Posted on 10/20/2021 6:22:16 PM PDT by Morgana
A Texas pastor believes she is doing God’s will by fighting in court to keep abortion on demand legal in her state.
In an interview with Elle magazine, the Rev. Erika Forbes explained why she opposes the Texas heartbeat law and joined a lawsuit challenging it.
The pro-life law (Senate Bill 8), which went into effect Sept. 1, prohibits abortions once an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy. Unique from other states, the Texas law includes a private enforcement mechanism that allows people to file lawsuits against abortionists who violate the law and those who help them.
Texas Right to Life estimates the law has saved more than 3,000 babies’ lives so far.
But Forbes, who had two abortions as a teenager, said she believes women should have a “right to choose” abortion and God does, too.
“I believe that God supports a woman’s right to choose. I’m going to continue to fight this law with every breath that I have,” she told Elle.
The outreach and faith manager for the pro-abortion Texas Freedom Network, Forbes said she counsels women who are having abortions and she will not stop.
“As a licensed interfaith minister, I work with clients who are either trying to come to a decision, particularly around abortion, or who have already made the choice and are working through the emotions and feelings that come as a result of it,” she said. “S.B. 8 is a direct attack on my ability to do that.”
Forbes said she is afraid of being sued just for “offering basic care and comfort, just by offering a listening ear as a woman processes her decision or the impact of her decision.”
But the law does not allow just anyone to be sued. It specifically exempts mothers from punishment and prohibits abusers from filing lawsuits. The law allows private individuals to sue an abortionist who “performs or induces an abortion” on an unborn baby with a beating heart and an assistant who “knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion.”
Forbes, however, claims in her lawsuit that the pro-life law subjects her to the risk of “costly and burdensome civil lawsuits for providing spiritual and emotional counseling to patients and parishioners, as they are called by their own religious beliefs to provide.”
She told Elle: “It doesn’t matter whether I’m sued … because at the end of the day, if something were to happen to me as a result of this, I can’t think of a better reason to sacrifice myself.”
Because of her own two abortions, she said she understands the need for people to support women facing unplanned pregnancies.
“I understand that I benefited from the women and the people who have done the work so that I could get the abortions that I needed to have the life that I wanted to have,” Forbes said. “Now it’s my duty and responsibility to do whatever it takes, sacrifice whatever I must sacrifice, so that others can have the same opportunities that I had.”
But the real “sacrifice” that she is making – and encouraging vulnerable women to make – means killing unborn babies in violent, cruel abortions.
By six weeks, an unborn baby already has a beating heart and his/her own DNA, separate and unique from the mother’s. The baby’s limbs and major organs are beginning to form, and he/she can move around and respond to light touch. Scientists even have detected unborn babies’ brain waves as early as 6 1/2 weeks after conception, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
The Texas law is saving as many as 100 babies from abortion every day and has the potential to save tens of thousands more. In 2020, about 54,000 unborn babies were aborted in Texas, and about 85 percent happened after six weeks of pregnancy, according to state health statistics.
Forbes is correct about one thing: Women need support.
And pro-life advocates across Texas are doing just that, walking alongside them in difficult circumstances, encouraging them and providing resources to help them and their babies.
Along with passing the heartbeat law this year, Texas state lawmakers increased support for pregnant and parenting mothers and babies, ensuring that they have resources to choose life for their babies. This included $100 million for the state Alternatives to Abortion program as well as additional funding for the Healthy Texas Women program.
Texas has more than 200 pregnancy resources centers that provide free services to mothers in need, not counting maternity homes and other resources for struggling families. Some pro-life organizations create scholarships for pregnant and parenting students, and others offer financial aid to help pay rent, childcare and medical expenses.
Pro-lifers are giving up their time and resources – and facing bomb and death threats for doing so – because they believe both the mother and her baby are worth sacrificing for.
No - HE - doesn’t.
So God, who creates each one of these babies in His own image, supports the killing of that child, eh?
That’s some seriously perverted “thinking.”
The God who commands “thou shalt not murder” supports the murder of innocent life. Makes total sense in crazy libbie land.
Hey lady, he also told you that you’re not a pastor.
Somehow, I don’t think so......
WOW. I guess this fraud hasn’t heard of the fifth commandment.
She will find out her grievous error at her judgment. it won’t be pretty.
Question: What kind of clergy would even say this? Answer: No real clergy.
This is not unusual, but still hard to believe. I work at the same place as a retired Episcopalian minister that believes in abortion. He is also a socialist who thinks we should listen to and show more respect for Muslims. Huh? It is no wonder that many churches have fallen on difficult times.
Anyone who pretends to speak for the Lord……
At least she’ll be quite warm in her next life.
I absolutely, positively support a woman’s right to choose. Choose birth control, choose to say no.
Veto!
(The girl)
Unplanned pregnancy? What plan was in the licensed interfaith pastors’ mind when copulating( or just before copulating)?
Why kill the developing human due to ones lack of planning?
She wouldn’t be anything is someone had aborted her.
I can pretty much spot the problem right off the bat.
Christianity is dead. The Catholic church is evil.
When I was 11 I learned about abortion. On the playground during lunch from two other 11 year old girls who had the information advantage of having older siblings who, along with their Irish Catholic New Yorker parents, talked about such things at home in outrage toward the corrupt senseless judiciary. This was 1969 or so when it was being decided in New York
We stood there in the cold lunch hour nest to the fenced in outside basketball court as nuns in mysterious no kidding habits marched by saying, “did you hear about the abortion bill?” I asked them to ‘do tell”.
“Whoa. They what? How do They do it?” Never mind, “why?” An 11 year old Catholic girl wants to know what happens. She knows why. It’s because the parents don’t want the baby. There is no other logical reason.
“They suck it out with a vacuum and it has a razor grate. Slices it up to kill it.”
“Yeah. Something like that.”
“Wow that’s something people will be ashamed of. It’s really bad for it to be legal. Seems like a bad idea”
That’s a long time ago. From a kid. A minor. A prepubescent. Not even confirmed.
Since then no one has convinced me, try as they might, that abortion is anything different from my first impression. It’s really very simple. People get pregnant -males as fathers- without first getting married and securing a provider ship and a home so this person comes along that they don’t want so they kill it. The government says it’s ok then the government becomes out of control corrupted from it.
This pastor like every democrat and end king Republican, pro abortion judge and pro abortion First Lady ever since, which includes all except The last one the wife of Trump who is put your foot down pro life, everyone but her, they all, including the post abortive suburban women and the stupid ass males who want to live their livedms in perpetual 17 year old bliss, whom all of this murder serves Maoist, they all are wrong.
Ask any sensible decent beloved 11 year old girl
It doesn’t get more complicated than this, Pastor.
Or the 3rd.
Isaiah 5:20-21
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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