{"id":38298,"date":"2013-07-19T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=38298"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T14:32:05","slug":"pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Late-term abortions have been a focal point of the media lately, highlighted by the recent banning of abortions after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2013\/07\/18\/texas-governor-rick-perry-signs-bill-banning-late-term-abortions\/\">20 weeks in Texas<\/a>. Amid all the controversy over aborting viable unborn babies or allowing them the right to life is the hope that should be offered to expectant parents who are considering abortion in the second and third trimesters. Christcentric, a rap group created in 1998 to bring the gospel to those who have a love of hip-hop culture, and to those who didn&#8217;t necessarily grow up with the church, created a song and video to inspire that hope in such parents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XEkLflLiqO4\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFight For the Children is a song centered primarily around the subject of late-term abortion,\u201d explains founding group member Evangel (Chege Njoroge). \u201cInitially we were asked to do a song about this heinous act because of LeRoy Carhart moving into our neck of the woods (Germantown, MD) to expand his practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s pastor, Charlie Baile, invited Christcentric to create a song for one of the services during the Summer of Mercy 2.0, which was a week of peaceful, prayerful focus on late-term abortionist Carhart. Carhart began performing late-term abortions in Maryland because of what Evangel refers to as \u201cloopholes [in Maryland laws] that allow a mother to abort up to the day of birth, as long as she can get a doctor to sign off that the baby\u2019s life or the mother\u2019s life or health is in jeopardy[, including] emotional health, mental health of the mother, i.e.: can\u2019t afford it, don\u2019t want it.\u201d Evangel says that most of the mothers who go to Carhart for late-term abortions have healthy babies, and their own health is not suffering.<\/p>\n<p>The video for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7AHqdEfuUM\">Fight for the Children<\/a>&#8221; depicts a young couple struggling financially. They do an internet search for abortion while Christcentric raps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is death\u2019s delivery, transporter. Planned torture, if caught on a camcorder, all would see it\u2019s manslaughter. [\u2026] They say the smartest act is to induce a heart attack. You should cringe. They put a syringe inside is the advice. \u2018Cause if it\u2019s delivered alive, it has rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also featured in the video is a group of children singing the chorus, \u201cWe fight for the rights of the children. It\u2019s a life, their plight is to kill them.\u201d The presence of the children, singing in a cemetery to save their own peers, is chilling. Each of them is missing classmates, peers, and friends, lost to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>As the couple in the video visits a pregnancy services center, the mother holds a model of an unborn child and weeps. Ultimately, the couple decide to let their baby live as Christcentric raps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unwed teenage girl was pregnant, but her fianc\u00e9 wasn&#8217;t the baby\u2019s father. He could&#8217;ve seized this right and aborted that fetus\u2019 life, but he would&#8217;ve slaughtered the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christcentric not only opens listeners&#8217; eyes to the horrors of late-term abortion, but sheds light on the fact that not only was the life of Jesus one Whose existence is today an argument for abortion, because His mother\u2019s fianc\u00e9 wasn\u2019t the father, but that Mary was giving birth to and raising a child for Whom much suffering and an early death was destined &#8211; another main argument for late term abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Parents themselves, Evangel says Christcentric\u2019s stance on abortion is that it is not supported by scripture and that they all believe strongly in the right to life. In regards to rape and incest, Evangel says that one sin should not justify another.<\/p>\n<p>The group urges pro-lifers to get involved. Evangel explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To end abortion in this country, I think would take a massive effort in educating the people as to what actually occurs in an abortion. People are grossly misinformed and treat it like it is just another decision they are faced with, rather than murdering a life. [Ending abortion] can be done through the education of our youth in the school systems. They will be faced with these issues as they grow in life, so what better way to prepare them than to teach about it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also advises us all to pray for an end to abortion and to be available, in a peaceful and loving manner, to help someone who is considering abortion.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christcentric is a Christian rap group\/ministry made up of several members: Apologist (William Mendoza), Doctrynal (Carlos Gonzalez), Israel the Puritan (Israel Felix), and Evangel (Chege Njoroge). The Christcentric ministry family includes Benjamin the Esquire (Ben Otero) and Zae da Blacksmith (Jose Ca\u00f1as). Q-D.O.G., Quincy Disciple of God&#8217;s Son, has left the group to pursue pastoral studies in seminary. Their music is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christcentric.net\/\">www.christcentric.net<\/a> and iTunes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":38308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1833,1089,1834],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Opening eyes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Fight-For-the-Children.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"223\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nancy Flanders\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\"},\"headline\":\"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\"},\"wordCount\":805,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Christcentric\",\"Late-Term Abortion\",\"Lehart\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Issues\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\",\"name\":\"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef\",\"name\":\"Nancy Flanders\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Nancy Flanders\"},\"description\":\"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News","og_description":"Opening eyes.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00","og_image":[{"width":381,"height":223,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Fight-For-the-Children.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nancy Flanders","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nancy Flanders","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/"},"author":{"name":"Nancy Flanders","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef"},"headline":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion","datePublished":"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00","dateModified":"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/"},"wordCount":805,"commentCount":7,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Christcentric","Late-Term Abortion","Lehart"],"articleSection":["Issues"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/","name":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion - Live Action News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-07-19T12:08:05+00:00","dateModified":"2013-07-19T14:32:05+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-music-video-offers-hope-to-late-term-pregnant-mothers-considering-abortion\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pro-life music video offers hope to late term pregnant mothers considering abortion"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, &amp; Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/d61ca3dd1aacf12635bdf71d75c328ef","name":"Nancy Flanders","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dee54060bdc22fdfbf36d946b3026cca?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Nancy Flanders"},"description":"Nancy Flanders is Associate Editor for Live Action News. She has 25 years of experience writing and editing. For more than a decade, she has focused her work on pro-life issues through human interest stories and political issues regarding abortion and physician-assisted death as well as research articles and op-eds dismantling the lies of the pro-abortion, pro-death agenda. Her work has appeared in Catholic Digest, Pregnancy Help News, and a variety of other publications.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/nancy\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298"}],"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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}