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November 17, 2009

By Star Parker

Scripps Howard News Service

Contrary to a popular fallacy that science and religion are at odds with each other, it's quite the opposite. Science and religion are the best of friends. And like good friends, they complement each other and produce beautiful music together.

Take the recent incident of the young woman in Bryan, Texas -- the director of the Planned Parenthood abortion mill down there -- who had a change of heart and quit her job when she saw, for the first time, an unborn child on an ultrasound screen.

As Abby Johnson related her story to Bill O'Reilly, "....what I saw on the screen was a 13-week baby fighting for its life." She walked out the door, went down the road and joined a local pro-life organization.

The discoveries and technologies that we gain from science make us more aware, confirm and help us understand even more clearly the truths that our religion and faith teach us. As result, like Abby Johnson, we become more responsible.

As science documents the magic of the life of the developing infant, public awareness grows and the willingness to tolerate abortion atrocities diminishes. When we understand that our unborn children are human we become more human ourselves. Gallup polling showed recently that for the first time the majority of Americans (51 percent) are pro-life.

Science and religion get at odds when, instead of complementing, religion tries to displace science or science tries to displace religion.

Socialism is the latter. Rather than recognizing that every human being is unique and free, created in God's image, socialism tries to turn us into laboratory rodents, pretending to manage our lives according to predictable formulas.

This, unfortunately, is what the health care bills are that the Democratic Party is now trying to force-feed to the American public. It's why they are disasters waiting to happen.

One heroic Democratic congressman, Bart Stupak, has managed to assure that the House bill allows no taxpayer funds to pay for abortions. But many of his liberal colleagues are rebelling.

President Barack Obama said that this is "a health care bill, not an abortion bill."

Taxpayers shouldn't pay for abortions.

But in a larger sense, we won't get health care right if we think we can do it without thinking about life itself. Science is our tool, not our master. As we sit at the brink of health care socialism, it's a good time to recall Jefferson's words that "God who gave us life gave us liberty."

(Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education)




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    Posted by Fair Tax 1 November 18, 2009
I used to be on the fence about abortion, but, when I watched the Abby Johnson interview it made me think more about my opinion. Abby said she saw the baby moving away from the foreign instrument in the womb on the ultrasound, like it was trying to save its life. What about the fetus's property in having life? Somethings to think about.

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    Posted by Uknown November 18, 2009

I like the Ames Hymn Collection. It must have involved a tremendous amount of work. It's very generous to share it on the Internet.

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    Posted by one_tiny_voice November 18, 2009

Great poem!

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    Posted by Theophilus November 18, 2009
The Silent Voice
A mighty army, 38 million strong,
To save a nation, but for wrong,
And the ease for which we long,
They are no more.

Lies for cries, we know our right,
And fill our lives with each delight;
Womb-bound children yearn for the light,
But death are given.

Frantic flames seek to efface
and turn to ash each new disgrace
and keep from sight the ghastly trace
of aborted joy.

As our strength begins to fade,
Our years move from light to shade,
The awful toll we can not evade,
God's work undone.

When we near the setting sun
And our course is almost run
We'll be alone in what we've done,
No one to care.

Then the silent voice will be heard,
Tongues long stilled pronounce each word,
"As we were dying, you deferred.
We cannot save you."

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    Posted by Uknown November 17, 2009
Conservatives are a joke. They scream like banshees if anything threatens to diminish the precious right to own and carry firearms, yet fight like dogs to deny women property in their own bodies.

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    Posted by AMT November 17, 2009
An excellent editorial. I agree completely.

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