Posted on 08/20/2013 10:50:06 AM PDT by rhema
In a video featuring Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson [ Another reason to love the Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson! ] , the TV star - in what appears to be a religious sermon - declares his pro-life stance on the issue of abortion. When discussing the ethics of, and that there's even a debate on, the issue, he asks, "What in the world happened to us?"
"Listen, from the time you started inside your mother's womb, Thomas Jefferson had it right, you have the God-given right to life for crying out loud. You're this long (pointing to his finger). You're a week old inside your mother. They suck you out of there when you're about like that (point to finger again). You wouldn't be here tonight!
"And, when you got to be the size of my thumb, they suck you out. You wouldn't be here. Then, you grow a little bigger, like my fist - and finally eight, nine months later you come out.
"And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?"
He couldn’t be more right if he tried!
It's worth it.
It's also the only "modern" (post, say, 1970) TV show for adults that I feel utterly comfortable with my kids watching. Pretty hard to beat solid religious and family values.
It's never about much of anything. No massive socio-political statements. I saw a couple last night....the guys had a donut eating contest at a local establishment. Phil and his wife went and bought a couch.
'Bout what you'd see in a typical weekend in the WBill household, only without the beards. :-)
You are full of it and are putting forth a tendentious falsehood. Late term abortions are not because. Of doctors’ urging. Doctors are obliged to give all information to patients. If the parents are killers, they kill! Only the dregs of the profession become abortionists. Abortion exists to serve the selfishness of MEN. Males. Men without conscience.
No. I’m not full of it. Doctors often push parents carrying a child with problems toward abortion. There are many documented examples.
Little secret: many doctors do selective reductions of multiple pregnancies and many doctors perform abortions of babies with Down syndrome or cleft palate or disfigured or impaired unborn babies. They think they are helping the child not suffer. Believe me, this is true, I know it.
Little secret— you don’t know jack.
You think the show and the family won’t be attacked by the left for speaking their minds?
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