JESSE JACKSON, 1977: "What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the abortion of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society, will we have in 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually

AMERICAN FAMILY JOURNAL: "Quietly, slowly, painfully, inexorably, the American people are answering that question [what decent society can live with abortion?]: We cannot live with abortion. We know there is a better way.

That is why the Freedom of Choice Act, that grand design to enshrine abortion on demand once and for all, failed.

That is why 83% of the counties of America have no abortion clinic, and only 13% of public hospitals will perform abortions.

That is why fewer and fewer medical schools are teaching abortion -- most doctors themselves want nothing to do with it.

That is why, when President Clinton lifted the ban on abortion at US military bases overseas, every single American military doctor in Europe and Asia refused to participate in abortion. They simply refused to do it." (American Family Journal, January, 1995, p.15)

WASHINGTON, DC--No abortions have been performed in any military hospitals in the 18 months since President Clinton ordered military physicians to perform abortions. Every military doctor has used the conscience clause to refuse abortions. (LIC 11/94) AOL

SPRINGFIELD, IL--A study by the Eliot Institute for Social Sciences Research found that 28% of women who regretted having an abortion had attempted suicide. About 65% acknowledged denying negative feelings for about 5 years, 20% reported nervous breakdowns. The subjects had abortions an average 10.6 years before the survey. (NIR 11/28/94) AOL

WASHINGTON, DC--Since the Supreme Court 1973 Roe v. Wade decision over 31 million abortions have been performed -- as many as the combined populations of the 15 states in red shown above. Currently 4,300 abortions are performed each day, about one every 20 seconds. (Nat’l Right to Life)

LEGAL SOPHISTRY: In 1994 Kawana Michele Ashley, a Florida woman, shot herself in the womb as an abortion method. It worked. The infant survived 15 days after an emergency Caesarian section. Ashley was unable to pay for an abortion, which was legal, but because the infant died, she was charged 9-7-94 with manslaughter and 3rd-degree murder.

LEGAL SOPHISTRY: In 1985, a Plantation, Florida doctor performed a legal abortion. The baby insisted on living, whereupon the doctor issued a "Code Blue," and obligated the hospital to do everything possible to save it. The baby lived for nine hours before dying on a respirator. (Which lawsuit should the mother choose: a botched abortion, or failure to keep the infant alive? How does a candidate for death become transformed into a person worthy of a hospital's most sophisticated life-saving resources?)

NON-LIFE THAT GREW UP??? "Modern medical technology today enables many babies born prematurely to survive and grow into healthy human beings. Thus, when abortion is practiced in the sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth month of pregnancy, the prospect that a to-be-aborted baby will survive the procedure is one which strikes terror into the hearts of abortionists...In one instance, a child survived a saline abortion performed at Johns Hopkins University. The doctor who delivered the infant was successfully sued by the mother for support costs." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

TRIMESTER STATISTICS: "...45 of 607 mid-trimester abortions done at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Conn., between April, 1974, and October, 1976, resulted in live births, including one set of twins. None survived more than 13 hours, despite attempts to save them." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

GASPING NON-LIFE?? "One nurse testified that the child gasped for breath for at least 15 minutes following the abortion and no attempts were made to help it in any way. She said she observed a pulse in the upper chest, left neck area. Another nurse said she had seen the baby move and that "one of the foreign residents, who was observing, baptized the child." According to testimony, someone in the room ordered a lethal dose of morphine, but no one administered it." (John Martin, managing editor, The Daily Chronicle, Centralia-Chehalis, WA, citing the Pittsburth Press of Nov. 1, 1974; reprinted by Human Life, 1316 E. Pike, Seattle WA 98122)

THE REAL LEGAL REASON: "By mid-May, after five months of work, Blackmun was still laboring over his draft abortion opinion. Finally, he let one of his clerks look over a draft. As usual, he made it clear that he did not want any editing. The clerk was astonished. It was crudely written and poorly organized. It did not settle on any analytical framework, nor did it explain on what basis Blackmun had arrived at the apparent conclusion that women had a right to privacy, and thus a right to abortion." ("The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court," Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong, 1979, Simon & Schuster)

HIPPOCRATIC OATH (ANCIENT): "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; furthermore, I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion."

HIPPOCRATIC OATH 1948: "I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception." (Hippocratic Oath, revised September, 1948, Declaration of Geneva) (These words were simply deleted from the oath in the 1960's by the Univ. of Pittsburgh and University of Toronto School of Medicine.)

PRE-ROE V. WADE MEDIA BIAS: "The birth of a human life really occurs at the moment the mother's egg cell is fertilized by one of the father's sperm cells." (Drama of Life Before Birth, Life Magazine, April 1965; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111)

LIFE AT CONCEPTION: "It is a scientific fact, which everyone really knows, that human life begins at conception, and is continuous, whether inside or outside the uterus, until death." (Journal, CA State Medical Assn., Sept. 1970; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111)

YOU’RE NEXT: "If a mother can kill her own child, what is left before I kill you and you kill me?" (Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner)

SUB-HUMANS: "When Hitler determined to exterminate the Jews, some German humanists objected on the basis of the sanctity of life and of natural justice, Hitler simply defined the Jews as less than fully human, and his critics were anesthetized. If the Jews were not human, then they did not have human rights. What a simple solution to an otherwise perplexing problem! The argument for rights...becomes capricious and merely a matter of definition of terms by whoever has the power to make his definition stick...When abortion opponents object that in doing so they destroy other persons - unborn children - and deprive them of all their rights, the prochoice party simply resorts to having the competent power - the Supreme Court - declare that unborn children are not persons and hence have no rights to interfere with a woman's freedom of choice." (JW Whitehead, The Second American Revolution, pp. 118, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

CHINESE EUGENICS: "China is readying a new law that would use abortions and sterilization to prevent people suffering from certain illnesses from having children. The draft law on eugenics before China's national legislature is designed "to avoid new births of inferior quality and heighten the standards of the whole population," the Xinhau News Agency reported recently." (Omaha World Herald, 12/22/94; cited in the American Family Assoc. Journal, April, 1994, p.13)

AMERICAN EUGENICS: "Is adolescent pregnancy a disease? We have laws regarding other epidemics. We have mandatory immunizations, but we have no law prohibiting motherhood before the age of 14 in our supposedly civilized society. We ought to mandate against continuing pregnancy in the very young, say, those less than 14 years." (Minnesota abortionist Jane Hodgeson, National Abortion Federation Conference at Washington D.C on May 28, 1980)

GENDER SELECTIONS: "One of the complications of abortion is the basis on which abortions will be performed. Pro-choice positions generally argue that abortion simply eliminates the unwanted child and has no other spin-offs. A 1988 study of 8,000 abortions done in India, however, show that 7,997 of the abortions were female fetuses. It is virtually impossible to prevent all kinds of vested interests to get into this kind of question, and the complications that such interests bring is obvious. We abhor the racial and ethnic cleansing taking place in Bosnia, but the same motivations and thinking obviously permeate the abortion issue."

--Smithsonian, July, 1993, pg. 114. (This quote was challenged by a person on electronic b-bd. as a misreference; they looked it up and the article had nothing to do with abortion).

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "The research of Dr. Peter A.J.Adam, an associate professor of pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University, shows how far a Supreme Court decision can be taken. Six months after Roe v. Wade Dr. Adam reported to the American Pediatric Research Society on research he and his associates had conducted on twelve babies who had been born alive by hysterectomy abortion up to twenty weeks. These men took the tiny babies and cut off their heads - decapitated the babies and cannulated the internal carotid arteries (that is, a tube was placed in the main artery feeding the brain). They kept the

diminutive heads alive, much as the Russians kept the dogs' heads alive in the 1950s. Take note of Dr. Adam's retort to criticism: "Once society's declared the fetus dead, and abrogated its rights, I don't see any ethical problem. . .Whose right are we going to protect, once we've decided the fetus won't live?"" (Dr. Peter A.J.Adam, "Post-Abortion Fetal Study Stirs Storm," p.21, as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 67, JW Whitehead, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

EXODUS: If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. --Exodus 21:22-24

QUICKENING: In 1973 the Supreme Court legalized abortion in Roe v. Wade. Until the 1820's, no law existed against abortion. At this time, man only understood life at the "quickening." Science began to understand that babies developed from a sperm and egg through the help of the microscope. Ironically, it was the doctors and scientists who first moved against abortion, not the churches. Although hard numbers are missing, some research finds that abortions in the late 1800's, early 1900's, are perhaps worse than today's numbers, proportionately. It is clear the attitude then was about the same as now. Between 1849-1858, 32 accused abortionists were tried in Mass. Not one was convicted by their juries. And one doctor commented of women in 1896, "Many otherwise good and exemplary women, who would rather part with their right hands or let their tongues cleave to the roof of the mouth than to commit a crime, seem to believe that prior to quickening it is no more harm to cause the evacuation of the contents of their wombs than it is that of their bladders or their bowels." -(Facts from "Legends, Lies & Cherished Myths of American History," Richard Shenkman, 1988, Wm. Morrow & Co., NY)

4,400 SLAUGHTERED EVERY DAY: "Every day in the U.S. 4,400 babies are killed by abortion. 1,600,000 babies are killed every year. 31,000,000 have been slaughtered since abortion-on-demand was legalized by the Supreme Court in 1973. 30% of all babies conceived in this country are killed before they ever see the light of day." (National Right to Life Committee, as quoted by American Family Association Journal, March, 1994, pg.4)

AT CONCEPTION: ". . .It is scientifically correct to say that human life begins at conception." (Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "At the moment the sperm cell of the human male meets the ovum of the female and the union results in a fertilized ovum (zygote) a new [human] life has begun." (Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "Biologically, at no stage can we subscribe to the view that the fetus is a mere appendage of the mother: Genetically, mother and baby are separate individuals from conception." (Dr. A.W. Liley, professor of Fetal Physiology, National Women's Hospital, Auckland New Zealand; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "The standard medical texts have long taught that human life begins at conception." (Dr. Alfred Bongiovanni, U. Of Pennsylvania Medical School; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: "A doctor must always bear in mind the importance of preserving human life from the time of conception until death." (Internation Code of Ethics; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

AT CONCEPTION: ". . .when life begins - is no longer a question for theological or philosophical dispute. . .it is an established fact. . .that all life, including human life, begins at the moment of conception." (Dr. Hymie Gordon, professor of Medical Genetics, Mayo Clinic; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

THE LAW: "Once human life has commenced, the constitutional protection found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments imposes upon the state the duty of safeguarding it." (Steinburg v. Rhodes, 321 F. Supp. 741 (N.D. Ohio, 1970); quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

THE LAW: ". . .as a general rule of construction in the law, a legal personality is imputed to an unborn child for all purposes which would be beneficial to the infant after its birth." (American Jurisprudence; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

JUSTICE BYRON WHITE DISSENTED: "I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment [Roe v. Wade]. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. . .As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but in my view its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of judicial review. . ." (Supreme Court Justice Byron White, dissenting opinion, Roe v. Wade; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

POST-ABORTION MATERNAL AFFECTS: "Majority [of women in study] reported chronic emotional problems in the abortion aftermath, including guilt, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, difficulty with relationships, and anxiety in subsequent pregnancies. 26% reported making some suicidal gesture since their abortion. (T.Wall, "Psychological After-Effects of Abortion," Wayne State University, 1986; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

POST-ABORTION MATERNAL AFFECTS: "Induced abortion is estimated to be responsible for 150,000 - 250,000 cases of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) in the US annually. PID is a major direct cause of permanent sterility, chronic abdominal pain and increased risk of extra-uterine pregnancy. (V.Rue, "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and the Role of Induced Abortion," Association for Interdisciplinary Research Newsletter, 1988; quoted by Public Affairs Council pamphlet "The Abortion Choice," POB 98292 Tacoma, WA 98498)

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "Although the Supremem Court's fundamental tactic in Roe v. Wade was based on the right to privacy, the Court did protect itself against natural law arguments based on the right to life by also deciding that an unborn child is not a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. As a nonperson, the unborn child can claim no rights to vie with the woman's right to privacy. Indeed, as a nonperson the fetus is a nonentity, with which the law may not concern itself. This conclusion is strange, indeed, because for at least a century, industrial corporations have been considered persons under the Fourteenth Amendment for purposes of lawsuits. They can be protected, although they are not living persons. [Yale law] Professor [John Hart] Ely states: "The argument that fetuses lack constitutional rights is simply irrelevant. . .Dogs are not "persons in the whole sense" nor have they constitutional rights, but that does not mean the state cannot prohibit killing them: It does not even mean the state cannot prohibit killing them in the exercise of the First Amendment right of political protest. Come to think of it, draft cards aren't person either." In other words, it is against the law to burn a draft card but not to kill an unborn child." (The Second American Revolution, pp. 124, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co; JH Ely quoted from "The Wages of Crying Wolf: A Comment on Roe v. Wade," Yale Law Journal 82:943, 947)

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BLACKMUN: "When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in the position to speculate as to the answer." (Roe v. Wade, 410 US at 159, as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 125, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

NOBEL LAUREATE JAMES WATSON, 1973: "If a child is not declared alive until three days after birth, then all parents could be allowed the choice only a few are given under the present system. The doctor could allow the child to die if the parents so choose and save a lot of misery and suffering. I believe this view is the only rational, compassionate attitude to have." (Prism Magazine, American Medical Association, 1973; as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 136, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co))

NOBEL LAUREATE FRANCIS CRICK, 1978: "...no newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live." (Pacific News Service, Jan., 1978; as quoted in The Second American Revolution, pp. 136, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD: "The shameful state of the legal and medical professions is exhibited in the case of Dr. William B.l Waddill, Jr. An obstetrician in California, Waddill was tried for allegedly strangling to death a baby born alive following a saline abortion. At a preliminary hearing in April 1977, Dr. Ronald Cornelsen testified that Dr. Waddill throttled the infant's neck and complained about what would happen if the baby survived. "Waddill said that there would be lawsuits, that the baby would be brain damaged, and talked about stopping respiration by drowning or injecting potassium chloride," Cornelsen testified. At the trial in January 1978, Mrs. Joanne Griffith, a nurse at the hospital, testified that another nurse said Dr. Waddill ordered everyone to leave the bay alone and not do anything for the child. Dr. Cornelsen testified that when he first examined the baby, the heart was beating sixty to seventy times a minute with a regular rhythem. There was some discoloration on the babny's neck (allegedly from the first attempt at strangling). He further testified that while he was examining the baby, Dr. Waddill "stuck his hand back in [the isolette] and pressed the baby's neck again." The trial began to falter when the issue departed from whether or not Waddill had indeed strangled a living being and began to focus on the definition of death...Eventually the trial ended in a hung jury. A later retrial ended in another hung jury. A short while afterwards, the court involved dismissed the charges against Waddill." (Citing Schaeffer and Koop, "Human Race," p. 212; The Second American Revolution, pp. 137-38, 1982, David C. Cook Publishing Co)

SOPHISTRY: NON-LIFE "ALIVE" / "SURVIVES"???? "For the second time in two days, [Madison, WI] University Hospital and Clinics officials have reported that an aborted fetus was delivered alive...the fetus, determined by doctors to be 22 weeks old...had been delivered...and then resuscitated, placed in the hospital's pediatric unit and transferred...to Madison General. Tim Harper, spokesman at Madison General, said the baby died today at 1:30 a.m. of respiratory failure and other problems. University Hospital officials said an aborted fetus delivered Tuesday had been revived and survived nearly a day before dying Wednesday...Hospital officials would not reveal...what type of abortion was performed." (Tacoma [WA] News Tribune, May 6, 1982, p. B6)

QUESTION: Should these parents have an abortion? The father has syphilis. The mother has TB. They already have had four children; one blind, one died, one deaf, one with TB. If you answered yes, you just aborted Beethoven.

FOLLOWING LOGIC: "In Mexico and Scandinavia an aborted fetus is an aborted fetus. It can be treated like a removed organ. We might as well make some logical use of it. (Dr. Kirt Hirschhorn, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC; quoted in the National Observer, Mar. 21, 1973, p.4; cited in "The Facts of Life," Life Messengers, Box 1967, Seattle, WA 98111

LOGICAL: If human life can be taken before birth, there is no logical reason why it cannot be taken after birth. -----Francis Schaeffer

LOGICAL: Since the Bible teaches that life in the womb is human life, one cannot accept abortion without denying the authority and truth of Scripture in practice. -----Francis Schaeffer

CONFESSION OF A LIAR: DR. BERNARD NATHANSON, former abortionist and cofounder National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. ...We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85% of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5%. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted as though they had been written into law." (John, Powell, The Silent Holocaust, pg. 75; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

CONFESSION OF A LIAR: DR. BERNARD NATHANSON, former abortionist and cofounder National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL): "In NARAL we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter, it was always '5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.' [From back-alley abortions--Ed.] I confess that I knew the figures were totally false and I suppose others did, too, if they stopped to think of it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?" (Aborting America, p. 193; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

THE TRUTH OF ILLEGAL ABORTION DEATHS: "According to the US Bureau of Vital Statistics, the actual number of women dying from illegal abortions in 1972 (the year before Roe) was thirty-nine." (data from Center for Disease Control, table 35, MMWR, 8-8-97, cited by Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 165-166).

FETAL PAIN: "When abortionists challenged a reference to fetal pain by President Reagan in 1984, twenty-six experts - including two past presidents of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - wrote a letter to the White House setting forth the scientific facts: 'Mr. President,' they said, ' in drawing attention to the capability of the human fetus to feel pain, you stand on firmly established ground.' Another authority, Dr. William Hogan, also defended the claim, citing numerous recognized fetology textbooks - some twenty-five years old - which detail the sensitive areas of the fetal body beginning at about 8 weeks gestation." ("Fetal Pain," The NY Times, Feb 26, 1984; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

1991 GALLUP POLL: 77% of Americans believe abortion takes a human life.

17% of Americans are "strongly pro-choice."

26% of Americans are "strongly pro-life."

1 out of 4 Americans "seldom disapprove of abortion."

1 out of 4 Americans "consistently disapprove of abortion.""

2 out of 4 Americans "often disapprove of abortion."

73% support banning all abortions in the second and third trimester.

("Abortion and Moral Beliefs: A Survey of American Opinion," The Gallup Organization, Feb. 28, 1991; cited by Randy, Alcorn, Pro-Life Answers to ProChoice Arguments, pg. 125; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

TRIMESTER ABORTIONS: "The American Medical Association reports that 4000 abortions are legally performed each year in the seventh, eighth and ninth month." (American Medical News, 7-5-93; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

CONFESSION: ABORTION ADVOCATE MAGDA DENES: "I do think abortion is murder - of a very special and necessary sort. And no physician ever involved with the procedure ever kids himself about that." (In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital, Penguin Books: NY, NY,

1977, p.227; as cited in Human Life News, pg. 4, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

MEDIA IGNORES VIOLENCE AGAINST PRO-LIFERS: "Recently, a man with his wife at an abortion clinic in Louisiana turned his gun on a pro-life demonstrator. These facts, however, may not have reached you. They did not reach many people at all. Most newspapers and television news shows chose not to report the facts. Imagine how the media would respond if the roles were reversed and the demonstrator had fired the shot? ...If the media are going to cover violence surrounding abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy center, shouldn't it be covered objectively?" --Human Life News, pg. 10, Feb. 1995, Vol 25, No. 1, 2725 152nd Av NE, Redmond, WA 98052)

LOGICAL!!!

Q: "Are you going to adopt the children I'm forced to give birth to after you make abortion illegal!?"

A: "Unless you agree to adopt MY children, I will kill all of them at midnight. By YOUR logic, I am justified in killing them."

DR MENGELES WOULD BE PROUD: "In three studies at the University of Manitoba beginning in 1973, Dr Francisco Reyes cut open the stomachs and skulls of 249 live aborted babies. The first study involved the delivery of live, normal babies whose abdomens were cut open and their sex and adrenal glands examined. The second study involved seventy-nine babies aborted alive and later killed by a heart puncture. The third study involved 116 babies also aborted alive. Their skulls were opened and their pituitary glands removed. They also were later killed by heart puncture." (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 182-183)

DR MENGELES WOULD BE PROUD: According to a June 1972 Reuters News Agency report, testicles were successfully transplanted from a six-month-old aborted baby into a twenty-eight-year-old Lebanese man. The donor baby was then killed.

In 1974 Dr Bela A Resch cut the hearts out of aborted babies and observed them beating outside their bodies for hours.

In 1980 Dr. Marti Kekomaki cut open the stomachs and severed the heads of several live aborted babies. He later remarked, "An aborted baby is just garbage and that's where it ends up. Why not make use of it for society?" (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 182-183)

MOTHER TERESA: By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Andy country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." (cited in Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 177)

THE FETUS ISN'T A PERSON: Unborn eagles receive legal protection and they're not considered persons. Corporations are artificial persons and are protected by the 14th Amendment. Why shouldn't unborn humans get the same protection? The distinction as a non-person is irrelevant.

ABORTION DEBATE: "A question directed at the pro-life side came from an angry woman in the audience that went this way: 'Are you going to adopt the children I'm forced to give birth to after you make abortion illegal!?' The scholar arguing the pro-life position approached the microphone and calmly said, 'I have three children asleep at home right now. After this debate, I will go home, and at midnight tonight I will kill all three of those children UNLESS you agree to adopt them. If you don't agree to adopt them, am I justified in killing them?' That was the end of the conversation." (Geisler & Turik, "Legislating Morality," Bethany House Publ., Minn., MN, 55438, pg 170)

ANGRY AT GOD: Invariably people are outraged when God allows some to die, some to live in a catastrophe. "What kind of a God would arbitrarily choose some to live and some to die!!?" But when we play God and determine whether a child within a mother's womb should live or die, we argue for that as a moral right to choose. What a lie and contradiction: when humans play God, it is moral, when God plays God, it is immoral.

RIGHT TO CHOOSE & PRIVACY – CONSISTENT? If you are for a woman's right to choose, why aren't you for a woman's right to choose a school for her child? If it is a matter of a woman’s right to privacy, why are most pro-choice advocates strongly for the federal income tax, which strips away every vestige of privacy? --Paul Mitchell

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Mona Charen

Body parts for sale

"KELLY" (a pseudonym) was a medical technician working for a firm that trafficked in baby body parts. This is not a bad joke. Nor is it the hysterical propaganda of an interest group. It was reported in The American Enterprise magazine -- the intelligent, thought-provoking and utterly trustworthy publication of the American Enterprise Institute.

The firm Kelly worked for collected fetuses from clinics that performed late-term abortions. She would dissect the aborted fetuses in order to obtain "high-quality" parts for sale. They were interested in blood, eyes, livers, brains and thymuses, among other things.

"What we did was to have a contract with an abortion clinic that would allow us to go there on certain days. We would get a generated list each day to tell us what tissue researchers, pharmaceutical companies and universities were looking for. Then we would examine the patient charts. We only wanted the most perfect specimens." That didn't turn out to be difficult. Of the hundreds of late-term fetuses Kelly saw on a weekly basis, only about 2 percent had abnormalities. About 30 to 40 babies per week were around 30 weeks old -- well past the point of viability.

Is this legal? Federal law makes it illegal to buy and sell human body parts. But there are loopholes in the law. Here's how one body parts company -- Opening Lines Inc. -- disguised the trade in a brochure for abortionists: "Turn your patient's decision into something wonderful."

For its buyers, Opening Lines offers "the highest quality, most affordable, freshest tissue prepared to your specifications and delivered in the quantities you need, when you need it." Eyes and ears go for $75, and brains for $999. An "intact trunk" fetches $500, a whole liver $150. To evade the law's prohibition, body-parts dealers like Opening Lines offer to lease space in the abortion clinic to "perform the harvesting," as well as to "offset [the] clinic's overhead." Opening Lines further boasted, "Our daily average case volume exceeds 1500 and we serve clinics across the United States."

Kelly kept at her grisly task until something made her reconsider. One day, "a set of twins at 24 weeks gestation was brought to us in a pan. They were both alive. The doctor came back and said, 'Got you some good specimens -- twins.' I looked at him and said: 'There's something wrong here. They are moving. I can't do this. This is not in my contract.' I told him I would not be part of taking their lives. So he took a bottle of sterile water and poured it in the pan until the fluid came up over their mouths and noses, letting them drown. I left the room because I could not watch this."

But she did go back and dissect them later. The twins were only the beginning. "It happened again and again. At 16 weeks, all the way up to sometimes even 30 weeks, we had live births come back to us. Then the doctor would either break the neck or take a pair of tongs and beat the fetus until it was dead."

American Enterprise asked Kelly if abortion procedures were ever altered to provide specific body parts. "Yes. Before the procedures they would want to see the list of what we wanted to procure. The (abortionist) would get us the most complete, intact specimens that he could. They would be delivered to us completely intact. Sometimes the fetus appeared to be dead, but when we opened up the chest cavity, the heart was still beating."

The magazine pressed Kelly again: Was the type of abortion ever altered to provide an intact specimen, even if it meant producing a live baby? "Yes, that was so we could sell better tissue. At the end of the year, they would give the clinic back more money because we got good specimens."

Some practical souls will probably swallow hard and insist that, well, if these babies are going to be Aborted anyway, isn't it better that medical research should benefit? No. This isn't like voluntary organ Donation. This reduces human beings to the level of commodities. And it creates of doctors who swore an oath never to kill the kind of people who can beat a breathing child to death with tongs.

(Tacoma, WA, Morning News Tribune, 11/11/99. Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist, former editorial writer for the National Review and was a member of the communications staff in the Reagan White House).

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"It is a very great poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." - Mother Teresa

AZTEC LAW: "The Aztecs practiced polygamy, punished those who indulged in non-procreative sex and imposed the death penalty for abortion." (Because they had such a high demand for living human sacrifices). ("The Mythology of Sex," Sarah Dening, MacMillan Co, NY, NY, pg 40)

J. ROBERT KERREY, NB SENATOR: "The teachings of my church say that I should not kill and --- though I do defend the right of a woman to make these decisions --- a choice to have an abortion does end a life. Arguing whether it is the potential for life or a human being is splitting legal hairs. IN MOST CASES AN ABORTION PREVENTS THE FETUS FROM BECOMING A LIVING, BREATHING, LOVING HUMAN BEING." (Emphasis added) ---J. Robert Kerrey, US Senator, Nebraska, Sept 18, 1998, "An Open Letter to Nebraskans" (on why he sustained a veto of the "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act" of 1998.)

GEORGE WILL, LEGAL ABSURDITY: (note: Will is discussing a case where one twin was delivered 88 days early, the other remained in the womb to full term) "....partial-birth abortion, the practice of sucking the brains from the skull of a baby delivered feet first and killed while only the head remains in the mother's uterus. Senators should consider this issue in the light cast by the case of Stephanie and Sandra Bartels of Hull, Iowa.

They are twins born in a South Dakota hospital 88 days apart by what is called "delayed-interval delivery." Stephanie, born Jan. 5 when her mother went into premature labor in the 23rd week of her pregnancy, weighed 1 pound, 2 ounces. Sandra, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces, was born April 2, by which time Stephanie weighed 4 pounds, 10 ounces.

For 88 days, while her twin sister's life was protected by the law, Sandra could have been, under the probable terms of the Daschle "compromise," aborted by any abortionist. This is because under any language acceptable to the abortion movement and hence to Clinton and Daschle, a baby does not warrant legal protection merely because she is medically "viable," referring to the point at which she can survive with good medical assistance, a point that now begins at about 23 weeks. Location is the key factor: Unless she is completely outside the mother, she is fair game for the abortionist. (The Abortion Coverup, George F. Will, Thursday, April 24 1997; Page A25, The Washington Post)

ANCIENT EXPOSURE: "Some of the [infant] victims of exposure were brought up by others to meet the demand for slaves, and in the Greek world, there was a continuing argument about the financial rights of people who brought up these exposed "foundlings" and then had them reclaimed: Roman law took a kinder view of their recompense. Exposure is reflected in some, but not all, of the uses of the Greek proper name Kopreus: 'Off the dung heap.'" ("Christians and Pagans," Robin Lane Foxe, pg. 343, Knopf Publishers)

BIBLE: Exodus 21:22-23: "If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life"

BIBLE: Job 10:18-19 'Why then hast Thou brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! 'I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to tomb.'

BIBLE: Jer 20:15-18 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A baby boy has been born to you!" {And} made him very happy. But let that man be like the cities which the LORD overthrew without relenting, and let him hear an outcry in the morning and a shout of alarm at noon; because he did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant. Why did I ever come forth from the womb to look on trouble and sorrow, so that my days have been spent in shame? [Jeremiah says "me" as he would a living, sentient being, not a "blob" of prehuman cells]

BIBLE: Eccl 11:5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones {are formed} in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.

BIBLE: Ps 139:15-16 My frame was not hidden from Thee, when I was made in secret, {and} skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Thy book they were all written, the days that were ordained {for me} when as yet there was not one of them.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, USA: Presbyterians have struggled with the abortion issue for more than 25 years, beginning in 1970 when a General Assembly statement declared that "the artificial or induced termination of pregnancy is a matter of the careful ethical decision of the patient, . . . and therefore should not be restricted by law . . ."

(1. Minutes of the 182nd General Assembly (1970), Presbyterian Church U.S.A., p 891.) The latest major statement on abortion by a Presbyterian General Assembly came in 1992. Here's an excerpt from that position statement:

. . . There is [both] agreement and disagreement on the basic issue of abortion. The committee [on problem pregnancies and abortion] agreed that there are no biblical texts that speak expressly to the topic of abortion, but that taken in their totality the Holy Scriptures are filled with messages that advocate respect for the woman and child before and after birth. Therefore the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) encourages an atmosphere of open debate and mutual respect for a variety of opinions concerning the issues related to problem pregnancies and abortion. (http://www.pcusa.org/101/101-abortion.htm#N_1_)

to President Clinton supporting his veto of House Resolution 1833, the so-called "Partial Birth Abortion Ban." Other signers included the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Executive Secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church, the President of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the President and President-Elect of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. The letter, sent under the auspices of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, was made public on April 30, 1996. (April 1996, Office of Communication, United Church of Christ)

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2002 (LSN.ca) - The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted Friday to affirm the "unrestricted right" to abortion prior to the child being able to survive on his/her own outside the womb. After viability, the assembly says, late term abortion is still acceptable but pastoral and medical counsel is advised and it is suggested only in cases of rape, incest, fetal suffering, and to preserve the health and life of the mother.

Judy L. Woods, moderator of the denomination's advisory committee on litigation said "We affirmed the fundamental right to (abortion) prior to viability. But after viability, we have said that although there is still a right to choose, that choice has to be undertaken after prayer and pastoral consultation . . . and only in certain circumstances." The denomination also voted to continue to fund late-term abortions under the church's medical benefits plan. " (http://www.lifesite.net, Lifesite News, 6-24-02)

• American Baptist Churches: "We acknowledge the freedom of each individual to advocate for a public policy on abortion that reflects his or her beliefs." ((General Board Reference - #8006.5:12/87)

The international periodical Hinduism Today acknowledges: "Across the board, Hindu religious leaders perceive abortion at any stage of fetal development as killing (some say murder)...and as an act that has serious karmic repercussions." For example, Swami Kamalatmananda of the Ramakrishna Monastery in Madras, India, has said: "No human being has the right to destroy the fetus. If having a baby is economically and socially problematic, one can very well take precautions to avoid such unwanted birth rather than killing the baby. Precaution is better than destruction." (http://abortionismurder.org)

... he has had important mentors and approximately 60 devoted, sometimes adoring, Ph.D. students (many of whom are now senior scholars in their own right) but few colleague friends. "Academia," he has written, "is full of litigious and ill-willed people." Famous scholars like Ephraim A. Speiser tried to "destroy" him. William F. Albright treated him "misanthropically" and kept him on "unilateral respiration." One college president where he taught was "dictatorial"; another was "vindictive and ruthless." His academic colleagues were some-times "jealous" and "vicious," resorting to "shameless 'dirty tricks.'"

Cyrus Gordon occupies his own unique scholarly niche, however. Throughout his long career, he has been, as he describes himself, "a disturber of the pax academical Although his career "has been fraught with pain," he has also had the "satisfactions that scholars who live by conformity and compromise can never know."

I'll give you one example. It's how I got into Egyptology. Albright was giving a course in Egyptian-I think in Jerusalem. And only one student had signed up. I felt he'd be happy that I joined; it's nicer to have two students than one. He kicked me out of the class. I asked him why. "You know too many languages already." He kicked me out because I knew too much already. Did you ever hear of anything like that? Coming from a man of that position and stature?

Later, I got a job teaching Assyriology at Dropsie [a college for Hebrew studies in Philadelphia]. When I arrived I was told I was to teach Assyriology and Egyptology. I didn't know Egyptian. But whenever people did this to me, I never disillusioned them. I tried to live up to their illusions. So I taught a course in Egyptian. I taught semester after semester. And I never read the same literary text. I always changed things; I either read Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian or Coptic. At the end of the ten and a half years I was there, I was known as the most distinguished of the Coptologists outside of the University of Chicago and a man at the University of Michigan.

This, by the way, is characteristic of me. When I was to write my doctoral thesis, Montgomery said to me, "It takes a Jewish scholar to read rabbinic texts- the Babylonian Talmud, the Jerusalem Talmud. You're a Jewish scholar. You can do this. I want you to write on the rabbinic exegesis of the Vulgate of Proverbs." Now, I could have said, "Look, I may be Jewish, but I wasn't born with a knowledge of the Jerusalem Talmud." I mean, this isn't something that is part of the baggage of being Jewish. But I didn't say that. My first instinct was to live up to his illusions.

In two places near Nineveh-Tell Billa and Tepe Gawra. Fred [Ephraim A.] Speiser was the director of both of these digs. But after a year he went back to Amer-ica to run things from headquarters [at the University of Pennsylvania]. Speiser wanted to undo me completely, ruin me.

You know, academia is not a pretty place. I guess you've discovered that, haven't you?

SDA CREED: "The gift of Prophecy: One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is prophecy. This gift is an identifying mark of the remnant church and was manifested in the ministry of Ellen G. White. As the Lord's messenger, her writings are a continuing and authoritative source of truth which provide for the church comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction. They also make clear that the Bible is the standard by which all teaching and experience must be tested. Support is found in these Bible passages: Joel 2:28,29: Acts 2:14-21: Hebrews 1:1-3: Revelation 12:17: Revelation 19:10" --Official SDA Creed, item #17

ELLEN G WHITE, 1867: "Although I am as dependent upon the Spirit of the Lord in writing my views as I am in receiving them, yet the words I employ in describing what I have seen are my own." (EGW, Selected Messages, 3 bks. (Washington: RHPA, 19585880), bk. l, p. 37)

ELLEN G WHITE, 1876: "In ancient times God spoke to men by the mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the Testimonies of His Spirit." (EGW, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, pp. 14748. Testimony 27; 1876.)

ELLEN G WHITE, 1882: "If you lessen the confidence of God's people in the testimonies He has sent them, you are rebelling against God as certainly as were Korah, Dathan, and Abiram." (EGW, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 66. Testimony 31; 1882.)

1. E. E. CLEVELAND: "I believe in the Testimonies. MRS. WHITE'S WRITINGS ARE THE WORLD'S Only Inspired Bible Commentary. They Constitute the most serious challenge to Christian Living That Has Come To The Church Since John's Patmos Revelation..." E. E. Cleveland, At One Time Assoc. Sec., Ministerial Assoc., Gen. Conf. SDA’s. As Quoted In "Facts And Com Meets About The Spirit Of Prophecy", P. 14
2. STANLEY HARRIS: "...and yet, my dear friends, SHE DID ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS THAT I HAVE EVER KNOWN SINCE JOHN THE REVELATOR. SHE'S TO ME ONE OF THE GREATEST PROPHETS THAT HAVE EVER Lived. Why.? Because SHE HAD THE SAME GIFT THAT Daniel HAD..." -- Stanley Harris, cassette tape "Greatest Prophet Since John", from God's Last Call, tape #811, SDA pastor.
3. RAYMOND COTTRELL: "ELLEN WHITE REINTERPRETS DANIEL for our time. And because I fully believe and am convinced that God spoke to and through Ellen White, I accept her writings 100%. I accept Ellen White's reinterpretation, her approval of the Adventist interpretation of the heavenly sanctuary, the Investigative Judgment and 1844, because I accept her as an inspired writer..." -- Raymond F. Cottrell, in talk given for Association of Adventist Forums, Loma Linda, CA shortly after the Glacier View meetings. I can provide the cassette tape for documentation if you need it, and the exact date.
4. SDA SABBATH SCHOOL QUARTERLY: "THE BIBLE AND THE WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE ARE INERRANT..." -- Feb. 11, 1978, Sabbath School-Quarterly; teacher's Edition, p. 112
5. OFFICIAL SDA POSITION, 1928: "As Samuel was a prophet of Israel for his day, as JEREMIAH WAS A PROPHET OF ISRAEL in the days of captivity, as JOHN THE BAPTIST came as a special messenger of the Lord to prepare the way for Christ's coming, so WE BELIEVE THAT MRS. WHITE WAS A PROPHET TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST TODAY." -- Official position of the SDA Church taken in 1928.
6. LOUIS VENDEN: "I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT HERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DEGREE AND QUALITY DIMENSION OF THE INSPIRATION OF ANY BIBLICAL WRITER AND ELLEN WHITE...I believe that the Desire of Ages, for example, is just as high in quality or degree of inspiration as the Gospel according to Luke...What is the best way to keep it all in perspective and end up with ELLEN WHITE BEING FOR THIS CHURCH WHAT LUKE WAS for his generation and not one whit less in contribution and AUTHORITY." -- Louis Venden, as quoted on cassette tape "The Wilson Committee-Rea On Ellen G. White"
7. GLACIER VIEW DOCUMENT: "...HER AUTHORITY TRANSCENDS THAT OF ALL NON-INSPIRED INTERPRETER' OF THE SCRIPTURES..." -- Cassette tape 8/23/80, Pacific Union College, in a discussion o Glacier View with Charles Bradford and Philip Follett. Follett was quoting from official Glacier View document: "The Relation of Ellen White's Writings in Doctrinal Studies"
8. SDA BOOK: "Elder I. H. Evans, the General Conference representative at the conference declared: 'When the statement from Sister White is read, I am sure that the majority of our brethren will feel as we feel tonight - that THE LORD HAS SPOKEN, AND WE WILL OBEY."'-Quoted in "The Invisible Irishman", p. 484, by Merlin Neff
9. ALDEN THOMPSON: "Second, I began to realize how creative ELLEN WHITE HAD BEEN IN INTERPRETING THE OLD TESTAMENT. AS I COMPARED HER INTERPRETATIONS in Patriarchs and Prophets with Scripture, I FOUND THEM MUCH MORE UNDERSTANDABLE THAN THE BARE OLD TESTAMENT NARRATIVES...I liked what Ellen White did, but upon reflection I decided that I had probably been slighting the Bible in favor of Patriarchs and Prophets..." -- Alden Thom son, SDA pastor and professor at Walla Walla College, as quoted in "Adventist Review" 12/17/81, article entitled "The story of a pilgrimage", p. 7
10. QUESTION: Do Seventh-day Adventists regard the writings of Ellen G. White as on an equal plane with the writings of the Bible? Do you place her in the prophetic class with such men as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel?
11. ANSWER: That we do not regard them in the same sense as the Holy Scriptures...We have never considered Ellen G. White to be in the same category as the writers of the canon of Scripture.
12. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST LEADERS Claim THAT ELLEN G. WHITE "HAS EQUAL AUTHORITY WITH THE BIBLE" AND BIBLE WRITERS AND PLACE HER IN THE SAME PROPHETIC CLASS WITH "JOHN THE REVELATOR, JEREMIAH AND DANIEL"
13. MORRIS VENDEN: "I'd like to take this position, that if you do not believe in the gift of prophecy, based on what the Bible has to say on it, that you don't believe in the Bible ...The primary purpose of the gift of prophecy in relationship to scripture is to confirm Scripture truth. WE TOOK THE POSITION LAST TIME THAT THE GIFT OF PROPHECY HAS EQUAL AUTHORITY WITH THE BIBLE AND EQUAL INSPIRATION WITH THE BIBLE." -- Morris L. Venden, Cassette tape #MY-312 "Church Body Building". Venden was specifically referring to Ellen G. White and the gift of prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist church.
14. RAYMOND COTTRELL: "The Bible speaks to all the world; the writings of Ellen White were addressed primarily to the remnant church. Herein lies the only significant difference between them. THE PERSON WHO LISTENS TO BOTH with an open mind WILL HEAR THE SAME VOICE SPEAKING THROUGH BOTH, WITH EQUAL AUTHORITY." -- Raymond F. Cottrell, as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me," p. 60
15. RON GRAYBILL: "THE QUALITY OF INSPIRATION OF ELLEN WHITE IS EQUAL TO THAT OF THE BIBLE WRITERS..." -- Ron Graybill, at that time Assoc. Sec. EGW Estate, in talk given at Southern Missionary College 9/27/80
16. KENNETH WOOD: "ELLEN G. WHITE WAS INSPIRED IN THE SAME SENSE AS WERE THE BIBLE PROPHETS.'' -- Kenneth H. Wood, Editor "Review" as quoted in RH 9/4/80, p. 15
17. DON NEUFELD: "SHE WAS INSPIRED BY GOD AS WERE THE BIBLICAL WRITERS..." -- The late Don
18. Neufeld, Assoc. Editor "Review" as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me,", p. 157
19. ROBERT OLSON: "I believe that BOTH ELLEN G. WHITE AND THE APOSTLE PAUL WERE TRUE PROPHETS WHO WROTE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. MY REASON FOR BELIEVING IN THE INSPIRATION OF ONE IS IDENTICAL WITH MY REASON FOR BELIEVING IN THE INSPIRATION OF THE OTHER."- Robert Olson, Sec. EGW Estate, as quoted in "What Ellen White Has Meant to Me," p. 165
20. D.A. DELAFIELD: "INSOFAR AS ELLEN WHITE'S ROLE IN THE CHURCH IS CONCERNED-- WHETHER PASTORAL OR CANONICAL- I think we must here give pause and rethink the acceptance with ease of Ford" proposition. In his forum talk at P.U.C. HE INDICATED THAT ELLEN WHITE'S ROLE WAS PASTORAL NOT CANONICAL. This is a gross perversion of the truth...The real conflict and issue today is this: ARE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BEING CONDITIONED TO VIEW ELLEN WHITE AS PASTORAL AND NOT CANONICAL? Shall we accept the view that a Seventh-day Adventist theologian is more dependable than a Seventh-day Adventist prophet? I highly respect many of our Seventh-day Adventist theologians. I have sat at their feet and been taught by them. I admire and respect them highly. I would like to remind you, however, that you can search the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and you will not find a single text marking out theologians as having the gift of the Holy Sprit. The Scriptures indicate however, that prophets have a gift of the Holy Spirit. ELLEN WHITE HAD THAT GIFT AND SHE WAS CANONICAL INSOFAR AS DOCTRINAL INTERPRETATION AUTHORITY IS CONCERNED..." -- Letter from D. A. Delafiel trustee of the EGW Estate, to P. C. Drewer, June 24, 1981. Note: Delafield's letter was tampered with and the phrase that EGW was "canonical insofar as doctrinal interpretation" was deleted. See attached.
21. ROBERT PIERSON: "No excuses are made for her contributions...I speak these words after nearly forty years of denominational service...HER WRITINGS HELP US UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE ..." -- Robert Pierson, former President, General Conference of SDA’s, as quoted in "What Sister White Has Meant To Me" and quoted in "Christianity Today" 8/29/75
22. PHILIP FOLLETT: "...THE WRITINGS OF ELLEN WHITE ARE INSPIRED IN THE SAME SENSE AS THE BIBLE IS INSPIRED..." -- Taken from cassette tape "What Happened At Glacier View", PUC, August 23, 1 980
23. ROBERT OLSON: "Thank you for your letter of February 6, in which you made reference to Elder Walter Rea's meeting in Glendale, California,. I think you have somehow gotten the wrong impression of that meeting, because it took no particular courage on my part to vote the way I did. All of the votes of the committee were unanimous. There was no problem with any of the actions that were taken. When we acknowledged that Ellen White had engaged in a certain amount of literary borrowing, WE WERE NOT DIMINISHING HER AUTHORITY AS A PROPHET in the least. The brethren here in the General Conference do recognize that most of our people do not understand how inspired writings were developed, NOT ONLY IN THE CASE OF ELLEN WHITE, BUT ALSO IN THE CASE OF THE BIBLE Authors..." -- Letter from Robert Olson, Secretary, EGW Estate, to Eryl A. Cummings, February 21, 1980
24. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD, Supplement, August 14, 1883: "Our position on the Testimonies (Mrs. White's writings) is like the keystone to the arch. Take that out and there is no logical stopping place till all the special truths of the message are gone. Nothing is surer than this, that this message and the visions (of Mrs. White ) belong together."
25. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD Oct 4, 1928: They state further that her writings should "be received, the same as were the messages of the prophets of old. As Samuel was a prophet to Israel in his day, as Jeremiah was a prophet to Israel in the days of captivity, as John the Baptist came as a special messenger of the Lord to prepare the way for Christ's appearing, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today. And the same as the messages of the prophets were received in old days, so her message should be received at present times."
26. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD 10/4/1928: "Seventh-Day Adventists hold that Ellen G. White performed the work of a true prophet during the seventy years of her public ministry. As Samuel was a prophet, as Jeremiah was a prophet, as John the Baptist, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today."
27. EG WHITE: "In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own views. They are what God had opened to me in vision-the precious ray of light shining from the throne" (Testimonies Vol.5, p. 67)."If you lessen the confidence of God's people in the testimonies (Mrs. White's visions and dreams)He has sent them, you are rebelling against God" (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 66)"In ancient times God spake to men by the mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the Testimonies of His Spirit...The Lord has seen fit to give me a view of the need and errors of His people" (EGW, Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 661).
28. EG WHITE: "God was speaking through clay. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision the precious rays of light shining from the throne." VISIONS OF MRS. E. G. WHITE TESTIMONY 31 p. 63
29. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY: "We believe she has been empowered by divine illumination to speak of past events which have been brought to her attention with a greater minuteness than is set forth in any existing records, and to read the future with more than human foresight." (by inference, this means the Bible, though Adventists will deny this). (Publisher's preface, The Great Controversy)
30. Erwin, the President of the General Conference of Seventh Day Adventists, affirmed the proposition in an actual debate that "the visions of Mrs. E. G. White are the revelations of God."
31. "When I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the Spirit of God." E. G. WHITE, TESTIMONIES Vol 5 p. 661
32. "Those who are reproved by the Spirit of God should not rise up against the humble instrument. It is God, and not an erring mortal, who has spoken to save them from ruin." TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH Vol 3 p. 257
33. "A week after her first happy vision Ellen received a second vision in which God called her formally to work for Him as a prophet." MOVING OUT, Unit 4 p. 115
34. "In ancient times God spoke to men by mouth of prophets and apostles. In these days He speaks to them by the testimonies of His Spirit...The Lord has seen fit to give me a view of the needs and errors of His People." (E. G. WHITE, TESTIMONIES, Volume 5, p 661)
35. "God was speaking through clay. In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision the precious rays of light shining from the throne." VISIONS OF MRS. E. G. WHITE TESTIMONY 31 p. 63
36. "When I send you a testimony of warning and reproof, many of you declare it to be merely the opinion of Sister White. You have thereby insulted the Spirit of God." E. G. WHITE TESTIMONIES Vol 5 p. 661
37. "Those who are reproved by the Spirit of God should not rise up against the humble instrument. It is God, and not an erring mortal, who has spoken to save them from ruin." TESTIMONY FOR THE CHURCH Vol 3 p. 257
38. THE ADVENT REVIEW & HERALD 10/4/1928: "Seventhday Adventists hold that Ellen G. White performed the work of a true prophet during the seventy years of her public ministry. As Samuel was a prophet, as Jeremiah was a prophet, as John the Baptist, so we believe that Mrs. White was a prophet to the church of Christ today."
39. "A week after her first happy vision Ellen received a second vision in which God called her formally to work for Him as a prophet." MOVING OUT Unit 4 p. 115

1856: "I was shown the company present at the Conference. Said the angel: Some food for worms, some subject to the last plagues, some will be alive and remain upon the earth to be translated at the coming of Jesus.'" (Vol. 1, p. 131).

SLAVERY: "Thousands have been induced to enlist with the understanding that this war to exterminate slavery, but now that they are fixed, they find that they have been deceived, that the object of this war is not to abolish slavery, but to preserve it." (Vol. 1, pp. 254, 258). NOTE: This is refuted by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

ENGLAND TO DECLARE WAR: "This nation will yet be humbled into the dust. England is studying whether it is best to take advantage of the present weak condition of our nation and venture to make war on her...When England does declare war, all nations will have one interest of their own to serve, and there will be general war, general confusion." (Vol.1 p.259). NOTE: This was a failed prophecy. England never declared war on the U.S.A.

Compare: Jesus ate fish (Luke 24:41-43). John 21:9-12 Jesus prepared flesh meat and said to His disciples, "Come and eat." Jesus ate butter (Isaiah 7:15). Mrs. White said, "Do not eat" but Jesus said, "Come and dine." Paul said, "In the latter times some shall depart from the faith...commanding to abstain from meats which God had created to be received" (1 Timothy 4:3).

Compare: Matt 24:36 Jesus said, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the angels in heaven, but my Father only." This, and Jesus did not come when she predicted.

IGNATIUS: "It is fitting, therefore, that in every way you glorify Jesus Christ who has glorified you. Be firmly joined together in unanimous obedience, obeying the overseer and the body of elders, and be made holy in all things. Your deserving body of elders, worthy of God, is attuned to the overseer as the strings are to a lyre!" (emph. added) (Letter to the Ephesians, before 120 AD; cited by (Eberhard Arnold, "The Early Christians," Plough Publishing, 1997, pg 212)

IGNATIUS: "Flee from divisions as the beginning of all evil! Follow the overseer, all of you, as Jesus Christ follows the Father, and follow the council of elders as you would follow the apostles." (emph. added) (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, before 120 AD; cited by Eberhard Arnold, "The Early Christians," Plough Publishing, 1997, pg 217-8)

Saint Jerome, hearing of the fall of Rome, also wrote of the end of the world, wondering, ‘Quid salvum est si Roma perit?’ (‘What is safe if Rome perishes?’) Indeed, so close was early Christianity's association with Rome that in the fourth century Lactantius Firmianus wrote: ‘The fall and ruin of the world will soon take place, but it seems that nothing is to be feared as long as the City of Rome stands intact.’ Later, Saint Augustine was moved to write The City of God to combat the fear that the fall of temporal Rome was to be equated with the opening battles that would culminate in Armageddon. He portrayed the events of Revelation as strictly allegorical.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38^{th St, NY, NY 10018)}

“The masses of the People's Crusade, whipped to a frenzy by Peter the Hermit, believed that their assault on unbelievers was the first stage of Armageddon. They believed that the Antichrist-the cruel, god-hating false prophet of the Last Days, whose appearance would herald the end of the world-had already been born in Jerusalem and that they them­selves had been summoned there by God to precipitate the final battle and triumph. European literature and dra­ma mirrored these beliefs. In Germany, for example, a particular favorite around 1160 was the Play of Antichrist, in which the process and terrors of Armageddon were luridly depicted.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the thirteenth century the Mon­gols swept out of Central Asia. … The Domini­can Ricoldo of Monte Croce reported the name Mongol to be derived from Magogli, the followers of Magog. (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Every new ruler was seen by his subjects as potentially either that Last Emperor to preside over the final Gold­en Age or, if of a despotic nature, the Antichrist. When such a leader died without fulfilling the prophecies, he was immediately demoted to the role of ‘precursor,’ and the watch began again. In Italy expectations reached hysterical proportions. Even such a lit­tle-known event as the Battle of Montaperto in 1260 was invested with the trappings of Armageddon. Chroniclers in Siena and elsewhere declared, ‘This is the end of the world.’" (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Again, as the [13th] century's end approached, expectations grew. A professional class of speculatores (scouts) watched for portents of the Last Times, and the people of western Europe awaited Ar­mageddon with dread and hope for the reign of Christ and a new age.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the sixteenth century, Armaged­don had its last gasp of popularity for nearly 400 years in a veritable orgy of anticipation. To some, the imminence of the final battle was seen in the cap­ture of Belgrade by Suleyman the Mag­nificent in 1521. To the west, the bloodthirsty millenarian Thomas Munzer predicted Turkish conquest of the world, followed by a slaughter of the godless by the elect in preparation for the Second Coming. The basis for his predictions was Revelation. In 1533 Melchior Hofmann and the Anabaptists equated the Turks with Gog and Magog and imminent apocalypse. They set up Munster as the New Jerusalem for the post-Armageddon world-and perished there in a bloody cataclysm of their own making. Antichrists were seen in every secular conflict. Popes in general were easy targets. While Gregory VII accused Frederick II of being a forerun­ner of the Antichrist, Frederick coun-terattacked by calling Gregory the gen­uine article. Theologians such as Ber­nard of Clairvaux declared that ‘the Beast of the Apocalypse’ had ‘seized the Throne of Peter.’” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Tudor and Stuart England grasped at the idea of the Antichrist. Edward VI justified his invasion of Scotland in 1548 in part as a blow against the Antichrist. In the second half of the century, Sir Francis Drake proposed resistance to Spain as a stand against the same.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“John Napier, writing in Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1594), predicted Armageddon within the next fifty to sixty years, with Judgment Day scheduled for either 1688 or 1700. In Sermons Upon the Whole Book of Rev­elation (1599), George Giffard urged the second earl of Essex, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, to garb himself in white linen, mount a white horse, and take the field against the Beast (the king of Spain). In the next century, convinced that the pope was the Anti­christ, Isaac Newton spent much time calculating the timetable of the apoca­lypse. Of course, England, too, was subject to accusation: In 1586, Ralph Durden identified the kingdom of En­gland as the Beast of Revelation and predicted its downfall in 1589.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“With the outbreak of the English Civil War, both Roundheads and Cava­liers perceived the Antichrist in one another. Contemporary views of the battles of Naseby and Edgehill saw them as part of the geography of Arma­geddon. The son of the earl of Essex came in for his own share of the mil­lennial expectations. When, in 1642, he took up arms against King Charles I, some saw him as John the Baptist and expected Christ to follow shortly. Ed­ward Haughton wrote in The Rise, Growth, and Fall of Antichrist (1652) that the civil war was ‘part of the battle you read of in the sixteenth and nine­teenth chapter of the Revelations.’ Ad­ditional pamphlets, such as John Tillinghast's Generation-Work in 1654 and R. Hayter's A Meaning of the Reve­lation in 1676, also saw Revelation as the pattern for recent events. In 1647 William Sedgwick predicted that the world would end fourteen days hence. He lived another fifteen years, known as ‘Doomsday’ Sedgwick.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“The French Rev­olution was perceived by many to usher in the Last Times. The overthrow of the Papal States in 1798 and Napoleon's Egyptian campaign led to predictions of the destruction of the Turks and the return of Jesus. Pamphlets like Joseph Priestley's The Present State of Europe Compared with Ancient Prophecies in 1794 and the anonymous Antichrist in the French Convention in 1795 welded temporal events to biblical prophecy. …Early in the following century, Napoleon was often identified as the Antichrist.” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“On June 30, 1908, a titanic explosion in Siberia, apparently caused by a comet, uprooted and charred trees for twenty-five miles, lit the skies as far away as London, and sent shock waves clear around the world. This great ex­plosion was seen in the midst of wide­spread Russian unrest as a portent of the world's approaching end. In his War, Progress and the End of History (1900), the theologian Vladimir Solovyov predicted that Armageddon would begin with a war between Russia and Japan-which Japan would win. …The sense of pessimism was not unique to Russia; in August 1914 the British secretary of state for foreign affairs, Sir Edward Grey, observed to a friend, ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.’ (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Winston Churchill echoed his senti­ments. In a discussion with Henry L. Stimson, he said: ‘Stimson, what was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electric­ity? Meaningless. This atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath!’” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)

“Ronald Reagan, in a 1987 interview, said, ‘I turn back to your ancient prophets in the Old Testament and the signs fore­telling Armageddon, and I find myself wondering if-if we're the generation that's going to see that come about. . . . There have been times in the past when we thought the world was coming to an end, but never any­thing like this.’” (Ira Meistrich, “The View Toward Armageddon” Military History Quarterly, Spring 1991, 29 W 38th St, NY, NY 10018)