Liberal denominations beg Congress to protect Planned Parenthood, 6/10/17
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews)
-- Protestants take diametrically opposing views of abortion in America. While
the Southern Baptist Convention just "declared
war" on Planned Parenthood,
calling on Congress to defund the nation's largest abortion business of tax
dollars, other denominations are urging Capitol Hill legislators to continue
giving half a billion tax dollars to the country’s largest abortion provider.
More than 150 liberal organizations,
including the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, and the
African Methodist Episcopal Church as well as Presbyterian and Jewish
organizations, signed a letter calling
for U.S. senators to keep Planned Parenthood on the government dole. The letter
also champions support for Obamacare and Medicaid expansion.
“We urge you to oppose any repeal of
the Affordable Care Act, attempts to change Medicaid’s open-ended funding
guarantee into a block grant or per capita caps, and any attempts to defund
Planned Parenthood,” the letter reads.
The General Board of Church and
Society of the United Methodist Church, United Church of Christ's Justice and
Witness Ministries, the Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, and the National Council of Churches laid their weight
squarely on tax funding for Planned Parenthood.
Other signing organizations under a
religious banner include "Presbyterians Affirming Reproductive
Options," the "NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice," the
"National Council of Jewish Women" and several other groups
professing Judaic foundations.
Besides other liberal, pro-abortion,
and pro-homosexual organizations, the letter was signed by the League of Women
Voters, the YWCA, and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. All signing
organizations are listed here. "It’s scandalous that the
United Methodist General Board of Church and Society is lobbying in favor of
Planned Parenthood federal funding," Institute on Religion and Democracy
President Mark Tooley, a Methodist, told LifeSiteNews.
Tooley says his denomination is
slowly transitioning from promoting a culture of death to affirming life.
"United Methodism is heading in an increasingly pro-life direction and
last year required the board to quit the Religious Coalition for Reproductive
Choice. The board in its abortion rights advocacy represents a minority of USA
United Methodists in an increasingly global and orthodox denomination that is
returning to classic Christian teaching about the sanctity of all human life."
"Though only constituted as a
denomination in 1957, the United Church of Christ (UCC) has been consistently
in favor of abortion since the early 1970s," John Brown Jr. wrote in an expose on his denomination's historic support for abortion.
"Even before that, a number of UCC clergy participated in ... as a
nationwide illegal abortion referral system."
"The ongoing effort to bring
change on the life issues within the UCC is somewhat akin to that of the
pro-life movement to bring about change within our nation," Brown surmised.
"Though there have been some victories, the UCC and the United States as a
whole continue to promote a 'culture of death.'"
The U.S. House passed a bill to
replace ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood, but the Senate has yet to act. It is important to note that the
legislative effort to “defund” Planned Parenthood is misnamed. Planned Parenthood
businesses charge for their services and will continue to. The “defund”
move simply redistributes tax dollars to non-aborting health clinics.
The House bill ensures health care
access by redirecting tax funds to legitimate health clinics, which outnumber
Planned Parenthood abortuaries across the nation 20-to-1. Such legitimate
health clinics offer much more comprehensive care and do not commit abortions.
Despite facts to the contrary,
signers claimed that taking tax funding from the abortion behemoth would take
away healthcare for the poor, including cancer screenings.
Though its president and its promotional material proclaim the business does more legitimate healthcare for women
than it does abortions,
Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms, x-rays
for cancer, biopsies, CT scans, endometrial
biopsies, or many other basic
cancer screenings.
Abortions
outnumber even the simple,
do-it-yourself breast exams at the nation's most lucrative abortion dealer.
Comments
US
Christian Churches have “Stockholm syndrome”. Trump is ending the “War on
Christianity”, but church staffs are packed with Liberals. So, now that churches have their political
voice, they want the Nazis back.
Conservatives
in these churches need to raise hell.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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