Posted on 07/18/2025 6:11:47 AM PDT by Morgana
LifeSiteNews) — A pro-abortion pastor and elected Democrat has called the fight to protect abortion the “sacred choice of every soul,” as part of a new Planned Parenthood initiative.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia (PPAV) has enlisted five Democrats in the Virginia legislature for its “Bros for Repro” campaign to “amplify the voices of men who champion [so-called] reproductive rights and bodily autonomy” through grassroots lobbying and public speaking. The campaign is meant to help elect more Democrats to advance a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution establishing a state-level “right” to abortion.
Among the participants is state Del. Joshua Cole of Fredericksburg, who, in remarks covered by WRIC, said, “I would just ask that we speak up, we show up, and we relentlessly stand up for the dignity and the sacred choice of every soul, every person, and affirming that justice is holy, freedom is sacred and real love honors choice.”
Cole is a “local pastor,” although scant details about his “ministry” are available online. In 2022, following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, he declared, “As a Pro-Choice Pastor – I am entrusted to shepherd my community. As a Pro-Choice Pastor – I took an oath to protect and I’ll fight to do just that. As a Pro-Choice Pastor – I know where I stand and I won’t back down.”
Cole’s conceptions of justice and his religious duty are directly contrary to actual Christian principles, which unambiguously oppose the direct, intentional, and avoidable killing of innocent, living human beings. The Bible repeatedly condemns “murder” and “shed(ding) innocent blood” as “detestable to” the Lord, because “in the image of God has God made mankind.”
Republican Tim Anderson, a former member of the House of Delegates who is running to unseat Democrat state Del. Michael Feggans (another of the “Bros for Repro”), told WRIC that he found the PPAV initiative a “cheesy slogan on a very serious topic” that was trying to mine pro-abortion fervor among general Virginians that didn’t exist.
“When I talk to people, their issues are crime, the economy, they can’t pay for their bills because grocery prices are too expensive, utility prices are too expensive,” Anderson said. “Nobody has ever talked to me, not one time in the thousands of doors that we’ve knocked, that abortion is their top two or three issues.”
Abortion is legal in Virginia, but subject to a number of regulations such as clinic standards, parental involvement and informed consent requirements, and limits on public funding. The state is currently divided between a legislature that passes pro-abortion measures and Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who generally vetoes them.
In April, a study by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that abortions in Virginia increased by 5,500 from 2023 to 2024, driven mostly by women traveling from pro-life states.
““Bros for Repro””
Crazy...they haven’t figured out that DEAD is not REPRODUCING?
“A pro-abortion pastor and elected Democrat has called the fight to protect abortion the “sacred choice of every soul,” as part of a new Planned Parenthood initiative.”
Meet the newest Brigadier General in Satan’s Army
Demoncrat ‘pastor’ working with Planned Parenthood calls freedom to abort ‘sacred’.
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A pro-abortion pastor and elected Democrat has called the fight to protect abortion the “sacred choice of every soul,” as part of a new Planned Parenthood initiative. Moloch sure thought so. He liked aborted, sacrificed babies.
Child sacrifice, which is what abortion is, was practiced by several cults in the Middle East, who answered to a couple of deities known as Ba’al and Moloch, rivals to JHWH. Two of the many lesser gods tossed aside into the dustbin of history.
Look at this point if they just came out and said:
“Were the Church of Satan.. and killing children is part of our sacrament. So your interfering with a religious freedom not allowing us to do abortions”
it’d be more honest
This “pastor” is a heretic!
One of those pastors. He probably does street preaching and runs a card game on Saturday nights.
There’s a special place in Hell for this clown.
There’s nothing sacred about murdering small children for convenience and profit.
It’s the very essence of evil.
I would agree with the pastor, since abortion is a holy sacrament of the party. Truer word never spoken.
I very much agree. And if you want a more recent comparison, in abolitionist Pastor Theodore Weld’s book The Bible Against Slavery, he pointed out that the main problem with slavery is the complete dehumanization of the slave. The mantra “it’s not a person, it’s property” was how slave owners tricked themselves into thinking they weren’t harming anyone. Just like today’s “It’s not a person, it’s just a clump of cells.” They say that even with partial-birth abortion and post-birth “abortion”, when it’s obvious to anyone that it’s a developed baby. That’s how far they’re willing to believe their lie.
Which Satanic temple is this ‘pastor’ ASSociated with?
Oh never mind, I see he conducts services at the shrine of planned parenthood worshipping at the altar of infanticide.
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart; ...
We have our own genocide going ...
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