TO DEFENDERS OF THE PRO-LIFE INDUSTRY
Thanks for your serious concern. After Dr. Dobson's many years of dedicated ministry, it is not surprising that you disapprove of our confronting him. If we are wrong, we deserve your criticism. And if the three following points are correct, then we ask you to reconsider this life and death matter.
1. The Gonzales v. Carhart PBA ruling instructs abortionists that they can legally continue to perform partial-birth abortions simply by delivering a late-term baby halfway (to his bellybutton), and then killing him by various methods including by ripping off his legs. (See the ruling itself or our analysis at www.coloradorighttolife.org.) This is evil.
2. Most pro-life ministries have done many years of fundraising on this PBA ban, leading donors and Christians by the millions to believe the ban had the authority to save the lives of late-term babies even though they knew from the beginning this law did not have the authority to save a single child's life.
3. We are warning the many pro-life leaders who have become moral relativists that it is wrong to defend judges and rulings that violate God's enduring command, Do not murder. This happens commonly when officials affirm the killing of the innocent, as happened when Dr. Dobson defended Samuel Alito's 2000 ruling that kept partial-birth abortion legal in New Jersey. And now he defends this PBA ruling which optimistically suggests that abortionists "may find… less shocking methods to abort the fetus."
Some people who have been dismayed by our confronting of Focus on the Family have been even more shocked, to the point of disbelief, of what this brutally wicked ruling actually says, because they are not being told the truth by ministries they have grown to love and trust. We urge you to read carefully our open letter (earnestly co-signed by respected pro-life organizations like American Life League, Operation Rescue, Colorado Right To Life and Human Life International), and you can read the ruling itself. Then after you have more information, for Dr. Dobson's sake, and for the sake of the Body of Christ, and for the unborn who we are fighting for, please reconsider joining us in exposing moral relativism among Christian leaders, and in condemning any law or ruling that provides authority to intentionally kill an innocent person, thus undermining personhood and God-given right to life, which is the only place of safety for the unborn.
Thanks,
Leslie Hanks
LHanks@ColoradoRightToLife.org
V.P. Colorado Right To Life
p.s. Many respected pro-life leaders joined together to condemn this brutally wicked ruling, including:
* Ambassador Alan Keyes, RenewAmerica (see 28-second video at www.coloradorighttolife.org
Leslie,
ReplyDeleteHave you ever actually worked on a piece of legislation? I have, I worked on my PBA Ban for ten years, and It did not take me long to realize the realities of DC politics, and the far reaching effects of Roe on any pro-life bills. Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with the process which brought the end of slavery. This puritanical, all or nothing strategy will never survive the first subcommittee hearing. Even if the GOP regains control. I helped write the law you are so fond of bashing, and we did the best we could with Roe looking over our shoulders. We had to address "Carhart" otherwise it never would have gotten out of the Senate, much less the SCOTUS. Your thinking is flawed in that if we can't save everyone, we should save no one. That is what you are saying. It's ludacris to think that since we can't get everything we want, we should do nothing at all. Also, you show no proof of motive when you accuse Dobson and others of defrauding donors. While I agree there are some Americans who misunderstand the scope of the ruling, it is a far stretch to say it was fraud. I contacted CRTL after the ruling to say I was the mother of the little girl around whose story this law's debate was based.....I guess it's easy to see why not one of you has called to have us come and speak on her remarkable life and how God has used Donna Joy's testimony to impact our nation. Shame, you are really missing out on a blessing. A final question.... Do you really believe God would use her for "evil"? Best, Lori V.