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Comments (13)
Thank you for sharing this powerful video! It has a wonderful simplicity that gets to the heart of the issue.
Posted by Matt Hall | January 23, 2009 2:04 AM
What I appreciate about this ad is that it makes a powerful point without vilifying Obama. I think there is much wisdom in this approach. I don't think it helps the cause of defending the sanctity of life when we attack those who are pro-choice as though their motive is the killing of children. I removed a few comments that were steering the focus in that direction. I'd appreciate it if we kept all comments in the spirit of this ad: focused on the gift of life and the tragedy of taking any human life. Thanks!
Posted by Joshua Harris | January 23, 2009 11:23 AM
I really like this ad. You never know the potential of a child no matter the circumstances surrounding their conception. God has an amazing plan for each of us. Thanks for posting this.
Posted by kendra | January 23, 2009 4:03 PM
Such a short video, yet it's so powerful! It's amazing how God can take a seemingly insignificant person's life and entirely change it. Even though President Obama was not the candidate I voted for, I will sincerely be praying that God will change his heart and work mightily through him.
Posted by Sara | January 24, 2009 1:54 AM
Great video Josh! I was wondering though, all this focus on stopping abortions from taking place... I have a friend who says Christians spend too much time trying to stop abortions and not enough time focusing on prevention (using protection).
It seems to me that talking about using protection with your kids is basically giving mixed signals. Instruct them to wait until marriage, but if they get the urge and give into temptation to at least wear protection? That doesn't feel right to me. He says that the least we can do is try to make them take the steps that keep them from compounding one sin with another. But is prevention something that Christians should be advocating?
Anyway, just something I've been thinking about.
Posted by Dave Joyce | January 25, 2009 2:59 PM
Sure, many women have been lied to, but the motive for the higher-ups behind the pro-choice position is ALL about killing babies. That needs to be exposed. I would be encouraged if you started defending life more -- and Obama less. You went to the inauguration. Did you go to the March for Life? You talk so much about praying for our President as he rules. You rejoice that he is Black. What about all the tiny, helpless little Black children in the womb who will be sentenced to destruction and death by his rule? It is so sad. But what will you do about it? What will you say about it? I could write this privately, but it's not just a challenge to you, it's an equal challenge to your readers. I am pro-life in the case of Obama. This was a good ad. But more needs to be said. How many of your readers know the truth about abortion and racism and the entirely murderous intentions of the elite pro-aborts? How many of your friend, readers, know? As Christians we must seek out the truth. And then we must speak the truth. Truth unspoken, who can is save? If you indeed believe abortion is murder and a tragedy, where is the proof? Let me see it in words, in tears, in non-violent and righteous but bold action. I just don't see it, Josh. I just don't.
I mean, the holocaust was sad, all the lives lost were such a tragedy, but please, let's not vilify the Nazis, okay?
"In the top drawer of my desk, I keep [a picture of my son]. This picture was taken on September 7, 1993, 24 weeks before he was born. The sonogram image is murky, but it reveals clear enough a small head tilted back slightly, and an arm raised up and bent, with the hand pointing back toward the face and the thumb extended out toward the mouth. There is no doubt in my mind that this picture, too, shows [my son] at a very early stage in his physical development. And there is no question that the position I defend in this book entails that it would have been morally permissible to end his life at this point."
-David Noonin, "A Defense of Abortion"
"Facts about Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood:
Margaret Sanger said about her 1939 Negro Project, 'We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out the idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.'
Clarence Gamble, president of the American Eugenics Research Association, said, 'There is a great danger that we will fail because the Negroes think it a plan for extermination. Hence lets appear to let the colored run it as we appear to let [the] south do the conference in Atlanta.' Under this policy, Planned Parenthood of America hired a full-time 'Negro Consultant' in 1944.
The entire operation [Sanger's 1939 Negro Project] then was a ruse--a manipulative attempt to get Blacks to cooperate in their own elimination.
The project was quite successful. Its genocidal intentions were carefully camouflaged beneath several layers of condescending social-service rhetoric and organizational expertise. . . Soon clinics throughout the South were distributing contraceptives to Blacks and Margaret's dream of discouraging "the defective and diseased elements of humanity' from their 'reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning" was at last being fulfilled.
In a 1926 speech at Vassar, Sanger said the nation needed to follow the "drastic immigration laws" of 1924 with methods 'to cut down on the rapid multiplication of the unfit and undesirable at home.'"
-Lynn K. Murphy, Life Research Institute, June 1994
"As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as 'persons' babies who survive late-term abortions."
-E.P.M.
"Barack Obama's America is one in which being human just isn't enough to warrant care and protection. It is an America where the unborn may legitimately be killed without legal restriction, even by the grisly practice of partial-birth abortion. It is an America where a baby who survives abortion is not even entitled to comfort care as she dies on a stainless steel table or in a soiled linen bin. It is a nation in which some members of the human family are regarded as inferior and others superior in fundamental dignity and rights. In Obama's America, public policy would make a mockery of the great constitutional principle of the equal protection of the laws."
-Robert P. George
Posted by Nicole T. | January 27, 2009 8:36 PM
I have thought so often of the "great" people we have lost because of abortion. Now with Obama as president that thought is reality. If his mother had aborted or taken government birth control, he would not be serving in the highest office. Will President Obama think about that when he is signing the Freedom of Choice bill?
Posted by Beth | January 29, 2009 2:43 PM
This is a powerful video--really puts things in a different perspective.
Posted by Kevin in Manila | February 4, 2009 5:08 AM
I love the powerful point without slapping anyone in the face. I wish more people had seen it.
Posted by elizabeth Crepinsek | February 4, 2009 10:10 PM
Have you heard about the Mozote massacre is the worst massacre in the history of the occidental word, hundren of children died there.
Posted by Pablo | October 25, 2009 12:03 PM
This atrocy was in El salvador during the war.
The New York Times talked about the massacre but White House said that it was not true. The most of the the people was evangelicals.
Posted by Pablo | October 25, 2009 12:34 PM
Ronald Reagan gave 144 millions of dollars for aid to El Salvador, but he knew about the massacre. Salvadorean children were persons too.
Posted by pablo | October 26, 2009 11:59 AM
The New York Times Massacre of Hundreds is reported in El salvador . january 28, 1982
Posted by pablo | October 26, 2009 12:06 PM