love of pleasure, money and power as its gods; it moved them towards those terroristic elements which had been fighting against Russian imperialism back in Chechnya.   The older brother went back to Russia for 6 months, probably having joined with terroristic groups; returning to America he was probably instrumental in influencing his younger brother to embrace terroristic plans for the destruction of America..

If there is any fault to be found it is not so much with the FBI or government weakness but with the American educational system which for decades in 

elementary, high school and college institutions, students have been taught by teachers and professors who do not believe in God and are actively destroying any measure of religious belief and faith in our young people.

It is not enough to simply fault the government for being too restrictive in searching for terroristic backgrounds of people who are here in America when America, in its educational fiasco, by its abandoning any faith in God, is responsible for those who have come to America with Islamic ideals to see America as an evil empire which must be destroyed.  

What if America should have a revival and restore belief in a loving God who would be our protecter if only we would restore our Trust in God, and our belief in Liberty reflecting our love for and trust in the Creator.  Would not our diversity in faith, ethnicity, immigrants bring us back to the American ideal of “from many one” − Unity; American.  Would not immigrants from an Eastern Islamic Culture then find an America not something to hate and want to destroy but to embrace?

Don't give up Hope

For the most part I try to write posts that are positive, with the intention of perhaps making my readers feel a little bit better about their lives. But there is so much wrong and so much evil in our country and in the world that it is difficult not to become discouraged. 

Thinking that our president Barack Obama might've made some encouraging comments to the people in Texas who yesterday lost their homes and everything they possess because of an explosion in a nearby fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, I searched the Web.  

Up to this morning I found no such comments. Certainly Obama has made many comments about the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut and the present Boston massacre during the Boston Marathon. There were children killed in Texas and many more deaths overall with the injured exceeding 100 people. Maybe the Texas tragedy is just not political enough.

In searching for such remarks I came across an article written by a fellow conservative who encourages everyone thinking about these dreaded tragedies in Newtown, Boston and Texas not to lose hope. He describes the many hardships he and his wife had to go through: his wife having surgery to avoid a prospect of cancer. His losing his job. His weeping uncontrollably in the rain holding his one year old child because he had to go to the hospital where his wife was very ill and tell her the doctors said she was going to die. 

Then in a series of rapid seeming miracles, the spots on his wife's lungs were not cancerous as thought. His wife made a full recovery. He was offered a job with an increase in salary allowing his wife to stay at home with their daughter. It occurred to him that these events were simply not just luck but that the man upstairs, the Creator, was simply exercising his plan. 

He reasoned that believing in God having a plan for each of us and trusting in that plan had brought about not only these recent miracles, but as he thought back in his life, many other miracles. He then realized that having trust in the man upstairs and his plan for himself and his family was the way that God wanted him to see things with hope and not yield to despair with so many things wrong in the world.

This was what I had recently come to in reading Scripture and in particular reading the epistles of the apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul. Paul writes of placing our trust in God and not worrying about the catastrophes happening in the world. But for a moment earlier today I had forgotten this and really, does it make any difference whether the president or anyone else says good or bad things about the chaotic mess we see in the world? To me it doesn't matter; what matters is that we trust in the Lord and His plan for each of us which will bring us through all troubles and anxieties to a joyful place in accordance with His plan.

Based on article:  Boston, West, Texas, America, don't give up hope  By Erick Erickson Published April 18, 2013 FoxNews.com