We’re in Rolling Stone Magazine!

This week a feature article has been published in the extremely liberal Rolling Stone Magazine about our work in Wichita, Kansas. Although the article has flaws, it is without a doubt, the best treatment of a pro-life ministry ever published by this magazine.

The article, titled ’One Man’s God Squad,’ appearing in such a widely read publication is bound to elicit responses from both sides of the abortion issue. We pray that it will encourage and inspire all those who labor to save innocent lives from abortion and serve to put those on notice who participate in child-killing: ’Your sins will find you out.’

The article is available on line at RollingStone.com. It is due to hit the newsstands tomorrow, Friday, July 30, 2004.

Here is a preview’

The letter arrived on a Tuesday in march. “Dear Sara,” it read. “It is our information that you are currently an employee of Women’s Health Care Services, a facility that provides abortions.” It went on to suggest that Sara Phares, an administrative assistant at the clinic in Wichita, Kansas, quit her job and repent her sins. “Please know that we are praying for you,” the letter concluded. It was signed “Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue West.” A week later, hundreds of Phares’ neighbors received an anonymous postcard of a mangled fetus. This is abortion! read the big block letters. “Your neighbor Sara Phares participates in killing babies like these.” The postcard implored them to call Phares, whose phone number and address were provided, and voice their opposition to her work at the clinic. Another card soon followed. It referred to Phares as “Miss I Help to Kill Little Babies” and suggested, in an erratic typeface that recalled a kidnapper’s ransom note, that neighbors “beg her to quit, pretty please.” The third postcard dispensed entirely with pleasantries: “Sara Phares is not to be trusted! Tell her to get a life!”

Read the rest at ’Rolling Stone.com – One Man’s God Squad’

Back by popular demand!
Bioethics in an Age of Emerging Biotechnology
A Christian Response to Human Embryo Experimentation
By Cheryl Sullenger

This is a free download from Operation Rescue West and a must read for all Christians.

Right click the link above and select “Save Target As..” to save the booklet to your hard drive.

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In response to Ron Reagan Jr’s speech at the Democratic National Convention supporting destructive human embryonic experimentation, we are reposting an Editorial published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on January 27, 2000. Four and a half years later, the same arguments for destroying human beings at the embryonic stage are still being put forth. This editorial examines the morality of such destruction.

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Too High a Price For Scientific Knowledge

By Cheryl Sullenger
San Diego Union-Tribune (January 27, 2000)

Ever notice how life sometimes imitates Star Trek? Upon reading a recent newspaper article about embryonic stem cell research, I was reminded of a Star Trek Voyager episode entitled “Nothing Human.” In this episode, set in the 25th century, Voyager crew member B’Elanna Torres is attacked by an intelligent, but very alien species who affixes himself to her vital organs in order to survive, endangering Torres’ life. The doctor soon discovers that if the creature is removed from Torres, it will die. To save the lives of his two patients, the doctor calls upon the aid of a holographic scientist, a duplicate of a doctor whose expertise in xenobiology is unsurpassed in the Alpha Quadrant. This scientist, it is soon discovered, gained his medical knowledge, through often brutal and lethal experiments on a subjugated race of people who suffered greatly due to his experimentation. His knowledge, gained from the deaths of countless innocent people, would certainly help save the lives of Torres and the alien being. However, Torres is appalled by the prospect of benefiting from such experimentation and rejects any treatment derived from research on unwilling human subjects, even if it costs her her life. Torres and the creature are eventually saved, but the Voyager doctor is left with a moral dilemma. Is it ethical to use research gained at the price of so much intentionally inflicted suffering and loss of life? In the end the scientist’s program is deleted along with any knowledge it contained. The price of that knowledge, counted in the lives of his dead and maimed research subjects, was just too high.
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