Unheard Voices (Spring 2011)

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Letter from the editorSilenced HolocaustWhat’s inside?

In 1973 the Supreme Court decided that through abortion unborn babies could be killed atany time. Everyday 4,000 babies are killed in this country.

Abortion is real; we all know that but i we really understood that these are real childrenonly smaller and younger then why are we not doing anything? Why are the lives o theseinnocent children ignored?

Most o us have not seen abortion with our own eyes. We

haven’t heard their cries because they have been silenced. Wedon’t get to hold the victims because they are dead. Unlikemost holocausts we do not have survivors to bring in and tellus their stories.

God has called us to be a light and stand up or those whodon’t have a voice o their own. Who is going to be that voicei not us, the church? God is the creator o everybody. He hascreated each o us in his image.

Ashley Michie

April1st-17th 40 days or Lie

1st-17th Stand rue and AustinCoalition or Lie’s 2011 SpringBreak

11th SPU Students or Lie meeting7-8pm

16th Pray at Planned Parenthood-meet at 10 am

16th 40 Days or Lie nale rally 9:30-11:00am

18th Showing o the Documentary Blood Money 7pm

May 2nd Students or Lie Meeting7-8pm

26th Prayer with SPUHOP 6-8pm

21st Pray at Planned Parenthood

23rd Visible representation at SPU

June4th Pray at Planned Parenthood10 am

7th SPU Students or Lie meeting7-8pm

Seattle Pacic University Students or Lie..............2Forty Days or Lie..........2Abby Johnson..................3Contact ino.....................4Mission statement...........4

“God has calledus to be a

light and stand up for

those who don’t have

a voice of their own.

Who is going to be

that voice if not us,

the church?”

Spring 2011

Volume 1· Issue 1

A publication o Seattle Pacic University Students or Lie

Calendar o events

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Two years ago Abby

Johnson was the

director of one of the largest Planned Parenthood

clinics in the U.S. now she is a pro-life advocate. In 2008

she had been employee of the year at Planned Parenthood

now she is revealing Planned Parenthood’s secret: aboronis a cash business.

On March 22, 2011 Abby Johnson, author of the best-

selling book Unplanned, spoke at the INB Performing Arts

Center in Spokane, Washington. According to the event’s

MC Susan Meyer, CEO of Spokane Transit Authority, the

purpose of this event was to seek truth and present the

consequences of “choice”.

In accordance with this purpose to seek truth, the event

started o by showing two videos that represent contrast -

ing perspecves on the issue of reproducve health. The

rst video, “My Planned Parenthood”presented the views of Planned

Parenthood employees and other

supporters who believe that PlannedParenthood is the only source of

healthcare for low income women.

The second video was the trailer for

the documentary lm, Blood Money,which declared to be a shocking

portrayal of the “inconvenient truth

of aboron”. One of the women inthe video describes aboron as the

“ulmate exploitaon of women” andanother woman stated that “concep-

on marks the beginning of life”.When Johnson then takes the

stage aer a standing ovaon, she

begins with stang, “Aboron in this

country is graphic, aboron is murder,aboron is disgusng.”

Johnson began her story stangthat she was raised by “ultra conser-

vave parents” who were pro-life and in high school she

would describe herself as being against aboron. Whenshe was 20 years old and in college she found herself preg-

nant and her mind was blank, she said.

Aer working at Planned Parenthood for eight years

her life changed in a way that she never thought it would.Since beginning her career at Planned Parenthood she had

wondered if she was desned to hell and had hoped that

she wouldn’t die unl aer she had rered.Planned Parenthood has two budgets: family planning

and aboron, said Johnson. One day as she was looking at

the budgets she noced that the quota for aborons to beperformed had doubled and she thought that is must be

an error because she believed that Planned Parenthood

truly wanted to reduce aborons. When she pointed thisout to her supervisor she was told that her priority needed

to be aboron because that is where the money is.

In September of 20

Johnson was asked to

a vising doctor with an ultrasound guided aboroa 13 week fetus. At this point, every internal organ

formed and Johnson said that she had ashbacks t

own daughter’s ultrasound. During the aboron pdure Johnson said that she saw the baby get poked

instrument followed by the baby ghng and strug

her life unl she was backed in the corner of the uUpon seeing this obvious struggle for life, Johnson

that she remembered the Planned Parenthood scr

fetus does not have sensory development unl 28 What does it mean to be pro-choice? For Johnso

meant helping take away the motherhood of thou

of women, it meant watching a baby get ripped an

away from the mother’s womb. “Choice”, Johnson

been perverted to something

ing but “choice” is a myth, a m

that must be exposed.

Apathy of Chrisans towaron, Johnson said, is the reasit has remained legal in our co

In the U.S. one third of wome

had an aboron and 78 percethose women are Chrisans. grow up in a church where th

about aboron,” Johnson saidher pastor didn’t speak up ab

sancty of life. According to J

people in the church who arefrom aboron do not know wdo or where to go—the silenc

church is deafening because a

aects everybody involved.Silence not only ignores th

Johnson pointed out, silence

nicates that aboron is not abecause the word “aboron”

in the Bible but both Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 1:5 s

the fact that God created us and knew us when we

in the womb. According to Johnson, silence also co

nicates that this sin is too big for God but nothing

big for God. For those who have a hard me heari

aboron in church, Johnson said, they’re the onesneed to hear it most.

“We are ghng a spiritual bale,” Johnson saiis why her challenge was for everybody to contact

church and ask how to get involved. Whether invo

is prayer or volunteering at a pregnancy center, th

place for everyone in this movement. Johnson pray

side the clinic where she used to work.

“There is no excuse for anybody to walk out of tonight and not get involved.”

“What are we doing?” Johnson asked. “We are t

hands and feet of Christ and we beer use them.”

ay and night, sleet or snow, people are praying in front

f hundreds of aboron facilies across the country. Fortyays for life began in 2007, coordinang prayer vigils

wice a year in 337 U.S. cies. Parcipants in these prayergils have reported 3,599 lives saved as a result of their

resence in front of aboron centers. Following these

ampaigns nine aboron facilies have completely closedown.

The purpose of these bi-annual campaigns is to unite

pro-lifers to praying and fasng for an end to aboronfocusing on their communies. According to their website,“The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body

of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40 day cam-

paign of prayer, fasng, and peaceful acvism, with thepurpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts

and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus

bringing an end to aboron in America.”

The next campaign takes place during lent which beginson March 9 and ends forty days later on April 17th. This

me there will be a campaign in North Seale at thePlanned Parenthood near Northgate mall.

Dates: March 9- April 17, 2011

Locaon: Planned Parenthood

2111 N. Northgate Way, Suite 218

For more informaon or to sign up to pray go to:40daysforlife.com/NorthSeale

Lie vs. choiceNew pro-lie group at SPUn January 18th 2011, ve SPU students met to make aan o action or starting a pro-lie group on campus. Atis meeting they discussed the importance o standing

p or lie especially at a school that is so passionate aboutcial justice issues. In the ollowing weeks this group metgether to pray and make plans or their rst event whichas projected to take place in February.Aer applying or ofcial club recognition, this groupntinued to pray on campus and at Planned Parenthood.

ven though the application process was taking longer thanpected, the group held out hope that the issue o abortionould not be ignored or very much longer.On March 8th the Committee or Student Clubsntacted Students or Lie to let them k now that they proved the group. Aer club registration is complete,U Students or Lie will be able to meet on campus and

vertise their events and meetings.Even though this group has been meeting since theginning o winter quarter their ofcial club status will giveem a resh start. Te members o this group are hopingat this status will help them grow in numbers and thateir reputation will also become known around campus.“We want to cultivate a culture o lie and partner with

her campus groups that have a similar mission,” saidshley Michie, president o SPU Students or Lie.o sign up or SPU Students or Lie’s e-mail list, e-mail:[email protected]

Prayer Saves Lives



Mission StatementTe purpose o this pro-lie group is to educate Seattle Pacic University students about the issues surroundingabortion, connect them to resources, and unite to take action. Supporting and sustaining a culture o lie is vitalto saving the lives o our generation. Our aim is to protect lie in all stages, rom conception to natural death,particularly ocusing on an end to abortion through prayer. We seek to respect lie by advocating or the unborn.

Contact UsVisit our website or an updated news eed, links to resources, and aPDF o our quarterly newsletter.

E-mail us or more inormation, to be added to our e-mail list, or tosubmit an article, photo, or event

Ashley Michie- President o SPU Students or Lie [email protected]

Mary Williams- Outreach Coordinator [email protected]

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Unheard Voices (Spring 2011)