The "Good" Hitman?

I remember well an incident some years ago, when a woman stopped where we were standing outside the gates of death in Kansas City...

She approached me and said, "I know that they do abortions here, but the doctor in there is a really good person.  He tries to talk all the mothers out of having abortions."

I said, "First, I cannot say that I believe you.  I know Ronald Yeomans.  I do not accept that he tries to do any such thing.  However, let's pretend that you are correct.  How would that make him a good person?"  Then I gave her this basic illustration. 

"Let's say there is this assassin for hire.  He has murdered thousands of people for pay.  But this killer is known for one thing that is strange in his trade.  

Whenever someone approaches to hire him, he tries to talk the prospective client out of it.  He says, "Maybe you should think this through."
"She is your wife, maybe you should forgive her."
"Don't you think that it may be a good idea to just ask your neighbor to turn their music down before going to such drastic measures?"
"Perhaps you are being hasty.  You don't know that Murphy is planning to spill the beans to the cops."
"The Prime Minister's polls are going down, and the election is next week.  Couldn't you just wait for him to lose, and then have someone knock him off if he wins again?"

So he tries to give options and voices concerns, but if the client is still determined, he goes out and shoots, stabs, strangles, or poisons the one he is hired to kill.  He still murders for money.

Would that make him a good person?"  

She admitted that he would not be good person.

"And the abortionist is not a good person either.  No matter what he may say, he still commits murder for pay."  

God says it this way in Deuteronomy 27:25

"Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person.  And all the people shall say, Amen."

So we must preach the word to abortionists and call them to repent, and call for justice and equity in the land that permits him to target the most innocent and the most vulnerable.  We must do the same for those who hire them.

Abortion must be abolished.

Most Valuable Lost Item

I was once asked what was the most valuable item I have ever lost.

Here is my answer, starting with three verses from one of my favorite psalms (I only have 150 favorite psalms).

Psalm 119:
14 "I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches."
72 "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver."
127 "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold."

My Most Valuable Lost Item:
My faithful old Bible of 15 years use, filled with hand written notes, sermon outlines, illustrations, and a collection of quotes of missionaries, preachers, statesmen, presidents, translators, martyrs, Indian chiefs, soldiers, patriots, kings, grandparents, and one leper (scrawled on the margins of the pages, the concordance, blank pages, so forth).

It was the first Bible I read all the way through, and I read it through over 20 times.  It was the Book  read, studied, and memorized, and meditated on.  

I traveled back and forth across the nation with it to Israel, Turkey, and Greece with it, taught and preached out of it in churches, at camps, in Bible Studies, at homes and in schools and libraries, in jails and prisons, outside abortion mills, on street corners, across the street from sodomite bars, at Dinosaur Adventure Land.  I carried it just about everywhere I went.

It was the Book in my hand when I testified of the truth of God with a Mormon child at a 5 Day Club, a Jehovah's Witness a the Corn Palace Fair, a Jew beside the Western Wall, a stewardess on a cruise ship in the Aegean Sea, and a Muslim seated beside me on a plane flight.  It was what I held as I shared the Gospel and saw individual children, teens, grownup, college students, and convicts bow the knee to Jesus Christ.  

On the pages are actual drops of my blood, sweat, and tears, for the simple reason that it was with me when I bled, cried, and perspired.  

I named it Alethia, meaning "Truth".  I took it from John 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth [aletheia]." 

Throughout my single years, it was my most valuable possession, and I often said that if I could carry one item from a burning building, I would without hesitation grab that Book.  

It was misplaced years ago, and still tears sting my eyes whenever I think of it.  I wanted to leave it to one of my children when I passed on, and had actually started another preaching Bible, Alethia II.  It contained the quote of John Bunyan's that I share now:

"Then said he, 'I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble have been to arrive where I am.  My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.  My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles Who now will be my rewarder.' ...So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side."

I love Alethia II, which I used much the same as the first Alethia for 8 years, until August of 2018, when it flew from the roof of my vehicle on the highway on the way home from the abortion mill.  I found that Bible an hour later after much backtracking and a desperate search, thank God!  It was much damaged, but I still am blessed to have it, though soon afterwards, I started on Alethia III, which I presently study and wield.

But I love my old Sword, and precious lessons I learned from it.  How I would love for it to show up again!  I pray that if I never see it any more, that someone else will come across it, be encouraged by it, be convicted through it, read it, and find the true and living God Who gave His word to make mankind wise unto salvation, and will come to love and follow the precepts therein.

II Timothy 3:15 "And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

Abortion must be abolished.

Isn't the Mother's Life an Exception?

Some have asked, "What if the mother's life or health is in danger?  Shouldn't abortion be an exception in that situation?"

This is a BIG excuse for abortion.  It is emblazoned on signs and rolls off the tongue like oil.  It is emotionally compelling.  It seems to be the perfect and right justification for abortion.  Even many staunch ProLifers will let this one go without opposition.

But what would I say as an abolitionist? 

What does God say?

Come, and let us reason together. 

First, we live in a cursed world because of mankind's sin.  Ever since the rebellion and fall in the garden of Eden, death and corruption has been present in the creation.  Sadly, part of the curse includes pain and sorrow being involved in the joyous process of pregnancy and childbirth.  Death is now a possibility, not only in being with child, but also when traveling, eating, sleeping, working, playing, and inactivity under any other normal conditions (for those who need to be reminded, pregnancy is a normal condition).  

"My doctor says that I will die if I have this baby!"  I have heard these words spill out of the mouths of hundreds of women walking into an abortion mill to have their preborn child murdered!  (I wonder who taught them that this is an acceptable excuse to abuse their child to death?)

Something to remember: 1. Because of many advances in medicine and technology, it is more rare to die in pregnancy or in giving birth than in centuries past!  2. A doctor may say that a woman will die if she carries her baby, but the doctor doesn't know that.  Many physicians will say "This will (or could) kill you, or affect your health," in order to cover their own backs from liability.  

No matter what a doctor knows, a doctor does not know everything!  A doctor is not God!

But God is God. 

He knows what will happen. 
He is the One Who grants conception to every human. 
He is the One Who gives every breath you take. 
He is the One Who knows when it is time for all to die. 

There have been many accounts where it appeared to the natural eye like death was inevitable, but God worked and allowed the person to live.  Why not let Him be in control and trust fully in His sovereignty?  We don't really have any control over death anyway.  A mother can die even if she doesn't give birth.

Furthermore there is the testimony from medical practitioners that this is not a viable argument.  In the cases of actual life threatening situations for a mother, Dr. Anthony Levatino gives this answer: HERE  And there are other testimonies I have read and heard from other physicians who work with patients that present with life threatening pregnancies that agree with Levatino.  

And I have friends who have been dangerous situations carrying their baby, and the procedure that they followed was: 

A) treat both mother and child as patients, 
B) watchful waiting, and 
C) if necessary, take the baby earlier via cesarean birth.

Takeaway—you should never intentionally murder one patient because another patient may possibly die.  You attempt to save both.

But what if the mother was certain to die?  It is a good question to consider, for we care about the life of BOTH child and mother.  The right answer is always to be found in God's word.

We have two cases in the Scriptures, of a woman dying in childbirth (Genesis 35:16-19 and I Samuel 4:19-22).  What was done?  Did they kill the baby to save the mother?  No, they tried to help both, and trusted God with what would happen.  When a child in the womb or at birth dies, or when a mother dies giving birth, that is a tragedy to mourn over.  But at least no one was intentionally murdered.

Bear in mind that one of these women was Rachel, the favorite, the beloved wife of Jacob.  Do we find Jacob saying, "Stop the birth, terminate the baby to save my dear Rachel"?

And let's not be short-sighted here.  

If they had killed the baby in order to spare Rachel, we would never have had little Benjamin, from whom came the tribe of Benjamin.  

Which means we would never have had the heroic lives of:

Ehud, the second great judge, who delivered Israel from Moab (Judges 3:12-30).
Jonathan, the courageous warrior prince, and best friend of David (I Samuel 14:1-23).
Mordecai and Esther, the cousins through whose actions, the Jews were rescued from annihilation (Esther 2:5-7, indeed, the whole book of Esther). 
Paul the apostle of Jesus Christ, the incredible missionary to the Gentiles, who penned more books in the New Testament than any other writer (Romans 11:1; Philippians 3:5).

These are just a few of the hundreds of thousands, yea millions, that would never have been in existence, if Benjamin had been slain in the womb.  Generations have been blessed because he was not murdered.

By the way, what kind of mothers are we raising in America, who would not be willing to lay down their own lives to save their little ones?  Shame on us for our selfishness as a nation! 

Picture a mother pushing her baby in a shopping cart in a market.  Suddenly, a man with a gun walks in and starts to shoot people in the aisles.  He turns and aims at the mother.  She swiftly picks her child up out the cart and holds the little one out in front of her as a shield! The baby is sadly shot to death, but the mother who's life was being threatened to death, survives.

I believe that nearly everyone, even in postmodern America, would be aghast.  I can hear the conversations on radio talk shows (conservative and liberal) and around kitchen tables: 

"I can't believe that any mother would do that!" 

"How selfish to murder your child to save your life!" 

"It is against nature!"  

"Mothers should shield their children from harm, not use them as shields!"     

If it is not considered right, acceptable, appropriate, or applaudable for a mother to do that to save her own life in a case of such certain danger, 

then the "Life of the Mother" exception written into most ProLife bills is deplorable and disgusting!  Letting the baby take the hit for his/her mother should never be viewed as acceptable.

And it is never justifiable.

And if the mother's life is not a good reason to murder a baby in the womb, then there IS NO GOOD REASON to murder a baby in the womb. 

Abortion must be abolished.

Abby Johnson Thinks that Abortion should be Safe for Women

Abby Johnson is an acclaimed leader in the ProLife Movement today.  She was the director of the largest Planned Parenthood in the Nation (located in Texas) before her "conversion" to becoming ProLife some years ago.  The newly released movie, Unplanned, is a dramatic portrayal of her story with the hopes to expose the evil of the abortion industry.  She has been an influential voice in regards to ProLife pregnancy centers, ProLife organizations, ProLife legislation, and a very large portion of those who consider themselves ProLife.

I submit that it would be wise (a required duty of all Christians) to consider what she has to say, and weigh it according to truth.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)

"And Paul and Silas...who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:10-11)

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

"Hold fast the form of sound words...in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." (2 Timothy 1:13)

In 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a ProLife measure to make abortion facilities follow the same standard as true medical facilities, Abby, who first and foremost calls herself ProWoman, had this to say to her followers on Facebook:

ABBY JOHNSON, ProWoman, ProBaby, ProLife
My comments regarding the Supreme Court's decision today.

The Supreme Court has made a dangerous decision for the hundreds of thousands of women who enter these unregulated, unsanitary, unsafe facilities every year.  To require a facility performing invasive, medical procedures on a woman to meet the standards of an ambulatory surgical center is common sense.  We can now see the true motive of the abortion industry...

It is not safety, it is simply "access" at any cost.

It is dangerous to allow abortion facilities to be less safe than similar ambulatory centers. As a former Planned Parenthood director myself, and as someone who knows the ins and outs of the industry, I can't say that I'm surprised that abortion proponents are trying to put profit before care for women.  I can say, however, that women deserve the best care and I'm saddened by the decision rendered today.  Indeed, this is a misstep in the rights of women.

Women have been treated as second class citizens when it comes to the basic standards of health care for far too long.  It is time for ALL women to demand better treatment and better regulations.  We deserve much better than the Supreme Court has given us today.  We won't stop until that is exactly what we have received.

It's not over, friends."

My wife, Deana, read her post and right away wrote the following comment in response!

DEANA, Abolitionist of Human Abortion
Let's think this through righteously! Please.

Abortion is NOT healthcare.  Abortion is homicide!  The very women Abby is fighting to protect, those 'hundreds of thousands of women who enter these unregulated, unsanitary, unsafe abortion facilities every year' are walking into these death camps to pay a hitman with a medical license to murder their baby!

Come on, guys!  And they are doing so voluntarily (except for the few that are being held in prostitution or under-aged girls being forced, etc.).  These women are NOT the victims of unsanitary medical procedures...their children, who are brutally torn in pieces during the unsanitary procedures ARE!  

Let's just keep that fact really PROMINENT, shall we?

These women whom Abby states 'deserve the best care' are guilty of premeditated bloodshed.  It is that, plain and simple!  Do you really think that Auschwitz had any real concern for cleanliness and health standards in the camps that housed the Jews?  No, and neither did the German Supreme Court!  They were pro-death with one agenda: kill the unwanted Jews.  

Planned Parenthood and our own Supreme Court are also pro-death with one agenda: kill the unwanted babies.  The sickening difference between the German death camps and the ones protected in our nation is that those being murdered are ushered in by their own parents.  

I do care for these women.  I plead with them every week as I stand outside of the killing centers.  I use God's word to speak truth with a passion that desires their repentance.  I want more than anything that they would be spared God's promised judgment to those who shed innocent blood.  I do care for those running headlong to destruction (most of them with rebellious fists raised up to their Creator), and rejoice when they fear the LORD and flee evil! 

["Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed unto destruction.  
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy." Proverbs 31:8-9]

But dear Christian, do not be deceived!  Not once did Abby's post even mention a baby--you know, a baby, THE SURE VICTIM in every abortion--sanitary or unsanitary.  We must wake up to this holocaust and treat it as the great evil that it is today.  And we must do so with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Abortion is our greatest national sin.  The number of the slain each year is more than all the American casualties in all the wars of our history COMBINED.  

["Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? ...If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors." James 2:4, 8-9]

Abortion will be abolished when Christians repent!  We must repent of our apathy, our tolerance, our worldly thinking, our gross neglect of our preborn neighbor, our silence, and our indifference!  And what must follow a Godly repentance is righteous action!  We must stand up for the vulnerable, for the fatherless, for those who cannot speak up for themselves, and for those being drawn away to their death.

["If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; 
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works." Proverbs 24:11-12]

Please do what you can to help those women who are pregnant in difficult situations--please stand with them and support them in their decision to do what is right--BUT NOT TO THE NEGLECT of the over 3,500 babies being killed each and every day by the will of their parents!  

Dear church, what are you doing for THOSE mothers and THOSE babies?  THOSE mothers are not calling for help and they are not entering the doors of the crisis pregnancy centers--they are boldly walking into the murder mills, money in hand, to pay a professional to kill THOSE babies.

["Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen." Deuteronomy 27:25]

In her Facebook response, Abby said that these specific women are being treated as 'second class citizens'.  No, Abby, Let's not use emotional rhetoric to distort the truth and promote a ministry.  This is not and has never been about woman's rights.  These specific women are treating their precious babies worse than our own government would punish the most heinous of criminals.

Stop muddying the waters, ABBY!"

I agree with my wife's response!

When mothers procuring the murder of their children are portrayed as the victim, when in actuality it is their dead, discarded child that has been poisoned and/or torn to pieces (at their mother's approval), then of course it seems unloving to prosecute and criminalize women who have had abortions!

Take a step back and think about that statement in the light of Scripture!  And remember that God Himself has "magnified [His] word above all [His] name" (Psalm 138:2).

"These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." (Proverbs 6:16-19)

"Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made." (Ezekiel 22:4)

To say otherwise is heresy!

And that is exactly what the teachings of Abby Johnson has given birth to--a perversion of God's standard!  Emotional rhetoric which distorts God's word!  As Christians, it is what God emphatically declares that we should hold fast to--and nothing else. Abby Johnson is a practicing Roman Catholic and has repeatedly stated her beliefs to be anti-Christian! And many, many Christians either follow blindly, or choose to turn a blind eye to the truth, in order to rally around those who are influential and pragmatic in their approach to "the issue" of life!

But God is quite clear when it comes to the shedding of innocent blood and His command to seek justice for the fatherless!

Abortion is MURDER.
Murder is never safe for the victim.
It does not improve justice to campaign for the safety of the perpetrator.

Abortion must be abolished.

Murder isn't Supposed to be Safe

For quite some time, the ProAbortion crowd has held up hangers and said, "Never again will we go back to when women had to use hangers!  Abortion needs to be SAFE!"  They talk about how hundreds of thousands of women died because of unsafe abortions when it wasn't allowed to kill preborn humans (Of course, they are often using numbers that were supplied by Bernard Nathanson, who later said he had fabricated the number, but let's go on).  They claim that if abortion becomes illegal again, some women will still choose to do it, and will resort to dangerous methods.  So they demand that abortion must remain legal so it can be SAFE.

The ProLife Movement has also put a lot of focus on trying to make abortion SAFE.  Some examples of legislative requirements that ProLife laws in this area include:
  -Wider hallways and doorways so that in emergencies, a gurney can be rolled in to help mothers.
  -Brighter lighting, cleaner instruments and operating areas, sinks in which to wash.
  -Inspections of facilities to make sure they are up to medical standards.
  -Admitting privileges for the abortionist at a hospital close enough to get women to quickly.
This is all, from the standpoint of the ProLife Establishment, a proper and good thing.

But there is a problem.  Both groups in this are seeking the safety of mothers in abortions.

What about the innocent child, who is UNSAFE, whether or not the procedure is done in a filthy shack or a sanitized facility?  With a hanger or a cannula?

Abortion is MURDER.  Shouldn't we be more intent on the safety and lives of the true victims?

Consider a comparison with the crime of mugging:

    "Since some muggers will continue to mug people no matter what the law says, and since mugging is not always safe for the mugger, we should make it legal to mug people, to make sure that people can mug other people safely."  That is FOOLISHNESS.  It is also a failure.

It is a failure to love our preborn neighbors as ourselves - We are to follow the second greatest commandment, not violate it.

It is a failure to secure true treatment - We need to treat the preborn like who they are and abortion like what it is.

It is a failure to establish equity - All humans should be given equal protection under the law from being murdered.

Let us not be guilty of partiality:

James  2:4,8-9 "Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? ...If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors."

MURDER is not supposed to be safe.

Murder is never safe for the victim, NOR SHOULD it be safe for the perpetrator.

To fail to protect the most vulnerable and innocent who are being spoiled,
while seeking to make sure that those who are oppressing them are well taken care of,
is to do wrong, and flies in the face of Jeremiah 22:3, which says, "Thus saith the LORD; 
Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place."

This is why, while so many in our society, including both ProAbort and ProLife individuals, keep talking about and making laws about safety for women, the abolitionists continue to demand that Abortion must be abolished.