{"id":24017,"date":"2012-12-05T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=24017"},"modified":"2012-12-05T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T21:54:42","slug":"our-stories-arent-the-same-frank-schaffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/our-stories-arent-the-same-frank-schaffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Our stories aren&#8217;t the same, Frank Schaeffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I recently read a guest post about abortion on Frank Schaeffer\u2019s Patheos blog. Schaeffer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankschaeffer\/2012\/11\/a-christian-answer-to-the-lies-of-the-evangelicalcatholic-pro-life-movement\/\">wrote a piece<\/a> entitled \u201cA Christian Answer to the Lies of the Evangelical\/Catholic &#8216;Pro-Life&#8217; Movement.&#8221; That article went along with a guest post by Greg Rubottom titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusbasics.com\/2012\/11\/death-throes-of-great-deception-fall.html\">Death Throes of a Great Deception \u2013 The Fall From Grace of the &#8216;Pro-Life&#8217; Movement<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0We\u2019ll get to tackling Rubottom\u2019s arguments for abortion in Part 2 of this article, but for now I\u2019d like to talk about Schaeffer.<\/p>\n<p>I have a confession to make. Before reading Frank&#8217;s blog, I&#8217;d never heard of Francis&#8217;s or his son Frank Schaeffer\u2019s pro-life work. Truth is, before writing this article, I knew little about both men. Perhaps as a pro-life advocate I should be ashamed of myself. How can I admit to being ignorant of the work of two men whom history records as pioneers of the American pro-life movement?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/c.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20353\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" title=\"Christina Martin\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>Perhaps it\u2019s because I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0grow up in a conservative, evangelical, or Republican home. My journey to becoming pro-life\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0start by attending a rally or listening to a candidate\u2019s speech. It began the day <a href=\"\/news\/culture\/do-you-want-to-have-this-baby-the-yes-that-changed-everything\/\">my mother confessed<\/a> to having scheduled an appointment to abort me. There were no elected officials from the Republican Party waving banners or asking me to sign petitions. My parents\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0take me to abortion clinics as a youngster to hold pictures and pray. I\u2019d never heard a sermon on abortion, nor did I care if a presidential candidate supported it or not. If the Schaeffers were \u201cfathers\u201d of the pro-life movement, you could consider me an orphan.<\/p>\n<p>Everything changed when I realized that my life had almost been taken. Later, when I prayed, in the depths of my heart, a Voice whispered, \u201cIf I wanted you to live, how do you think I feel about the other children?\u201d I had a dream that I was inside an abortion clinic waiting room, pleading with a woman to save her baby. I looked into her face and said, \u201cYour child could be the next president of the United States.&#8221; I woke up flustered, and curious. I met a stranger at a church who came up to me and said, \u201cYou\u2019re not here just because your parents desired you to be; you\u2019re here because God wanted you.&#8221; The lady whose name I\u00a0didn&#8217;t\u00a0know said it over and over again, \u201cGod wanted you, God wanted you, God wanted you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I read Bible verses that spoke of God&#8217;s hatred of the shedding of innocent blood and the way he rebuked the\u00a0Israelites\u00a0for\u00a0sacrificing\u00a0their children to idols as a means of gaining\u00a0financial\u00a0prosperity (Leviticus 18:21). I contemplated the words God spoke to the prophet Jeremiah. &#8220;I knew you before you were born&#8221; (Jeremiah 1:5) resounded in my soul. I believed that God was sharing an intimate matter with me. Like a friend who needs a listening ear to share His sorrow, God told me of the pain He felt over His children who were being destroyed and the mothers and fathers who were wounded because of it. I listened to women&#8217;s stories. I wept.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote <em>Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em> after she had a <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tncc.edu\/faculty\/longt\/e273\/harriet_beecher_stowe.htm\">vision<\/a> in a church service of a slave being beaten. In later years, when asked about <em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em>, she\u2019d remark, \u201cGod wrote that book.\u201d Harriet believed that God had beckoned her to be a voice for a enslaved people whose prayers He heard.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Tubman was another woman who felt called by God to save her people. She was called the \u201cMoses\u201d of her people. Her life was reminiscent of the little Hebrew boy who was put in a basket, survived a death decree, and grew up to set his people free. Like the Jewish queen Esther who spoke up to save her people from annihilation, I wondered if I had been born for \u201csuch a time as this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why is my story important? One reason is because it\u2019s different from Frank Schaeffer\u2019s. Frank got turned off &#8211; by politics, religion, agendas, opinions, all of it. It seems he grew disillusioned with\u00a0Evangelical leaders,\u00a0the Republican Party, and parts of the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Rubottom&#8217;s article on Frank\u2019s site begins with these words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my lifetime I can\u2019t think of a more insidious act done in the name of the Christian God than the Republican Party\u2019s nefarious campaign to teach Americans that God opposes abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Greg is referencing Frank\u2019s past and the work he did &#8211; work that Greg believes is still deceiving Americans.<\/p>\n<p>I can empathize with Frank. I read an <a href=\"http:\/\/m.npr.org\/story\/97998654\">interview<\/a> with NPR in which Schaeffer talked about\u00a0receiving\u00a0money, airplane tickets, and fancy clothes while doing pro-life work. He wrestled in his soul over keeping his motives right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I got very clever very quickly and somewhat disingenuous. In my heart, I&#8217;d keep telling myself, well, it&#8217;s all for the unborn. It&#8217;s for the unborn babies. It&#8217;s to save our culture, but getting sucked into the process very quickly changed who I was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_24066\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-11.07.05-AM.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24066\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24066\" title=\"Whatever Happened to the Human Race\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-11.07.05-AM-300x222.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-11.07.05-AM-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-2012-12-05-at-11.07.05-AM.png 469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shot from the movie, &#8220;Whatever Happened to the Human Race,&#8221; made by Francis and Frank Schaeffer and Dr. Everett C. Koop.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t seek to judge him. I haven&#8217;t walked in his shoes.\u00a0Truth is, I&#8217;ve enjoyed reading his writings. I don&#8217;t agree with everything he says, but I have found nuggets of truth. I appreciate his raw honesty over the mistakes he&#8217;s made with his daughter. I&#8217;m grateful for the courage he has to denounce racism and hatred. I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s found a home in the Greek Orthodox Church and still has faith. I can relate to his experiences. I know imperfect people in every party, movement, and ministry. I too have been hurt by the motives of those who are doing good to profit themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, more often that not, I&#8217;ve been amazed by the sincere love and affection pro-lifers and believers have shown to the weak,\u00a0vulnerable, and needy. I&#8217;ve seen young people stand outside in the freezing cold to pray for the unborn, couples open their homes to adopt disabled babies, children raise funds to help pregnant women, friends travel to the ends of the earth to care for the poor.\u00a0I think the only cure for\u00a0cynicism\u00a0is love. I&#8217;m not cynical of the pro-life movement or the church because I&#8217;ve seen more good than evil. I&#8217;ve been overwhelmed by our love for one another.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no denying that the Schaeffers played an important role in leading the pro-life movement in the 1970s and &#8217;80s. I&#8217;m grateful for their labor. Though I respect Frank Schaeffer&#8217;s history, I am saddened to know he supports legalized abortion.<\/p>\n<p>I became pro-life in 2003. I, along with thousands of other young pro-lifers, have come to our beliefs because of moral conviction, biblical truths, and personal experiences. The majority of my young adult friends are pro-life. Some are Republicans; others are Democrats or independents. They are not all Evangelicals, although most are believers. They are not all white or even conservative. Some are, though, and I&#8217;m grateful for them.<\/p>\n<p>Our differences don&#8217;t matter. The common thread we have is this: we believe that abortion destroys beauty. We believe it not because we&#8217;ve been spoon-fed it. We&#8217;ve sought and found compelling truths that have changed our mindsets. Greg Rubottom belittles our stand by assuming we were unknowingly duped by a political party or a religious\u00a0institution.<\/p>\n<p>My heart goes out to you, Frank Schaeffer. I took my time while writing this because if you ever read it, I want it to be kind.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party never taught me God hated abortion. 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Her mother paid for an abortion but walked out of the doctor's office after a janitor in the hospital approached her. The janitor told her God would give her the strength to have her baby and she believed it. Hearing this story in her 20's caused Christina to become strongly pro-life. After graduating college in 2005, Christina spent a few years at the Justice House of Prayer in D.C and with the pro-life group Bound4Life. She then moved to the Atlanta to be on staff with the 24\/7 prayer ministry IHOP ATL. Christina is a wife and stepmom who currently works for a CareNet pregnancy center. She writes for Bound4life's blog and at www.chrismarie.com. Christina loves Jesus and has a heart for the Black community. She is a member of the National Black Pro-life coalition. and she believes the greatest civil right is the right to life.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.chrismarie.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christina.m.martin.54","https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristinaMar81"],"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/christinamartin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}