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Lord we pray that this virus would bring a change of hearts concerning the value of life.
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Here are a few examples of headlines over recent weeks.

“Republicans exploit coronavirus to restrict abortions.” —Los Angeles Times

“The Coronavirus Becomes an Excuse to Restrict Abortions.” —The New York Times

“Texas women forced to travel 20 times farther for abortion under coronavirus ban.” —The Hill

Five states—Texas, Ohio, Alabama, Iowa, and Mississippi—that are prohibiting nonessential medical procedures during the novel coronavirus health crisis have included abortion among these nonessential procedures.

These measures have been taken with one objective in mind: saving lives. To suggest otherwise is cynical and obscene.

The logic is straightforward. There is a dire shortage of medical equipment, facilities, and personnel. Plus, most states have mandated social distancing to arrest the spread of infection—requirements that would be impossible to adhere to in abortion clinics.

It so happens that halting abortion saves the lives of unborn children. This is always true. But prohibiting needed supplies from being tied up and enforcing distance will also save the lives of Americans under threat of the virus.

Abortion providers in Texas, led by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, filed suit against the state’s decision to restrict abortions under these circumstances. Their claim was upheld in federal district court, and permission for abortions was restored.

However, the state appealed the decision, and the appeals court reversed the decision and restored the restriction, pending a hearing on April 13.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James was interviewed on National Public Radio to discuss her efforts to organize opposition to efforts to include abortion as a prohibited, nonessential procedure during this crisis.

Per James, New York and 17 other states have filed an amicus brief to support Texas abortion providers’ efforts to restore permissibility of abortion.

James says: “This ban does nothing, nothing to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. … Texas is doing nothing more than using this pandemic as an excuse to trespass on the rights of women and to treat them like second-class citizens.”

This comes from the attorney general of New York, the state with the nation’s highest abortion rate—and the nation’s gravest challenges during this COVID-19 crisis.

How is it that the New York attorney general finds time to challenge how Texas is managing its fight against the coronavirus when her own state cannot manage its crisis?

As of this writing, there were 123,018 coronavirus cases in New York, amounting to 37% of all cases in the U.S. In Texas, there are 7,045. New York has 6,324 cases per million people. Texas has 243 per million.

The fatality rate in New York among confirmed cases is 3.38% compared with a fatality rate in Texas of 1.89%.

It should be clear that the attorney general of New York shouldn’t be criticizing how those in Texas or any other state are dealing with this crisis given that there is no place more out of control than New York.

In the best of circumstances, crises, personal or national, should be a time of growth and learning. They should bring out the best in us rather than the worst.

I wish Americans would be equally shocked hearing that almost a million unborn children are destroyed in the womb every year as they are shocked hearing an estimated 100,000 to 240,000 will die from the coronavirus scourge.

You would think times like these would inspire humility and reverence for the miracle of life. Challenges like these should make us better Americans and better people.

But, apparently, things have become so coarse that that’s not happening in many circles. It certainly doesn’t seem to be happening in New York.

Maybe one day we’ll grow. Meanwhile, the focus should be on saving lives, born and unborn.

(Used with permission from The Daily Signal. Article by Star Parker.)

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Darlene Estlow
April 24, 2020

Father, we pray for an end of abortion. Touch men and women’s hearts with the knowledge that unborn children are humans and we should protect them. I pray this court case brought on by those who support abortion will go down in flames and you would bring repentance to the plaintiffs’ hearts.

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Caroline Eagan
April 24, 2020

Dear Lord, forgive them/us and forgive these people/leaders, for they know not what they do. We pray to you Lord Jesus, for you are rich in mercy.
Their innocent blood cries out to you, Lord Jesus, please move heaven and Earth to end all abortions,for only you can change the hearts of women/men, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus, please hear our supplications as we humble ourselves before you. Thank you for hearing us for we need a miracle from the Heavenly Father. We bless you Lord and please help us for only you can help us. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, we stand on your Word, for “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God”. Matt. 4:4

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    Cathy
    April 25, 2020

    Where is the logic? A woman who had her breasts removed has had her reconstructive surgery delayed. Another lives with intense pain only a hip replacement will relieve. The list goes on… only surgeries that save lives can be done – everything else has to wait. Except abortion. So it becomes clear: the only elective procedures allowed are those that end lives.
    And they care so little about the women crammed into their dirty “clinics” that they allow this knowing they can be passing the virus to each other.
    Another shining example of how planned parenthood cares NOTHING about the women they claim to “serve”. It is the almighty dollar they serve.

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