OCPAC - 20 Years After the Bombing, Dismemberment Still a Troubling Reality in OK

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1.  Tweak to the Menu at New Location

2.  Speaker on April 22:  Mystery Speaker Reflects on 20 Years of OKC Bombing History

3.  Dismemberment Still a Troubling Reality in OK

 

1.  Tweaks to the Menu at New Location

 

Remember, we are now meeting at Old Surety Life, 5201 N. Lincoln Blvd., just a few blocks from the state capitol on the northwest corner of 50th & Lincoln.  Park in the lot directly west of the building only.  Enter the café directly from the south doors.

 

Lunch will be basically the same this week.  You will get to choose a boxed lunch while supplies last for $8.  These include a gourmet sandwich, chips, cookie, and iced tea or water.  Drinks other than tea are not included; they are extra.

 

Now here is the tweak:  If you want to order from the menu, you need to arrive and place your order prior to 11:30 AM.  After that time there are too many people coming in at once for the small staff to fill special orders.  After 11:30 you need to take one of the prepared box lunches.  Remember there is a $1 cover charge for those not eating.

 

2.  Mystery Speaker Reflects on 20 Years of OKC Bombing History

Was this the work of only one man with a simple, fertilizer-based truck bomb?  This and hundreds of other question about the Oklahoma City bombing were either not answered satisfactorily or never answered at all.

 

Investigative reporters, legislators, and concerned citizens have continued to doggedly track the leads and search for the truth for years.  After two decades there is still an official story, and then there is … the rest of the story.  Our speaker this Wednesday is in a position to know more than most.  This meeting will not be video recorded, so come in person as we remember and reflect on the Oklahoma City bombing twenty years later.

 

3.  Dismemberment Still a Troubling Reality in OK

 

Last Tuesday Governor Mary Fallin signed into law the Oklahoma Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act.  This is an act to be celebrated, and we should thank our legislators and governor for enacting it.  However, passage of the act is not the end of the political game, and if we want to see lives saved by this act, there are still moves to be made.  I hope we succeed, but I am dubious that the act will be effective or that it will even go into effect at all based on weaknesses in the act itself and based on our recent political history in the state.

 

First, the act bans dismemberment abortions only, and the act specifically defines dismemberment abortion as the purposeful killing of an unborn child by dismembering him with pliers while alive and unborn.  With this definition in place, an abortion doctor need only to kill the unborn child first, then his dismemberment procedure will not be breaking this law.  Based on figures from the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, there are approximately 392 abortions of this type per year in Oklahoma.  So, in a best case scenario where the act goes into effect and we presuppose that abortion doctors will not find a way to kill the baby first, this act may lead to the saving of approximately 392 children out of 5,860 killed by abortion.

 

Of course, while the act seems to be greatly concerned about dismemberment, it leaves another 1,518 or more babies to be dismembered in Oklahoma by vacuum aspiration.  Suctioning a baby out through a tube the size of a pencil dismembers living babies just as effectively as pliers.  I am not sure why one form of dismemberment is preferred over the other.  Apparently unborn children who are dismembered at more than twelve weeks of age are more valuable than those who are dismembered at only nine to twelve weeks of age.

 

Another startling part of this act is its effective date:  November 1, 2015.  Apparently we do not need to start immediately to save as many of the 392 children this year as possible.  They do not become valuable until seven months from now.  It seems to me that an immediate cease and desist order hand-delivered by a sheriff would have been appropriate.  It was nice of the allies after their arrival at Auschwitz and Dachau not to wait an extra seven months to empty the concentration camps.  This extra seven months gives lawyers plenty of time to prepare their briefs and obtain a court stay or opinion that will prevent this act from ever going into effect.

 

So when the inevitable stay and opinion of “unconstitutional” is handed down from the Oklahoma Supreme Court or a federal court, what ought to happen?  In my view a Godly, principled response is obvious.   The 122 elected leaders who passed this act, who represent the will of the people, who speak for two branches of our state government, and who want to do the right thing, should not kowtow to the illegal, illogical, immoral, and insane opinion of the court which wants to allow the dismemberment of innocent children.  Our legislative and executive leaders should ignore the opinion and respond as the first apostles did when they were dragged into court:  “We must obey God rather than man.”

 

But will they have the courage to respond this way?  If recent political history is any indication, I fear not.  The Oklahoma Constitution, the highest law of our land outside the specific powers delegated to our general U.S. government, recognizes traditional marriage only in our state.  Yet we have violated this provision in obeisance to an unelected federal judge in Colorado.

 

It is high time we remember that any law or court opinion which violates God’s law is no law at all.  It is not legal, it is not binding, and it has no authority.  Therefore we all—and that includes our Governor, Attorney General, Legislators, and law enforcement personnel—should ignore such court opinions, not to mention impeach the judges.  We will talk more about these necessary political moves in our May 6 meeting.

 

In the meantime, thank you, members of the Oklahoma Legislature and Governor Fallin for passing this bill.  We urge you to steel yourselves now to finish the game.  We are behind you, and as you lead this charge to protect innocent lives in obedience to God, hear the cry of the people:  “Legally we can.  Morally we must.”

 

The views expressed in this email are the personal opinion of John Michener and do not necessarily reflect the views of OCPAC, its leadership team, or its members.  We currently meet Wednesdays at noon at Old Surety Life, 5201 N. Lincoln Blvd., OKC.

 

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