God Will Carry Us Through the Hard Times ABORTION FACTS N1 out of Every 4 Pregnancy Ends in Abortion in the United States

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Metro Voice –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– January 2018 • 5 Right to lifE God will carry us through the hard times ABORTION FACTS n1 out of every 4 pregnancy ends in abortion in the United States. What the short life, find yourself questioning. Although you n Nearly 1 in 3 women has had an abortion by the time she is 45. and death, of our know everything happens for a reason, n Nearly 4,000 children are aborted every day. there's something almost cruel about n Over 1 million abortions are performed in the U.S. every year. daughter taught us getting to love that precious baby for n Since 1973, more than 58 million abortions have occurred in the U.S. three weeks, just to have her taken away. n The abortion rate in the U.S. is 19.4 per 1,000 U.S. women aged 15-44. By Stephanie Boothe Now, I'm not saying I doubt God's plan because I know He knows what I can - n Each year, about 2% of U.S. women aged 15–44 have an abortion; 47% of Allie Rose would have been 4 this not. And I never doubted He would see them have had at least one previous abortion. year. She would be learning her letters, me through it, and He did. n 50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25. Women aged colors and Sunday school songs. Her big But it doesn't mean I woke up the 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and teenagers obtain 17%. sister would be teaching her how to sing next day and said “OK, God. I get it.” n Black women are 4.8 times as likely as non-Hispanic white women to have “Fuzzy Caterpillar” and her ABCs. Her There were questions. There was sad - an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely. daddy and I ness. There was would be reveling “Not long after Allie's n 37.1% of all abortions are performed on black women who make up only anger and doubt 14% of the total population of U.S. women of child-bearing age. in the chance to funeral, God showed and every emo - watch another n Approximately 50% of U.S. women who have an abortion are using a con - his love for us again – tion. But some - traceptive method during the month they became pregnant. beautiful dark- thing deep seeded haired, blue-eyed In cases where prenatal testing helps diagnose cases of Down Syndrome in this time even more in me kept me Aletha Rose Boothe - Dec. 6, 2013 n baby girl learn and going. to Jan. 1, 2014. babies, about 90% of these babies are eliminated by abortion yearly. grow every day. powerful than that cold Faith. Instead, we January day.” The faith that could function. I knew that I needed to mark this time of God would never be strong for my family. For my hus - year with a great deal of sadness; as we leave me. I thought about the poem band and our four-year-old daughter. only had three short weeks to love our “Footprints in the Sand,” and I could He responded immediately. beautiful Allie Rose on this Earth. picture God carrying me through this Two very powerful events helped me Let me correct that. We love her every turmoil. And I knew God was right to know I was going to be OK. We single day, but we only had three weeks there with me, that he'd shoulder my would be OK. before Jesus took her home to him. burden when I couldn't. For the first I have always known God put some Losing a child is an unexplainable time, I gave my burden to Him and I amazing people in my life. My best feeling. Even for the most faithful, you friends never left my side. My family held my hand through every step of the process. My big brother sat with me in the funeral home and cried with me as we listed our mother as “preceded in death” on a newborn's obituary. But the full force of God's support for us on Earth was really driven home the day of Allie's funeral. We plalnned a small visitation for just family and then a simple graveside service as very few people in our lives had met her. But when we pulled up to the cemetery, we were astounded. I'd never seen so many people at a funeral before. People from every single walk of our See ALLIE page 6 6 • January 2018 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Metro Voice ALLIE others - were there, and I took great out of me, and I immediately started his precious life had to come into this n comfort in knowing that God had crying. world, and probably would not have if 2018 RESOURCE LIST continued from page 5 brought all these people to us. He was It's the first time I remember being we hadn't lost Allie. 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LIKE US! FACEBOOK.COM/METRO VOICE NEWS 8 • January 2018 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Metro Voice Mother’s Refuge helps young women realize God’s plan Volunteer perspective Mother’s Refuge is not a cold, imper - sonal shelter; it is a home for the un - By Elizabeth Ong donating diapers to was walking dis - born, for those who have no place to tance from my house and my work turn during an uncertain time in their In a fast paced world of ever chang - hours somewhat flexible, I decided life. We are a safe haven, where a young ing values, the philosophy of perhaps God was shining a light to tell woman can come to live anytime dur - Birthright has remained reassuringly me that my path to action was clear. ing her pregnancy and receive the love consistent for 49 years: “The essence I found at Birthright a group of di - and guidance she needs to give birth to of Birthright is love. Birthright is verse women with unique perspec - a healthy baby. unique and committed to offering tives and approaches brought together As the new year begins, we have new free, non-judgmental help to women by similar desire to make a difference hope, which is exactly what we give the facing unplanned pregnancies. for women and children in our culture young moms who call Mother’s Refuge Birthright offers love, hope and sup - that increasingly does not want “life” home. We offer hope, a new start at life, port to each woman, to help her make considered one of the choices. At and a fresh start. We provide everything a realistic plan for her future of her Birthright we are not instructing, a homeless, young, pregnant woman unborn child.” Having started volun - judging, or demanding anything of will need to be able to choose life for her teering a year ago, I find these words those who come to our door; we sim - unborn child. Those who had no hope to be put to practice daily at our ply listen, support and are present. blossom, and precious babies thrive, Birthright of Greater Kansas City. Some young women from troubled bringing life to those around them. We As an adoptee and mother of three, backgrounds have never had this type think we give them life, but really it is I always considered myself a supporter of encounter. the other way around. They fill our life while they experience hope, and take pose and plan set by our great creator. of “life” but chose not to get into the We have an uphill battle to continue home and hearts with unconditional the steps necessary to provide a good fu - Their stories are all different, just like divisive political fight. I thought the to make sure our name is known, both love, joy, and faith of a greater purpose ture for their child, one that was ours are, but we have one thing in com - answer was to change hearts and to the young women who may face an than just ourselves. planned for them mon, we are loved by a Father that minds, but other than donating some unexpected pregnancy and to those God said he “They fill our home long before they formed us and gave us the opportunity diapers and praying more, I never who might not understand that sup - knew us before we and hearts with were born. to live out His plan. took any discernible action. When I porting life and being pro-woman go were formed in our We are so grate - As we honor the sanctity of human realized the organization I had been hand in hand. mother’s womb, unconditional love, ful for the many Life this month and celebrate the hope that He has a great joy and faith of a precious life’s we of a New Year, let us remember those plan for us to give us have had the privi - less fortunate that are scared, hungry, hope and a future. greater purpose than lege to serve during cold, and pregnant. Please stand with We serve God at just ourselves.” the past 30 years. us as we provide a way for each young Mother’s Refuge by Each one was and lady to realize their Heavenly Father’s being the hands and feet of Jesus. We is special, each one made our home a plan for them to give life to his precious provide a way for young women to give brighter place, and each one has a pur - creation and hope for a better future. Metro Voice ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– January 2018 • 9 MLK Sr. intervened to stop abortion of niece The Sin I Couldn’t Face Grace (INFG) tear-off information was hang - By Micaiah Bilger ing on the bathroom doors. I would look at Life After My Abortion them and wonder if I needed that but then Alveda King, the niece of civil rights I knew Jesus was my Lord and Savior. I stuff it down even further by saying, “No. I’m advocate Martin Luther King Jr., con - knew He had forgiven my sins and covered good.” tinues her uncle’s legacy by fighting for them with His blood. But there was one sin I It wasn’t until I volunteered for Rachel the rights of unborn babies. couldn’t face—couldn’t talk about or even ac - House that I was required to go to INFG. I was King’s advocacy comes from a very knowledge. It was too horrible. Repulsive. If resistant in my heart. I knew that by attend - personal conviction. Before she was anyone knew, I was sure I would be disquali - ing that I would open myself up to pain. But born, her mother considered aborting I was like someone who had a wound that had her. fied from any kind of ministry. King shared her story this fall in I was a deacon’s wife, a Sunday School grown closed over and infected. Rome ahead of the conference “Pro - Alveda King meets with Pope Francis. teacher, a ladies mentor and a Christian During the Her Choice to Heal class I did moters of Humanity in a Transforming School teacher. I was able to share all of my life dig up a lot of After hearing Martin Luther King Sr. pain, but I was Missouri World.” King who is Protestant, shared I was able to and past sins and failures when describe how his granddaughter would share all of my finally able to her pro-life work with Pope Francis. appropriate except for that one. When it comes to her own advocacy, look, Alveda King’s parents decided life and past deal with it. My legislative life issues have always hit home for King, against the abortion and she was born sins and failures when appropriate except for abortion was over forty years ago but had whose parents in 1950 became pregnant in 1951. that one. kept me wrapped in chains that no one could update with her before they were married. Despite her own life being saved, My pastor would tell me that the only see—keeping me from being used the way King said her parents had considered King said she grew up and aborted two thing about me that he could fault was my God wanted to use me. Reconciliation Week - getting an abortion until her grandfa - unborn children herself. They are deci - lack of self-confidence! Lack of self-confi - end was the icing on the cake. It sealed the By Missouri Right to Life ther, Martin Luther King Sr., “prophet - sions that she now profoundly regrets. dence!!! Are you kidding me? I am a murderer! healing in a way that cannot be described— ically” intervened. Though they didn’t She said her grandfather eventually in - only experienced. Missouri Right to I committed the worst sin in the world! If I have ultrasound machines at the time, fluenced her journey to become pro-life. Now those chains are broken and I am set Life Exec. Director, When she became pregnant again even told you about it right now you would Susan Klein King said her grandfather had strongly remove me from all my positions. free. Now I pray God will use me as He rejected the claim that the fetus was “just after her two abortions, King said her prays with grandfather urged her to choose life for I felt like a fake and a fraud. I was dead chooses. Thank you If Not For Grace. Gov. Eric a lump of flesh.” He said that the baby inside but couldn’t talk about it or seek coun - Find out more regarding If Not For Grace Greitens was a granddaughter whom he had seen her child which she did. Today she is one of the nation’s leading pro-life voices. cil or deal with it in any way. When I was in opportunities for the abortion-wounded at in a dream three years earlier. the ladies room, the flyer with If Not For www.infg.org. Get ALL of your 2017 Missouri Right to Life extends sincere thanks to Governor Eric Missouri taxes refunded Greitens and to the Missouri Leg - islature for your passage of Senate It is possible to get ALL of your than enough to get you a full refund Bill 5. Many unborn babies and 2017 state taxes refunded this year of your 2017 State withholdings. their mothers will be protected be - AND HELP CHILDREN AT THE Even if you do not itemize your de - cause of your actions and, hope - SAME TIME. If you make a gift to ductions and can therefore not utilize fully, saved from the horrors of MBCH Children and Family Min - the charitable deduction created by abortion. istries (MBCH CFM) or The LIGHT your gift, you still get the benefit of the Missouri Right to Life urges House through one of our tax credit 50% tax credit. This is enough to passage of the following important projects, you could get a refund of all allow you to get a full refund of your pro-life legislation during the 2018 the taxes you owe to the state of Mis - state withholdings if your gift is twice legislative session: souri. the about of your taxes owed. Pass the Pain Capable Unborn By receiving anywhere from 50% to Child Protection Act to stop abor - Here is how it works: 95.6% of your gift amount in tax ben - tion on babies who are feeling ex - Check to see what you owed the efits you are able to greatly multiply cruciating pain during abortions. State of Missouri last year (line 31 on the impact of your charitable giving. Ban Dismemberment Abor - Form MO-1040 or line 11 on MO At 50% you can provide $1,000 worth tions in which living unborn chil - dren are aborted by a procedure in 1040A) of ministry at an out-of-pocket cost of which forceps are used to pull the Make a gift of double that amount only $500. Someone in the top bracket baby out of the womb in pieces. to either MBCH CFM or The LIGHT can provide that same $1,000 worth This procedure is used in 95% of House and write in the memo line of of ministry for only $44 out-of-pocket second trimester abortions na - your check “Tax Credit” cost. tion-wide. Mail the check to either MBCH What a great opportunity you have Redirect federal funding of fam - CFM at 11300 St. Charles Rock Road, before you. You can make a substan - ily-planning dollars to qualified Bridgeton, MO 63044 or The LIGHT tial gift to help children and families health centers and state rural House at PO Box 22553, Kansas City, in crisis and have most of that gift health agencies to ensure that tax MO 64113. come out of your taxes. It is like “des - dollars are going to agencies that You will receive a Tax Credit Appli - ignating” that your tax money be uphold state laws and that women cation to fill out and return which transferred to the Children’s Home to receive quality health care. MBCH will then send to the state to further its mission to “serve God by Renew Pregnancy Resource secure your 50% tax credit. helping children youth and families.” Center Tax Credits to support the Your tax benefit from this will vary There are tax credits available for life-saving work they are providing based on your federal tax bracket per - those wishing to make a yearend gift for women in crisis pregnancies. centage because you also get a chari - of $100 or more (which is the state’s Pass Two-Custodial Parent No - table deduction for the full amount of minimum). But remember, in order tification before an abortion for a your gift. for your gift to count against your minor. 2017 taxes, your gift must be received Pass Simon’s Law to prevent For instance: (or postmarked) by December 31st. hospitals and physicians from put - If you are in a 25% tax bracket, your The earlier you send your gift, the ear - ting a do-not-resuscitate order in a minor child’s medical file with - total tax benefit will be equal to 81% lier you will get your paperwork back out the parent’s knowledge. of your gift. This is more than enough from the state (which you will need to Maintain Oversight and Re - to get you a full refund of your 2017 file your taxes). For more information, quire Accountability of Abortion state withholdings. or for help in making such an invest - Clinics Thank you for your con - If you are in the 39.6% tax bracket, ment, call the MBCH Development sideration of these important con - your total tax benefit will be equal to Office at 1-800-264-6224. cerns. 95.6% of your gift. This is again more 10 • January 2018 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Metro Voice VITAE TRANSFORMS CLIENT LOAD FOR PARKVILLE WOMEN’S CLINIC

By Martha Schieber came in via Vitae's digital strategies was 18 and abortion again." lived at home in an abusive situation. "Kendell" This 18-year-old girl endured a traumatic expe - Wonderful things happen at the 2,400 Preg - (not her real name) denied her pregnancy until her rience but now thinks of the people at Parkville nancy Help Centers in this country, and in the mom took her to Planned Parenthood. She was Women's Center as family. "Because of our com - Greater Kansas City area, abortion-determined too far along to get an abortion there. Kendell passion, she feels safe. While she didn't make the women are being directed to area centers thanks to found Parkville Women's Center on an internet ad choice we wanted, we love her still in spite of that. the digital marketing strategies of the Vitae Foun - and filled out the form that Vitae created for the Clients come back because they say they didn't feel dation. Case in point: Parkville Women's Center. center. judged. It's this unconditional love pregnancy cen - "We rely heavily on peo - "We did an ultrasound, ter staff have for these clients, regardless of the out - ple searching on the inter - and she was 23-weeks come." net and referrals," Parkville “Because of our pregnant. I did adoption When women see one of Vitae's online ads and Women's Clinic Executive counseling and pulled out they click on it, they are taken to a page where they Director Sonya Rice stated. compassion, she feels all the stops for this client," can fill out information that goes straight to the "What Vitae is doing is safe. While she didn't Rice explained. "She felt Pregnancy Help Center, like Parkville's. These huge! Their campaign that because of the abusive landing pages provide women a chance to explain transformed our client make the choice we situation at home, the what is going on in their lives. load. As a result, we have to wanted, we love her still baby's father being away at "We love these pages," Rice stated. "Vitae has hire another nurse." college and her wanting to these capabilities with their research to do what we Before Vitae's latest cam - in spite of that. Clients enter the military, she just can't. It's exactly what we need." paign began in July, come back because they couldn't see her way to With more abortion-minded (considering abor - Parkville's center had a little have the baby." tion as a possibility) and abortion-determined more than 50 clients com - say they didn't feel During the many texts (only want an abortion) women coming to ing in each month. Since judged. It's this that went back and forth Parkville Women's Center, they are expanding not July, they have seen a 25 between Kendell and only staff but the depths of programs they offer to percent increase in clients. unconditional love Parkville's nurse, it was clients, including the fathers. Now it's 70 to 80 clients a pregnancy center staff learned that she was going "How many places can a young person in crisis month. to be taken by a special She hugged Rice, who had been in that ultrasound like this go and get all these services for free? We Vitae fuels their digital have for these clients, re - coalition across state lines room with her that first day they'd met. Kendell are the best-kept secret in town, until we connect messaging strategies with gardless of the outcome.” to an abortion facility that explained that her mother insisted on the abortion, with the women that need us," Rice noted. research-based messages. performed late-term and they were given free transportation to Illinois Vitae Foundation collaborates with over 300 These messages help reach – Sonya Rice, Parkville Women’s abortions in Illinois. It and free housing. PHCs across the country. Via the Meet Life Cam - women facing difficult was what her mother "She said she appreciated her experience with us, paign in Missouri, Vitae provides its research-based choices during unplanned Clinic Executive Director wanted. and she wished it could be different. She wanted digital strategies to 41 PHCs in the Show Me state. pregnancies, especially Time passed. Rice said to come back to visit about her abortion experi - –Martha Schieber is the communications director those who are determined to end their pregnancy. she was in a restaurant and there sat Kendell, this ence. It was not good," Rice stated. "This isn't a at the Vitae Foundation. Rice talked about how difficult it is to counsel young woman who had been prayed for relent - typical success story, but as we grieve, we are happy abortion-determined women. One woman who lessly, but with whom communication had ceased. she came back to us and said she'd never have an Metro Voice –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– January 2018 • 11 STUDENT It was during a biology class at Brown “Our right to life would not depend n when Galvan came to the conclusion on others’ opinions of us, but rather on continued from page 6 that unborn babies are human beings the simple and indisputable fact that we power of fresh starts. Just because abor - who deserve the same right to life that are all human and that each human life tion is legal now doesn’t mean we can’t other humans do. deserves protection under the law,” Gal - create a new culture of life — one in She wrote: van wrote. “This is the pro-life position which all pre-born children and all “Ironically, coming to Brown, ar - in a nutshell.” mothers are protected and honored by guably the most liberal school in the Ivy Motivated by her conclusions, Galvan the law. League, was the first step in my conver - went on to found the Students for Life 9) I’m pro-life because the future is sion to the pro-life cause. After taking at Brown club. She said she can’t even always in motion, and we have the “Vertebrate Embryology” the spring se - imagine identifying with the “pro- power and responsibility to shape it mester of my freshman year, I pro - choice” label that she once did during well. Abortion, the greatest human foundly changed my disposition on her high school days. rights violation of my generation, will human personhood, and I became “… for to say ‘I am pro-choice’ to Kansas end in my lifetime. firmly pro-life.” pro-life position in her column and other people is to tell them that I would 10) I’m pro-life because I love my fu - “The scientific reality of fetal devel - pointed out the danger of allowing so - have or could have supported their par - legislative ture daughters and would never deny opment first catalyzed this resolution. In ciety to decide who is a “person” with ents’ decisions to terminate their lives. them the right to live, no matter how every embryology textbook, I found — rights and who isn’t. She brought up the To me, that is the absolute equivalent of they were conceived or when they were as you will find — irrefutable evidence human rights abuses of slavery and telling someone that his or her life has update conceived. As a mother, I would do that an individual human life begins at genocide, which supporters justified neither meaning nor purpose,” Galvan everything in my power to ensure that conception. At that point, a living or - with claims that the targeted groups of continued. “All human life has value, my daughter first lives, and then lives ganism with unique human DNA is cre - people were not really people. and it’s time we start protecting it.” Jeanne Gawdun | KFL Lobbyist well. ated. This is simply a scientific fact, and no amount of arguing from pro- President Donald Trump made How she became pro-life choicers can make it untrue. What they good on one of his campaign prom - on a liberal campus mean to say is that this fertilized em - ises early in his presidency by nom - Lauren Galvan decided to keep an bryo, though human and alive, is not yet inating strong conservative judge a person and therefore not protected Neil Gorsuch as the successor to the open mind about the abortion issue when she started her freshman year at under the category of human rights.” late U.S. Supreme Court Justice An - Galvan then articulately explained the tonin Scalia. Brown University in 2012. The U.S. House passed legislation to repeal and replace several of the major provisions of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) and block most federal funding of Planned Parenthood. Unfortunately, the legislation stalled in the U.S. Sen - ate. The U.S. House also passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protec - tion Act, which would ban abortions at 20 weeks gestation due to the medical evidence that unborn chil - dren feel pain. The U.S. Senate has yet to take up the legislation. In 2011, Kansas became the second state in the nation to enact similar legisla - tion, and it is still in force (at least 15 other states have since passed passed pain-capable bans). Kansas was once again a leader in pro-life legislation in 2017 with the enactment of two first-in-the-nation laws: 1."Simon's Law" prevents "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) orders from being placed on children without parental knowledge or consent. Pro - ponents of the bill testified that many children with chromosomal abnormalities were being denied life-sustaining treatment due to some in the medical community's negative view of their "quality of life." The law also requires the dis - closure (upon request) of any exis - tent hospital policy concerning the refusal of life-sustaining care. 2. The "Disclose Act" updates the state's 1997 informed consent pro - visions for women considering abortion. The Act requires the dis - closure to women of relevant infor - mation on the physicians providing abortions, such as the holding of local hospital privileges and mal - practice insurance, the length of em - ployment, and Kansas residency. As the year draws to a close, pro- lifers in Kansas anxiously await a de - See KANSAS page 12 12 • January 2018 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Metro Voice The origins of Planned Parenthood stem from racist ideals

By Abigail Robertson Sanger accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups Margaret Sanger in her were proffered.” WASHINGTON – Planned Parent - Speaking of African Americans, Sanger stated, “They are…human hood hails its founder, Margaret Sanger, own words weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ’spawning… human beings who never as a champion of civil rights, but one “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to extermi - should have been born.” –Margaret Sanger thing they don’t talk about is the racism nate the Negro population.” –Margaret Sanger In “Pivot of Civilization,” Sanger penned her thoughts regarding im - behind her fight to legalize abortion. In a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble in December, 19, 1939, Sanger ex - migrants, the poor, and the error of philanthropy. Sanger’s ideology of A group of African-American leaders posited her vision for the “Negro Project,” a freshly launched collaboration racial and social hygiene bleeds through her writings on breeding an ideal want to focus attention on her ideology between the American Birth Control League and Sanger’s Birth Control human race: and how it affected black birth rates. Clinical Research Bureau. In it she says, “We should hire three or four col - “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and mul - Sanger strived for a society that lim - ored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with en - tiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant senti - ited births to those she deemed fit to Many pro-choice advocates see her as gaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the mentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more have children. a heroine, but critics call her a racist eu - Negro is through a religious appeal.” normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking “I think the greatest sin in the world genics promoter who targeted black “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I is bringing children into the world that communities with her Planned Parent - Ku Klux Klan.” –Margaret Sanger think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste.” have disease from their parents, that hood clinics. In 1926, Sanger spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into have no chance in the world to be a “Margaret Sanger, the founder of Following the invitation, Sanger describes her elation after receiving mul - the world.” –Margaret Sanger human being practically – delinquents, Planned Parenthood, once said colored tiple speaking requests from white supremacy groups. She writes of the In an 1957 interview with journalist Mike Wallace, Sanger advocated (sic) people are like weeds; they need to prisoners, all sorts of things – just experience on page 366 of her book, An Autobiography: that the greatest evil is a family that chooses to bring children into the be exterminated,” Dr. Alveda King, di - marked when they’re born. That to me I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux world. Sanger, who advocated for a system requiring every American rector of Civil Rights for the Unborn, is the greatest sin,” Sanger said in a 1957 Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and il - family to submit a request to the government to have a child, told America said. interview with Mike Wallace. luminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and Weekly in 1934 that it has “become necessary to establish a system of “People don’t understand that 79 “We do not want word to go out that began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had birth permits.” we want to exterminate the Negro pop - percent of abortion clinics are located in ulation,” Sanger said in 1939. minority communities and that minor - As the founder of America’s largest ity communities shoulder a dispropor - Parenthood has had on the black com - black community,” Pastor Nate Thomas Pro-life advocates want Congress to abortion chain, Margaret Sanger’s ide - tionate number of abortions,” said munity. said. “I see this as a form of genocide. It’s move that money to women’s clinics ology for Planned Parenthood was ce - Penny Nance, president and CEO of “100 No More” hopes rallies like a re - something we need to take a serious that do not perform abortions. mented in eugenics, the belief and Concerned Women for America. cent one in Washington, D.C., will look at.” “They outnumber, around the coun - practice that aims to eliminate certain King says while African-Americans spread countrywide to enlighten people Planned Parenthood receives about try, Planned Parenthood clinics 20 to 1,” groups of people. make up only 13 percent of the U.S. about Sanger and her tragic legacy. $500 million each year from taxpayers. Nance said. “They truly help poor As a eugenicist, Sanger encouraged population, more than 30 percent of “I have a serious concern about the “Ninety-six percent of the time if a women. They truly help ‘the least of the sterilization of persons with less de - aborted babies are from black mothers. number of abortions taking place in the pregnant woman walks into their clinic, these,’ but they don’t do abortions.” sirable qualities, and strongly encour - “Under the veil of secrecy and decep - minority communities, particularly the she will have an abortion,” Nance said. aged the reproduction of groups with tion, 60 million plus babies have not more desirable qualities. Sanger’s dis - been born because they were aborted dain for blacks, minority groups, and legally since ‘73 – one-third of that pop - the sick and disabled spawned the birth ulation belong to the African-American of an abortion corporation that profits community,” King said. off the killing of the weakest and most Planned Parenthood recently cele - vulnerable. From its conception, brated its 100th anniversary, prompting Planned Parenthood was built upon the pro-life leaders to unite under the ban - roots of exterminating individuals ner “100 No More,” to educate the pub - deemed “unfit” for the human family. lic on the devastating impact Planned KANSAS adoption of the Kansas Constitution, our legislature passed laws making it a continued from page 11 crime to kill an unborn child by abor - cision from the state Supreme Court as tion. We, the undersigned citizens, ob - to whether the Kansas constitution con - ject to the recent interpretation by tains a so-called "right to abortion." certain Kansas judges that a broad and The enormity of such a decision is stated extreme right to abortion should be in the petition to the Kansas Supreme “read into” our constitution — and fur - Court found on the KFL website: ther protest that such a judicial opinion "The Kansas State Constitution guar - authorizes the inhumane dismember - antees the "right to life, liberty and the ment of fully formed unborn babies pursuit of happiness." When adopted in while they are still alive. We, the under - 1859, it did not state, nor intend to cre - signed, urge the Kansas Supreme Court ate, a “right” to abortion. In fact, in that to interpret the Kansas Constitution to same year, just before and after the protect the Right to Life." Metro Voice –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– January 2018 • 13 Jesus beautifully demonstrated hu - safe, yet challenged them to want some - The shocking, life-saving power of humility mility. He willingly took on a human thing better than where they were stuck. form. He willingly suffered the most hu - Jesus came to preach the good news By Susanne Maynes the other person operates—their his - Amid this tragic madness, how can miliating and horrific death possible. He of the Kingdom of God. In this King - tory, their environment, their challenges. we reach out to offer compassion and is the supreme example of setting aside dom, the playing field is level. In this The nervous 18-year-old girl sat close In other words, we fail to understand truth to those considering abortion? social standing, rights and privileges for Kingdom, there is no perch of privilege to her boyfriend, clinging to his hand as their story. Jesus himself is our example. the sake of others. from which to look down at others. though it were a life preserver. When we ask, “Why don’t they just Let each of you look not only to his Jesus—Son of God, Word made Here, according to Galatians 3:28, “If my parents find out I’m pregnant,” make an adoption plan?” we don’t factor own interests, but also to the interests of Flesh, Lord and Savior—was approach - “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, nei - she said, “they’ll kill me.” in the fear and shame a woman faces by others. Have this mind among your - able. He did not judge or condemn. He ther slave nor free, nor is there male and Having spent 10 years helping carrying a child she plans to “give away.” selves, which is yours in Christ never asked the question, “Why don’t female, for you are all one in Christ women as they wrestle with pregnancy When we ask, “Why don’t they just Jesus, who, though he was in the form of they just…?” Jesus.” decisions, I’ve heard this phrase count - stop sleeping around?” we fail to under - God, did not count equality with God a Instead, he cut across traditional Likewise, there is neither the girl con - less times. Most women do not pursue stand the low self-value and lack of hope thing to be grasped, but emptied him - boundaries of race, gender and eco - sidering abortion, nor the church lady abortion lightly. They consider it be - for the future that so many young self, by taking the form of a servant, nomic status to scandalously hold con - who doesn’t understand her. The same cause they feel desperate. women experience today. being born in the likeness of men. And versations with those considered Lord died for each of them. Here are a few more dilemmas I If our background is middle class being found in human form, he hum - “beneath” a Jewish rabbi’s attention. What about the dilemmas I men - learned about in the client room of a suburbia, we must be careful of uttering bled himself by becoming obedient to He asked good questions which al - tioned earlier? Every one of those moth - pregnancy center: thoughtless questions downward from the point of death, even death on a lowed truth to dawn in the hearts and ers chose life—and the woman with “My mom said she’d throw me out of the perch of privilege rather than from cross. – Philippians 2:4-8 minds of people. He made them feel back problems? No wheelchair. the house and cut off my college money a graciously low position of empathy. if I ever got pregnant.” Here’s the thing: the young woman “This baby isn’t my boyfriend’s. We we are trying to help may have been had a fight and I spent the night with an raised in generational poverty. She may old friend. Now I won’t be supported by not have benefitted from the presence of either of them.” her father in her life, let alone had a “I’m a single mom and I barely make chance to observe a healthy marriage be - ends meet for the three kids I already tween her parents. have. I can’t have another baby.” Given the postmodern culture that The circumstances surrounding un - influences her, she may have little or no planned pregnancies are often shock - understanding of godly morals. ingly difficult. Ministering to those To this young woman, offering herself considering abortion requires a great sexually to a man who is reasonably kind deal of empathy. to her seems like a fair exchange for a re - In his January 2016 sermon on the lationship. If she’s lucky, from her per - sanctity of human life, Matt spective, he won’t hit her or go to jail too Chandler mentions a tell-tale symptom often. of a lack of empathy: when we ask a Plus, her kids will have a father figure question that begins with “Why don’t … at least for a while. they just…” we demonstrate a lack of This may not be the kind of life we compassion. know, but it is the kind of life we must We make judgments from a place of come to understand if we are to minister privilege. We don’t take into considera - effectively in a society that has gone off tion the frame of reference from which its moral rails.