Presbyterians Pro-Life ENEWS

May 2007

PPL Welcomes Associate Director and Administrative Assistant

PPL staff: Marie, Joy, Laureen

The Board of Directors of Presbyterians Pro-Life is delighted to announce the appointment of Mrs. Laureen Bodnar to the position of Associate Director. Laureen began her work with PPL on April 2. Laureen is passionate about the pro-life ministry and has a clear calling to extend the grace and forgiveness of Christ to women who have had abortions. Read more.

Miss Joy Luther assumed the position of Administrative Assistant on January 1st of 2007 and brings, as her name suggests, a joyful efficiency and organization to the PPL office. Joy is a recent graduate of Asbury College with majors in English and Psychology. Joy grew up in Africa as the daughter of missionary parents and then attended high school in the United States when her father took a pastorate in the Pittsburgh area. She has a passion for writing to educate and inform on social issues such as abortion.

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New Book on Abortion Recommended Abortion: The Evangelical Perspective by Matthew Everhard with foreward by Marie Bowen

Baby in the womb at 1 1/2 months

Baby in womb
at 1 1/2 months

Mr. Gow is a TV and radio commentator and writer who teaches Religion to children at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Greenville, Mississippi.

Abortion: A Matter of Life and Death
by Haven Bradford Gow

According to Dr. Monte Liebman, a pro-life psychiatrist in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, “ If the adult world is genuinely concerned that children learn and live with respect for human values, it will take the first step toward that goal by putting forth ideas consistent with sustaining human life. It will not invoke laws and behaviors that are destructive of any human life from inception to the grave; it will adjust its own attitudes and behaviors so that it becomes an authentic, living model for its progeny.” Read the entire article.

Boy in shock

Denny Roberts is a
member of the board of
Heartland Presbyterians
Pro-Life and an elder at
Colonial Presbyterian Church.

Breakfast with a Kindergartner

by Denton (Denny) Roberts

Cullen was eating his typical breakfast before heading off to kindergarten: a huge bowl of Cheerios covered with a thick layer of honey. It would have been even thicker if we hadn’t monitored the number of many circles he traced above this bowl with the inverted Honey Bear bottle. Read the whole story.

Eye on the PC(USA)

A staggering number of changes are being made in the PC(USA). It is nearly impossible to keep up with all of them. Below are links to articles by PPL staff and by leaders of other renewal groups. Some of these links will take you off our website. Just click the back button on your browser to return! To read all of PPL's articles on denomination news on one page click here.

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Abortion Advocacy

FOG

Process denied?

Presbyteries & churches

General Assembly Council

Voting on B.0.0. amendments

PPL in Action

Presbytery studies on abortion
Has your presbytery set up a task force to study abortion? The 217th General Assembly urged all presbyteries to study abortion using Scripture and other resources. PPL needs your help in encouraging this process in your presbytery. Read more.

Ministry training workshops
Mrs. Peggy MacLeod Peggy MacLeod, PPL board member from Fortsquare Presbyterian Church in Boston, presented a post-abortion ministry training workshop at Memorial Park Church in Allison Park, PA in February. Read more.

Chapter News
The Heartland PPL Chapter is planning an abortion recovery workshop for the fall. They are highlighting the need for abortion recovery ministry in their presbytery by giving PPL's "Discovering Grace" packet to each pastor this month. Read more in their latest newsletter, The Link.

Florida Chapter to launch soon!
Plans are being made to re-launch the Florida Chapter of Presbyterians Pro-Life. A meeting is currently being planned and will be announced in the near future. If you would like to receive information about this event please contact PPL.

Life in the News

A CNN poll reveals that 50% of Americans define themselves as pro-life and 66% feel that Partial Birth Abortion should be illegal. (LifeNews.com)

President Bush signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), promising to veto any legislation requiring taxpayer funding of abortion or that encourages destruction of innocent human life. 155 legislators promised the President that they will support such vetoes.

The Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act causing a stir among groups on both sides of the abortion issue. This April 18, 2007 decision by the Supreme Court does little to reduce the numbers of abortions, nor does it address the moral and spiritual poverty of the decision to abort a child. It does ban one particularly gruesome procedure often used on viable babies Read more.

Will new testing increase abortion numbers?
Earlier pre-natal tests for Down Syndrome and a bloodtest to determine a baby's gender cause some to fear an increase in the number of decisions to abort children in the womb who are seen as undesirable because of disability or gender. Read more.

On "Quality of Life"
“This recent term represents an ancient concept which allowed the Romans, for instance, to expose deformed babies. For Christians to reintroduce distinctions between human lives is a serious error. Christ has removed all such differentiations, destroyed the hierarchy of the relative value of different kinds of people and made all people neighbors...The born and unborn, viable and nonviable, the “normal” and the “abnormal” are all of value from a Christian Perspective.”
Michael J. Gorman, Abortion & the Early Church, pp. 98-99