Amazing Grace: The story of William Wilberforce

Amazing Grace: The story of how William Wilberforce, John Newton and Olaudah Equiano stopped the English slave trade in the early 19th century.

Another subtitle to this movie could be: How a British production company produced an uncannily evangelical film. If you haven’t seen Amazing Grace, go to your local theater this week and see it. It’s not likely to be in theaters for long. It’s not the most riveting action packed film in the world and at over two hours it drags on in places.

As a low production budget film, it is excellent on several counts. The main one being its fairly accurate portrayal of the faith of William Wilberforce and how he was initially torn between a calling to the ministry and political life as a member of the British Parliament at the turn of the 19th century.

The best lines of the film for me were delivered by the abolitionists sent to recruit Wilberforce to the cause, “Mr. Wilberforce, we understand you’re having problems choosing whether to do the work of God or that of a political activist. We humbly suggest, that you can do both.”

But this is not intended as a review. Pro-life advocates have long held Wilberforce as a patron saint of sorts. Here I want to outline how a “Model for Reformation” in the life of Wilberforce. The obvious parallel between Wilberforce and the modern pro-life movement is how the two are set apart by almost exactly 200 years – February 23rd, the films release date, being the 200th anniversary of the initial legislation against the slave trade. The full ban on slavery did not take effect in Great Britain until July 26th, 1833. Ironically, Wilberforce died of influenza three days after the news reached him.

On a side note, most people don’t know that today, even at a conservative estimate, there are 27,000,000 slaves worldwide. This is far more than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. For more information, I encourage you to check out the excellent web site: www.williamwilberforce.com

A lot of people also don’t know that William’s son, Samuel Wilberforce, debated with Thomas Huxley, criticizing the theories in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

Here again, there are obvious parallels to the debate over abortion -- the murder of hundreds of millions of children in our lifetime -- the greatest holocaust in world history.

We see in the British anti-slavery campaign a slow toil fraught with seemingly endless setbacks. Almost all hope seemed lost during the Napoleonic Wars, when members of Parliament argued that a withdrawal from the slave trade would guarantee a French dominance in West Indian plantation profits.

Wilberforce still plodded on with only a handful of supporters. According to Wikipedia.com:

“A change of tactics, which involved introducing a bill to ban British subjects from aiding or participating in the slave trade to the French colonies, was advised by maritime lawyer James Stephen in early 1806. It was a smart move, as the majority of the ships were, in fact, now flying under American flags and were manned by British crews, sailing out of Liverpool. The new Foreign Slave Trade Act was quickly passed and the tactic proved successful. The new legislation effectively prohibited two-thirds of the British slave trade. This was in part enabled by Lord Nelson's victory at the Trafalgar which had given Britain the sea power to ensure that any ban could be enforced.”

What this did was to hit the slave trading industry in its most vulnerable spot -- its profits. With the money of the slave trading lobbyists cut off, Parliament was able to proceed to pass a more universal Slave Trade Act just a year later.

We see a modern parallel in the federal law, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) and other federal and state legislation that limits the abortion industry. Such laws are flouted and violated at every turn by killing chains such as Planned Parenthood and others such as those owned locally by Dr. James Scott Pendergraft. If we will simply keep pressing our advantage, it may be possible to shut down many if not most of the clinics who perform dangerous surgery as an outpatient procedure.

In the meantime, the negative press generated by abortuaries that routinely violate health and medical codes, doctors who delivery viable babies alive and leave them to die, and other atrocities, can work in favor of turning public opinion. This strategy of enlightening the public to what is really happening can work. Even if we put only a small dent in the abortion industry due to litigation, we can change public opinion. Even “pro-choice” Americans draw the line at infanticide. Yet most are unaware that abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason.

The tactic should proceed as follows:

1. The public will be made aware that actual infanticide is going on in these killing places. Abortionists will be prosecuted.
2. A variety of other health and medical code violations in these killing chains will be publicized. Abortionists will be prosecuted.
3. Public sentiment against abortions of viable unborn children will rise as stories of premature birth success stories are published.
4. State by state, second and third trimester abortions will be outlawed as infanticide.
5. State by state, abortion can be pushed back to the original intent of Roe v. Wade, which is to limit abortion to the less than three percent of all abortions currently procured for the so-called “exceptions.”
6. A Constitutional Amendment banning all abortion will be enacted.

I have heard many pro-lifers hold a hard-line against this type of “incremental” approach as cowardly compromise and an accommodation with the culture of death. I myself am sympathetic to this viewpoint. However, what we need to be aware of is the vast amount of money taken in by the killing chains owned by Planned Parenthood. These resources are used in lobbying and the creation of false polls, such as those by Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute, which effectively maintain the status quo distortion of “a woman’s right to choose” even though a vast majority of Americans support a ban on second and third trimester abortions and abortion in the first trimester as a matter of convenience.

Another thing that convinces me that we are at a pivotal point, is the number of recent news stories that are systematically exposing abortion -- at least in the latter stages of pregnancy -- as infanticide in the national consciousness. I believe that this is the work of God now moving through the Holy Spirit to change the American consciousness. Our “ground troops” need to seize our advantage even while the “air support” is still striking. I also find it significant that many of these stories are focusing the nation’s attention on Florida and especially Orlando and Miami.

A British newspaper recently carried the story of the huge number of babies who are surviving late term abortions and a current move is under way to rewrite abortion laws in that country. I encourage you to go to this link and check out the comments – all by Europeans who are mostly “pro-choice” -- that show that this is pushing people slowly but surely toward a pro-life position.

Another story that astonished Americans was the Miami, Florida baby born at 20-weeks who has survived even though she weighed less than one pound at birth. This baby was actually younger than Baby Rowan who was left to die in an Orlando killing center owned by James Pendergraft.

As William Wilberforce was forced to alter tactics in order to win, we must now seek to break the back of at least one-third of the abortion industry and cripple their financial resources. Once the “abortion-for-profit” killing places are limited, we will be better able to work on changing the hearts of churches. The initial step can be won a lot sooner than most people think. We actually have cut the abortion rate by one-third in America due in part to the efforts of Crisis Pregnancy Centers and street activism. With public opinion on our side, we could gain further ground if we will keep pressing our advantage.

What is most amazing to me is that in April 1791, when Wilberforce introduced the first Parliamentary Bill to abolish the slave trade, it was easily defeated by 163 votes to 88. Yet Wilberforce continued to move bills throughout his career until on February 23, 1807, a bill limiting slave trade was carried by 283 votes to 16.

We can expect to see much the same turning of the tide in the pro-life effort if we will only remain faithful and settle for nothing less than a total outlawing and criminalization of abortion without exception or apology.

Joel and Ariel's Pro-life Reality Program

Here is the new and improved version of the Joel and Ariel MTV pro-life video. Joel and Ariel are brother and sister pro-life missionaries who started taking part in sidewalk counseling and peaceful protest at abortion clinics when they were teenagers. The video was done at a time when a lot of sidewalk and street activism at abortion clinics was being squelched by the media's portrayal of a few violent protesters.

In the early '90s several doctors and abortion clinic workers were shot. However, when compared with other social protest movements in American history, the pro-life movement has been by far the most peaceful. This video was shown repeatedly on the Unfiltered program and went a long way to show young people what really happens in front of abortion clinics.

Ariel ended the piece by saying that "we are just peaceful people" and challenged viewers to come out to the abortion clinics to see for themselves what is happening and not to accept any "pro-choice" media bias. We know that the video actually led to some young people getting involved in pro-life activism.

Since I was a full-time Christian worker who actually owned the property across the street from the Aware Woman abortion clinic, I taped about half of the "b-roll" shots you will see in the video. It was interesting because at the time I was praying about moving to Cantonment, Florida to work with Reel to Real Ministries in order to get training in non-linear video production. I took it as a small miracle (or more accurately: a providential event) that the first production I helped with ended up being a positive portrayal of pro-life activism on MTV's reality show Unfiltered -- of all programs!

We have had this video clip on The Forerunner Pro-life Videos website for the past seven years. Then recently I asked Joel and Ariel to offer a critique of the content and quality of the program. Watch the program and see for yourself. And I also challenge YOU to come out to the local abortion clinic to see what happens on a "killing day." I don't think everyone is called to do sidewalk counseling or be there on a weekly basis (as I was 24/7 for a few years) but it is always a powerful life-changing experience to take even a small part in saving a human life.

The Real Jesus - Myth #3 (5 of 10)

After taking a little break to do some pro-life videos and a series on my cousin Keith the sculptor, I am trying to finish the Real Jesus video this month.

Below is the script:

Myth #3: There was no virgin birth and
Jesus was not born in Bethlehem
By Jay Rogers

Jennings: "We cannot tell you whether or not Jesus is the Son of God, that is a matter of faith. But if you have difficulty with the idea that the Virgin Mary could get pregnant without a man involved, there are a number of ways to explain why in Luke it is written that way."

Jennings: "Some scholars think that Jesus was illegitimate and that the story was a cover-up."

That Jesus was born of a virgin is confirmed by both Matthew and Luke. In his Gospel, Matthew writes that this miracle was a fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14:

"Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel."

The name Immanuel in Hebrew means literally "God-With-Us." In other words, God himself was to be incarnate in human form. And the miraculous sign would be that He would be born of a virgin.

Now some have said that the word "virgin" in Hebrew can simply mean a maiden or an unmarried woman. The problem with this speculation is the context of Isaiah's prophecy. A "sign" in the Hebrew language is simply another way of translating the word "miracle." And the exclamation "Behold!" means to look with wonder. Both Isaiah and the Gospel writers meant to say that the Messiah would be born of a virgin and the witnesses would look in wonder at the event.

Peter Jennings is right about one thing. There is no physical evidence other than the scripture left to us today to determine the miracle of the Incarnation. But not only is the virgin birth called into question, but also the place and circumstances of Jesus' birth also prophesied in scripture.

Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."

When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. So they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet:

'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
Are not the least among the rulers of Judah;
For out of you shall come a Ruler
Who will shepherd My people Israel.'"

-- Matthew 2:1-6

According to prophecy given hundreds of years before Jesus was born, not only would He be born of a virgin, but He would also be born in the city of David, his forefather, in Bethlehem. Of course, Peter Jennings disagrees.

Jennings: "Luke writes that Joseph and Mary came here to Bethlehem from Nazareth because the Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus had ordered a world wide taxation. Now there is no record outside the Gospels that the Emperor Caesar Augustus ordered such a tax. Roman tax records do show that a man is to be taxed where he lives and where he works and Joseph lived and worked in Nazareth. Tax records also show they didn't count women. And so why would Joseph have brought Mary on this very difficult journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem through the desert especially when she was very pregnant?"[10:33-11:06]

But let's look at what the Gospel of Luke actually says:

"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This census first took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered" (Luke 2:1-6).

Some translations have the word "taxed" for the Greek word apographÈ, a word that comes from the Greek verb meaning to enroll or to register. What Luke actually wrote is not that Joseph came to Bethlehem "to be taxed," but that he came "to register" in a census. In the ancient world, a census was often used to assess the amount of able-bodied males eligible for military service.

According to ancient historians, this census was for a renewal of loyalty in the form of an oath of allegiance to Caesar Augustus. In order for the oath to be taken, all adult men had to be registered and actually sign their names to the oath of allegiance.

Josephus states, "The whole Jewish nation took an oath to be faithful to Caesar and to the interests of the king [Herod] ..." He adds that "above 6000 Pharisees refused to swear." Based on Josephus' writings, this oath was sworn in the year 3 B.C. This was the census for the taking of the oath to which Luke refers. The actual census may have been conducted the year before in 4 B.C. which is in accord with most reliable dates for the time of Christ's birth and stay in Bethlehem.

Furthermore, the fact that Josephus knew the number of Pharisees who did not take the oath indicates that some sort of record was made of who did and did not take the oath. This too, seems to prove that a registration or census took place.

Other ancient historians note that the census took place in other parts of the known Roman world as well. An inscription was found in Paphlagonia (a region in North Central Asia Minor) dated to 3 B.C. stating that an oath of obedience was "taken by the inhabitants of Paphlagonia and the Roman businessmen dwelling among them."

The Armenian historian, Moses of Khorene, stated that the native sources he had available showed that in the year of Abgar, king of Armenia in 3 B.C., a census brought Roman agents "to Armenia, bringing the image of Augustus Caesar, which they set up in every temple." (Martin, Ernest L., The Star That Astonished the World, ©1996, ASK Publications; Portland, OR, p.185.)

For a fascinating look at the historical reliability of the Gospels' nativity accounts, we recommend the Ernest L. Martin's book, The Star That Astonished the World, (1996, ASK Publications, Portland, OR).

So it is even more amazing that Peter Jennings would sweep aside this evidence only to tell his viewers:

"Now there is no record outside the Gospel that the Emperor Caesar Augustus ordered such a tax."

In order for Jesus to claim to be the Messiah, the Son of God, He would have to be born of a virgin in Bethlehem according to Old Testament prophecies.

Christianity is Rational

Over the weekend, some central Florida pro-life activists got to hear John Ensor and Jay Grimstead speak about the underlying philosophy of abortion and why the church has been straight-jacketed into accepting fallacies that make it impossible for us to resist what is otherwise a completely irrational argument in favor of legalized abortion. Many Americans have bought the lie and others who are still pro-life in their hearts have mentally accommodated the philosophical presuppositions of this lie.

A good example of this irrationality has been dialogues on this blog, my discussion boards (and now my YouTube V-Log) with atheists, skeptics, pro-abortionists and neo-pagans. I’ve written recently about the “stupidity” of the “Jesus-myth” theorists. Here I want to deal briefly with the irrationality of the pro-abortionists.

We began in December to edit together a series of 911 calls, ambulance footage, testimonies of women damaged by abortion, pregnancy counselors who have witnessed the damage, and a story about Baby Rowan who was born alive and then left to die in an abortion clinic.

The typical response from the pro-abortionists is to simply say that we are biased religious kooks who are telling lies to advance our own agenda. The following is one such exchange:

yuyukachoo wrote:

Yeah, just continue to blather on about the horrors of medical procedures you don't even understand while blocking any comments you can't seem to come up with a retort to. Intelligence at its best!

jcr4runner wrote:

Go to: http://womenscenter.com/abortion_methods.html

It's the web site of an abortion clinic.

Scroll down to where it says "complications of abortion." They list all the "horrors" that we talk about in the video as genuine medical risks of abortion. The statistics and medical risks of abortion are so well-documented that even some "honest" abortion doctors tell their patients the facts.

If you don't believe me, go to this page and read the page on the risks of an abortion from the doctor who runs an abortion clinic.

Read it and tell me who is blathering now. I am sorry if I offend you, but your comments are really ignorant. You argue from emotional bias, not rational thought.

yuyukachoo wrote:

You're the one using religion as a basis for some sort of argument. I'd say that's pretty irrational.

Jay Rogers wrote:

Christianity is rational. What is irrational is the modern reliance on a Kantian, Hegelian dualistic view of the universe that excludes what we cannot measure scientifically as "irrational." Jesus Christ the Living Word (or the LOGOS) is the unifying principle of all human knowledge and is the basis for all rational thought.

yuyukachoo wrote:

Explain to me how a giant man in the sky is a rational thing to believe, and how disregarding scientific research is as well.

Jay Rogers wrote:

Christianity does not deny scientific and rational thought. All philosophy up until the time of Immanuel Kant was rational in nature. Western philosophy was divided into two groups -- Christian and Greek pagan. But both groups were looking for a “unifying principle” that would unite the study of both the seen material and the unseen spiritual worlds. To Christians, this unifying principle was Christ, since the LOGOS was both a linguistic (Biblical literature) and logical (the God-man Jesus Christ as a real historical teacher) answer to the problem of the natural/spiritual dichotomy.

When Immanuel Kant wrote Critique of Pure Reason, he rejected the idea that there can be a principle that unites all fields of knowledge. He was actually arguing for an “irrational” system that tells us that we must forever accept a total dichotomy between the visible and invisible worlds. Modern philosophy and liberal theology now sees the two worlds (the noumenal world and the phenomenal world) as two airtight compartments. If the spiritual world exists, we cannot know anything about it through rational thought according to Kant.

Georg Hegel came along soon after and proposed that all truth is a synthesis between thesis and antithesis. That is, there are no objective truths, just what we end up agreeing upon after argument and debate. In fact, we make up new truths in the process. Thus Kant and Hegel together ended up creating an irrational basis for human philosophy that can never explain how the universe fits together as a whole.

Even in the world of science, history, education, literature, and politics, people now see a divided universe that exists in many small compartments, but cannot be understood as a whole. People seek to understand the "many" while denying the "one."

Hitler was simply echoing Hegelian thought when he said: “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” and “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think” and “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”

In other words, the “lie” becomes the new “truth” if most people will just believe it. This is exactly what Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood and the abortion advocates have understood all too well.

What Kant and Hegel did was to open the door to irrational thought in the form of existentialism and postmodernism. In fact, we are already well down the slippery slope to irrational philosophy. Or as Lewis Carroll wrote:

“The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.”

You post is an example of this. You start off by saying that our statistics on abortion are “blather on medical procedures you don’t even understand.”

When I cite rational, scientific and empirical evidence that come from abortion providers’ own literature, what you do is retreat into an emotional screed against religion as being irrational, yet I didn’t even use religion to try to prove that abortion is damaging to women. I know it is damaging because I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes (and video camera). I’ve researched the data, the empirical evidence and testimonies of women damaged by abortion.

You then repeat the lie that we deny scientific research, as if this research is on your side of the argument that abortion is "safe," while even many abortionists admit that it is not.

Even from a purely non-religious viewpoint, abortion does not empower women, but damages them and is and makes them prey to unscrupulous men who murder and maim for profit.

You’ve gone so far down the rabbit hole of existentialism, that you don’t even understand the irrationality of your Kantian and Hegelian thought. In the long run, your position isn’t a philosophical or religious problem at all. It’s a moral one fueled by your own irrational passions.

And moral problems are best dealt with by the LOGOS.

How to put abortion clinic 911 emergency calls on YouTube

I was thinking about writing a short "how-to" entry on how to create videos with abortion clinic 911 calls. I might elaborate more later, but here's a short explanation. People are often shocked to find out that we can easily get recordings of any 911 call. Simply, these are public domain. Anyone can call their local police or law enforcement department and order recordings of 911 calls coming from an abortion clinic. In fact, if you are a Christian witness at an abortion clinic and see anything unusual, you can call 911. Not only can you get the 911 call you made, but also any phone calls between the operators and the dispatch units.

The simple version:

1. Whenever you know of a 911 call coming from an abortion clinic you can get the tape or CD from your city or county.

2. Then you just need to use a simple video editing program to lay out an audio track.

3. Then edit any relevant images, graphics, captions or video over the audio track.

4. Then render it as a 320 X 240 dpi "medium broadband" file of any type. Different editing programs use various "codecs" to encode video, but YouTube can read and use them all.

5. Then you upload to YouTube. All you need to do is to register an account with them and you can upload any video you have in almost any format.

If you still have no idea how to do what I just explained, then I suppose you could always ask someone like me to help.

I know people who have years of video materials chronicling shocking events at abortion clinics. Now is the time to get these out to the general public.

Here are some of the pages with the Baby Rowan video. Since blogs are published with RSS feeds, one blog can appear in many different places. Some blogs are simply just "aggregates" of other blogs that appear with a similar subject matter. So the video is showing up all over the place. You can click on these links and see it without having to log into YouTube for "unsuitable content."

http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2007/02/baby_rowan_911.php

http://reflectionsofaparalytic.com/?p=238

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2007/02/baby_rowan_911__1.html

There are many repeats of the www.prolifeblogs.com feed on Baby Rowan at other blogs. The Baby Rowan video is now past 1100 views in less than one week by individual users. This was despite being restricted to registered users of YouTube who must declare themselves to be of adult age. Here is one blog that complains that it is restricted as "inappropriate" at YouTube:

http://sonoranalliance.com/?p=693

Warning - Powerful examples of cultural bias against human life!

A video exposing the truth behind the modern abortion industry was posted on You Tube on February 7, 2007. You are not able to view the video with out being logged in because it has been tagged as inappropriate. But if you search for “Saving Private Ryan” at You Tube this video is available without restriction (posted in October, 2006.) Hopefully You Tube will review their practices and stop restricting the truth and start actually limiting gratuitous violence.

The video about Baby Rowan can be viewed without restriction at ProLifeBlogs.

I am not upset with Google for putting a warning on the video requiring people to be 18 or older before logging in. I also put a warning at the page to tell people that it is disturbing. I don't think it's a video that young children should watch. Some of my family members aren't going to watch it.

There is still a lot of traffic for the video though. It didn't seem to drop off much when the warning was put up. At this point, I think most of the traffic is coming from the outside pages with the embedded streaming video.

Abortion Clinic 911 Emergency Calls - Baby Rowan

Here is the promised Baby Rowan video. This was difficult to edit on an emotional and spiritual level. Before you view it, you should be prepared because it is both shocking and heart-breaking.

This video illustrates some 911 calls when a baby was born alive in an Orlando abortion clinic and left to die. The abortionist who owns the clinic, Dr. James Pendergraft, has a history of illegal activity. He has done time in prison for an extortion conviction. He has had several of his abortion clinics closed for health violations and he has had his license suspended for performing illegal abortions. Yet this month he is back in business in Orlando.

Although killing a baby born alive after an abortion is a crime, law enforcement has yet to begin an investigation of the death of Baby Rowan. A common method of killing babies born alive is either to drown them in a toilet or to let the harsh effects of premature birth take its eventual toll.

If you don't believe that this is happening in America, consider the following. A British newspaper reports that each year 50 babies are born alive after abortion. Since America is almost five times as large, where are ours?

Abortion Clinic 911 Calls - Baby Rowan

I am currently working on a Baby Rowan video that will probably be in three or four parts. This will be even more sensational and harder to refute than the several videos we did about Aware Woman.

Rowan was a baby born alive in about the fifth month (22 weeks) of pregnancy and left to die at the EPOC abortion clinic in Orlando. The abortionist? None other than convicted felon James Scott Pendergraft. This is more common than people think. In this case, there are police reports, an autopsy, several photos of a perfectly formed baby and several 911 calls to corroborate this woman's story. How can anyone say that this was not homicide? If people see this with their own eyes and still try to refute it, the only thing they can really say is that the murder of a viable infant ought to be legal.

Look for these videos in a few weeks on YouTube. You can be alerted when these videos become available by subscribing to my VLog at YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jcr4runner

In the last few weeks, the traffic for the Aware Woman 911 Emergency Calls (1 of 4) has picked up. This was the first pro-life video I posted on YouTube. It looks like it's at more than 100 views per day now up from 50 just a few weeks ago. These things have a way of snowballing as the word gets out. The total views topped 4,000 today. That's not bad for a two month audience. Let's hope it accelerates and reaches 100,000 this year. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vh1frrx_-w

This is the composite of the 911 calls we knew about when several women at the Aware Woman abortion clinic suffered perforations of their uteruses and severe bleeding and had to be rushed to the hospital. The video hard to refute because it shows the ambulances arriving and leaving. It shows that a lot of abortion doctors, like William Philip Egherman, are either incompetent or in a hurry. (By the way, that's Egherman in the last frame of the video.) Common sense should tell people, pro-life or pro-abortion, that this is a dangerous procedure that harms woman and takes the life of a baby.

I don't discount the total depravity of man, but most people still care about injuring themselves. It didn't have a single negative comment until recently:

"Wow, how dare they invade the privacy of the ambulance drivers, the children, the neighborhood. This just goes to show the vicious nature of these so-called pro-lifers who are simply looking for a way to control others. How does this talk women out of having abortions? Having two or three calls for an ambulance is supposed to deter us? More mothers die from childbirth. Trust me, abortion is very very rarely regretted."

The attitude is, "You can't stop us. We are committed to abortion and none of your reporting and research into its dangers and is going to change that!"

Let's ignore the fact that this was at only one clinic in the space of 18 months. There were several other botched procedures that we know of as well. This is by a doctor who rarely performed more than 20 abortions a week at that clinic.

There is a growing segment of people who have become hardened, but on the whole people are not that heartless. A more typical "pro-choice" response is:

"Powerful piece of footage. Well put together. Have mixed views on Abortion myself, but clearly this clinic needs closing down. One thing they are not is AWARE. Sending my thoughts to all who need."

and

Well just saying someone's life won't be happy isn't reason enough to terminate it. I'm pro choice but for the reason of safety for women who will have one regardless if its legal or not. But I am certainly not pro choice as a way of eliminating poor people. You can't justify abortion as a way of getting rid of undesirable people.

This is the great common-sense moderate middle who we need to influence. See the video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vh1frrx_-w

Vote for a Christian sculptor at Current.TV

Would you be willing to do me a BIG favor that requires only a little effort on your part?

Watch The Great American Sculptor video on Current.TV. Then vote for the video to be broadcast. That will be another step toward getting this video series on the satellite network.

If you haven't seen Current.TV, it's a satellite channel that broadcasts viewer created mini-documentaries. Viewers upload their video "pods" to the Current.TV website and other viewers vote on them. If the video is popular enough, it will be shown on the air.

While not overly preachy, the Christian message of this video comes across as Keith Johnson presents sculpture and art as a way of pointing people toward God and toward the principles that make a nation great.

Go to Current.TVand vote for the video by clicking on the "greenlight" bar. You will have to register, provide a user name and password. But that is quick and easy. Just a couple hundred greenlights should get us on satellite TV. Tell your friends and family to do the same.

Here is the email Current.TV sent me:

Good news! Your video is now posted on the Current site. You can find it here:

http://www.current.tv/watch/21464472

There's a lot of stuff on the Current site, and sometimes it can be hard to make your submission stand out. Here are a few suggestions:

* Write an email blast to your friends. Tell them to come and greenlight your submission!

* You can post your video elsewhere on the web -- on a personal profile, blog, message board, or wherever -- using this code: