Intercessory Missionary at the International House of Prayer Tallahassee Missions Base
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Evan Olsen
Intercessory Missionary
I am a Lover of Jesus, Missionary, Intercessor, Revivalist, Abolitionist, Graphic Designer, Conservative.
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1 year ago | Wed, Apr 27th, 2011 Tweet
Florida House Passes Six Pro-Life Bills
Today was a historic day in Florida. Through lengthy and intense debates an amazing amount of pro-life bills passed the Florida House. The House passed all six pro-life bills ranging from having Floridians vote on the 2012 ballot to add an amendment to the FL Constitution banning publicly funded abortions — to requiring women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound, have it reviewed and explained to them.
Pro-life Democrats made their voices heard today in the debate of these bills and were strong voices for righteousness. Representative Julien (Dem. D 104) said in reference to the genocide of Africans in the days of slavery and in support of bill HB 97, ”abortion is a genocide of the unborn.” ”Nothing is more essential to what we do than the preservation of human life,” said another Representative in reference to the notion that job-creating bills are a better way to spend the session.Here’s a look at the bills passed today:
HB 501 Relating to Choose Life License Plates - This bill allows for Choose Life, Inc. to distribute funds donated by Floridians choosing the Choose Life license plate to organizations that help pregnant women and adoption agencies — rather than the funds being distributed by individual counties.
CS/HJR 1179 Amendment Banning Public Funding of Abortions on the 2012 Ballot - This bill proposes an amendment to the State Constitution that would prohibit public funding of abortions (excluding rape, incest and life of the mother); It would also prohibit the State Constitution from being interpreted to create broader rights to abortion than those contained in U.S. Constitution.
CS/HB 97 Health Insurance - Prohibits certain health insurance policies & health maintenance contracts from providing coverage for abortions; provides that certain restrictions on coverage for abortions apply to certain group health insurance policies issued or delivered outside state which provide coverage to residents of state.
HB 1127 Required Ultrasounds - This bill requires that an ultrasound be performed before a woman can obtain an abortion. It also requires that the ultrasound be reviewed with the patient before she consents for abortion procedure. If she chooses to not review the ultrasound she must do so in writing and that she did so of her own free will and without undue influence; it provides exemption from requirement to view ultrasound for women who are victims of rape, incest, domestic violence, or human trafficking or for women who have serious medical condition necessitating abortion.
HB 1247 Parental Notice of Abortion - This bill would tighten requirements for parental notification when a minor seeks an abortion; It would require minors seeking an abortion to have parental consent before the abortion may be performed.
HB 1397 Third Trimester Abortions: This would expand prohibition on third-trimester abortions to include a ban if the fetus is viable. It would also require physician who offers to or performs abortions to complete continuing ethics education.
These bills aren’t just good ideas, they’re the beginning of abortion ending in the state of Florida and are evidences that Floridians do care about the unborn, women and families. Today is no minor day.
Are the Unborn Human?
Remember Lia? She’s the young lady that won the right to give a persuasive speech in her school about abortion when she was 12-years-old. Her original video is nearing 1,000,000 views and has been translated into multiple languages. I think this girl is really amazing. She speaks eloquently and her arguments are very convincing.
Well Lia is back at it with a new series as spokesperson for Teen Defenders. Here’s the latest.
Planned Parenthood’s Missing Millions (one billion six hundred forty-two million nine hundred thousand, to be exact.)
Today the Washington Times came out with a spirited article about Planned Parenthood’s latest financial discrepancy of millions of federal dollars.
According to the report “Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s (PPFA) audits show the organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth’s own annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion from government grants and programs during the same time period.”
Where did the other one billion six hundred forty-two million nine hundred thousand go? The article goes on to say:
“For instance, Title X money is not to be used for abortions. However, according to Abby Johnson, former director of Planned Parenthood’s abortion center in Bryan/College Station, Texas, it is used to gain the trust of women in minority neighborhoods in order to bring them into Planned Parenthood facilities, supposedly for health care, and then persuade them to become Planned Parenthood birth-control clients. Then, when the birth control fails, the organization has a built-in minority clientele for abortion, which Ms. Johnson says is Planned Parenthood’s big cash cow.”
To learn more about Title X funds, check out this article »
I’ll leave you with a portion of the article that made my jaw drop that the Washington Times actually said it:
“Is there no end to the amount of our hard-earned tax dollars that will be poured down the bottomless pit known as Planned Parenthood to quench this social-engineering agency’s thirst for sexualizing our children, stealing their souls and dumping the mutilated bodies of our children’s children into our nation’s waste bins?”
Yet another reason why it’s time to defund Planned Parenthood.
Site of the Month: Moral Outcry
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Site of the Month is a collection of featured sites that I think are worth visiting often.
www.bound4life.org/blog - visit site
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Moral Outcry is the blog of Bound4LIFE International, the prayer movement for the ending of abortion. The blog is managed by my good friend Ian Kelly (describes himself as Moral Outcry’s “arm chair pundit”), who, might I add, is quite a witty fellow with a great prowess for humor.
Moral Outcry is chocked full amazing blogs from many different pro-life writers across the US. I find the posts to be a great wealth of encouragement to me in the fight against abortion, as well as creating a great community with which to bounce ideas off others and share relevant experiences.
Here are some of my favorite blog-posts:
Wednesday
Survivor of Saline Abortion Speaks out
Redux: The Passover Lamb
The Call Houston
This past weekend around 14,000 people gathered in Houston for the Call to gather together in massive fasting and prayer for America to come back to righteousness, for the ending of abortion, and the sending of a another Great Awakening to America.
Sunday night 10,000 gathered for five hours of prayer in a solemn assembly.
The following morning was tense in the spiritual realm. Two events were planned: a silent prayer march through the minority neighborhoods around the Planned Parenthood clinic, and a silent prayer siege around the Planned Parenthood clinic itself.
At the march around 10,000 silently walked through these minority neighborhoods as a subpoena to the consciences of the families of America.
The largest silent prayer siege ever took place that morning as 4,200 people stood for five hours straight as a wall around the 2nd largest abortion clinic in the world. The Lord poured out a supernatural spirit of grace and strength to stand and stay focused in prayer. For hours people were unmoved in their stance for life.
This event was a severe blow to the principalities and ideologies that keep our Nation in a choke-hold of immorality and ungodliness. We must remember that we “…do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against nthe rulers of the darkness of this age…” Eph 6:12
The Call Houston and the Planned Parenthood silent prayer siege has been featured on many different local and national news. (I’m pretty excited about that.) I believe this is a call to conscience through the news unintentionally bringing awareness. Here’s one local news video:
Bound4LIFE’s newest video: Houston, Now is the Time.
This Jan. I will be going with my family to Houston to join in with thousands to march & pray against this Planned Parenthood abortion “Super Center.”
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