Rev. Mike Warren 1/25/2008
In 1973, The United States Supreme Court ignored our precedent belief regarding the right to life and the understood value of each human life. It bent the U.S. Constitution and threw out every state law prohibiting abortion and caused the flood gates to open and spill thousands of gallons of innocent babies’ blood throughout the land. This disregard for life has extended from the defenseless in the womb to the disabled and infirmed. We remember and are here to repent, pray and act.
This act of raw judicial tyranny has led to 35 years of increasing hardness, heartbreak, and physical consequences for women and the barbaric murder of nearly 50 million American baby boys and girls. We remember and are here to repent, pray and act.
Twenty-five followers of Christ gathered on Saturday, January 19th in with wind chill temperatures near 0 and twenty more came on Tuesday, January 22 to bear witness to the fact that abortion kills children, harms women and hurts families. We gathered at Planned Parenthood a strong hold of death and deception in the City of Rochester.
During both gatherings we remembered. An empty stroller with two helium ballons, one blue "Baby Boy" and another pink "Baby Girl", helped us to remember abortions are more than just empty numbers. Abortions kill baby boys and baby girls. Nearby on the ground was a small pair of girl's figure skates and a child size baseball glove. You see each and every year over 1 million baby boys and girls are mercilessly dismembered and thrown away in abortion clinics all over our nation.These are children who will never skate, play ball or grow up to bring special blessings and benefits to their parents or our American culture. During these gatherings of remembrance we began to cry out to God for mercy, forgiveness asked him to deliver our land from the sin of bloodguilt.
After our prayer at Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion provider and advocate we traveled to The Unitarian Church in Rochester where New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's wife was scheduled to address a Planned Parenthood recruited crowd. Her message. Endorse and support my husband's push to liberalize New York's abortion laws. Let's allow children to be killed throughout the 9 months in their mother's womb and let's let non doctors have the right to do so. All in the name of women's health. What a travesty. Nearly 200 people from numerous pro-life groups gathered to protest Mrs. Spitzer's speech.
Rev. Mike Warren