The Fatal Flaw: Lies, Laws, & Pro-life Deception

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I'm Pastor Jeff Durbin with End Abortion Now. What you are about to view is an unveiling of what the main issue is that is keeping abortion alive in this nation.

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What you're going to learn here may surprise you. What you're going to learn here may actually shock you. What I'm going to ask you to do is, after the film, stay tuned because we have more information for you, but join together with us to share this very important expose, this very important expose that shows the real heart of the issue.

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Share it with every pastor that you know. Share it with all the congregations that you're connected to.

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Share it with your Christian friends and Christian family. Let's work together as the church to expose actually the heart of the issue, the inconsistency, the unbiblical thing, what's keeping it all alive.

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And stay tuned afterwards for more information as to how you can partner with us in this next session where we have many bills of equal protection and abolition of abortion happening across the

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United States of America. Thank you for watching this. The fact of the matter is, if we pass this bill and the

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Senate passes this bill and the governor signs this bill, it will be enjoined the next day because Roe versus Wade is still the law of the land.

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I mean, Roe versus Wade is one of the few decisions most Americans know by name.

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And today, the Supreme Court said it's history. Tens of millions of women across the

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U .S. do not have their right to an abortion guaranteed by the Constitution, and individual

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U .S. states are now legally entitled to ban the procedure. Nearly half of America's 50 states are expected to do so, and 13 have already passed so -called trigger laws, which outlaw or severely restrict abortion automatically following the court's ruling.

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It is a momentous decision which has delighted and enraged Americans. So a lot of people believe that abortion is illegal, but in spite of the fact that the pro -life lobby around the country is claiming that there's 13, 14 states that are quote unquote abortion -free, nevertheless, they're really not.

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The clinics are run out of there, there's no more clinics in those states, at least not doing abortions as far as we know.

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It's illegal for those clinics to be doing abortions, but there's still abortions going on in those states, on their soil, completely legally right now, and they are do -it -yourself, self -managed abortions that are still happening.

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I grew up in a Christian home, I come from a Christian family. By default, I always considered myself to be pro -life.

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I knew that abortion was wrong, I even knew it was murder. And it wasn't until I attended the

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National Right to Life Convention in 2017, I got an upfront glimpse at what these national organizations were doing to combat this great evil of our age, this modern day holocaust, and I was absolutely shocked.

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I remember hearing from the mouth of the president for the National Right to Life, Carol Tobias, what they actually believed about women that killed their own children.

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If the dignity and the value of the unborn child has been established, and we know that, what does that say about the mother who goes through with an abortion?

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Is there a logical connection to be made there that there needs to be that same demand for justice for that child?

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Which do you see? Oh, I understand the question. The pro -life movement has a lot of women who are active in it who have had abortions, and they very much argue that the mother who got the abortion is also a victim.

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She said explicitly, we've never seen mothers who kill their own children as guilty, but as victims.

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It was coming from their own mouths, and I couldn't believe my ears. The first time

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I spoke to Dr. Brent Leatherwood was at the Southern Baptist Convention when we met in Anaheim, California.

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I asked Dr. Leatherwood if it really was his position that the mother who willfully chooses to kill her own child, not under coercion, not under duress, but a mother who just chooses to kill her child, is she really not guilty before God, and should she really not face any consequences under the law?

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Here's the reality. You're not going to get me to say that I want to throw mothers behind bars.

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That's not the view of this entity. That is not the view of this convention. It is not the view of the pro -life movement.

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You see, if he would have finished the statement, Brent Leatherwood doesn't want to lock up women who murder their children in the womb.

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The second time I talked to Brent Leatherwood was at the following Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, which is just right down the road from where I pastor my church in Louisiana.

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And since Dr. Leatherwood would not answer my first question on whether or not the woman who murders her child by abortion is guilty before God and under the law,

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I decided to ask him another question. Okay, you've already told me that you don't believe women who kill their children in the womb should face any consequences under the law.

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How about that same child after being born? Should a mother who kills her newborn child face any consequences under the law?

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Brian, thank you for that question, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to once again restate where we are.

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And I know that this is something that's important to Louisianans in particular, Louisiana Baptists in particular. We have said all along that abortion is murder, and we will never waver from that.

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Scripture mandates it. At the same time, I hope,

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Brother Brian, I hope that you took something away from the words

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I just shared with you. Because in that dynamic, there is a pre -born child that's vulnerable, and there's a mother that is vulnerable too.

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Dr. Leatherwood did not answer my question at all. He totally avoided it. And he decided to give a pro -life stump speech.

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He decided to talk about how pro -life he was and all these other things, rather than answer whether or not the woman should be criminalized for killing her born child, her newborn or toddler.

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He's not yet answered that question. You know, years ago when we first were engaging this issue as a pastor,

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I was trying to warn other pastors and other Christians that the pro -life establishment didn't actually believe what the

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Christian church has always believed when it comes to the pre -born in the womb.

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I was trying to tell people that they were saying from the very top, the leaders of the pro -life industry were saying from the very top, that they believe that the mother was a victim, that they believe that she should not be punished under any circumstance for taking the life of her child in the womb through abortion because she was also a victim of abortion.

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So the pro -life movement, for the almost 50 years that it's been in existence, has never called for, at least never officially, not as a movement.

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There might be a couple voices out there, have never called for punishing the woman who gets the abortion.

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I had an abortion two years ago and I don't regret it at all. They yanked the fetus out of my uterus.

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They yanked the fetus out of my uterus and I'm so happy. I'm so grateful. And I'm a professor at this university and I make more money than you.

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And what else? It's not a poor choice. I did it seven times. It's not mine looking at it.

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It don't bother me, baby. I am what I am because I had an abortion and I'd do it again.

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The pro -life lobby, right, the ones that are pushing the bills, the ones that are advocating and lobbying the legislature, pretty much universally, there's a belief there that mothers, when it comes to abortions, that mothers are victims.

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That they are, they're oppressed by society, they're lied to, they're deceived and all of these things.

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They don't really know what they're doing or even if they do, it's other people that are coercing them or forcing them into it. The penalties are for the physician.

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Governor, I read the bill. It says just this. It does include jail time and fines for, quote, any person who willfully performs or actively participates in a termination of pregnancy.

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And that's for the providers. It is not for the women. We've litigated this. Is a woman not actively participating in the termination of her pregnancy?

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No, because she's not a medical practitioner. So you are not for criminalizing women? No, no. Absolutely not. Every bill that they pass, whether it be a trigger bill or a heartbeat bill or a 15 -week ban, a 20 -week ban, whatever it is, they actually write into every single one of those bills an exception that says that this law does not apply to the mother of the child that's aborted.

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That means that you can have a heartbeat ban, you can have a trigger bill, you can ban all the clinics, but you've made it legal for mothers to commit abortions of their own children in that state.

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You look at all of these pro -life laws at the state level, what do they say? They define life from the moment of fertilization.

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So far, so good. They even put the life of the child in the womb on equal footing, as if someone were to harm someone else.

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They say that the penalties that should be considered ought to be the same for the person that is not yet born as for the person that is born.

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But if you look at these laws, what do they say? This shall be a crime except.

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And that's a big except. And the exception is for the mother. Instead of creating a presumption of innocence, instead there is absolute immunity.

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That is, no matter how much you prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew what they were doing. They committed it with miles of forethought.

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They planned it. They went there. They paid for it. Or they took it and they did it themselves. Right? They performed their own abortion.

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They are the abortionists themselves. No matter how much you prove that under the pro -life lobby's laws, they are still completely immune from any kind of legal liability.

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They don't want to make abortion illegal for the mother. They only want to make abortion illegal for the abortionists, the abortion industry, for Planned Parenthood.

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But they want to protect the woman's right to kill her own child. They want to make it so that the woman who chooses to kill her own child by abortion faces no consequences at all.

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She's never guilty. She's never accountable. She's never subject to the same justice system that a mother would be if she killed her newborn child or killed her two -month -old child.

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And this is what we have to come to terms with. The pro -life establishment believes that she's never guilty.

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When we tell the mother who kills her own child by abortion that she's a victim, we are depriving her of the gospel, which is the only hope for her to be forgiven.

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If she hasn't committed a sin, then the blood of Jesus is of no help to her.

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The only way that the gospel applies is if we confess our sin. The gospel is a message for guilty people.

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It's a message for those that have broken God's law and people do not experience reconciliation and peace with God the

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Father unless that comes by turning from sin and toward Jesus Christ in faith, confessing that what they have done, they are guilty of before God.

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The Bible says in 1 John 1 -9, if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us for our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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What the pro -life establishment is doing is telling mothers that it's not a sin for them to murder their child by abortion because they're a victim, not the perpetrator of this sin.

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Women who murder their children in the room need Christ. They need forgiveness.

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And there is forgiveness. There is a washing. There is a cleansing. There is the gift of eternal life through faith in Christ alone.

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That is what is available to the mother who kills her child. And we need to stand up with a unified voice to say that not only is she guilty, but that her child deserves to be protected equally just like your life and just like mine.

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You see, years ago, somebody told me that pro -life organizations in my state where I was, they said, hey, if somebody were to actually submit a bill that treats babies in the womb just like people outside the womb and provides equal protection, they told me they had talked with the pro -life organizations and that those organizations had said not only would we not support that bill, we would oppose it.

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And I heard that and I thought, surely not. Surely that's not true.

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Right? Isn't that what the pro -life movement wants? I mean, as an average pro -lifer, that's what

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I wanted. I thought, oh, well, yeah, we protect them with the same laws that protect us. We protect their lives with the same laws that protect my life.

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That's the goal of the pro -life movement, right? Well, it hasn't been. I started writing bills for my state and then other states around the country and seeing these bills submitted by legislators and guess who's the chief proponents coming out and attacking these bills?

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The pro -abortion movement hasn't had to lift a finger, really. It's been the pro -life movement that's been coming out and killing these bills.

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And these bills are simple. They're not creating some new law. We already have laws against homicide that protect born people.

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All these bills do is say, hey, that same law, yeah, that applies to people before they're born.

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That's it. That's all that the law does. There's nothing complicated. And yet the pro -life movement, the pro -life lobby in all these states, we've seen it in state after state, every state where we have put one of these bills forward, it's been the pro -life movement has come out.

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A lot of times it's been behind the scenes, but now they've been coming out more publicly because I think the legislators are saying, hey, you need to give us cover.

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So we're seeing pro -life organizations now coming out and opposing these bills publicly. Thank you,

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Madam Chair and members of the committee. I'm Reverend Jeff Durbin. I'm the head of End Abortion Now, and I'm testifying on behalf of 60 million -plus murdered children in our nation.

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This particular bill is just a bill of equal protection. That's it. It says something that's unassailable. What's in the womb, of course, we believe is in the image of God.

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What's in the womb, incontrovertibly, is a unique, distinct human being. We've been here in history before, members, only it was a different kind of human.

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We used to say, I know it looks like a person. It's not a person. It's a black man. We drew a circle around ourselves and said, it's human technically, but we can kill them.

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We can abuse them. They did it also in Germany. They said, I know it looks like a human. It's not a human. It's a

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Jew. We all look back at those atrocities and that evil and tyranny, and we say it's wicked. It's happening in our day.

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What this bill says is unassailable. What's in the womb is human from the moment of fertilization. I call you to establish justice.

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I call you to do your duty before God. I call you to repent, turn to Christ, establish justice, do what's right before God.

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There's a day of judgment in history ahead of us. Please do what's right. I want to thank you so much for your testimony. Missouri, where we got a committee hearing there, and we saw that there were two of us that got to testify in favor of the bill, and then there were only two spots to testify against the bill.

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And guess who it was? It was the pro -life lobby. Missouri Ride to Life, Campaign Life Missouri, came up and opposed the bill and said, we do not support this bill.

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Go ahead, when ready. Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the committee. For the record, Susan Klein representing Missouri Ride to Life.

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I'm going on record in opposition to the prosecution of women. I believe that all of us are seeking the opportunity to save unborn babies, and we have done that in our laws.

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We are part of the group of the national organizations as well as statewide organizations across the

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United States that signed on to the paper that basically says we want to reach out to women and have compassion for them and help them to see that they have alternatives to abortion, but we don't want to prosecute them.

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A lot of them are being coerced or forced to have abortions, and we are not going to participate in that. So we were here for the bill,

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SB 356, got about a minute to testify on behalf of the bill, which was nerve -wracking. And the interesting thing is there was opposition today.

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The opposition to the bill weren't purple -haired, pink -shirted women. The opposition to the bill were from two very respected pro -life organizations in the state of Missouri.

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They opposed the bill because, according to them, women should be able to murder their children in the womb with impunity.

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So ultimately what we've seen is really one of the greatest enemies to the abolition of abortion or equal protection for all humans is the pro -life movement, pro -lifers, pro -life industry.

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And so talk about that. How do you feel after viewing all that? Yeah, so we've got about, like you said, about 200 people, 200 abolitionists out here in support of this bill, and there were two opponents.

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I didn't notice a single pro -lifer. I think there was Moms Demand Action, maybe for a gun bill or something. But the two opponents were

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Missouri Coalition Life, Missouri Right to Life, and that is the only opposition that we faced today was the pro -life establishment here in the state of Missouri.

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That's been the way that it has been, Pastor, in this state now for the last several years. We've had the abolition bills.

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We've tried to move them forward, and the number one source of opposition has come from these very groups that we saw here today.

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And so, yeah, they've exposed, I think, themselves for what they really believe and who they really are.

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Members of the committee, Samuel Lee with Campaign Life Missouri to testify in opposition to Senate Bill 356.

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I've written testimony here, which I've submitted and emailed to you. Just a couple points.

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Last year about this time, many, many national and state groups issued a statement saying that they are opposed.

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I'm going to read that. They are opposed to any measure seeking to criminalize or punish women because it is not pro -life, and we stand firmly opposed to such efforts.

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And although we were not given an opportunity to join in that statement, we certainly join in the sentiments and the position of those groups, which included

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Missouri Right to Life, for example, here in Missouri. I would also point out in my written testimony that since 1825, when

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Missouri's first law prohibiting abortion was passed, Missouri has never, ever criminalized a woman for having an abortion.

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And I think that policy should stay the same. Thank you, and I'm happy to answer any questions. There was a report there that we heard that someone said there was a pro -abortion lobbyist that was going to get up and talk.

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Then they saw that the pro -life lobby was going to, and they were like, oh, OK, well, I'll just let them do it. I'll just let them kill this bill that would protect every single baby in Missouri.

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And that's exactly what happened. The pro -life establishment has been thwarting, actively stopping the bills of the abolition of abortion consistently and across the board.

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It has not been the pro -choice establishment. It is the pro -life leaders, the pro -life legislators, the pro -life establishment, that is not only working quietly to tell the legislators to not pass the bills of abolition and equal protection.

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They are doing it on the floor at the House. They are doing it with a collective letter nationally to tell all legislators across the country, do not pass bills of abolition and equal protection.

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Do not pass any bill that would lead to the punishment of a person who's engaged in the issue of abortion, the mother.

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They are doing it now in such a way that is astonishing. It is astonishing.

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I'd like to thank the committee and the chairman for hearing this bill. I know this is not an easy bill to hear. I know it's lots of controversy, lots of heart -wrenching decisions.

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You know, I think the pro -life movement would see, we've been waiting 50 years to get to this point.

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Well, Theresa Cady, House Bill 813 is also called the Abolition of Abortion in Louisiana Act of 2022.

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What it would do is redefine a person to include fetuses. If it became law in Louisiana, it would extend homicide laws to fetuses as well.

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Many Christians don't understand that we had a historic moment in the state of Louisiana, a bill of equal protection that went into the state of Louisiana to protect all human life from the moment of fertilization equally.

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It's a very simple bill. Equal protection for all humans from fertilization.

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This bill actually made it to the hearing. This bill passed the hearing overwhelmingly.

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The House Criminal Justice Committee approved McCormick's Bill 7 -2 last Wednesday. It now heads to the

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House floor Thursday for debate. If the bill passes the House Thursday, it will go to the Senate for a vote and then to Governor John Bel Edwards' desk.

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He historically takes a pro -life stance, but he has not said whether he would veto this bill or not.

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The week before the actual vote, we had the legislators in Louisiana looking at the bill saying, well, we're pro -life.

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This is the most pro -life bill we've ever seen. It's consistent. Of course we'll pass it. And then that week, the establishment came in.

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Multiple prominent pro -life groups have come out against the bill, including Louisiana Right to Life.

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Angie Thomas does not support abortions, but she doesn't believe women who have them should be treated as criminals.

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We have a longstanding policy of protecting both mothers and children.

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We want to love them both. Hopefully we can make sure that women don't have to choose abortion and that they can be supported.

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It's not consistent with our longstanding policy that we want to hold accountable the abortion facility and those performing abortion, not that abortion vulnerable women who we believe in many ways is a victim of legal abortion in America today.

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It passed the committee vote. It was on its way to the floor for a vote. And what happened? The pro -life organizations that we trust to represent us at a national level, they sent a letter, a coordinated effort, a strategic front that said, don't you dare pass this bill.

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This is not what the pro -life movement has ever been about. And they explicitly mentioned in the letter.

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Why? Because they have never seen a mother who willfully and intentionally kills her own pre -born child as anything more than a victim.

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They opposed it. They stood against us. And so the reason that abortion remains legal in the state of Louisiana, pro -life establishment.

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What they've done is protected the woman who kills her child by abortion. And now we have more abortion in Louisiana after Roe has been overturned than we did before.

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The abortion pill is easily accessible by mail. Thousands upon thousands of women are ordering the abortion pill every year through the mail now.

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It is totally legal under both federal law and Louisiana law. And there is nothing to stop this from happening.

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They have so codified the woman as a victim that they have made it impossible for us to do anything to stop her from killing that child.

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Abortion is legal in every state in our union because of the dirty little secret of the pro -life establishment.

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And that is this. They believe that a mother should be able to kill her child in the womb with impunity and immunity.

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They do not believe that she's guilty. They do not believe, pastors, that she needs forgiveness for what she's done because she is, they say, a victim.

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They've removed the gospel from the equation and they've removed God's standards of justice.

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We all want abortion to be abolished for it to be illegal. But in order for it to be illegal, it has to be illegal for everyone.

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I call myself an abolitionist. That means I'm a Christian who believes that murdering anyone should be illegal for everyone.

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That's it. That's what it means to abolish something. That's what it means to end it. That's what it means to make it illegal.

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But if we say, oh, yeah, it's illegal, except for the mom. Well, then wait, moms can still legally do it.

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Then the mother has a legal right to abortion. Well, then abortion is never going to end, especially today when the pills are easier to get than they ever were before.

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We will never end abortion in this nation, in any state, until the

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Christian church actually speaks the truth of what God's word says about the issue of abortion.

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And that is this. That child in the womb is in the image of God. That child in the womb deserves equal protection under the law.

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The same laws that protect your life and mine should protect that human being, that image bearer of God in the womb from the moment of fertilization.

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The Bible commands us to protect the fatherless, to protect the one who is vulnerable.

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And we have a responsibility before God to sound the trumpet for the pre -born, to let people know that these children are being murdered legally every day by the thousands in this nation.

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The church needs to exercise her prophetic voice. The church needs to take a center role in this fight once again.

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Standing on the word of God as our foundation, standing on the gospel of Jesus Christ, and fighting for justice now.

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There is blood on the hands of the people of the United States of America. There is blood on the hands of state legislatures around our nation who could stop child sacrifice, but don't have the courage to stand up for what is right.

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We need to have a sense of urgency for these children. We're not waiting for some event in the future.

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We're not awaiting a general election, a primary election. We're not awaiting a ballot measure to see what the results of that will be.

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We're not counting on the actions of the wicked before we make our move and protect these children from certain death.

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No, we want justice now. And that's what we need to be fighting for as Christians, because God won't accept anything less.

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We have to work as Christians to make sure the light of the gospel is now penetrating the issue of abortion with faithfulness and consistency for the sake of the woman and the child, for the sake of her soul, and for the sake of justice for these fatherless children.

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We're going to give an account for how we fought this fight. And when we stand before God, will we say that we gave it everything that we could?

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Will we say that we looked our magistrates in the eye and these organizations and said, no more?

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We will protect these children. They will not be exempted from the same justice that protects your life and my life.

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God commands us not to murder. Abortion is murder at any age and any stage.

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And only the gospel will change our culture. Yes. But it's justice that restrains the hands set on shedding innocent blood.

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And that's what we have to fight for. And that's what we have to demand. Otherwise, we'll never see it ending.

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Hi, everybody. I'm Pastor Jeff Durbin, the head of End Abortion Now. I want to start this by, from the bottom of my heart, thanking all of you who have been a part of this ministry with us since the very beginning.

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When we started End Abortion Now, we wanted to save lives. And when we started that work, God blessed it.

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And we have been able to raise up about a thousand churches across the U .S. and really around the world, the

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Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland. Everything was given away for free to these churches.

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Nothing was asked of them. We've equipped them. We've raised them up. And now they're saving lives.

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God's blessed that work. God also blessed us, as many of you know, in the area of having a prophetic witness, a voice to legislators across the country.

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And over the years, through your partnership with us, we've been able to get bills of equal protection and abolition into states across the

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United States of America. This next session, we have prospectively commitments from legislators in 18 states across the

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United States of America. That's 18 states that are going to be putting in bills of equal protection and abolition of abortion.

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It's incredible. It's overwhelming. It's a huge gift. And what we need this next year, 2024, is we need your prayers.

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We need your partnership. We need you to go to endabortionnow .com, sign the statement of equal protection, get connected, get your church involved.

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We want to help you. We also need you to partner with us financially. 2024 actually presents incredible opportunities for us as a ministry.

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Not only do we have all of these states that we have bills of equal protection set to go into, but now we have the past history of going and sitting before legislators, sitting in state legislatures, and actually working for these bills of abolition.

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The tide is changing. It is truly changing. And with what just took place in Ohio with the ballot measure, it has emboldened many, many

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Christians to take a stand once and for all for what is right before God and take a stand for justice for the pre -born children.

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Next year, 2024, is going to be our most important and our busiest year we've had yet.

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And so I want to ask you as a brother, as a friend, as a ministry partner, to partner with us again in 2024.

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Help us to meet our budget goals so that we can accomplish all that God has given to us to establish justice for these fatherless children and to once and for all end child sacrifice.

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Please partner with us. Go to endabortionnow .com to give, pray, and to sign up.