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Choose Life message isn't political
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Jun. 23, 2013 1:09 pm
You ask, “Is an anti-abortion statement too politically charged to be on state-issued license plates?”
The “Choose Life” message isn't political at all. It is from God's word in the Bible, Deuteronomy 30:19: “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live ...”
We are not anti-abortion. Abortion means to remove a dead baby. A dead baby needs to be removed. We are anti-aborticide. Aborticide means destruction of a fetus in the uterus. Aborticide is premeditated murder of an innocent pre-born child. God calls it shedding innocent blood. That is what Planned Parenthood is doing and our governor gives them our tax money to do it.
Educators would have girls think they need to go to college to learn a career. No one tells them that it is OK to be a housewife and mother, their most important profession. After college and marriage, they still don't have children because they have to work to pay off their student loans.
One hundred years from now their house will be gone, their car will be junk, their career won't matter. But if they have children, they may have grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Without this family bloodline, our nation is destroyed. Wake up, Iowa.
Donna Holman
Keokuk
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