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The Left loves to gaslight us, and who could do it better than Georgia’s farther-Left-than-Stalin supermodel and shadow governor Stacey Abrams? On Wednesday, Yahoo News published a new interview with the perennial media darling and renowned theologian, in which she explained that her relentless support for abortion right up until the moment of birth and maybe after that is animated by her Christian faith. You see? You conservative rubes thought that Christianity stood for the sanctity of life from the moment of conception! Aren’t we all lucky to have Stacey Abrams to make it clear to us that it really endorses the Left’s irrepressible desire to offer sacrifices to Moloch?
Abrams, Yahoo informs us, says that “her own religious faith has reinforced her pro-abortion-rights views.” Abrams intones sagely: “Abortion is a medical decision,” and you’ve got to admit, she’s got a point. Whatever else it is, it’s a medical decision, just as is the decision to give someone a lethal injection or strap him to a seat in a gas chamber. But apparently aware of how reductionist and simplistic that was, the supermodel plowed on: “It is also a decision that women make because they are not ready to be mothers… My responsibility as a legislator is to make certain that we allow doctors and nurses and medical professionals to make medical decisions and that politicians stay out of it.”
This is a common Leftist talking point: abortion is just a simple medical procedure with no moral evaluation, akin to a woman deciding to get cosmetic surgery. It’s entirely her decision, based on whether or not she is “ready to be a mother,” and that’s that. The overwhelming scientific evidence that the child in the womb is just that, a child, alive and growing and quite genetically distinct from the mother, means nothing to the “Believe the Science” crowd. Abortion advocates persistently pretend that such evidence does not exist, as if it were 1222, not 2022, and no one was actually sure when human life begins (just as no one in the smart set is sure what a woman is).
But Abrams explains that it isn’t science, but her Christian faith, that makes her pro-abortion. She is, Yahoo tells us, “the daughter of two retired United Methodist pastors,” and who could know more about Christianity than the daughter of not one, but two pastors in a church that has been widely derided as the Democrat Party at Prayer? Abrams “said her religious views are not incompatible with her belief that abortion should remain legal in states like Georgia.” See, for the Left, nothing is ever what it seems, especially religions. Islam, despite the Qur’an’s repeated exhortations to kill or subjugate unbelievers, is a religion of peace, and Christianity, regardless of its repeated avowals of the sanctity of life even in the womb (cf. Psalm 139:13-16, Jeremiah 1:4-5, etc.), is actually pro-abortion.
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Wazzup says
Christian? not according to the Bible, she is worshiping Moloch
Hoi Polloi says
Gaslighting is right.
mortimer says
Sophistry = the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving; specious reasoning.
When a vet puts a sick animal down, it’s a medical decision. But are babies not more valuable than dogs?
gravenimage says
Mortimer, euthanizing terminally ill pets who are in pain is *not* the same thing as aborting a viable fetus.
James Hoagland says
I kind of expect a Christian to uphold Natural Law and apply the principles of the Sermon On the Mount. Can’t get to licentiousness being part of Christian ethic.
mortimer says
Stacey Abrams “…religious views are not incompatible with her belief (in) abortion”. Oh, really?
So much for the Ten Commandments, then, which were written ‘by the finger of God’ and given to Moses twice. Both times they were written by the finger of the Lord on tablets of stone. God warns what happens to the Chosen who reject his Commandments … they are rejected.
`The Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two other tables of stone, like unto the first, and I will write upon them also, the words of the law, according as they were written at the first on the tables which thou brakest, but it shall not be according to the first, for I will take away the priesthood out of their midst; therefore my holy order, and the ordinances thereof, shall not go before them; for my presence shall not go up in their midst, lest I destroy them. But I will give unto them the law as at the first, but it shall be after the law of a carnal commandment; for I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my presence, into my rest, in the days of their pilgrimage.’ (Ex. 32:1-2.)”
The Seventh of the Ten Commandments is ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ Killing a baby in the womb is killing.
mortimer says
oops … meant to write Sixth Commandment
mortimer says
The New Testament suggests that a baby in the womb already has an immortal soul that is spiritually in touch with the Divine and is furthermore sentient and capable of feeling emotion.
Luke 1. 39–45: “In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the BABY LEAPED in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb LEAPED FOR JOY.” (Luke 1:39–45)
Hank says
I guess “unprincipled persons” will say anything to get elected and the simple-minded voting sheeple will believe everything they say.
mortimer says
Yes to Hank: “unprincipled” … “simple-minded”. Claiming that the Bible exonerates abortion is indeed ‘simple-minded’.
While the Bible doesn’t explicitly forbid abortion, it doesn’t have to, because no one in Judaism or Christianity considered abortion to be a permissible choice for moral people.
Andrew Blackadder says
Nasty Peelosi is a devout Catholic and wants the Pope to bless her as she rallies for abortion on demand ”rights”…
Are you sure Planet Earth hasnt shifted slightly off its Axis while everybody was looking the other way?.
joanofark06 says
Lol, I know, right? But talk about, “evil will be called good, while good will be called evil”, being of theses times, too!
Yohanan says
Judaism does NOT view abortion as homicide.
See the JPS Jewish Publication Society translation of Exodus.21:22.
https://www.sefaria.org.il/Exodus.21.22?lang=en
>”When [two or more] parties fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible* shall be fined according as the woman’s husband may exact, the payment to be based on reckoning.”
This is an aside note to the blog topic of Stacy Abrams’ views in the moral and political controversy over abortion rights.
somehistory says
Not all “authorities” of Jewish Law agree on the killing of the unborn. I read a fine article recently that explained in great detail that the Law given to the Jews is understood to support the preserving of the life of the unborn baby.
gravenimage says
Yohanan, it is a vast stretch to consider negligently but unintentionally causing a miscarriage to be the same as deliberately aborting a baby. These two things have little to do with each other in terms of intent. And even in the example you use, there is a punishment. So how does this prove that Judaism *approves* of abortion?
Marzi says
You are very selective about which verse to choose, read on in Exodus 21; 23, 24, 25
23 “And if there is bodily damage he shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
That says something very different. The life of an unborn child is sacred to God and if you kill it it, then it is life for life because abortion is murder. It is in line with Deuteronomy 19; 21 – “And your eye shall not have mercy: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, arm for arm, leg for leg.” Just because the baby isn’t born yet, doesn’t mean its life has no value.
gravenimage says
Stacey Abrams Says She’s Pro-Abortion Because She’s a Christian
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Sick stuff. She also refers to abortion as “abortion care”.
somehistory says
People like her make me sick. She’s evil in that she is 1: in favor of murder of the unborn, and recently born 2 that she is making an attempt to change what God said in giving “free moral will” to humans to make choices to mean a woman has a “free will right” to murder her unborn baby if she is not ready to be a mother or for whatever *reason* floats their boat. 3 that she pretends to have a Christian faith and using that fakery to convince others….real Christians if possible…that murder is just fine.
God gave free will to make ordinary everyday choices…what food to eat, what work to do today, etc. He never gave humans…male or female…the “right” or the “free will” to choose to murder their offspring …offspring that He said was the reason for male and female to be together in the first place.
According to information I found nearly fifty years ago, the name Stacy…originally a man’s name…means “resurrection.” Such a nice name as she doesn’t deserve. She deserves to be sent up the river on a leaky boat, no motor, no paddles and the river full of gators.
Hideous person, inside and out, doing the devil’s desires.
OLD GUY says
I’ll bet she is against the death sentence for murders. But supports killing of innocent unborn children. She is nothing but a loud mouth looking for attention and MONEY.
Infidel says
Yeah, I’ve always been struck that more often than not, the same people opposed to the death penalty happen to be pro-abortion
joanofark06 says
Isn’t she the same DemonRat that was sitting on the floor, with masked school children all around her, while she she sat there smiling, with NO mask? Or was that someone else….?
And to think that, these are the same supposedly “Christians”, that give the true religion of Christianity, a bad name!
gravenimage says
True, Joan. Here’s that hypocritical picture:
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/stacey-abrams-backlash-maskless-photo-in-georgia-classroom