Not Celebrating Life, Trans Kids Harm, Lawless Indy – American Family Association of Indiana
Celebrating Life? Not So Much
I really thought I’d be overjoyed with the overturning of Roe after fifty years of a flawed ruling and 62 million aborted babies. After all, I have fought for the right to life for 30 years in the Indiana public square and the halls of government. So why do I feel so gloomy?
I think it is because I love America, and I am hurt by what I see.
This ruling tore the lid off the shocking state of spiritual darkness and evil that has poisoned the minds of a huge number of Americans. There’s no hiding from it or putting a good spin on it. We are becoming a nation of barbarians.
Some states, not all, perhaps half, will restrict abortion. This reality has people losing their sanity because the protecting life of the unborn might outweigh the ability to terminate the innocent.
The Bible talks about sin becoming so pervasive in a culture that people are “given over to a reprobate mind.” These are wicked people who cannot discern right from wrong. We have people who are violent in their desire to be sexually irresponsible in a time of unprecedented access to contraception. The callus things they say about sex, life, and abortion are incredibly illogical and shockingly vile.
It was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who said, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” For a large swath of America, morality is simply gone. That fact saddens me.
This is a spiritual war. It needs spiritual weapons. Please make a point of regularly praying for our nation and for a return to God that we so desperately need.
(My friend Peter Heck hit the nail on the head with his article expressing some similar feelings.)
Headed Back to the Statehouse
The battle over life will soon shift to our state capitol.
Last week, Governor Eric Holcomb signed a proclamation calling for a special legislative session that may occur on July 6th. The session concerns a tax refund stemming from record tax revenues and helping Hoosiers from inflation and high gas prices (which most legislators underwrote by making Indiana among the highest gas tax states in the nation.). The two measures should equate to a $350 refund per taxpayer.
It seems likely that this return will lead soon thereafter to the legislature returning for a week to address the issue of abortion.
The additional session will be in response to the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling on Friday allowing states to significantly restrict elective abortions.
This will be a major battle, as intense as the marriage amendment or RFRA. It is highly unlikely that the media will give the pro-life movement a fair or equal balance of coverage. (Most media outlets won’t even utter the words “pro-life.”)
We will need to pray and act by contacting our legislators in support of the life of the unborn.
AFA-IN will be there to advocate for the right to life. We could use your financial support for this critically important fight.
You can donate here.
You can contact your State Representative and State Senator through this link.
Ask your legislators to protect the life of the unborn here.
Americans Don’t Like Pro-Abortion Corporations
You may have heard that several corporations like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Disney, Nike, Salesforce, Starbucks, and others are now offering to pay for employees’ abortion and travel expenses in response to the SCOTUS ruling.
Such a radical announcement won’t go over well with most customers according to a new national poll. A USA Today poll finds that 68% of Americans do not want businesses weighing in one way or another on the abortion issue.
Picking and Choosing Supports Lawlessness
Marion County (Indianapolis) Prosecutor, Ryan Mears, has announced that he will not prosecute any doctor who performs an abortion. He also signed a pledge with over 80 other leftist prosecutors and attorneys general in 29 states in support of abortion.
Instead, the Soros-backed liberal, who also ignored the crimes of BLM rioters, claims he will focus on “violent crime and public safety issues.” Under Prosecutor Mears’ tenure, Indianapolis reached 100 murders in the first six months of this year, the earliest time ever to cross that mark. For example, in 2019, it was September before there were 100 murders in Indy. Last year Indianapolis set a tragic record of 271 homicides.
Creating a culture that respects life in our capital city seems beyond this prosecutor’s grasp. Ignoring the termination of the unborn won’t help.
Advocating for Children Harmed by Leftist Fantasies
Indiana Congressman, and Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Jim Banks announced last week that he is introducing a bill called the “Protecting Minors from Medical Malpractice Act.” The legislation is designed to help individuals seek legal redress in court from medically dangerous and potentially sterilizing effects of gender transition experiments when they were minors.
Banks stated, “The Biden administration released official guidance recommending irreversible and life-altering surgery for minors too young to apply for a learner’s permit. These procedures lack any solid evidence and have been rejected by public health agencies around the world. Ten years from now, there will be hundreds of thousands of Americans who were permanently scarred by the radical left’s agenda before they reached adulthood. If Democrats truly supported gender-confused children, they’d support our effort to give them legal recourse.”
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is the sponsor of the Senate version. He noted, “Gender-transition procedures aren’t safe or appropriate for children. Unfortunately, radical doctors in the United States perform dangerous, experimental, and even sterilizing gender-transition procedures on young kids, who cannot even provide informed consent. Our bill allows children who grow up to regret these procedures to sue for damages. Any doctor who performs these irresponsible procedures on kids should pay.”
Both the House and Senate bills create a private right of action allowing people who had gender-transition procedures performed on them as minors to sue the medical practitioner who performed the procedure.
In Their Own Words:
“The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.” – John Calvin, 1509-1564, French Theologian, Pastor, and Reformer
