The Dirty Little Secret

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My name is Pastor Jeff Durbin. I'm the head of EndAbortionNow at EndAbortionNow .com.

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I want to talk to you today about the dirty little secret of the pro -life industry. I want to be very careful about how

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I say this and how I do this because I'm not talking about Christians who are pro -life. I'm talking about the pro -life industry.

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A global industry receiving millions upon millions upon millions of donations from Christians.

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This pro -life industry boasts many times about the fact that they are not explicitly

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Christian organizations. Now we know that it's an indisputable fact of biological science that what's in the womb is human.

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Fully human from conception and deserves our protection, our love and justice.

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Now it's 2021 and by May of 2021 through the work of EndAbortionNow and other

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Christian churches we've been able to get four different states with four bills of equal protection for all human beings.

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In all the states that Christians and Christian churches have worked to actually provide bills of equal protection, bills to abolish and criminalize abortion, it has been the pro -life industry that has actually worked to kill all of those bills.

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I want to give you an example of what this looks like. In Arizona in January we put in a bill

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HB 2650. It was the Equal Protection Act. It was just a bill that should actually fit with the worldview of the pro -life industry.

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That what's in the womb is human from conception. All humans deserve equal protection. And it makes the killing of a human being in the womb a crime.

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The major opposition towards this bill didn't come from the pro -choice industry or the pro -choice movement. It came from the pro -life industry and pro -life industry leaders in Arizona.

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One specifically is Kathy Harrod. Kathy Harrod is the president of the Center for Arizona Policy. After we had our rally for this bill of equal protection, this bill of abolition in Arizona, she tweeted,

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Now this, of course, demonstrates that Kathy Harrod is woefully inconsistent.

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That Kathy Harrod is contradicting her own stipulated beliefs about abortion.

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She says that she believes that it's human from conception. But Kathy Harrod, the pro -life industry leader in Arizona, doesn't believe that human beings in the womb deserve equal protection.

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Proof of that is that Kathy Harrod believes that when a woman kills a child in the womb, the woman is also herself a victim.

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Kathy Harrod will never actually end abortion in Arizona. She's not interested in it because she doesn't want to work towards the criminalization of abortion.

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And so what did Kathy Harrod do? Kathy Harrod, a pro -life industry leader in Arizona, opposed the bill to provide equal protection to all humans in the womb.

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And she put forth a bill called Senate Bill 1457. Senate Bill 1457 does this.

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to fend for themselves during the risky ordeal. And here it is. It also repeals a pre -Roe law that punishes women who have abortions, and it establishes that Arizona laws will be interpreted in the context of valuing all human life.

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There is the dirty little secret of the pro -life industry. The pro -life industry isn't working to ultimately provide equal protection for all human beings.

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They give this kind of legislation. They oppose a bill of equal protection that actually squares with their stipulated worldview that what's in the womb is human from conception.

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They put forth bills like this that are ultimately moot points. When you think about legislation like this, it's legislation that works towards that theme.

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We acquit the wicked. We acquit the guilty. Kathy Harrod is saying to mothers who kill their children, you're not guilty.

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You yourself are a victim. And so Kathy Harrod demonstrates that she ultimately is not operating from a

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Christian perspective, and this isn't about the gospel for Kathy Harrod. And Kathy Harrod has no intention of ever criminalizing the issue of abortion in the state of Arizona, because she believes if you kill your child as a mother or a father, you're also a victim.

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So no gospel. So I want to speak to the pastors over churches in the state of Arizona as a fellow pastor.

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I want to speak to the Christians in the state of Arizona and say this. What we need here is to work as Christians with the gospel on our lips and with consistency.

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We need to work with courage to abolish the issue of abortion in the state of Arizona, and we need to make sure that we tell leaders like Kathy Harrod that you do not represent the

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Christian cause, you do not represent the consistent cause of abolishing abortion in this state, and we will no longer send you money for this kind of inconsistency.