Posted on 06/30/2022 11:14:09 PM PDT by Morgana
A United Church of Christ pastor from Ohio boasted about driving women across state lines to abort their unborn babies last week after the state heartbeat law went into effect.
The pastor claimed to be helping women, but mothers and their babies deserve better. Abortions do not heal or save; they harm and kill.
Ohio began enforcing its pro-life law, which protects unborn babies by banning abortions once their heartbeat is detectable, about six weeks of pregnancy, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday.
As a result, abortion facilities had to cancel numerous abortion appointments – an estimated 90 percent in Northeast Ohio alone, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.
Now, babies’ lives are being spared from abortion all across Ohio, but some abortion activists, including supposedly Christian pastors, are trying to thwart the state’s life-saving efforts.
Last week, the Rev. Terry Williams, a UCC pastor in Chillicothe, said a group of pastors organized a carpool to take women to Pennsylvania, for abortions after Ohio abortion facilities were forced to stop.
“The clinics had to call people on Friday and say, ‘You can’t come in tomorrow. You can’t come in tonight,” Williams told the newspaper. “When that happened, there were multiple carpools of individuals from Akron, Canton and over into Youngstown that drove people to Pittsburgh or up to Erie to be able to get abortion care.”
Williams is part of the pro-abortion group Ohio Clergy for Choice, pastors who support the killing of unborn babies in abortions, as well as Faith Choice Ohio, which promotes abortion as a moral, religious good.
Through the two organizations, Williams and other pastors organize self-managed abortion training events and run a religious charity that provides money for mothers to abort their unborn babies, according to the report.
Notably absent from these “pro-choice” religious advocates is support and encouragement for mothers who choose life for their unborn babies. Many women who abort their unborn babies feel desperate, unsupported and alone. When offered support, however, many reject abortion and choose life for their unborn babies.
True support for pregnant mothers in need comes from the pro-life movement through thousands of pregnancy resource centers and other charities, many of them faith-based. These organizations provide free counseling, pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, baby supplies, financial aid and more to encourage and support families in need and save babies’ lives.
An abortion kills a unique, living human being who, Christianity teaches, is a valuable person created in the image of God. The Bible condemns murder, the harming of children and the shedding of innocent blood, and it recognizes unborn babies as valuable human beings.
True Christianity raises up the most vulnerable, defends the defenseless and offers compassion to the suffering. This is what pro-life advocates, secular and religious, do every day for mothers and babies across the world.
Yet, in the name of religion, some Christian leaders are perverting the truth and leading people astray. In doing so, they are jeopardizing the futures of countless children in society.
“UCC”
Apostates gonna apostate.
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Edit: A pastor United for Satan, who came “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy,” versus Christ who came that believers can “have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) boasted about driving women across state lines to Hell in order to abort their unborn babies.
People always ask me why I have such a negative viewpoint on humans. Well, this story pretty much sums it up. There are so many evil people in this world who are willing to go the extra mile to ensure another person’s life is extinguished.
Humans are fallen creatures, that is a fact.
Let me guess: Like any good Christian would? /s
"It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around
your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to
cause one of these little ones to stumble."
That seems to be stated clearly enough -
but I suppose the only issue to debate here is whether
causing the little ones to "stumble" (lose their faith)
is better or worse - in God's eyes - than the outright
physical murder of an utterly innocent life?
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Just my 6AM thought for the day.
6AM - need more coffee.
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UCC = Unitarians Considering Christ
Utterly Confused Christians...UCC
Neither United nor a church nor of Christ.
The verse prior to that is also apt.
Luke 17:1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
I do not know if he is really a Christian or not, but I do KNOW one thing.
I dread standing before my savior and having to recount some of the truly stupid and evil things I have done, even as a Christian, I plead the Blood of Christ. But I thank God I do not have to stand before Him and recount helping someone to get an abortion or believing their freedom trumps His word.
God will enact His vengeance against those who hurt the least of these, and I cannot imagine anyone more “least” than a baby in the womb. Especially since they are performing the abortion in their full will and knowledge.
Let me guess. White pastor taking women to kill their babies to reduce the number of POC born.
My brother is a right wing Trump supporter, yet he belongs to a UCC.
Whatever else the UCC is or isn't, it is undeniably a denomination of a a real religion. I refer to the Democratic Party.
Such pastors are truly “wolves in sheep’s clothing”.
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