Shoulder To Shoulder #1266 -- 11/22/21 ---- "The Folly of Forgetting God -- Demise of a People: Part 9 -- Sacrificing To Molech (Part G)"
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"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil,
but by those who watch them without doing anything." -- Albert Einstein
“There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day,
which many have, and think they have -- a cheap Christianity
which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice, which
costs nothing, -- and is worth nothing.” – J. C. Ryle
"Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica,
for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the
Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so." -- Dr. Luke (Acts 17:11)
Shoulder To Shoulder #1266 -- 11/22/21
Title: "The Folly of Forgetting God -- Demise of a People: Part 9 -- Sacrificing To Molech (Part G)"
My Dear Friend and Pilgrim Partner:
Here we are on the verge of Thanksgiving and I haven't even adjusted from Labor Day! Time is moving much too swiftly for this old man. Today's another beautiful but slightly breezy day in Yuma, though somewhat overcast. While many subscribers are dealing with cold temperatures and winter snows, we are enjoying a dry day with the high temperature today expected to be 82 and a low tonight of 61. My old body thanks me every day for moving back to Arizona.
Sunday was our third service of the new season for Chapel de Oro ("Chapel of Gold"), and people are thrilled to be back together. Every service we see the after-effects of COVID in many of our members. The strain and struggles in the emotional and relational areas were clearly far more destructive than the virus itself on the body. Perhaps this is why my series, "Finding Today's Strength and Tomorrow's Hope" is being received in such a positive manner. Yesterday I preached the third sermon in the series based on Heb 3:12-4:12 describing the link between "Soul Rest" and God's Word. If you haven't noticed, the writer points out the two primary things -- actually one thing with two sides of the same coin -- that kept the Children of Israel from entering into that "Soul Rest" God had available for them. Heb 3:18 states that they failed to enter into His rest because of disobedience, while 4:6 says it was because of unbelief.
Is that a discrepancy? Absolutely not. Just as James says, "faith without obedience is dead, "being alone", faith that doesn't act isn't faith; it's just bluster. At best this type of faith is mere intellectual assent. In the same way, obedience without faith is also a fraud -- it isn't faith at all; it's works, that is, the energy of the flesh attempting to gain God's approval and/or blessing. Real faith always results in some kind of application through obedience. "Works" that work, are always linked to the fact that one has trusted God in the situation and trusts Him for an appropriate outcome.
As I was preparing to preach the sermon, I ran across an incredible definition of "soul rest" from Thayer's Bible Dictionary: ---- “the heavenly blessedness in which God dwells, and of which he has promised to make persevering believers in Christ partakers amid the toils and trials of life“ Synonyms include words like Quietude, Contentment, Satisfaction, Confident Composure, Serenity, Peacefulness, etc. That "soul rest" manifests itself in a secure and quiet spirit, a clear uncluttered mind, emotions that are calm and serene, and actions that are free from undue stress and strain.
Hopefully, you are finding yourself in that state of "soul rest" -- even if you're facing significant challenges and hardships. Some fifty years ago I ran across this stern admonition when Paul instructed young pastor Timothy, " And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, . . ." (KJV). I've never forgotten that and try to use it as a monitoring gauge for my life. If I find myself "striving" in some way -- and the word can also be translated, "quarrelsome", "argumentative", "prone to dispute", "at war", "argumentative", "contentious", "wranglesome", etc., then I use the occasion to see whether or not I have strayed away from the "rest for your soul" that Jesus described in Mt 11:28-29.
The term "soul rest" explicitly refers to one's response toward decisions, attitudes, and circumstances; but it can also relate to one's mental attitude and/or emotional condition. After all, we inevitably think it or feel it before we do it or say it. So, it is truly imperative that we learn to enter into "soul rest" and live with a quiet, contented, loving, patient, disposition at all times.
Now to the topic at hand: ---- I promise that by the next letter I will conclude our look at the topic of abortion. I had intended to write only two or three letters, but as is often the case with me, the more I dig and research, the more I discover about previously unknown important elements. So, today -- because so many people thanked me for the testimonials in my last letter -- I want to share a few more stories and also fill you in on some of the details about Planned Parenthood's origin and about its founder, Margaret Sanger. Then next week we'll finish up with a good solid look at what the Bible teaches us about the sanctity of life -- the sacredness of life -- and how abortion so violently violates God's character and plan for mankind.
Before we get to that, though, and in light of Thanksgiving Day being just hours away, please consider some of the following: . . .
THIS 'N' THAT:
+ 400 Years ago: When the Pilgrims landed on the shores of this "new world" 400 years ago, they signed the legendary Mayflower Compact -- November 21, 1621. The Compact was a voluntary commitment of free people to live and work together in unified freedom. It served as a precursor to the U.S. Constitution which would be written and ratified 166 years later in 1787. https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1601-1700/original-mayflower-compact-11630072.html?utm_source=This%20Week%20in%20Christian%20History%20&utm_campaign=This%20Week%20in%20Church%20History%20-%20Christianity.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=5647619&recip=521085018&aps=ee6ee118c65d61227d7de5c8fd96ff3df9e60ff816177dd8e91327686af0d297 .
QUOTES FOR THE WEEK:
> "I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue." -- Katha Pollitt (pro-abortion essayist, poet, critic)
> “The most merciful thing a large family can do for one of its infants is to kill it.” -- Margaret Sanger (Founder, Planned Parenthood)
> “We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine, we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.” -- Dr. Mary S. Calderone (Sex Information and Education Council of the United States -- SIECUS)
> "There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'.” -- Wole Soyinka (in Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World. 2004)
> "The child is, in truth, alive from the first moment of conception. ... " -- John Bouvier (Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, Volume 3, 1839)
> “With a little verbal manipulation [verbicide], any crime can be rationalized, even promoted. The trick is to speak of fetuses, not unborn children. So long as the victims are a faceless abstraction, anything can be done to them. Just don’t look too closely at those sonograms. We are indeed strangely and wondrously made.” -- Paul Greenburg (Pulitzer Prize winner, editorial page editor of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Written after he changed from pro-abortion to pro-life)
> "We have learned [as Obstetricians] that abortions hurt women." -- Dr. Patti Giebink (former abortionist)
OUR PLIGHT AND PREDICAMENT:
You and I both know the horrors and consequences of the more than 63 million abortions committed in America since Roe v. Wade was ruled on in 1973. What we may not know quite as well is the subsequent fall-out in terms of the dangerous increase in sexual promiscuity, alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness, domestic violence, unwanted/unplanned pregnancies, rape, and the like. From a human perspective, major sociologists, psychologists, academics, and doctors overwhelmingly link those very things to the moral decay of the people.
It is true that many people are happy to force vaccinations and masks on others while at the same time refuse to insist on even the most basic moral virtues that protect life, especially the most innocent life of all -- an unborn baby in the mother's womb. In spite of the rebuke of many of the most liberal minds against the Roe v. Wade decision (as I quoted in an earlier letter), there are still those who deny the catastrophes of abortion.
No matter that people like abortion-rights apologist Katha Pollitt, a woman who firmly supports abortion on demand for any woman, acknowledged that abortion was actually the murder of a human life. She said in a 2008 Solon article, . . .
"I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue."
In his book, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World, Wole Soyinka expressed a similar opinion when he wrote, . . .
"There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'.”
While abortion remains at an inexcusably high rate in America, the voice of protection of the unborn has grown stronger -- primarily due to compounding medical proof that life begins at conception, the development of pre-birth abortions right up to the due date, and the persistent drumbeat of pro-life advocates. While it has its dangers to be sure, social media has actually played a major role in this shift as it does its own legitimate and provable research with data-driven facts. Voices that you would never hear from in mainstream media are now being heard speaking in favor of life. In my previous letter you read about some of them, both from some who had abortions, and some who performed them.
Here are a few more:
MORE WHO CONSIDERED ABORTION:
+ Alicia: -- Alicia became pregnant when she was a sophomore in college. She described her reaction that is typical of many girls and young women: . . .
"I was scared, because I didn't want my family to find out, and I was ashamed of what I had gotten myself into."
When she confided in one of her professors for advice, the professor pointed out all her options, but particularly stressed that abortion would be a good idea since she was still in school. The professor also said she didn't think the boyfriend was prepared to be a father. In that this particular professor had lots of influence on what and how Alicia thought, she seriously considered having the abortion for the simple reason that she'd not have to tell her family.
"Coincidentally", when Alicia went home for summer break, already about six weeks along, she ran into a pro-life friend. Her friend immediately knew something was wrong, so Alicia told her that she was indeed pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Her friend, however, urged her not do take that route, but instead consider carrying the baby to full term and then, if necessary, give the baby up for adoption. Alicia wrote, . . .
"Thank God she was a good enough friend that she wouldn't leave me alone until I promised not to do it and to tell my family. It was really rough when I did tell them, but they didn't hate me or throw me out like I was afraid they would. Now I have a gorgeous 2-year-old boy, and I can't imagine my life without him. It was very easy to rationalize killing him before he was born, but I know that no amount of rationalization would have helped if I had gone through it. I knew in my heart that even if there was the slightest chance that he was a human being, I should let him live.
"That's all the pro-abortion argument is --rationalization for murder by dehumanizing the child. I know people who have gone through it, and they almost never talk about it. If there is nothing to be ashamed of, why does it seem [so much] like a dirty secret? I am glad that I don't have to hide any dirty secrets like that."
+ Mike: -- Mike is from Canada and described how he leaned strongly toward pro-choice until he watched the video, "Miracle of Life". He was stunned to see how . . .
". . . the little tiny foetus looked so human. it was awe inspiring."
That video, along with influence through various pro-life periodicals, brought him slowly to the point that . . .
". . . So, I was now pro-life about 75% committed."
Some time later when his friend Lisa told him one day in the middle of a shopping mall that she was pregnant, he was thrilled for her and began to cry. After hearing the news, Mike began keeping a daily diary for the entire duration of her pregnancy, not missing a single day. He wrote it as a gift to Lisa and to Stephanie, the name given to the baby in Lisa's womb.
When Lisa was about six weeks along in her pregnancy, Mike began writing the diary as a letter directly to the baby itself. He said, . . .
"I kept a diary for the whole NINE months about how Lisa, Mark and little fetal Stephanie were doing. I wrote it TO Steph, and after writing for about 7.5 months everyday (2 volumes), I KNEW her. I had no option, psychologically, to think of her any other way than as a person."
Mike then continued describing the situation in a catch-your-breath way, writing . . .
"Then she was born. Lisa (my Lisa - my wife) and I were at the hospital for hours and hours. We were in the delivery room about 1/2 hour after Steph was delivered. I had NEVER been involved with a pregnancy before, and it was such a moving experience - emotionally, spiritually, physically - I never considered that I would ever be pro-choice again.
(I'm curious, too, as to whether Mike and Mark are the same guy.)
+ Corinne Kimball: -- A pro-life advocate and media personality, Corrine was 22 when she discovered she was pregnant. Raised in a Catholic pro-life home, she was skeptical and unsure about having an abortion, and one of her close friends also encouraged her to keep the baby. Because of her religious upbringing, she . . .
". . . knew deep down abortion wasn’t an option for me.”
However, her family and her boyfriend’s family encouraged her to have an abortion because having a baby would impact their careers. She described the agonizing days ahead, stating, . . .
“When my boyfriend at the time and I spoke with our families, we were told it was ‘best to have an abortion because we had our whole lives ahead of us.' I was being tugged in every direction. I would sit on the floor of my bathroom and just cry hysterically because I couldn’t think about going through with an abortion.”
Corrine went on to have the abortion, and had virtually nothing positive to say about Planned Parenthood where she received so-called "counsel" and had the abortion. She indicated that Planned Parenthood was full of information about the abortion process and also other alternatives, she was not given any information on either. They gave her virtually no information on adoption or about how to keep the baby.
She indicated that Planned Parenthood did nothing whatsoever to tell her about “the pain, the guilt and especially the options I had. They weren’t trying to help me, they were pushing abortions.” She had always expected Planned Parenthood to be a "safe place for women", but found just the opposite, feeling that they were focused on promoting abortions over all the other alternatives. She stated, . . .
“What about adoption? I was a privileged white girl, living in suburbia, with money and supportive parents — I could support this baby. I was screaming inside for someone to tell me it’s okay, go home, keep the baby, you got this. I never got that. What if I wanted help to keep the baby? Not once did I get the feeling from Planned Parenthood that if I had the baby, I would be helped or counseled because if I [had],I wouldn’t have gone through with the abortion.”
Even though she felt "empty in side but free", Kimball quickly fell into frequent states of extended depression and repeatedly had thoughts of suicide. In order to cope, she made light of her abortion and Planned Parenthood to her pro-choice friends. She even donated financially to Planned Parenthood because she felt she could trust and rely on the organization.
But the story changed when she got pregnant again. When she scheduled an ultrasound with Planned Parenthood, the representative told her she could not come in for an ultrasound unless she wanted to get an abortion. That doesn't sound like Planned Parenthood lives up to the statements on its website that says they provide “a wide range of safe, reliable health care,” including the assurance that they have “caring physicians, nurse practitioners, and other staff [who] take time to talk with clients, encouraging them to ask questions in an environment that millions have grown to trust.”
Following that second experience, Corrine Kimball decided to keep the baby. She stated, . . .
“This was the moment in my life — one I’m so grateful for — I put my baby before anything else."
Kimball says that one of the best things other women who are considering abortions can do is to listen to stories of women who have been through the process. She concluded, . . .
“I’ve noticed when I share my personal experiences and stories, people react to it with compassion rather than aggression. I feel if more women came out and shared their experiences with abortion, adoption and family resources, more people would be open to educating themselves on abortion.”
+ Star Parker: -- Just about everyone has heard of Star Parker, currently a conservative political activist and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. A strong advocate against abortion, she acknowledges that she aborted four separate pregnancies before she became pro-life. Following her fourth procedure, her “gut instincts” woke her up that there is something intrinsically wrong with abortions. When she became pregnant for the fifth time, she chose not to abort.
“The damage that is happening to women who have had an abortion is vast, and I don’t think we as a society understand the shame and the guilt and the heartache that women who have had abortions are internalizing.”
Star described her life during those days as a “very reckless and promiscuous life” and that lifestyle led her to use abortions as a way to continue, “. . . without even thinking about it.” In looking back, Star Parker said that if someone had spoken to her about her lifestyle, the dangers of abortions, and the alternatives available, it is highly likely she would not have remained promiscuous and would not have had abortions. She said, . . .
“Maybe if someone told me not to do it, -- if I knew then what I know today, -- I would not have had an abortion.”
We had an opportunity to meet Star and have several meaningful conversations with her, and have a greater admiration for her now than they because of her transparency and honesty about her past life. Her remarks are trustworthy. In this testimonial she noted that abortion has been promoted within the black community as a simple life choice. She described it as, “similar to my life choices to use drugs, and live promiscuously.” In other words, abortion was seen simply as a lifestyle of choice rather than seeing it as having a major negative and often devastating impact on one's life in ways that can forever change life's trajectory. She stated, . . .
“Planned Parenthood and many other organizations have attempted to get [women] out to shout their abortions. Every now and then you have one or two that might, but when they go home, I’m not so sure they are content with that. Most of those moments are not shouting moments, they are crying moments, and we need to recognize that. These women are hurting … deep scars that they carry the rest of their lives. They can pretend all day, they can try to convince their mind, but that knowing heart cannot deny that their lives have changed forever.”
In concluding, Star said she hopes that every woman considering an abortion will stop and reconsider what they're about to do, stating, . . .
“There is a unique human potential within your womb. You should not even consider not allowing that human being recognize that potential. You are chosen to be a vessel to bring a great awe, a miracle into the world.”
MORE WHO PERFORMED ABORTIONS:
Following up on some of the medical professionals who became anti-abortion and pro-life, let me share three more testimonials. First, . . .
+ Dr. Haywood Robinson: -- Today Dr. Robinson is a retired family physician, as is his wife about whom I wrote in my previous letter. He received a BS in science from Cal Tech, and an MD from the University of California in Irvine, CA, and did his Family Practice Residence at the Martin Luther King – Charles R. Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles
According to an interview on the 700Club, Dr. Robinson received abortion training while he was ". . . on the obstetrics and gynecology service during his residency. Discussion about the procedures or instructions about alternatives was not part of the training. Performing abortions required so little effort; everyone was doing it, and they didn’t seem to have a problem with it, so neither did Dr. Robinson."
Dr. Robinson described the D & C procedure -- one used for other matters than abortion as well-- as. . . .
“. . . a minor surgical procedure.”
While in training in southern California, Dr. Robinson and his wife both spent three years learning abortion procedures. As I wrote last week about his wife, they both began moonlighting at the abortion clinic and then moved to Texas to open their own family practice. Because abortion was highly frowned upon in their town, Robinson said, . . .
“We didn’t want to be labelled as the community abortionists in Texas, so we didn’t do them."
Dr. Robinson attended a Leon Patillo concert where he committed his life to Christ. He described it as his "rebirthday, saying, “I was blind and now I see.” He stated that when the Lord comes into your life, your mind is transformed, stating . . .
“If I would have known abortion was wrong on an academic level, I would still not be saved from going to hell. Abortion is a sin, but I was already going to hell. God used that to build a testimony to save babies now and bring others to the Lord.”
Recounting many of the abortions he performed, Dr. Robinson says the women really didn’t want to give up their babies. He revealed his true motives at the time for doing abortions:
“The only reason I was there was for the money. It’s a deep, dark environment and I couldn’t wait to get out of the abortion clinic. It’s not a happy place.”
He continued, . . .
“For more than 30 years, I’ve had a front-row view of the advances taking place both in the pro-life movement and in the medical field that continues to prove the undebatable value of life inside the womb."
Robinson said he believes doctors broke "a great human trust" when they embraced abortion, and that it causes doctors to become desensitized to the point of no longer recognizing the gravity of one's decisions to perform an abortion. Of their coming to personal faith in Christ, he stated, . . .
""You become desensitized to the point where the physician dehumanizes that baby inside the uterus and it's no longer something that is holy — it’s no longer a precious human life. [God] opened our eyes to how heinous this war against babies is and He launched us on a pro-life career."
While they were both still practicing physicians and now strong pro-life advocates, they actually purchased the now-closed Planned Parenthood building in their Texas town and relocated their medical practice in that building. “Only God can build a story like that to show the redeeming power of Christ. Former abortionists now pro-life advocates.” Dr. Robinson retired from practice in June 2019.
+ Dr. Bernard Nathanson: -- Dr. Nathanson was the oldest of seven children born in a secular Jewish family and was impacted, by his own acknowledgement, "[with] a predisposition to protecting the unborn . . . and the soul-shocking impact of the video presentation and book, Whatever Happened to the Human Race? the classic work of former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and theologian Francis Schaeffer which awakened millions of Evangelical Christians."
In spite of his Jewish background, Nathanson saw himself as an atheist and remained so until he experienced a religious conversion to the Christian faith. He was an obstetrician and gynecologist in New York City, New York, who argued for womens' rights to abortion. From1970 --1979, he supervised over 75,000 abortions, 5,000 of which he performed himself, one actually on his own girlfriend. His pro-abortion practice led him to bear the nickname of "abortion king".
Then things dramatically shifted when he viewed an abortion using ultrasound imaging technology in 1973. Then he was exposed to the book and the video mentioned in the above quote in the Presbyterian Church in South Minneapolis, searing those images into his memory. Years later he went on to write the book, Aborting America, and produced the video, "The Silent Scream". Nathanson died in 2011.
In his memoir, The Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor who Changed his Mind, Nathanson proposed that his change to an anti-abortion stance was based primarily on science and logical reasoning, and no so much on religious experience or revelation. Because of his earlier participation fighting for abortion rights, he later became an even stronger proponent of restricting womens' rights to abortions.
In describing the strategy of pro-abortionists, Nathanson wrote, . . .
"A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. [However,] Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception."
He also stated, . . .
"We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law."
In one case, his argument was profoundly simple, saying, . . .
"Fewer women would have abortions if wombs had windows."
On another occasion, he described what that unborn child must be feeling when his safe and protected home was invaded by instruments in the hands of someone intending to kill it. He wrote, . . .
"We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream."
Few medical professionals were so articulate, honest, and persuasive from a purely medical point of view as was Dr. Bernard Nathanson.
Finally, . . .
+ Dr. Patti Giebink: -- Dr. Giebink is a former abortion doctor at Planned Parenthood, where she practiced in South Dakota. Now thoroughly pro-life, she instead spends her time helping people find compassion and sensitivity to those affected by abortion. Having appeared on many radio and television talk shows, she was interviewed on Focus on the Family.
Dr. Giebink truly believed she was helping women. However, after several years as a pro-abortionist, she then began reading scripture. As she did, God patiently but deliberately began changing her heart. In describing her career as an abortionist she said, . . .
"I was guilty of adding to that concept because that's what I explained. I said it's just a piece of tissue. I could not allow myself to think of that as a unique human being, as a life, because obviously the next train of thought was I'm killing a life!"
During the FOTF interview she shared how, as she was spiritually transformed, her position on abortion did a complete turn-around. She said, . . .
"I was kind of going down the New Age path, searching. …[a friend] just kind of off-hand said [this church has] a new pastor. You might like this church. I didn’t know anybody in the church. Very small, but they had a new, young pastor, and I was just captivated. And for the first time in my life, I just felt so drawn to this church and to the Bible. It’s like they talk about in the Bible about the scales falling off your eyes.
"So I started reading the Bible and started to understand it. For about a year and a half, I just intensively studied the Bible. I didn’t have a real job at the time, and I just intensively was studying the Bible with direction and understanding it. At some point—I don’t exactly know when—it became so clear to me that God is the God of life. That’s His character. That’s His heart. There should be no question.
"…in 2004, I started working with a very solid pro-life Catholic doctor in our small town. She was unapologetically pro-life. I wasn’t admitting that I had changed because basically all my friends and most of my family were pro-choice. But just listening to her and her courage…she gave me strength to start thinking more of that.
"And so by 2006, which was the first 'Vote Yes for Life' campaign, was the first time I really stepped out and said, you know, I’ve changed. So that’s from 2001 to 2006. That’s five years of gradual, painful realization."
Dr. Giebink has written a book about her change of heart entitled, Unexpected Choice: An Abortion Doctor's Journey to Pro-Life. Now a fervent pro-life ambassador, her statements and views are widely circulated. For example, she said, . . .
"We've learned that abortion hurts women. That women are more likely to have a preterm delivery following an elective abortion. They're more likely to have depression and suicide. There are serious risks of having elective abortions. Some women NEVER get over it. Women develop problems going through this elective procedure and I think in a woman's heart she knows that's a unique human being. It's not just a piece of tissue."
Today Dr. Giebink continues as an outspoken advocate for life, explaining from her medical expertise that abortion is not only fatal to the baby, but it is increasingly dangerous to the woman -- her own physical health, her mental and emotional well-being, and her capacity to have children in the future.
ONE FINAL STORY:
Dr. Alveda King: -- There are few people whose names are better known than the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When I saw her name listed among those who had been pro-abortion but now pro-life, I wanted to research her story more thoroughly than I had others. Her story is profound.
The year was 1950, and Naomi Barber was unmarried -- and pregnant due to her pastor's son. During this time Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (later to become Planned Parenthood) was targeting minorities in the South, believing that "inferior races" should be "culled out". In that this was during the pre-Civil Rights era, this meant "people of color" -- particularly African Americans. We will examine Sanger and PP momentarily.
Soon after she had discovered she was pregnant, Naomi read one of the League's flyers. It read, “Be a credit to your race. Don’t have babies so that you can serve your community.”
At the time, Naomi was an anxious, frightened and confused eighteen year-old and it seemed to her that Margaret Sanger offered a way out. They said, . . .
“You don’t have to have a lot of babies, there are procedures for mysterious female ailments."
Naomi had no idea what that “procedure for mysterious female ailments” was, but it possibly provided a solution, so she investigated further. It turns out that the "ailment" was pregnancy, and their solution was abortion. The League couldn’t identify it by name because it was illegal, so they willfully exploited the ignorance of the women they targeted.
Naomi revealed her condition to her mother, Bessie Barber and showed her the flyer. After reading it, an uneasy Bessie insisted they speak with their pastor — the baby’s grandfather, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. Affectionately called Daddy King within the family, Rev. King was then in his early 50s. Rev. King's youngest son, Alfred Daniels “A. D.” King was the baby’s father. His oldest son was Martin Luther King Jr. Both would later become well known persuasive civil rights activists.
When the women explained the situation and told him what the League’s flier promised, Daddy King slapped both hands hard on his desk so strongly that it startled Naomi and her mother, Bessie. Prophetically he declared, . . .
“They are lying to you. That’s not a lump of flesh, that’s my granddaughter. She has bright skin, bright hair, and she’s going to bless many people.”
After further counsel, Naomi decided to keep her baby, and not long after that meeting with Daddy King, Naomi and A.D. were married. A few months later, Naomi gave birth to a little girl exactly like Daddy King had prophesied -- "a girl with bright skin and red hair." She was named Alveda Celeste King. "Alveda" means, "Life".
As we both know, there are few voices today any stronger against abortion -- and particularly against Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood -- than Alveda King. It may be that a later experience in her life contributed to her outspoken opposition to both abortion and Planned Parenthood. Of that experience Alveda said, . . .
“In 1969, my daddy, A. D. King walked me down the aisle as a virgin. He had kind of protected and chased the boys away and wouldn’t let me go on dates. I thought he was the meanest daddy in the world, But he was the best daddy in the world!”
It may well be that Naomi and A. D. King's personal experience of a pregnancy out of wedlock, their refusal to have an abortion, and their captivated love for Alveda may have had a major impact on their ensuing chastity for Alveda and for their strong pro-life convictions. Tragically, A.D. King never got to see his baby granddaughter because he died just one week after the wedding. Alveda firmly believes he was murdered.
Ten months following her father's untimely death, Alveda gave birth to her first child, and the doctor who delivered it was actually a pro-abortionist who worked with Planned Parenthood. She stated, . . .
“My doctor was affiliated with Planned Parenthood, I just didn’t know. He delivered my first baby in the hospital with forceps.”
Four months following the birth, she suspected she might be pregnant again, and returned to her doctor for a pregnancy test. Describing the experience, she remembered the doctor saying, “You don’t need another baby.” She then described what happened: . . .
“So he pulls out his forceps, the same ones he used to deliver my living son, and he began to do the procedure in the exam room.”
Alveda said the doctor then claimed it was only an examination -- a very painful examination -- only to later learn that, without her consent or knowledge, he had aborted her child. The baby’s name was Philip.
The doctor then referred her to Planned Parenthood, stating that, “They’ll be your friends.”
The doctor said, “Don’t talk to anyone at church, don’t talk to your family. Go talk to these people. They’ll help,” meaning Planned Parenthood. (Remember that when you read further down in today's letter."
Alveda strongly believes that her post-abortion state of mind caused her to become secretive and withdrawn, and that had far reaching negative effects on her relationships with her family and husband.
By 1973 Alveda was again pregnant and with little support system. Her father had died four years earlier, she and her mother weren't on speaking terms, and she was by then separated from her husband who, incidentally, was encouraging her to have an abortion. By that time abortion had become legal in Georgia. So, she again resorted to Planned Parenthood. They told her, . . .
“You don’t need a baby right now. You have enough problems. There’s a new procedure out. Your insurance will even pay for it. You can go to the hospital and they’ll take care of that. It’s just a blob of tissue.”
“So, that baby was aborted as well,” Alveda sadly recounted. The baby, named Jessica, became another victim of Planned Parenthood’s deception.
One can understand why Alveda is now so outspoken against Planned Parenthood. She says that Planned Parenthood speaks about empowering women and giving them a choice, but never describe the consequences of having an abortion and how the procedure can "take away future choices." She described the damage caused by the abortion procedures. When she had a miscarriage with her next pregnancy, doctors later attributed the damage caused by those abortions to have caused the miscarriage.
The emotional trauma of those earlier years had a devastating impact on her life and led her into a downward spiral into promiscuity and reckless living. As a result, she divorced her first husband and began dating others. Ultimately she became pregnant with her new boyfriend’s baby. Convincing herself that abortion was the best option, she recalled, . . .
“I know abortion is legal. I’m going to have an abortion. Because a woman has a right to choose what she does with her body. I was liberated. I thought it was okay.”
Up to that point, Alveda had never seen a sonogram and assumed that it was just that "blob of tissue" that Planned Parenthood personnel insisted it was. She didn’t know the baby inside of her wasn’t her own body, but was actually a separate entity -- a real human being with its own DNA, vital organs and all -- inside her womb and attached only by the umbilical cord. Withdrawn from her family but living with them at the time, in her uncertainty as to what to do, she went back as her mother had to seek advice from Daddy King. She recounted that she said, . . .
“Granddaddy, I’m going down to Planned Parenthood. I’m having an abortion. The baby’s daddy doesn’t agree.”
Forcefully and with that same hand slaps on his death, Daddy King repeated what he had told Alveda's own mother, . . .
“They’re lying to you!That’s not a lump of flesh. That’s my great grandchild. No!”
Although Daddy King had helped save another baby's life, it would be another ten years before Alveda herself would discover the answer to all of her life's problems and disappointments. In spite of having a loving grandfather and an uncle who preached God's Word so faithfully, it would take a colleague to help lead Alveda to Jesus Christ in 1983.
The reality that she had played a role in the deaths of her children weighed heavily on Alveda, and she started spending time with a ministry that helped women heal from the emotional trauma abortions frequently cause. It was called Rachel’s Vineyard.
Today Alveda King is one of the most outspoken advocate in America in behalf of pre-born children and women exploited by the abortion industry, traveling across the country speaking with college students about her experiences, encouraging them to be vocal defending life. She is also Director of African American outreach of Priests for Life, the author of King Rules, Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and Our Nation to Prosper, and founder of Alveda King Ministries. She is also former state representative for Georgia's 28th District in the State Legislature.
Speaking at a Students For Life rally at Michigan State University in Lansing, she said, . . .
“A woman has a right to choose what she does with her body, but the baby’s not her body. Where’s the lawyer for the baby? If we murder the children, ain’t justice anywhere. It’s a great injustice everywhere.”
Alveda King believes that women who glorify or "shout" their abortions, as some in the pro-abortion community do today, are using that braggadocios declaration as a way of masking over their deep inner emotional and mental pain and anguish, and her heart of compassion goes out to them. After all, she's been there, and has experienced the same thing personally. She stated, . . .
“Women sometimes seek approval regarding abortion decisions to mask suppressed doubts and pain.”
She repeatedly declares what I have heard her say on many television interviews the past couple of years, . .
"Abortion is a civil wrong. Life is a civil right.”
Now, let's take a little time to learn about . . .
THE ONE WHO ELEVATED ABORTION -- IN AMERICA AND WORLD-WIDE:
if any one person can be credited -- or blamed -- with launching abortion into the bloodstream of American culture, it would probably be Margaret Higgins Sanger, an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Until her radical ideas came into view, abortion was acknowledged as being practiced in the shadows, but was generally seen as being immoral and a crime against mankind. Numerous states had outlawed abortion to some extent, but it was never legalized.
Sanger was born into an Irish-Catholic family. Her father, Michael H. Higgins was a Catholic who abandoned his Christian roots and became an avowed atheist. He was an activist for women's suffrage and free public education. After studying medicine and phrenology, he became a stone cutter and mason, focusing primarily on statues of Catholic saints, angels and tombstones.
Her mother, Anne, was born in Ireland, but moved with the family to Canada during the Potato Famine. The two were married in 1869. They went through 18 pregnancies (with 11 live births) in 22 years before Anne died at age 49. Sanger was the sixth of the eleven surviving children.
Margaret married leftist radical architect William Sanger and moved into the heart of New York City, where she worked as a visiting nurse in the slums of the East Side, while her husband worked as an architect and a house painter. She had early on embraced William's leftist radicalism, and it was easy to become involved in a bohemian lifestyle and accompanying far-left radicalism.
She was a member of the Women's Committee of the New York Socialist party, was involved in 1912 Lawrence textile strike and the 1913 Paterson silk strike and others, and associated closely with local intellectuals, left-wing artists, Socialists and social activists, such as Emma Goldman, Mabel Dodge, John Reed, and Upton Sinclair. She wrote frank columns on sex education for newspapers and the Socialist magazine, New York Call.
She worked in "the slums" with working-class immigrant women who often experienced frequent childbirths, miscarriages and self-induced abortions due to misinformation or lack thereof on how to avoid unwanted pregnancy. Almost inevitably, it seems, she popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that ultimately evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America with which we are so familiar today.
In her 1922 book, Women, Mortality, and Birth Control, Margaret Sanger wrote, . . .
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social service backgrounds and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
(What did I ask you to remember?)
This, incidentally, is exactly what Hitler did, particularly in Germany and Austria, where he attempted to recruit pastors, mostly Lutheran since it was seen unofficially as "the state church", to persuade the citizenry to support many of the radical Nazi ideologies found in his plot to conquer Europe. It is his opposition to such a radical push that landed Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison where he wrote the revered classic, The Cost of Discipleship.
Again, Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortionists will try to deny this, but the facts are there and open for all to see that there is an extremely troubling connection between Sanger and Darwin, Hitler, and the Klu Klux Klan. In fact, the Klan connection happened in 1926 when she gave a speech at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Silver Lake, New Jersey. As a result she was invited by 12 other Klan chapters to speak at their events. Many of her beliefs gave exposure to Hitler's ideology of "a pure Aryan race".
When Mike Wallace interviewed her in 1957 at age 78, he tried to determine Sanger's motive for birth control, during which she said, . . .
"The greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically, delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things, just marked when they're born."
During the interview, Wallace never addressed the most controversial aspects of her association with eugenics, and the overwhelming evidence of her racism, especially against blacks; nor did he ask her about her strong belief in many of the "pure race" beliefs she appreciated in Hitler's views. Later in her magazine, Birth Control Review, Sanger would say, "Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."
Because of Margaret Sanger's influence, particularly in the African-American community, there are disproportionately fewer blacks in America than any other race. According to recent demographic and pro-life research, we have learned that since the SCOTUS Roe vs. Wade decision in 1973, legal abortion has killed more African-Americans than cancer, heart disease, violent crime, AIDS and diabetes combined.
It also shows that every week of the year, more African American pre-born infants die in our abortion clinics than were killed during the entire Vietnam War. African-American Pastor Clenard Childress described the horrors by saying, . . .
"The most dangerous place for an African-American to be is in the womb of their African-American mother."
Patrina Mosley wrote an article in the May 10, 2020 article on the LifeNews.org website entitled, "Margaret Sanger: 'We Want to Exterminate the Negro Population.' Her Wish is Coming True". You can read the entire article at https://www.lifenews.com/2020/03/10/margaret-sanger-we-want-to-exterminate-the-negro-population-her-wish-is-coming-true-2/.
In essence, Mosley pointed out that a study in the American Journal of Public Health indicated that while white women had 10 abortions per 1,000 women while black women had almost three times that ration -- a startling 27.1 abortions per 1,000. This in itself highlights Sanger's extreme racism, much like Hitler's agenda of wiping out Jews, the infirm, and homosexuals. Shockingly, some of the very same people who inspired, taught, and worked for Adolf Hitler in Germany also wrote for Sanger and sat on her organizations' board of directors.
Though they may deny it, Sanger and Planned Parenthood worshipers cannot refute the evidence. I don't know if this stat is still true a year later, but last year 30% of all abortions in America were performed on African American women. I might add that Mosley is, herself, African American, and she insists that the whole purpose of Sanger's agenda was to target the African American community. She wrote, . . .
"Because abortion was meant for African Americans to begin with, so it’s natural that they would not care about the people they are trying to exterminate. Margaret Sanger, the founder of the nation’s leading abortion supplier, Planned Parenthood, once said: 'We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the negro population.' Perhaps not coincidentally, nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's [clinics] are located in black and Hispanic communities today."
Planned Parenthood tries to explain that away by stating that's simply because African American and Hispanic communities happen to be the poorest neighborhoods due to poor education, joblessness, and crime.
If it sounds familiar, it should. Sanger's belief lives on in Planned Parenthood as essentially the same policy advocated and carried out by Germany's Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, whose sterilization policy Sanger openly praised. Most people associate eugenics with Hitler and the Nazis. And while the Nazis may have perfected the movement, they did not start it. It began in England and spread to the United States very early in the 20th century. Every former Planned Parenthood clinic manager who turned pro-life that I know about will tell you the same thing -- their unspoken goal today was Sanger's then.
If you want to know more details about Sanger's "Negro Project", here is one well documented site. Go to http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/washington/151202, written in 2015.
SANGER'S CONNECTION TO NAZISM:
It may come as a shock to you that Hitler and his underlings actually got many of their ideas for exterminating the Jews from none other than Margaret Sanger. Many writers have written about the Sanger connection with Nazism, but most articles on the topic have been conveniently hidden from view. However, in 2017, popular author Dinesh D'Souza wrote an article entitled The Hitler-Sanger Connection. I just ran across it today while finishing up this letter. In it, D'Souza stated, . . .
"Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, has an ignoble legacy as a racist who addressed the Ku Klux Klan and initiated a Negro Project to reduce the population of poor, uneducated African Americans whom she considered unfit to reproduce themselves. This Margaret Sanger—the real Margaret Sanger—is completely whitewashed in Parenthood propaganda, which deceitfully portrays Sanger as a champion of reproductive 'choice.'
"Even more incriminating than Sanger’s racism, however, is her close association with Nazism. Sanger was part of a community of American progressives who championed two remedies to get rid of 'unfit' populations. The first was forced sterilization, which was Sanger’s preferred solution.
"Sanger wanted to make it look like the sterilizations were voluntary. In a 1932 article, Sanger called for women to be segregated from the larger community onto 'farms and homesteads' where they would be 'taught to work under competent instructors' and prevented from reproducing 'for the period of their entire lives.' If the women didn’t want to live this way, they could get out of it by consenting to be sterilized. (As stated in “My Way to Peace,” by Margaret Sanger, January 17, 1932, Margaret Sanger Papers, nyu.edu/projects/sanger.)
D'souza also pointed out Sanger's other progressive solution ---- “euthanasia. ” This was her way of "killing off the sick, the aged, and the physically and mentally disabled", as D'souza stated. In fact, Paul Popenoe, a progressive -- some would call him a "Socialist" or even a "Communist" -- was one of Sanger's colleagues and called for “lethal chambers” so that large numbers of “unfit” people could be systematically lined up and killed. (As stated in Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill, New York: Macmillan, 1918, p 180).
It was actually from Popenoe, Sanger, and others of their cohorts that the Nazis not only learned about these ideas, but enthusiastically adopted them into their own agenda of creating a "pure Aryan Race" by eliminating all undesirables. The only difference was the "target" -- with Hitler it was the Jews, mentally infirm, and gays; with Sanger it was the African American. Author Edwin Black clearly documented the connection in his book The War Against the Weak.
Black unequivocally stated that the Nazi sterilization law of 1933 and Hitler's ensuing euthanasia laws both came directly from plans designed by Sanger, Popenoe and other American progressives. The "lethal chambers" morphed into the first death camps Hitler used in his “final solution” for the Jews. In fact, some of the same medical personnel who were used in euthanizing "the imbeciles" were used to exterminate the Jews. Sanger and her associates, including her primary benefactor and conference speaker Clarence Gamble, along with Lothrop Stoddard who published Sanger's magazine knew about the Nazi programs, and even praised them. Stoddard went so far is to travel to Germany where he met with top Nazi brass and even met with Hitler. Stoddard even wrote about it in his 1940 book, Into the Darkness.
The connection between Sanger and Nazism, along with the idea that Hitler derived many of his techniques from Sanger and her associates is not only horrendous, but also terrifying. Think of it -- the woman who popularized and institutionalized abortion with the founding of Planned Parenthood is also the same woman who provided ideas and resources to Nazism, resulting (among other things) with the extermination of over six million Jews and untold numbers of infirm and homosexuals -- all for the sake of creating a pure stock of white people.
She went so far as to write in 1938 to Americans, urging them to follow Hitler's example. Calling it "Social Darwinism", Sanger used the same terminology that Hitler used in Mein Kampf, writing, . . .
“In animal industry, the poor stock is not allowed to breed. In gardens, the weeds are kept down.”
Other connections between Sanger and Hitler included people like Leon Whitney of the American Eugenics Society, Madison Grant of the New York Zoological Society,, Charles Goethe of the Eugenics Society of Northern California, and Eugene Gosney who was head of the San Diego-based Human Betterment Foundation, all of whom have written books on various areas of eradicating the unwanted and the unqualified for the sake of "human betterment". The verses may be different, but it's the same song.
In all, under the guise of euthanasia, Hitler killed nearly 300,000 people who were physically or mentally disabled, weak, alcoholic, elderly or who had diseases. This is apart from another more than10 million others he killed in his search for a Master Race as he tried to ethnically "cleanse" the world of Jews and homosexuals. And his ideas and methodology came primary from Margaret Sanger and her collaborators.
I love how D'Souza ends his article: . . .
"If Planned Parenthood and the Left today want to get away from this sordid history, they must stop denying it. Rather, they should repudiate and distance themselves from Sanger and her fellow progressives, who were not only racial bigots but also inspired some of the worst atrocities of the twentieth century."
One of numerous sources to which you can go to read D'souza's entire article can be found at https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/09/01/exclusive-dsouza-the-hitler-sanger-connection/.
Other excellent articles are found at
https://www.courierherald.com/letters/hitler-the-ku-klux-klan-and-margaret-sanger/,
also at https://thecatholictruth.org/margaret-sanger-and-eugenics/,
https://thecatholictruth.org/margaret-sanger-eugenics-hitler/,
and finally, at https://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/02/just-discovered-letter-shows-margaret-sanger-was-part-of-euthanasia-society/.
There are dozens and dozens more websites that tell the same story of the woman who influenced Hitler and formed "The Birth Control League" which later evolved into today's modern "Planned Parenthood of America."
FINALLY -- THE AFTER-EFFECTS:
As I have been writing on this topic -- for the 7th straight week with one more to go -- two things have repeatedly come to mind. I conclude today's letter with those two thoughts:
1. The consequences of abortion are both severe and many.
2. There is always forgiveness and opportunity for a new beginning.
+Consequences:
How can one articulate all the devastating damage done to people, not just from the abortion itself, but for the following impact it has on people? Jo Ann and I know quite a number of girls and women who aborted their babies. We probably know more than we think we know. I cannot think of a single one of them that came through an abortion experience unscathed in some way.
Abortions kill the baby, but they also do great harm to the mother, as we have read the past two letters. Sometimes damage is done to her reproductive organs that prohibit her from ever getting pregnant again -- even when she wants to. The sense of guilt, shame, remorse, and grief that almost inevitably comes almost always affects her mentally and emotionally. Nightmares, inordinate fear of men or of having sexual relationship with her husband, and other such things are commonplace.
The father is also impacted by the abortion. If he encourages the abortion, he has to live with that sense of guilt and shame that the girl or woman had the abortion because he insisted -- or demanded it. If he wanted to keep the baby but she had it anyhow, he is filled with unbearable grief and sadness. And, his attitude toward the mother is often dramatically damaged because on the one hand he sees someone who didn't seriously consider his desires, leaving him wondering if he can ever trust her again. On the other hand, he wonders if any love they might have between each other is true love, or is it only because a baby was involved.
Abortion can lead to greater promiscuity because it gives a way out if one becomes pregnant. This, in turn, opens the door to a myriad of sexually transmitted diseases as promiscuity increases.
If a couple get married because she is pregnant, then there is a very strong probability that they will battle with questions regarding the genuineness of their love, whether or not the spouse was ever sexually active with someone else before marriage -- or whether they might be in the future.
If the baby is given up for adoption, then almost inevitably that baby will learn of their adoption and begin asking questions about their "real" parents. During juvenile years the reality of adoption can trigger incredible anger, rage, and even violence -- sometimes self inflicted. For every wonderful story of a glad reunion, there are a thousand that are not so glad.
Perhaps one of the greatest and most serious fall-outs is the attitude of the parent/s toward God. You'd be amazed at how many who have had an abortion feel God failed and didn't come through to help them. Some will even actually blame God for their own mistakes and sins.
I could take more time to discuss these and many more consequences to abortion and unbiblical sexual practice, but I think you get the idea. Rather, let's look at one final element . . . .
+ Forgiveness and Healing: Of all the tragic consequences that surround abortions -- and also adoptions as well -- none are outside of God's love, His grace, His mercy, and His forgiveness. When "godly sorrow that leads to repentance" (II Cor 7:10) takes place, God forgiveness and healing are extravagantly and lavishly poured out both on the wounds and the wounded.
In our culture we tend to think that premarital sex and divorce are two sins that God can't or won't forgive. But, that is not true. If I understand the Bible correctly, as I think I do, there is only one sin and one sin alone that God cannot forgive, and that is the rejection of His Son, Jesus Christ, as one's savior and redeemer. Even then, it isn't that God Won't forgive, but that He Can't forgive that sin because the person has willfully refused to accept the one person and the only way by which all sins can be forgiven in the first place.
Since I want to look at that more closely in my next letter, I'll close with the simple assurance that there is no sinner outside of the encircling embrace of God's love, and there is no sin that is beyond the reach of His forgiveness. Because abortion is the destruction of a human life created in God's image, I believe it is one of the most serious. Nonetheless, forgiveness is granted in abundance when repentance -- true repentance -- is expressed.
Perhaps you know someone who has gone through the turmoil of an abortion, whether married or unmarried. Take time to tell them the good news -- God forgives. He can and will . . . if they will let Him.
In His Bond, By His Grace, and for His Kingdom,
Bob Tolliver -- Romans 1:11
Life Unlimited Ministries
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