This week i finished making a new video called Seventh-day Adventist Church and Abortion. I really believe this is the worst sin our church officially condones, so i am sighing and crying for the abominations done in the church, hoping our church will return to upholding the sanctity of life.
I just hope and pray that the church laity will ask their leaders to stand for the truth, and we will repent and leave this horrendous sin. The video is here if you havent seen it yet:
It is my understanding that the church is not connected to the hospitals and do not have power over them. The hospitals are run by secular people and the docs that do this are not SDAs.
Unfortunately, it still carries our name but they are mainstream medicine all the way. They administer drugs and chemo as well.
It is very sad that this type of thing goes on anywhere. I've been told that if you do away with abortion however that people will just kill the babies once they are born anyway.... such a sad world we live in. Never was intended to be such.
I'm not an expert on the relation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (General Conference), and hospitals that carry our name on them, but there is much control over them.
I recommend that you read the Ministry Magazine article of August 1991. It gives the history of abortion in SDA circles, and shows clearly that our current mess came in thru our hospital in Hawaii. The state government there legalized abortion in 1970, then our church asked for guideline help to the church, and the GC and division and whatever kicked it around a while, and finally came up with something.
It is not true that people will just kill their babies anyway if they cannot have an abortion. No one really believes that over 1,000,000 already-born babies would be dashed to pieces every year just in America!
I find there is much mininformation about this subject, most likely reflecting the current attitude of the church to just sweep it all under the rug. Whenever anyone brings it up, they are usually thot of as "church-bashers", or "anti-women". Funny tho, that no one actually wants to see the pics of the murdered kids.....
I'm encouraged by the response so far to the video. It is odd tho, that roughly half of those who comment on it think i'm doing a bad thing by airing dirty laundry of the church in the public eye. One lady (who is pro-life) said i should not use bloody pics. ummm, that is one of the points - abortion is a bloody murder mess.
One person said that it is like i'm looking for black spots on a white sheep. Well, the Bible says that "Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish."
So if God can use me to help the church realize she has spots that need the cleansing blood of Jesus, i will be happy