It was interesting to read Jonathon Van Marren when he said ‘I’ve always been skeptical of the “pro-life celebrity.” Not because I don’t think that celebrities who sincerely oppose abortion don’t exist, but because I believe celebrities are both unreliable and often undesirable advocates.
An artist or actor may oppose abortion while creating sexually-charged entertainment that contributes to the degradation of our culture, for example. Or, as in the case of pop stars like Selena Gomez (who swapped her purity ring for abortion bling) they discard their previous views due to industry pressures or peers.
Pro-life celebrities generally fall into two categories. First, there are those oppose abortion for profoundly personal reasons. Jack Nicholson, for example, discovered later in life that his “mother” was actually his grandmother and that the woman he thought was his sister was his mother, who had been pressured to abort him.
As a result, he noted in one interview when asked about abortion, “I’m positively against it. I don’t have the right to any other view.” Similarly, singer Celine Dion was her mother’s fourteenth child, and initially considered an abortion before being talked out of it.
Justin Bieber’s mother was also pressured to abort him, and he has stated that he thinks abortion is “like killing a baby.” Martin Sheen’s wife was conceived through rape, a fact which he has referenced with regard to his anti-abortion views. Despite this, Sheen is a dedicated Democrat, and it is important to note that many “pro-life celebrities” still vocally support pro-abortion politicians.
Discovering just how close one came to becoming what Christopher Hitchens has referred to as a “forgotten whoosh” often makes it impossible for people to regard abortion as a simple matter of rights or healthcare. A near miss can be morally clarifying.
There are also those who are pro-life as part of a larger worldview. Patricia Heaton, who often shares pro-life content on social media, is a Catholic. So is Mel Gibson, who has shared his pro-life views in interviews (and has also contributed financially to pro-life work in the past.)
Hollywood’s handful of conservatives are generally pro-life as well, including Jon Voight, Tom Selleck, and Chuck Norris. Conservatives, of course, are becoming even rarer in Hollywood in the wake of the Great Awokening, which is accompanied by purges of those with even liberal sentiments.
And then there is Kanye West, a man who defies all categories.
On Independence Day, he announced that he is off the Trump Train and running for president of the United States, although thus far no campaign has materialized (he says he will be running for “the Birthday Party,” because “when we win it’s everybody’s birthday.”)
Back in 2011, West tweeted that “An abortion can cost a ballin’ n**ga up to 50gs maybe 100. Gold diggin’ b**** be getting pregnant on purpose,” later clarifying that “it ain’t happen to me but I know people.” Then, an interview for his latest album, he criticized the Democrats for “making us abort our children.”
Last week he expanded on those views, telling Forbes that “Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,” a reference to the racist and eugenicist history of the American abortion giant. “I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the Bible,” he added.
Planned Parenthood’s director of Black Leadership and Engagement responded by stating that the “real threat to Black communities’ safety, health, and lives stems,” among other things, from “the criminalization of reproductive healthcare by anti-abortion opposition.”
Kanye recently tweeted and then deleted a screenshot of a Google search for “what does a 6 month fetus look like.” Along with the now deleted image, he wrote, “These souls deserve to live.”
It is unquestionably good for the pro-life cause that a man with such an enormous platform is using it to call out the American abortion industry, as West reaches an audience that pro-lifers have often had difficulty reaching. With that said, pro-lifers would do well to be cautious. West is notoriously erratic, and a lot of his ramblings can end up being pretty weird.
In a culture obsessed with celebrity, there is a huge temptation to immediately promote and embrace any famous person saying some of the right things. While encouraging and affirming those things is essential, we shouldn’t give these folks the status of moral leadership overnight.
West in particular has gone on a roller-coaster with regard to many of his different views, and his reliability, despite hopeful indicators, remains to be seen. We should not make celebrities — even those going after the abortion industry — into our heroes.’ https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4163
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‘A viral video of a Black Lives Matter protest is exposing the hypocrisy of a movement that claims to fight to protect black Americans.
According to BizPac Review, the video shows a black man confronting medical workers who gathered for a Black Lives Matter protest outside a hospital. Some online commenters identified the hospital as University Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, but LifeNews could not confirm the location.
In the short video, the man asks the medical workers, many in lab coats and scrubs, if “all black lives matter, or just some black lives.”
“All black lives matter,” the protesters respond.
Seconds later, though, when he asks them about abortion, the protesters remain silent and look confused.
“The black babies killed in the abortion clinics matter, right?” he asks.
When no one responds, the man adds, “Thought so.”
Later, he continues: “But the black babies killed in the abortion clinics don’t matter, do they medical people? Do their lives matter? Does the future of our black babies matter?”
A few protesters respond, but their words are indistinguishable.
“It’s okay if we kill them in the womb, right?” he ends. “If we don’t respect the lives of our unborn children enough to save them and fight for them, our lives mean nothing when we are born.”’ https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/17/black-man-silences-blacklivesmatter-protesters-by-asking-do-aborted-black-babies-matter/
Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
‘Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam wants abortion on demand to be enshrined in the Virginia Constitution.
The Democrat governor has a radical pro-abortion record, from declaring elective abortions “essential” during the coronavirus shutdowns to defending infanticide. He also has been accused of racism after a photo surfaced of him in blackface or a KKK robe.
Now, Northam wants the state General Assembly to approve a constitutional amendment that would guarantee a “right” to abortion, One News Now reports.
Olivia Turner, leader of the Virginia Society for Human Life, warned that the amendment would allow partial-birth abortions again and end a parental consent law that ensures parents are involved before an underage girl aborts her unborn baby.
“The odds are very high that unless there is a huge outcry from the general public, the constitutional amendment to the Virginia Constitution allowing a right to abortion could, in fact, pass,” she told the conservative news outlet. “We don’t have the votes to stop it in the House of Delegates, and it’s questionable whether we’d be able to stop it at the Senate level.”
To be added to the Virginia Constitution, the legislature must approve the amendment in two consecutive sessions and voters must approve it on the ballot.
Though pro-abortion politicians claim the amendment would simply ensure “personal reproductive freedom,” Turner said it really would allow a radical pro-abortion agenda that most Americans oppose.’ https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/17/governor-ralph-northam-wants-right-to-kill-babies-in-abortions-added-to-the-constitution/
Right now it may look like Northam and the other baby murderers are getting by BUT there is a Day of reckoning when they will stand before the Judge of all the earth!
‘Race is a social construct. The Bible doesn’t mention race, except the human race, the single Adamic race.
Some have more melanin than others, so their skin is darker to varying degrees with actually very little physical difference between people. The DNA of any two human beings is 99.9% similar in content and identity. God doesn’t care more for someone with more melanin and neither should any person.
Skin color identifies and distinguishes. If a crime is committed, race is one means of describing a suspect. I heard Shaquille O’Neil in recent years call himself the black Steph Curry. He brought attention to the variation in their skin color. He did that. For what reason?
Enough of that though. Black lives matter and they matter to me too. They don’t matter less than white or yellow or brown or red lives. The meaning and value of human life and lives are wrapped up in their being made in the image of God. This is not any more clear than in Genesis 9:6: “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” With the first murder, that of Abel, God said (Genesis 4:10): “the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” The shed blood cried out to God for retribution. The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11).
Life matters to God, so it should matter to us. Black lives matter. When they do matter to someone, how can one tell? How can you tell if black lives matter? People say it, but is it the truth? Should it be that someone types a hashtag for everyone? Is it opting for a blackout Tuesday? Attending a march or anti-racism protest? Is it by facilitating an uncomfortable conversation about race? Through countless memes, videos, and posts about race on social media pages? Instructions on how to educate ourselves? Should it be through an explanation of white privilege? Giving book recommendations about race? Maybe more than any other way, will people know black lives matter to you by your criticism of other non-black people who use language you can label as oppressive?
People aim to appear to care. It’s a show — the Pharisee part of this. It signals virtue, which is in fact absent in most cases. Someone who has done nothing for black lives shouldn’t be touting his own compassion with memes. He is a Pharisee praying on the street corner. He poses like picking the most appropriate image is his big sacrifice, seeking the approval from those from which he hungers it. Black lives matter is another hoop to jump through for acceptance or at least, not rejection.
Someone should ask, what did Jesus do? What did the Apostle Paul do? They were both concerned about the gospel. This life is very, very short. The Jewish problem with Gentiles was judged by its affect on the salvation of Gentiles through a perversion of the gospel. Jesus didn’t protest slavery in the Roman empire. The gospel would bring the owner and slave together like Philemon and Onesimus in Philemon, now brothers beloved.
Our church is heavily pigmented mainly because we don’t target anyone. We don’t pander to any audience, which is the essence of impartiality. We don’t reach out to the blacks, to the whites, to the Asians, to the Hispanics, to the Indians. Hyping race is racism. Ignoring it isn’t. We reach out to everyone regardless of this social construction called “race.” We treat race like it doesn’t exist, because it doesn’t.
Since race doesn’t exist, black, white, red, or yellow culture doesn’t exist. It’s only scriptural or unscriptural culture, spiritual or carnal, godly or ungodly, or sacred or profane. There is no black music or white music. The English language isn’t white or black. You can’t “sound black” or “sound white.” You’re either saying it right or saying it wrong. You’re not helped by saying it wrong. Race itself is a lie, so the pressures created around it to cave to wrong behavior are the price of the lie. It’s what turns people into racists.
When black lives matter to you, first, you care about the eternal soul of the black person. Instead of accentuating skin color, do you talk about the two ways the Bible categorizes people: saved or lost, sheep or goats, tares or wheat, or light or darkness? When you don’t preach the gospel to black people, don’t tell me that black lives matter to you. They don’t. How many black people have you preached the gospel to, professing Christian? If it’s none, when you have black people all around you, you are a heartless hypocrite with zero compassion. Stop promoting yourself on social media like you care. You don’t. You are a pathetic self-promoter. That’s all you are. When black lives matter, you want black lives to be eternal lives, which has nothing to do with skin color and everything about believing the gospel. If you haven’t done that, and you don’t do it, you hate black people, while saying that you love them.
I knocked on every door of the iron triangle in Richmond, California. I skipped no neighborhoods. On many occasions, I played basketball in areas where there were only black people, and afterwards I preached the gospel to them. I knocked on every door in Parchester Village, the Rodeo projects, and North Richmond.
When black lives matter to you, second, you make disciples of black people to Jesus Christ. That is very similar, almost identical to evangelizing, except this means you are sacrificing to spend time with at least one black person to teach him to observe all things whatsoever the Lord has commanded. How many black people have you discipled? Some of the loudest at publicizing their own racial virtue, have done zip. It’s most of you reading. Please sit down. Retire your social media from the spread of this lie that black people matter to you. They don’t.
The third way to tell if black lives matter to you is your support of missions to black people. It’s not just them, but it’s the whole world, which includes black people. Africa is mainly black. Are you willing to go to Africa out of love for Africans? Actual Africans from the continent of Africa? Our church supports three missionaries to Africa and at one time, four, but now one has gone to Australia to evangelize that country. Do you keep up with missions to Africa? Do you read missionary prayer letters from Africa? More black people live in Africa than any other place. What are you doing to reach Africa?
Another way to tell if black lives matter to you is, four, do you sacrificially serve black people? What do you do to help black people? Helping someone means involvement. You work with them directly. You bear their burdens. I’m not talking about a hand out. I’m talking about helping them personally get out of a cycle, maybe by providing free child care, which my wife and I did for years for two black girls, while their mother worked. I would have helped them if they were white or Asian too. Race is a social construct. I stood before a crowd of almost entirely black people every month for eight years, asking if I could take any one of them out to find a job. If someone wanted it, I would meet him at a location in town to try and help. This was my own time, not spending the taxes someone else pays. We have had black people living with us, providing them short term housing, until they could get a place to live.
Do black lives matter to you if you don’t oppose black abortion? Between 2012 and 2016 over 136,000 black children were murdered in New York City through abortion. Do these black lives matter? All black lives matter, not just one murdered by a police officer. More black people are killed by abortion than any single means, so, five, you can tell that black lives matter to you if you oppose the abortion of black lives. That is not popular to say. You can’t post that on your social media and receive two hundred likes from the readers. If you are silent about black abortion, then black lives don’t matter to you.
Very few black people are killed by white people. It’s difficult to find official statistics, so I go back to 2013. According to the FBI in 2013, 2,491 black people were murdered in the United States, 189 by white people and 2,245 by black people. 409 white people were killed by black people. The biggest danger to black lives are black people. If it is black lives that matter and not just politics, then the biggest threat to murder, besides abortion, are black people killing each other. Six, if black lives really do matter, all of them, then more attention must be given to blacks killing blacks, than whites killing blacks.
No murder is justified, but if black lives matter, then the focus should be on what ends the most black lives. That isn’t white people. It’s a very small number of black people who are killed by white police officers. It’s a very large number of black people killed by other black people. Every black person is made in the image of God. Every black person is endowed by the Creator with the right to life. Black lives matter.
If it really is black lives matter, then these six above will be heard. Do you first care if black people will be in the kingdom, will be in heaven with you? That’s forever, not just the short life that we live, but all eternity. Do you second care about what ends the most black lives, so that the most possible black people can live? If you do not hear about these, then it isn’t about black lives, but about something else.’ https://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well
‘The World Wide abortion counters uses one of the more conservative estimates on the number of abortions world-wide since 1980 (40 Million per year for 30years) and this equals 1,200,000 Billion (from Lifesitenews.com)’ http://www.numberofabortions.com/
Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
We often speak of a ‘mother’s love’. Well, ‘You might not know (but suspect)that in many parts of the country, the community so frowns on abortion that abortion clinics employ itinerant abortionists who parachute in and kill hundreds of babies in a two or three day span.
What requirements might there be to qualify (so to speak) as an itinerant abortionist, like, say Willie Parker? First and foremost, the capacity to abort women with a speed that puts an assembly line to shame.
Parker, who fancies himself a Christian, is prolific at his trade, aborting up to 45 babies a day. As for how late in pregnancy, there’s a kind of blinking yellow light at 24 weeks, 6 days, but there are always extenuating circumstances for the industrious Dr. Parker.
Planned Parenthood abortionist Colleen McNicholas (who is the go-to abortionist for reporters covering abortion in Missouri) is only 2/3rds as fast. A fawning profile in Marie Claire in 2016 casually observed, “By the end of her eight-hour workday, [McNicholas] will have terminated 31 pregnancies.”
But, of course, her motivation goes beyond her obvious nobility. As a post at Planned Parenthood observes (boldface in the original)
“Part of the problem with being so committed and feeling so passionate about an issue is that it’s hard to say no… because that means somebody is going without care, and what that means is, they’re probably going to have a baby they don’t want.
So ultimately, I end up saying, ‘I can do one more day.’”
Get it? Without the “care” that McNicholas administers so dutifully, a baby might sneak through. So, even when her hands are bone weary (and blood stained), she carries on.
I’d paraphrase her observation to say, “I can obliterate one more helpless unborn child—be sure to pat me on the back.”’ https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/01/this-abortionist-kills-30-to-40-babies-in-abortions-every-single-day/
These were MOTHERS who went into these clinics to rid themselves of their baby. Where was the ‘mother’s love’ or the mother’s natural affection for her unborn child? Romans 1:31 speaks of those without natural affection. Albert Barnes says ‘This expression denotes the want of affectionate regard towards their children. The attachment of parents to children is one of the strongest in nature, and nothing can overcome it but the most confirmed and established wickedness. And yet the apostle charges on the heathen generally the want of this affection. He doubtless refers here to the practice so common among heathens of exposing their children, or putting them to death. This crime, so abhorrent to all the feelings of humanity, was common among the heathen, and is still.’
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
I have dealt with the murder (abortion) of the unborn many times on this blog so you know where I am on the issue. Is it not not sad that here in Australia the murder of the unborn is an everyday occurrence raising hardly if any opposition?! However, in the USA it is different! There more people are speaking out and with President Trump being the most pro-life President the USA has ever had the misnomer known as Planned Parenthood has been closing many of their murder factories.
Here is a video of David Benham being arrest for protesting outside a murder factory.
‘Conservative, pro-life activist David Benham was arrested outside an abortion clinic over the weekend for allegedly violating state and federal coronavirus guidelines.
Prior to his arrest, Benham, who gained notoriety when he and his brother were slated to host an HGTV show that was ultimately cancelled due to their Christian faith, was praying and offering sidewalk counseling outside a North Carolina facility, according to the Daily Caller.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) issued a stay-at-home order on March 27 until April 29, barring gatherings of more than 10 people and ordering state residents to stay at home except for essential businesses or outings, like to get groceries, seek medical care, or exercise.
Benham claimed he and four others were at the clinic representing his Cities4Life nonprofit. He also had with him a mobile ultrasound unit attended by two people.
“The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said there was a cluster, that there were 50 protesters,” he recalled. “And of course, none of that is true.”
In a video he posted online, Benham told police officers he and his fellow volunteers “are within our rights to be here,” noting there were more than 10 people working inside the clinic at the time they were arrested.
“We are practicing social distancing, we have cleaned our hands,” he told the cop. “We are offering help to these mothers, and if you’re saying we don’t have the right to be here, then go into the abortion clinic and make the arrests there.”
The police officer told Benham he doesn’t “have the authority” to go into the abortion clinic. In response, the pro-life activist asked him why, then, he has the authority to “bully” peaceful demonstrators.
As he was being handcuffed, Benham said: “You know I am well within my constitutional authority to be here. You know that we’re doing the right thing.”
Ultimately, Benham was booked and released later Saturday.
In a tweet posted Monday, Benham called out the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, claiming all eight arrests officers have made were of pro-life demonstrators.’ https://www.faithwire.com/2020/04/07/christian-activist-david-benham-arrested-outside-abortion-clinic-for-violating-coronavirus-orders/?utm_source=FWNL
Politicians in the West seem to be obsessed with the murder of the unborn! I cannot imagine a born again Christian voting for such a law for the Bible is clear where a believer is to be on the issue.
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. 
Luke 1:41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
Why any nation would desire to kill their future citizens is only understandable from reading the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis. There, not long after creation, the first two people disobeyed their Creator and then one of their sons murdered his own brother. Therefore, the wickedness and hatred of man toward one another has continued with the now senseless seemingly unrestrained murder of the unborn being accepted as a right!
Now, ‘While the focus of the world has been centred on the developing pandemic, New Zealand has just passed the most extreme abortion legislation in the world. The legislation includes the following disturbing aspects:
- Abortion will now be available on-demand, for any reason, up to the DAY OF BIRTH
- Sex-selective abortion has been legalised – killing your unborn baby because you don’t like its gender.
- The current 20-week limit for disability-selective abortion will be scrapped and abortion will be available up to birth for disabilities including cleft lip, club foot and Down syndrome.
- There will be no requirement that a doctor must be involved with providing an abortion.
- There will be no legal requirement that babies born alive as a result of abortion are given medical support.
- There will be no legal requirement that pain relief be given to babies being aborted between 20-weeks and birth.
- There will be no legal restrictions on controversial methods of abortion such as intact dilation and extraction abortions (also known as partial-birth abortions).’ https://mychristiandaily.com/major-blow-for-unborn-as-new-zealand-passes-extreme-abortion-laws/
How did Western society get to the place where the murder of the unborn was a right and when some ‘women’ even call their murder of an unborn baby ‘fabulous”? Personally, I believe murder of the unborn is a spiritual issue. Six thousand years after the Garden of Eden when Adam disobeyed the Creator ‘The St. Paul City Council waded into a national debate over abortion access Wednesday.
By a vote of 7-0, the council approved a resolution recognizing March 10 as Abortion Providers Appreciation Day in St. Paul.’https://www.twincities.com/2020/03/04/st-paul-city-council-approves-abortion-providers-appreciation-day/
In the Australian state of New South Wales ‘protesters who intimidate, harass or film people within 150 metres of clinics or hospitals that provide terminations will face punishments including jail time.’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-08/abortion-clinic-safe-access-laws-pass/9846964
Yet in Queensland a climate scammer otherwise known as a climate change protester ‘… declared himself the “minister for barbecues” in the middle of a busy Brisbane street is arguing he was not “disorderly”, but exercising his 
right to peaceful assembly under Queensland’s new Human Rights Act.’
‘Magistrate Suzette Coates adjourned the case for several weeks to give the prosecution time to make a written submission.
“This is quite a significant issue,” she told the court.
“The court’s been well expecting an argument such as this … so I need to properly consider it.
“It’s not something that should be considered lightly.”
The maximum penalty for a public nuisance conviction is six months’ jail.’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-06/climate-protester-argues-protest-legal-qld-human-rights-act/12029148
NOTE, the Magistrate said this nonsense was a ‘significant issue’ and that she needed ‘to properly consider it’ and that it was not an issue ‘that should be considered lightly’!
What a dismal situation in which we find ourselves. In NSW those who believe the life of the unborn are important are NOT allowed to protest the murder of the unborn but a man who believes the world is in a crisis due to coal and shuts down the traffic of an entire street in protest has a magistrate who sees his protest as a SIGNIFICANT ISSUE! It is too often these same people have a hard time in believing the Book of Genesis is real history!
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