Great to hear from you, Brother George! I wish you peace, good health, and many blessings this New Year! Great work with the Tulsa Pro-Life March!

Fr. Hans: I do not believe it is so much about abortion per se because the same liberals promote directly or indirectly the concept of euthanasia. On the latter, the right to control one’s body seems to be irrelevant to them. Also, consider how they want to control what we eat, etc. The liberals know that one of the core beliefs of Chritianity is sanctity of life and an antithesis with regard to abortion. This is really an attack on Christianity itself. Abortion is only the expedient vehicle of that attack.

Did you read where Obama came out with full throated support for Roe v. Wade?

“Government should not intrude on private family matters,” he said. Meanwhile, Obamacare turns every private decision over to government!

Liberals, it seems, want to regulate everything except abortion.

While noting (and lamenting) the passing of Roe vs Wade and the millions of unborn children who have died, I gently admonish my brothers and sisters in the pro-life camp to also consider those childrens’ older siblings who, while given the chance to live, have grown up with crushing poverty, limited health care, and broken homes. May we extend the same concern to these little ones and fight for their rights as much as we have those abused in the womb.

Bishop Savas does this a day before the Sanctity of Life Sunday!

This is exactly the same equivocation that Bishop Savas proclaims regarding his views on abortion (it’s one of his favorite quotes in his profile):

Given the demographics of abortion—which shows a terrible over-representation of young, single, urban, low-income African-American women—I do not understand how a pro-life agenda can be divorced from a social justice agenda. It is impossible for a Christian to acquiesce in policies that allow doctors to suck the life out of a fetus—yet it is deplorably common for Christians to eagerly encourage “conservative” policies that perpetuate poverty, substandard education, and inadequate healthcare for these littlest ones, once they have left the womb.

Compare his public stance on abortion with Metropolitan Jonah’s clear, direct, and truly Orthodox public witness:

The world validates abortion, the sacrifice of the life of an innocent child for the convenience of the mother, oblivious to the suffering it will cause that very woman. It depersonalizes the child, as a “fetus;” while at the same time developing technologies to save nearly identical fetuses in troubled pregnancies. The criterion is not the life of the child; the criterion is simply the desire of the parent: whether the parent wants the child or not. If so, no expense is spared. If not, it is a useless bother, a mass of flesh to be excised like a tumor. What is left, however, is a lifetime of regret, guilt, self-hatred and self-loathing. This is not just an act, but a state of sin.