Perhaps that's not the right word but it's the one that comes to mind when I read this blessing for the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
We stand here today as people of different faith traditions, but one in the presence of the Holy, surrounded by the love and goodness of the Divine. We understand that bricks and mortar, steel and glass are but temporary things, but that day by day, by our presence and the presence of the living God, they become infused with the spirit of all who walk through these doors.
May God bless these doors and all who pass through them.
May these doors offer a welcome passage to all who seek to understand the miracles of their own bodies, to all who strive to make healthy lifestyle and medical decisions, to all who look for honest answers to complex questions.
May these doors be for the professionals who work here a place of opportunity and challenge, a place to use their talents and develop new skills, a place to satisfy their innermost desires to be of holy service to others.
May these doors be held in safety against the evil desires of any forces that wish to do harm; may all who walk through these doors be filled with strength for overcoming whatever malevolence they face.
May these doors present to this community a symbol of care for the needs that are present in every human life, and may the community grow in its appreciation of and commitment to that care.
May these doors be to us all a vision of hope for our future and our children’s futures. As we celebrate 36 years of women having the right to make their own choices regarding motherhood, we pray for sound decisions throughout our nation that will continue to protect women’s choices.
God bless these doors and all who pass through them. Amen.By Rev. Rebecca Turner, Executive Director, Faith Aloud
The doors referenced are the doors leading into abortion clinics.
Imagine God blessing that.
What God?
Baal?
It takes a special kind of evil to couch what happens behind those doors as holy. A special kind of evil.
H/T Cassy.
The biblical name for this god is Molech.
Required the sacrifice of the firstborn into the fire.
Putrid god. His priests...well...the report given here pictures one.
Posted by: chuck | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 04:03 AM
chuck is absolutely correct.
Words fail.
Posted by: Mommynator | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 09:45 AM
I am thankful for those who risk danger and life to ensure women have access to safe reproductive healthcare. I thought the blessing was spot on.
Posted by: moderatepolitico | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Absolutely sick.
Posted by: Dan Gill | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:54 AM
moderatepolitico,
It seems to me that those women who are slaughtered in the womb are being denied access to pretty much everything, most certainly and pointedly including access to safe reproductive healthcare...
Posted by: Matteo | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Oh yes, its sooooo safe if you put aside, for a moment, the women who have their uterus and bowels pierced during the procedure, who go into shock and die, who hemorrhage profusely unattended, who become infertile, who will not be able to carry subsequent 'wanted' babies to term (with said babies having a much higher risk of cerebral palsy), who will get breast cancer from having abortions, who will suffer depression and self-destructive behavior, and who will live with the guilt of having murdered their offspring the rest of their lives....
Yeah. It's so safe.
"Reproductive healthcare"? Abortion is NOT healthcare and has nothing to do with reproduction. Reproduction means to give birth, to have offspring (as production means to create or produce - what is being 'produced' is a dead child and quite frequently a seriously injured mother).
Healthcare is something that provides for proper health. Abortion is the artificial, manmade destruction of life in the womb through surgical or mechanical dismemberment of the developing child by the artificial and mechanical violation of the cervix, (or the forced death of a living human life and its subsequent expulsion through chemical overdose).
How is that 'healthcare'?
Distributing the Pill isn't 'healthcare' either since the Pill is shown in more than 30 studies to increase breast cancer, studies show it increases cervical cancer risks (the WHO did rate estrogen as a carcinogen & women who take the pill get more estrogen monthly than women who used estrogen replacement therapy), causes unpleasant side effects like permanent loss of libido and deadly ones like deep vein thrombosis and strokes, suppresses immune responses and leaves the women at greater risk for sexually transmitted diseases, and now the artificial estrogen is in the water supply damaging fish, amphibians, birds and other wild life (not to mention every man woman and child who drinks the contaminated water).
How is THAT healthcare?
It ISN'T.
You need a more accurate name for a clinic that provides services and products like that. Something like Disproductive Death-providers, because that is a much more accurate term.
Posted by: shana sfo | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 01:25 PM
What part of healthcare sees two healthy patients walk into a facility and only one walks out?
What part of "first do no harm" allows the ultimate deliberate harm to come to a baby?
What kind of people advocate that kind of wholesale deliberate harm for no real good reason?
Eh, moderatepolitico? Answer those questions at your conscience's peril.
Posted by: Mommynator | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 02:33 PM
Don't you love the moderate moniker...
With all due respect, what in hell is moderate about your perspective on this issue?
Seriously.
Posted by: Rick | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 08:41 PM