As for you people defending PP, look up its history. the organization was founded to eliminate poor black babies and the mentally infirm. It was started to help create a "master race" and served as one of the inspirations to Hitler and his "final solution". Don't take my word for it, Google "quotes by Margaret Sanger" and "Eugenics" and see what you come up with. Wake up people! Satan is hard at work within the halls of Planned Parenthood and disguising it as "healthcare".

Gee, millions of women have depended on PP for "health care" for many years, was that while killing their unborn babies, some 50 million deaths by torture, which I think is murder without a trial by a jury of your peers, not health care. And women actually go for this murder instead of adoption. Something is wrong with the women in this country. When did women become the killers of their children and call it "health care" instead of "taking care of them". Your guilt and denial of what you have done won't make you guiltless, maybe acceptance of your "abortion" and forgiveness from Jesus will help you but you need to ask Jesus' help and stop defending what you and millions of women have done by denying it. And stop listening to men saying "It's your body, do what feels good to you with it." The men end up feeling good and you end up a murderer unless you go the adoption route. There are millions of other women waiting for your baby, proof of this is the number of foreign adoptions.

By the way, the text at Exodus 21 that some try to use to justify baby murder in the womb is speaking about a premature birth not a miscarriage. Noted Hebrew scholar Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. has observed that it is a “gross error,” either by translation or by means of commentary, to argue that a miscarriage is suggested in this passage (Toward Old Testament Ethics, Zondervan, 1983, p. 170). In an excellent article which discusses this passage at length, Jack W. Cottrell, a professor of theology at the Cincinnati Bible Seminary, declared: “There is absolutely no linguistic justification for translating verse 22 to refer to a miscarriage”,What, then, is the passage teaching? Simply this. If two fighting men injure a pregnant woman, causing her to give premature birth, yet no harm follows to either mother or child – a fine will be levied as a penalty for such carelessness. However, if any harm followed, to mother or babe, justice was to be meted out commensurate with degree of damage.

The murder of babies in the womb - falsely called abortion- is NOT health care, its death care! How can anyone who claims to be a Christian not be conflicted that 55 million babies have been murdered in the womb in this country since Roe vs. Wade legalized this monstrous act? Again God says he " hates the shedding of innocent blood!" What blood is more innocent than that of a baby growing in its mothers womb? Moreover the church has ALWAYS been involved in and AGAINST this practice for 2000 years! Moreover the penalty in the Old Testament for killing a baby in the womb was a life for a life! The solution to the baby murder problem is for women to stop playing the whore by having sex outside of marriage and for men to stop playing the whoremonger by having sex outside of marriage, and instead to live by Gods righteous standard and only have sex within the bounds of marriage as GOD COMMANDS! That would end 99% of baby murder in the womb! We need to listen to God!

Planned Parenthood saves the lives of women. Millions of women have depended on them for health care for many many years. 40 years ago they were my only source of health care. I, along with most other women will always support the work of Planned Parenthood. I am not conflicted in the least. I understand Christianity to support the lives of individuals. I believe satan is using the issue of abortion to divide the church. It is not an essential doctrine...if it were there would be more written about it in the Bible. It is not clear and we should not be. In the OT Law a woman's life was valued higher than that of her unborn. The punishment was significantly less if a crime resulted in the death of the unborn. That's about the only scripture we have to go on. Planned Parenthood takes care of women's health. It is not an issue the church should be involved in. Period.