Posted on 06/12/2017 4:48:48 PM PDT by Morgana
A new Marie Claire article blames pro-life Christians for being the ones behind the effort to defund and shut down the nation’s largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood.
Pro-life Christians may take this as a compliment, but author Laura Kasinof does her best to keep pro-lifers – particularly evangelical Christian pro-lifers – from thinking that they are succeeding.
Kasinof uses several personal stories, along with statistics, to show that evangelical Christian women are using Planned Parenthood and aborting their unborn babies, despite the wide-spread opposition to abortion among evangelicals.
Kasinof painted the abortion chain as a savior for these women – women who she implies otherwise would have had no place to turn for birth control, ob-gyn care, sex education and abortions.
She writes:
Data doesn’t exist on just how many women who were raised in this faith actually patronize Planned Parenthood in private, which is a result of the very reason many of them go there: It provides anonymity. We do know that 13 percent of abortions conducted in this country are for women who identify as evangelical protestants, in addition to the 17 percent for more mainline protestants like Lutherans or Methodists, according to a 2014 study by the Guttmacher Institute. When you add in Catholics, that number rises to more than half.
The Rev. Vincent Lachina, a regional chaplain for Planned Parenthood in Hawaii and the northwest, says the abortion chain sometimes even sees church staff come to them for abortions.
“We have many people from evangelical or born-again traditions who come to our health centers all across the United States,” Lachina says. “Some evangelical and fundamentalist church staffers have even been patients.”
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Kasinof shares several anonymous evangelical women’s stories about using Planned Parenthood. One, a young woman named Megan, used Planned Parenthood to get birth control because she did not want her parents to know she was having premarital sex.
Later, Megan said she went back to the abortion chain after she was sexually assaulted and found herself pregnant. She aborted her unborn baby, fearing that the shame of being pregnant and unmarried would be too much for her to bear.
Here’s more from the report:
After the assault, Megan discovered that she was pregnant. The news devastated her. Which explains why, despite her upbringing, she made an extreme decision: to return to Planned Parenthood and get an abortion.
Megan had done the moral math. It was worse to endure the disgrace of being an unmarried mother than it was to live with the secret—and the guilt—of terminating the pregnancy. “There was just so much shame in being pregnant and unmarried,” she explains. “I thought, There is no way I can face my mother and my community back home with this.” Again she paid for everything in cash. To this day, her family doesn’t know.
Completely missing from Kasinof’s article are the stories of countless evangelical Christian women who have been hurt and deceived by Planned Parenthood, and the millions of women and families who have received help from Christian-run pregnancy centers, maternity homes, hospitals, shelters, adoption agencies, food pantries and churches. Women do have places to turn for support and encouragement when they are pregnant, but Kasinof never mentions them.
Despite all her abortion advocacy, Kasinof does hit on a good point. Women in evangelical, Protestant and Catholic churches across the United States continue to abort their unborn babies, despite all that these Christian groups are doing to prevent abortions.
Abortion activists like Kasinof use this failing to push abortions, but the stories and statistics really should prompt Christians to do more. Christians already are doing a lot to end abortion, but they can do more.
Churches and Christian organizations should be working hard to make sure women know they are welcoming places for pregnant and parenting moms, even when they make mistakes, such as having sex outside of marriage. They also should be welcoming to women who are seeking forgiveness and healing from past abortions.
Christians must counter the negative rhetoric being put forth by abortion activists. Christians do care about women and babies. They want to support them, but with so many women’s magazines pushing the abortion industry’s rhetoric, Christians must work even harder to demonstrate that they will be there to support pregnant and parenting moms when they need it.
Parable of the wheat and tares.
I have never attended a church that even began to heap disgrace on single mothers. The ones interested in church are not continuing the lifestyle that got them pregnant out of wedlock.
The Rev. Vincent Lachina, a regional chaplain for Planned Parenthood in Hawaii and the northwest
Sounds like he has to do a lot of traveling.
This is a rotten article designed to make it look like all Christians are hypocrites.
Plus, it is in line with the thing my Dad used to say, "If everyone was jumping off the cliff would you do that also?
Here - all the Christians are getting abortions so you need to get one too.
What a bunch of pure horse crap.
Chaplain my ass....THIS is using God's name in Vain!!
‘Churches and Christian organizations should be working hard to make sure women know they are welcoming places for pregnant and parenting moms, even when they make mistakes, such as having sex outside of marriage.’
They should also let the women know that there is a welcome place in Hell for those women who murder their own unborn children. However, as a practicing Catholic, I haven’t heard a homily about sin, death, Hell or the Devil and how he attempts to claim souls for Hell in over thirty years.
Good people go to Hell. Only saints reside in heaven. It is very difficult to get to heaven. A willful act of child murder makes it even more difficult.
yup, lots of believers but not always letting Jesus lead in the area of their choice making, not only on this abortion matter either.
“PP has chaplains”
Yes! Thought you knew this! Usually from the Episcopagan Church but can be Unitartian. Dr. Tiller always had one on staff.
Even still the article was written to make us feel bad and to make pro-aborts feel even more sanctimonious.
This seems odd it me.
Megan was sexually assaulted and became pregnant. Even under this circumstance she felt there would be shame and scorn for her being pregnant without a husband?? In a case of being raped??? I find it so hard to believe that her circle of family and friends and church would treat her that way if she had been raped.
“This is a rotten article designed to make it look like all Christians are hypocrites.”
No it’s not! So one night I’m out won’t say where or when but a woman starts talking to me okay? She does not know me from Eve. Does not know I post stuff daily on this forum okay? Does not know I do other pro life work. Just breaks down and tells me she got pregnant at 15 and her dad who is a deacon of a church made her have an abortion so he could remain a deacon! She later became addicted to drugs and alcohol. I gave her the number of an abortion recovery helpline but it just goes to show you that even I know this story is true!!
By the way to that father who made his daughter get an abortion I sure hope killing your grandchild was worth it!
I would be a chaplain at PP.
Though I guarantee I’d be fired on day 1 if not hour 1 by encouraging women NOT to have abortions.
and lots of sinners are Christians ....wait that is all Christians are sinners... just because Christian has an abortion does not make it right it just ads to the list of sins the person has all ready committed... the left wants to use the fact that no one lives up to the standards that Christianity demands. the left say’s You are a hypocrite along with all Christians so you should ignore the evil thing that we are doing because it cant be evil if a Christian is a big enough hypocrite to have an abortion...
I wont cast a stone at a Christian that has an abortion but at the same time. I wont give my approval of it and will work to make it illegal except when medically necessary in a life or death situation.
as Christians we are called to make judgments we are not called to make condemnation that is God’s job.
“Good” people don’t go to hell and they wouldn’t get pregnant out of wedlock, nor would they kill their baby if they did.
But, God does forgive, although the problem is, that people love their sins. When they love their sins, they reject God.
The Church quit practicing Christianity by 1970 in America—sooner in Europe-—they became the Church of Satan (VII) and normalized all sin in our children. Virtue (Classical Christian curricula) was eliminated-—wiped out. Even the Catholic schools taught Lukacs virtue-destroying “Sex Ed” in the classrooms, to destroy modesty, destroy the dignity of sex, etc. it was the “wink, wink” destruction of morality in little children. (Without virtue, we are all slaves and civil society collapses—The Church used to know that-—well, they still do—that is why they are destroying virtue in children—to collapse America for the New Age Religion-—satanism. Satan has taken over most Christian churches as Pastor Bonhoeffer noted in 1930.
Parents trusted skools to raise and embed virtue in their children AND SURPRISE!!!!!! The Church ALWAYS knew that embedding morality into children was the responsibility of the parents. Parents don’t parent anymore—they allow the State and “culture” to hyper-sexualize their children (destroy virtue fomation and all natural instincts/common sense).
The murderer on the cross next to Jesus got into heaven.
If a woman is repented and believes in Jesup then I think she wI’ll get in too.
Lots of people lie, cheat and steal. Doesn’t make it right
Planned Parenthood Chaplain...talk about an oxymoron!
The sheer number of abortions indicates that it is not only atheist liberal women that have abortions.
If she is truly repentant. IF!
Planned Parenthood has a Chaplain? What is his name, Beelzebub?
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