Kohl's, eBay, ToysRUs, BabiesRUs, Darden Restaurants(Olive Garden/Longhorn,etc), Walt Disney, Nike, Hilton Worldwide, Nationwide Insurance....all of these companies are major financial supporters of Planned Parenthood, the world's primary abortion-advocacy group. I was shocked. We will not be going back, and we will be writing letters to these companies. I can do without their products or I can buy them elsewhere. I encourage all of you to do the same. The Boycott List, published by Life Decisions International, can be found at fightpp.org.
"The Pro-Life Movement will succeed only to the extent that pro-life people are willing to be inconvenienced." (Douglas Scott, Jr) It's true. We can go to our churches on Sundays and Wednesdays and it will still not be enough. It's not enough to go and sit through the service, sing the songs, shake hands, and leave. Being a follower of Christ is hard work. It is not for the faint of heart. We are to be active in the harvest fields. We are to be passionate about our hate for abortion and compassionate toward the young women who are considering it. Although we may not have thousands of extra dollars to give each year to the local pregnancy crisis centers, we can certainly withhold financial support of the businesses that contribute to Planned Parenthood. Why?
Heaven. Because this world sucks compared to what awaits us. Because there, what was lost will be restored. We sing about it on Sunday, don't we? Do we believe it?
When I was pregnant with Naomi, we prayed for her. I prayed the hardest prayer of my life: that no matter what, Naomi would come to know Christ. Do you know why it was hard? Because I was afraid. Sometimes I still am. I was afraid that it may mean I would never see her become an adult. It felt like a legitimate fear, considering our loss of Malachi when he was so little. Everything changed when God spoke to me (well, corrected me). He literally said "Do you believe what you've always professed to believe? IS heaven really better than all you see now? You love your children and want the best for them, but I love them more, and the best for them is ME."
He feels the same about all of us. The best we can be is His. I have no doubt that the thousands of children that are aborted each year are with Him now. Their deaths break my heart and I want to change it. But their mothers (and fathers) are the ones still hurting. The only healing for all that hurt is Him.
For the women facing an unplanned pregnancy right now, Planned Parenthood is not the answer. Planned Parenthood is not going to heal the hurt that comes in the aftermath of an abortion. But there are thousands of pregnancy care and crisis centers across the country that lovingly minister to young women in need of direction. They are in a perfect position to show these girls the Father's love. We ought to support them.
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