For my more progressive fellow pastors, now is not the time for missional quietude over abortion. Now is the time for outrage. Now is the time for public disgust. Slavery would never have been abolished through missional conversations. Public outrage was necessary to bring the whole sinful enterprise crashing down. The same public outrage must be brought to bear on abortion. If it will help, perhaps you can imagine that Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, is a fan of Dukes of Hazzard and refuses to drink fair trade coffee.
In recent weeks, thanks to the excellent work of David Daleiden the mask of respectability has been ripped from the face of Planned Parenthood.
Of course there has never been anything respectable about Planned Parenthood from its founding by a racist eugenicist to its current status as the number one abortion mill in the United States. There is nothing new about the wickedness of Planned Parenthood. What is new are the public revelations of its role as a trafficker of human flesh and organs. Of course what Planned Parenthood does every day is wicked regardless of what they do with the corpses of the babies they kill. What was so shocking about the videos was the banality of the evil they exposed – Doctors casually discussing “less crunchy” methods of abortion between sips of wine.
So, we have use for babies’ organs but not the babies themselves. And now the Department of Justice under the direction of President Obama has just opened an investigation, not into the organization aborting babies and selling their organs, but into the organization that exposed the practice. Francis Schaeffer may have been hard pressed to imagine such a scenario as this.
Planned Parenthood knows they are in trouble over these latest revelations. They have already lost some significant corporate sponsors