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Family Research Council Anti-Healthcare Reform Ad Avoids Abortion

October 22, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

The Family Research Council is out with a new anti-healthcare reform ad, which argues that the Democratic plans are too expensive but avoids any mention of their abortion provisions.

Should a Christian group like the Family Research Council be expected to base its policy positions on the Bible or religious tradition, or is this kind of fiscal-based attack fair game?

Watch the ad, and post your thoughts:

The ad begins airing today on cable in Washington, D.C., and will soon be up in five states: Nebraska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Maine.

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Kenya:

You make some good points. Keep speaking up. Seek, Speak, Share, and Defend the Truth.

Aura:

Your extreme is boarderline and your hate is strong. Try LOVE instead of HATE.

Aura:

Which form or Slaughter do you support?

Suction Abortion is where they suck the unborn baby out of the mothers womb with a vacuum. The suction rips the baby into pieces.

Dismemberment Abortion is where they take forcepts to dismember the babies parts and pull them out of the mother womb. They rip the legs, arms, and body apart to extract the unborn baby. Then they crush the head to remove it.

Partial Birth Abortion is where they deliver everything but the head of the baby. They then stick a pair of scissors into the back of the neck of the unborn baby to seperate it's spine. Then they use the vacuum to suck the babies brain out.

Which of the above is a choice for the unborn baby?

Love does not Destroy Life:

Abortion is not health care. It is a slaughter of 3200 unborn babies a DAY, 96,000 a MONTH, 1.2 Million a year, and more than 45 Million in 36 years in America.

This is a slaughter of the least of our people (poorest, weakest, most dependant, and least of our people).

Say NO to the free slaughter without a chance to respect and protect the lives of both the mother and the child.

Respect Life.

Protect Life.

Protect Love.

Love Life.

ComPassion of IN 3:16PM October 24, 2009

K quotes Apostle Paul, as if we all accept one of the most destructive books ever published. Separation of church law from civil law is vital to preserve the republic. Churches cheat on taxes & then pretend THEY will suffer if Congress raises taxes to provide free sex education, sterilization, contraception & abortion. They complain about paying taxes for public education, AFTER they obey preachers' orders to send their kids to church school..so they won't lose faith. We should demand that Congress do what Henry 8th did. He confiscated Catholic property in England after it owned over half what was there. We should confiscate all church property. Then let believers use existing structures for worship BUT ONLY IF THEY PAY ALL COSTS OF WORSHIP AND SUPPORT OF PREACHERS. It's ridiculous that they get tax favors, for simply saying they're groups of people who believe in a god. After Lincoln returned to the Catholic Church the mission system that had been confiscated, he was assassinated in the coup that involved Catholics Booth, Mrs. Surratt & her son John, a rebel spy, Dr. Mudd, and others. Religion is far from being useful. It is historically involved in murder, torture, wars, etc.

aura dawn veirs of CA 9:27PM October 22, 2009

The word "Family" always involves a pregnant woman. The Constitution guarantees civil rights, the liberty to control reproductive powers. But women are the sole source of new believers who will tithe. They replace believers who die or lose faith. This ad, if honest, should say "Paid preachers depend on tithes; Don't let Congress use taxes to provide free sex education, contraception and abortion." I want Congress to use taxes to pay people to teach 12 year old boys & girls facts of reproduction SO THEY CAN PROTECT EACH OTHER FROM PRECOCIOUS, PREMATURE PARENTHOOD. I want Congress to tax-fund free contraception, voluntary sterilization & abortion. I want Congress to send taxes as foreign aid in the form of those public services I just listed. BanAbortion men can never be crippled or killed by botched illegal abortions or bleed out from trying to ride themselves of unwanted tissue. It's hard for me to understand Prolife women. They seem to be a strange hybrid of a male who is compelled to dominate, and a female who goes along and helps men enforce laws that harm pregnant women & their families. i guess it's their religiosity.

aura dawn veirs of CA 9:13PM October 22, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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