{"id":396,"date":"2007-06-04T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/06\/abortion-industry.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T10:23:00","slug":"abortion-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/06\/abortion-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"The abortion industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s WP, a rift<\/a> within the pro-life movement:<\/p>\n

“Over the past seven years, the partial-birth abortion ban as a fundraising technique has brought in over a quarter of a billion dollars” for major antiabortion groups, “but the ban has no authority to prevent a single abortion, and pro-life donors were never told that,” he said. “That’s why we call it the pro-life industry.”<\/p>\n

In Rohrbough’s view, partisan politics is also involved.<\/p>\n

“What happened in the abortion world is that groups like National Right to Life, they’re really a wing of the Republican Party, and they’re not geared to push for personhood for an unborn child — they’re geared to getting Republicans elected,” he said. “So we’re seeing these ridiculous laws like the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban put forward, and then we’re deceived about what they really do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The critics are absolutely right – many Christian conservative political leaders have become little more than get-out-the-vote managers for the Republican party. Many of the religious right’s biggest players have been seduced by political power, placated by trinkets and photo-ops, selling out Jesus for a failed political agenda.<\/p>\n

Here is hoping that Billy Graham will inspire more Christians to ignore the self-proclaimed Christian political leaders and seek first the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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