How Abortion Hurts Women (2 of 3)
Series: Knit
Steve Jones
John 10:10
Introduction: This is the second message in our three-part series ''KNIT''. Last week we talked about the sanctity of human life and what that really means. Among other things, it means that ALL human beings are created in God's image and that makes us unique, and uniquely valued/loved by God.
Today I want to talk about the detrimental effects of abortion on women, and how forgiveness and healing are available through Christ.
I. ABORTION HURTS WOMEN
John 10:10 ''The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.''
Is Abortion really a Women's Rights issue?
Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, speaks
powerfully in ''The Feminist Case Against Abortion.'' She says that historically the primary activists AGAINST abortion were women, and ironically ''the anti-abortion laws that early feminists worked so hard to enact to protect women and children were the very ones destroyed by the Roe v. Wade decision 100 years later.''
Susan B. Anthony stood for women's rights at a time when women weren't even allowed to vote. She viewed abortion as a means of exploiting both women and children.
Anthony and other feminists who opposed abortion were followed decades later by a new breed of feminists. Most prominent was Margaret Sanger, who advocated abortion as a means of eugenics, (the science of improving the human population by controlled breeding), economics, and sexual liberation. After eugenics fell into disfavor following the Holocaust, her organization went underground, then later resurfaced as the Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger and others who followed Anthony tried to tie the abortion agenda to the legitimate issues of women's rights.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson says that in the 1960s, he and his fellow abortion-rights strategists deliberately linked abortion to the women's issue so it could be fur ...
Series: Knit
Steve Jones
John 10:10
Introduction: This is the second message in our three-part series ''KNIT''. Last week we talked about the sanctity of human life and what that really means. Among other things, it means that ALL human beings are created in God's image and that makes us unique, and uniquely valued/loved by God.
Today I want to talk about the detrimental effects of abortion on women, and how forgiveness and healing are available through Christ.
I. ABORTION HURTS WOMEN
John 10:10 ''The thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.''
Is Abortion really a Women's Rights issue?
Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life, speaks
powerfully in ''The Feminist Case Against Abortion.'' She says that historically the primary activists AGAINST abortion were women, and ironically ''the anti-abortion laws that early feminists worked so hard to enact to protect women and children were the very ones destroyed by the Roe v. Wade decision 100 years later.''
Susan B. Anthony stood for women's rights at a time when women weren't even allowed to vote. She viewed abortion as a means of exploiting both women and children.
Anthony and other feminists who opposed abortion were followed decades later by a new breed of feminists. Most prominent was Margaret Sanger, who advocated abortion as a means of eugenics, (the science of improving the human population by controlled breeding), economics, and sexual liberation. After eugenics fell into disfavor following the Holocaust, her organization went underground, then later resurfaced as the Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger and others who followed Anthony tried to tie the abortion agenda to the legitimate issues of women's rights.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson says that in the 1960s, he and his fellow abortion-rights strategists deliberately linked abortion to the women's issue so it could be fur ...
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