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Calling out the abortion Goliath
The abortion industry giant, Planned Parenthood, is mighty in power from every angle. Last year, income topped one billion dollars. This Goliath was fed one million dollars each day in tax payer-supplied federal funds. It fattened itself selling abortion to 305,310 frightened women in difficult circumstances. Yet, God is called Almighty for good reason! The question then is not, “How big is the giant?” It is, “Who will call him out in God’s name?”
The downfall of the abortion business is in sight when the Black and Latino Christian communities not only join the pro-life movement but lead it. We call this anticipated surge, the Third Wave.
The first wave of the pregnancy help movement was primarily a Catholic effort arising in the late 60’s. As abortion “rights” emerged, Catholic doctors, ethicists, and lay people opened educational offices to explain fetal development. Soon they also provided “emergency pregnancy services” to those at risk for abortion.
In the early 80’s, the second wave rushed in as Evangelical Christians flooded the cause. One tributary formed in the late 70’s when Francis Shaeffer and C. Everett Koop introduced to the Evangelical community a book and film series called Whatever Happened to the Human Race? Evangelicals awakened to abortion as the diminution of human life. They rushed in to write, preach, and start “crisis pregnancy centers.”
In the convergence, Heartbeat International emerged as the one place where Catholics and Evangelicals would labor side by side. Acknowledging real and important differences, we nonetheless agreed on the call of God: “Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked” (Psalm 82:3-4).
A few civil rights activists from the 60’s saw the racism of Planned Parenthood and called abortion “Black genocide.” Some Black pastors have faithfully exposed that truth over the years. Now we are on the cusp of the Third Wave. We have inspiring models of minority-led pregnancy help centers. These are the Wave Makers among us!
Presently, America’s pregnancy help centers are set up in predominantly white, suburban, and small-town communities. This reflects the demographics of our current movement. But long ago, Planned Parenthood explicitly identified its profit centers: “young women, low-income women, and women of color” (Planned Parenthood Plan of Action, 1997). Studies show that 62.5% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in cities where Blacks represent a higher percentage of the population compared to the overall population of the state. (LifeIssues.org/connector/display.asp?page=05oct.htm)
Black women, who represent 12% of the female population, suffer 36% of all abortions. Latina women represent 13% of the female population but suffer another 20% of all abortions. Together, they suffer 56% of all abortions yet they represent only 25% of our nation’s population.
Rev. Clenard Childress, Northeast Region President of the Life Education And Resource Network (L.E.A.R.N.), explains the numbers: “The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years. Since 1973, legal abortion has killed more Blacks than AIDS, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and violent crime combined.”
Since those who profit in shedding innocent blood concentrate on Black and Latino neighborhoods, these abortionists cannot survive without the silent approval of the Black and Latino pastors and churches in those neighborhoods. Only as the pregnancy help movement penetrates the heart of our urban churches, producing pregnancy help clinics there, can we expect further significant national progress. Therefore, Heartbeat is committed to urban initiatives.
Heartbeat has provided funds and expertise to pregnancy help centers in abortion-plagued cities like Miami, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. We are calling our affiliates to “go urban,” increasing their service in metropolitan areas as they plan expansion. We have asked Black and Latino Christians already working in our affiliate centers to boldly step up to national leadership. Our recent training, Heartbeat’s Annual Conference in Virginia, was largely planned with our minority leadership team. They represent the future growth and ultimate victory of our mission.
It appears that God has designed things so that only together – Black, White, Latino, male and female, Catholic and Protestant – are we to carry the day. Through hard work, generous giving, and earnest prayer, let us make the face of our movement reflect the body of Christ, and altogether prove, “Mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!” (Psalm 93:4).
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- Jonathan Swift
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cut Capo 2, back of fret
Intro: D C D C
Em
CThe father of lies
Em
Coming to steal, kill, and destroy
C (Em)
All my hopes of being good enough
Em C
I hear him saying, “Cursed are the ones
D
Who can’t abide.”
C D C
He’s right. Alleluia, he’s right!
D C
The devil is preaching
D
The song of the redeemed
C D G
That I am cursed and gone astray
A Bm A G
I cannot gain salvation
G D
Embracing accusation
(Hover on D until verse.)
Em C
Could the father of lies
Em C D
Be telling the truth of God to me tonight?
C Em
If the penalty of sin is death then death is mine
(Em) C
I hear him saying, “Cursed are the ones
D
Who can’t abide.”
C D C
He’s right. Alleluia, he’s right!
D C
The devil is preaching
D
The song of the redeemed
C D G
That I am cursed and gone astray
A Bm A G Bm A Bm A G
I cannot gain sal…. …vation
one time thru G-Bm-A
G Bm A
Oh the devil’s singing over me
Bm A G
An age old song:
(G) Bm A Bm A G
That I am cursed and gone astray
(G) Bm A
Singing the first verse so conveniently
Bm A G
Over me.
(G) Bm A
He’s forgotten the refrain:
G Bm A
JESUS SA———VES!
G Bm A Bm A G
(He redeemed us from the curse of the law.)
G Bm A
(He redeemed us from the curse of the law.)
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Bring Restoration - By people at IHOP (clay edwards, David Brymer, Misty Edwards)
Chorus
CYou bring restoration
GsusYou bring restoration
You bring restoration to my soul
Verse
C
You’ve taken my pain
Em
And you called me by a new name
F C/E Gsus
You’ve taken my shame and in its place you gave me joy
Chorus 2
C
You take my mourning and turn it into dancing!
Em
You take my weeping and turn it into laughing!
F C/E
You take my mourning and turn it into dancing!
Gsus
You take my sadness and turn it into joy! x2
Chorus 3
C
You give me joy!
Em
You give me joy!
F C/E
You give me joy!
Gsus
In my soul
Bridge
F
Hallelujah!
C
Hallelujah!
G
You’ll make all things new!
G
All things new!
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