CompassCare

Originally aired January 2020 After a twelve year battle against the people, Governor Cuomo and the political elite applauded the signing the Reproductive Health Act earlier this year. They insisted that New York expand abortion so that women will still have a place to get their abortions if the Supreme Court reverses the 1973 ruling legalizing it. New York is well-known to tourists for its cities...

Originally aired January 2020 There is an on-going criminal investigation of at least ten Planned Parenthood affiliates by the U.S. Justice Department for the illegal trafficking of aborted baby body parts. The investigation was sparked after undercover journalist David Daleiden released videos of Planned Parenthood officials negotiating those sales and describing the late-term abortion procedures...

Originally aired January 2020 When the Supreme Court legalized abortion it manufactured language to describe fetal viability , the minimum gestational age for a child to be able to survive outside the womb. In 1973 that was 28 weeks. A follow up ruling, Planned Parenthood v Casey , said that a state has a compelling interest to restrict abortion after the point of fetal viability. Due to advances...

Originally aired January 2020 A global baby bust is giving birth to crisis. For a nation to sustain itself its fertility rate must be 2.1 babies per woman. The U.S. fertility rate is 1.8, East Asia’s is 1.7, and Western Europe’s is 1.6. Fewer babies mean an aging population resulting in a demographic cliff. As the population ages, the ability for society to bear children in numbers high enough to...

Originally aired February 2020 In May the Department of Health and Human Services issued a new rule protecting the conscience rights of medical providers who refuse to participate in abortion because of their beliefs. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit on behalf of Planned Parenthood and others to strike the conscience protections. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer sided with the...

Originally aired February 2020 On Thursday February 6, a racially diverse coalition of pastors sounded the alarm that abortion is strangling the black community. Rev. William Gillison of Mt Olive Baptist Church said, “ 59 black babies are aborted for every 100 born in Buffalo…. The Black community is no longer replacing itself.” The coalition announced the launch of a televised awareness raising c...

Originally aired February 2020 Abortion in the U.S. is down 19% since 2011 . Pro-life people see the decline as success but demographer Dennis Howard from a Movement for a Better America warns that abortion itself may be partially to blame for the nation’s decline in abortion. It is called the abortion echo effect. Simply put Howard says , “The 63 million babies we aborted…are no longer around to...

Originally aired February 2020 On January 24, Donald Trump became the first President in 47 years to address the hundreds of thousands who pilgrimage to the annual March for Life. During his remarks President Trump said, “Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God.” He went on to say, “When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation.” Trump’s remarks m...

Originally aired March 2020 Recently the nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, vowed $45 million in 2020 election campaign financing. Their goal is to defeat Donald Trump fearing the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion is in danger of being overturned. Since Planned Parenthood’s longtime CEO and political activist Cecile Richards resigned amidst allegations of criminal...

Originally aired March 2020 The most recent Gallup poll measured the nation’s opinion of abortion by party affiliation . 29% of Democrats self-identify as pro-life. To show how serious their beliefs are regarding abortion, polling analysis reveals 20% of Democratic voters will only vote for a pro-life candidate. This is one reason offered by Kristen Day of Democrats for Life as to why pro-abortion...

Originally aired March 2020 Is the abortion industry in America on life-support? According to a recent industry analysis the category of Family Planning and Abortion Clinics is thriving. Yet their primary source of income is from the underserved population via tax-payer funded Medicaid. Politicians increasing required health care and health insurance coverage for ‘Family Planning Services’ is one...

Originally aired March 2020 A crisis does not change who we are. It reveals it. Endurance under hardship is the mark of a Christian. As people of the cross, Christians are able to weather any storm the good Lord’s sovereign hand permits trusting that He works all things together for the good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). It’s been said, “Don’t waste a crisis.” Living according to the Kingd...

Originally aired April 2020 “What Does Abortion Have to Do with Protecting Americans from Coronavirus?” This was asked by a White House official when questioned about the abortion funding provisions in the Coronavirus economic stimulus bill. According to a White House correspondent , during the process for developing a Coronavirus economic stimulus plan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lobbied to ensure...

Originally aired April 2020 What does the Bible say about abortion? God emphasized human dignity by becoming human and, even more overwhelmingly, by substituting Himself for us at the cross to buy our lives back from sin and death. In so doing Jesus became our Good Samaritan. Now in our gratitude, Christians seek His pleasure by obeying His charge to: “Go and do likewise” (Luke 10:37b) for the mos...

Originally aired April 2020 How important are beliefs? The belief that mankind is made in the image of God is the basis of human dignity and equality. If man is not made in the image of God then equality is just a word politicians use to manipulate the people to amass more power to themselves. To justify abortion, the definition of what it means to be human must be narrowed to exclude preborn babi...

Originally aired April 2020 Do you long for a more pro-life, pro-family community? For that future to become a reality, Christians must stop talking about abortion as if it is merely an issue or unfortunate social ill. The Church must begin to see abortion as a symptom of society’s fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be human. Because everyone is made in the image of God, all people ,...

Originally aired 2020 Christians believe abortion is wrong because all people are made in the image of God each being equally valuable without qualification. Each person is fully human at all stages of maturity, from the womb to the tomb. To narrow the definition of who qualifies as human is to permit the law to play favorites, creating human sub-classes for society to oppress. The Supreme Court h...

Originally aired May 2020 Should everyone be pro-life? Human equality is rooted in human dignity. Human dignity comes from the Christian belief that humans are made in the image of God as the Bible says in Genesis 1:27, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Therefore, each of us has always been and will always be fully and equally...

Originally aired May 2020 The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Louisiana’s Unsafe Abortion Act. The law simply holds all abortionists to the same standard as other physicians providing in-office surgical procedures including having hospital admitting privileges to maintain continuity of patient care in case of an emergency. Justice Ginsberg and Senator Schumer appeared to tag-team to combat...

Originally aired May 2020 Recently a European study of all first-time mothers between 1996 and 2013 found a link between abortion and poor outcomes for subsequent pregnancies. This comes just days ahead of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s gaff that abortion is safer than childbirth. The study reveals a 2.3-fold and 1.6 fold increase risk of extremely preterm birth for women with one abortion and almo...

Originally aired May 2020 On May 2 hundreds of churches and thousands of people raised nearly a half million dollars to reduce abortion in Western New York through CompassCare’s Virtual Walk for Life. CompassCare is at the center of Rochester’s dramatic 50% abortion reduction. Last year the organization augmented its reach to include Buffalo. CompassCare’s President, Jim Harden, states: “Women con...

Originally aired 2020 Recent reports reveal 115 COVID-19 vaccines under development. So far, sixteen of the COVID-19 vaccines are in clinical trials. Methods of vaccine production are varied and highly complex. However, development of a common type of vaccine requires two basic elements: 1) a genetically modified version of the virus that does not replicate itself and 2) cells for the virus to gro...

Originally aired June 2020 By law Federal tax dollars are not supposed to fund abortion. Fifty years ago, grant monies for family planning were made available through Title X and paid out through Health and Human Services with the understanding that abortion is not family planning. Yet, many have been frustrated by the fact that the world’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, has receiv...

When National Public Radio cut out a black pro-lifer from a show about his own anti-abortion media campaign, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation told the story to the National Review . His claim is that there is a general media narrative that portrays the pro-life movement as comprised of only conservative, white males ignoring the truth. The article states: “In reality, the anti-abortion mo...

Originally aired June 2020 On June 5thU.S. District Court Judge Thomas McAvoy ruled on the lawsuit CompassCare v Cuomo. The lawsuit challenges a new labor law forcing Christian organizations including churches to employ people who do not align with the organization’s beliefs and mission. Attorneys representing CompassCare say, “The government cannot tell a religious organization or group, like pre...