Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Comparing the Celebration of Christmas to Choosing Abortion


Daytime television personality – Whoopi Goldberg – has decided that celebrating Christmas can now be compared to the right to an abortion.  She believes the observation of the most significant birth of all human history – the birth of the Christ Child of Bethlehem – is the same as a woman being given permission to end the life of her unborn child.

Last week, Goldberg engaged in a debate with her View co-hosts about the separation between church and state in regards to public Nativity scenes to celebrate Christmas. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, she took the opportunity to bring up abortion saying it is “the same conversation with a woman’s right to choose.”  Goldberg argued, “What I do with my body is my right.  It is not your right to tell me.  The same thing is it’s – if you believe in Christmas, it’s not my right ... and, you know, kids who didn’t go to Catholic school had Christmas and they – we never knew what their religions were, but we hung cause it was Christmas holiday.”

Goldberg’s statement is absurd.  How is the birth of Jesus the same as the death of a baby?  An abortion affects not only the woman making the decision but also her unborn child.  Furthermore, the issue is even more complex due to policy debates such as the federal funding of Planned Parenthood (PP).
       
Goldberg not only heinously compared celebrating Christ’s birth to the right to abort, but she has also long been an advocate for PP – the United States’ largest abortion provider – which carries out over 320,000 of the procedures every year.

Remember: PP relies on numerous corporate supporters to carry out its abortion agenda. Many major corporations … that you may well shop with each day … donate to the organization either directly or through third party groups.

Listen: Don’t continue to say you are pro-life and continue give business to companies behind PP.  If more of us would cease to do business with these companies, we can begin to make a change.  If you don’t know these companies, click on this link https://www.2ndvote.com/plannedparenthood/

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel

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