Help Bring Abort73 to Atlanta

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from the Atlanta area asked if I'd ever given any thought to billboard advertising. I told him I had but that it had yet to get beyond the thought stage. I forwarded him a link to the Lamar website, and a few days later, he had a content-approved quote for a digital billboard, north of Atlanta on I-75 – and an offer to spearhead the fundraising effort. Isn't it remarkable what a little outside energy can accomplish!

And though my friend has claimed responsibility for raising the $800 necessary for this grand experiment, I want to at least invite our supporters from the Atlanta area to join the cause – while urging everyone else to consider supporting similar projects in their area (assuming this one proves successful). To that end, I've added a drop-down menu to our online donation page which allows you to specify where your donation goes.

After a fair bit of deliberation, this is the design we've landed on.

And here's why I feel this

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Abortion Ethics in a Christ-Haunted Culture

A few weeks ago, a friend suggested that I add a quote from Peter Singer to Abort73's Medical Testimony page. Singer is a renowned though controversial author and philosopher who has taught bioethics at Princeton University since 1999. He is an ardent public defender of abortion. Nevertheless, he openly admits that "from the first moments of its existence an embryo conceived from human sperm and eggs is a human being." Here is the full quote from his book, Practical Ethics:

It is possible to give ‘human being’ a precise meaning. We can use it as equivalent to ‘member of the species Homo sapiens’. Whether a being is a member of a given species is something that can be determined scientifically, by an examination of the nature of the chromosomes in the cells of living organisms. In this sense there is no doubt that from the first moments of its existence an embryo conceived from human sperm and eggs is a human being. (85-86)

The quote above has now been added to our Medical

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The Unfathomable Brutality of School Attacks in China

America is no stranger to violent school attacks, but over the course of the last 2 months, China has seen a wave of school violence that dwarfs anything we've seen in the states – not in terms of total numbers, but certainly in terms of the makeup of the victims and the methods of the assaults. As the BBC reports, "media reports of [these incidents] have been minimal, perhaps in an attempt to discourage the copycat attacks that many parents now fear." So in case you've missed it, here is a selected timeline:

• May 12: A man with a meat cleaver hacks seven children and two adults to death at a kindergarten in Hanzhong city in Shaanxi province. He then kills himself.
• April 30: A man attacks and wounds five kindergarten students with a hammer in Shandong province's Weifang city before burning himself to death.
• April 29: A man stabs 28 nursery students with an 8" knife, most of them 4-year-olds, in Jiangsu province. He was sentenced to death in a half-day trial on May 15.
• April

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How to Pray for Abort73 in Your City

I recently asked some friends of mine to join me in praying for Abort73's influence in Jacksonville, FL this month. To that end, I've put together a sample prayer to help identify some of the specific things I'd like to pray for. Though some of the requests in this prayer are specific to Jacksonville, it can easily be used as a prayer model for cities around the nation and world. I want to be more faithful in daily entreating God to use Abort73 to help eliminate abortion, and I'd love it if thousands of you joined me. Pick your city and start praying that God would grow the influence of Abort73 and shrink the influence of abortion. Not sure what to pray for? Hopefully this sample prayer will help...

Lord, you are high and lifted up. You are the Creator and Sustainer. You rule over all the earth. You do exactly as you please. You do not need me, but you love me and are pleased to use my weakness to show off your strength. In your presence is fullness of joy. Through trials comes

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Yesterday’s Health Care Vote

As stated in my last health care related blog, I can hardly be called a political junkie. I only loosely follow the politics of abortion and continue to maintain that education (not legislation) is the best investment we can make towards the elimination of abortion. That's not to say I don't want to see the law change; I just think we need to change the cultural understanding of abortion first. Having said all that, yesterday's health care vote does bear some comments. Is this a victory (as Bart Stupak maintains)? Is this a defeat (as virtually all the pro-life groups maintain)? Or is it something in between (as most of the news outlets seem to maintain)? The strongest indication I've seen so far that this is not a victory for the pro-life movement comes from today's headline on the Planned Parenthood website: "VICTORY!" Here is the full statement from PPFA President, Cecile Richards:

We regret that a pro-choice president of a pro-choice nation was forced to sign an Executive

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