This month’s TLO Disciple focus is Life and Ministry Beyond Roe. As Christians, we rejoice over the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and Casey in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Abortion on Demand in our country has wreaked havoc on women and babies for 49 years. Many people across the nation have dedicated themselves to protecting the lives of the unborn leading to this decision of the Supreme Court. Let us give thanks for the ministries, organizations and individuals who have worked tirelessly to protect women and unborn children and end the travesty that resulted in the wake of the Roe decision in 1973.

Life Ministry of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) applauds the action of the U.S. Supreme Court to correct the egregious and mortal error codified in Roe v. Wade. We now encourage each state government to follow suit by passing and administering laws that protect human life. The people of the LCMS will continue to pray for the government and all in authority, that we might all live peaceful and quiet lives (1 Tim. 2:1–2).

We rejoice that the truth of God’s desire for His creation was reflected in the court’s consideration and decision issued in Dobbs v. Jackson. God’s Word and natural law together teach that life is precious and death is the enemy of all living things. Killing violates our being as humans and cannot be sought as a solution or option for individuals. The lie of abortion has caused immeasurable harm to our society and reinforced a utilitarian view of life at the expense of our children. God sent His Son, Jesus, to be born as a human. His baptism, perfect life, death and resurrection on behalf of every sinner gives eternal life to all who believe and drives Christians to love and treasure our neighbor with the same love from the heavenly Father. Read Entire Statement

Lutherans For Life

June 24, 2022

Lutherans For Life rejoices that an egregious injustice has been rectified. Thanks be to God for the Supreme Court’s reversal of the erroneous Roe v. Wade decision! Our nation and culture owe a great debt of gratitude to fifty years of Gospel-motivated voices For Life. Their faithful witness of courage and compassion has influenced successive generations to acknowledge the reality that God creates, redeems, and calls every human life to be His own precious treasure from fertilization to forever. And we delight to receive each one as a gift and a privilege.

Nevertheless, we recognize that significant labor remains. Attention turns from one court and one congress to fifty of them. Neighbors will continue experiencing surprise pregnancies. The devil will keep deceiving the public into viewing death as a solution to suffering. Millions among us still need relief from the guilt and healing from the grief over their part in abortion. The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health verdict does not mandate the sanctity of unborn life but merely makes the federal government neutral. Even if federal policy did protect the endangered ones, it still falls to us as citizens to ensure that our communities reflect it in actual practice. Laws and leaders can foster good and forbid evil, but only the truth of God’s Word and the love of the Body of Christ can change hearts and save lives.

So, we rededicate ourselves all the more intently to speaking truth and showing love to the one right in front of us. Our nationwide network of life-minded servants remains committed to embodying and encouraging gentle relentlessness in an inevitably volatile environment. We pledge ourselves not to allow our fellowship to become apathetic following this positive development. And we are already undertaking to improve and expand our equipping of Gospel-motivated voices to declare and demonstrate the grace of God in Jesus Christ to all members of our race, no matter what age, appearance, or ability. May He bless our land, our authorities, and our people to have life and share it abundantly!

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“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).

Today is a monumental day, a day on which we simultaneously rejoice, pray, give thanks, lament, repent and weep. The Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade and returned the responsibility for protecting life to the states. “Held: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives” (SCOTUS, Dobbs v. Jackson, 1).

“[The Lord] has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate” (Luke 1:52).

Today is also the Church’s feast day, the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. These two events are a happy convergence.

Today we celebrate the birth of the one who, before he was born, leaped in joyful Spirit-inspired confession when his mother met the mother of his unborn Lord. Today we take comfort in our Lord’s unborn forerunner and in the unborn Savior. We also rejoice at the resounding victory for life in the United States. Many of us long doubted it would ever come. The Lord has had mercy upon us, even us, sinners all, even in these times. Read more

June 24, 2022

As presidents of three Lutheran Christian church bodies that vigorously support the rule of law, justice and legal protection for all people—especially the least, the weakest, the unborn—we are writing about the increased violence that has occurred following the leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion concerning Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. These acts of violence against churches, pro-life organizations and pregnancy centers are clearly terrorist attacks: they use violence designed to intimidate in order to achieve political ends. Read more.

With the Supreme Court poised to return abortion law to the democratic process, a powerful new book reframes the coming debate: Our fifty-year experiment with unlimited abortion has harmed everyone—even its most passionate proponents.

Women, men, families, the law, politics, medicine, the media—and, of course, children (born and unborn)—have all been brutalized by the culture of death fostered by Roe v. Wade. Abortion hollows out marriage and the family. It undermines the rule of law and corrupts our political system. It turns healers into executioners and "women's health" into a euphemism for extermination.

Ryan T. Anderson, a compelling and reasoned voice in our most contentious cultural debates, and the pro-life journalist Alexandra DeSanctis expose the false promises of the abortion movement and explain why it has made everything worse. Five decades after Roe, everyone has an opinion about abortion. But after reading Tearing Us Apart, no one will think about it in the same way.

Tearing Us Apart, Ryan Anderson and Alexandria Desantis. Available on Amazon and Christianbook.com

Throughout the past several years, Corporate Abortion and its well-funded political allies deliberately took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and used it to advance chemical abortion in our nation. Finally, in December 2021, their sly efforts paid off and the FDA gutted health and safety standards for chemical abortion drugs. Now, abortion vendors can ship the life-ending pills in the mail without having to take the time or spend the money to be sure that women wouldn’t be harmed, made infertile, or die after taking them.

Chemical abortion pills end preborn lives and have caused the deaths of at least 26 women, in addition to causing thousands of confirmed hospitalizations.

 “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:4

The First thing to do to restore a Culture of Life is to educate ourselves. Use the following links to learn more.

The Coffee Hour on KFUO Radio – Upholding Life: Overturning Roe v Wade - Deaconess Tiffany Manor, director of LCMS Life Ministry, reflects on the overturning of Roe v Wade from a Life Ministry perspective. Listen here >>

The Coffee Hour on KFUO Radio – Women’s Health and the Overturning of Roe v Wade - Dr. Donna Harrison, CEO, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, talks about the implications of the overturning of Roe v Wade on maternal and child health care. Listen here >>

The Coffee Hour on KFUO Radio – Loving Children through Foster Care- Pastor Hans and Katie Fiene talk about loving children through foster care and what that has looked like for their family throughout the years. Listen here >>

Learn about “The Missouri Miracle” and its key ingredient – which essentially drove Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry out of Missouri well before the overturning of Roe v. Wade – and the new joint venture project between Heroic Media and ThriVe Nation – called “ThriVe+” – whose mission is to rapidly replicate “The Missouri Miracle” in cities and states across the country in a groundbreaking, new Telehealth Model. For such a time as this! Click here.

From a single-celled human to a baby with a beating heart, brainwaves, fingers, and toes, Olivia shows the remarkable beauty of a unique life within the womb. Meet Baby Olivia!

We help people in the abortion industry leave their jobs and rediscover the peace and joy they’ve been missing. We Understand We understand the guilt. We understand the regrets. We understand the pressure. But we don’t have to live that life anymore.

And Then There Were None (ATTWN) is a registered nonprofit organization that exists to help people in the abortion industry leave their jobs and rediscover the peace and joy they’ve been missing.

If you’re a current abortion worker reading this, please know that we believe that a clinic worker’s life is valuable, too. As former clinic workers, we have a different perspective than others may have – we’ve been in your shoes. And we used those shoes to walk away! Find out more!

Silent No More Awareness is a Campaign whereby Christians make the public aware of the devastation abortion brings to women and men. The campaign seeks to expose and heal the secrecy and silence surrounding the emotional and physical pain of abortion.

The Campaign began November 11th, 2002. As of April 2022, the Silent No More Awareness Campaign has held 2,268 Gatherings in 17 countries & all 50 states with 6,926 women and men sharing their abortion testimonies. Testimonies have also been shared at 174 high schools and universities in the last 12 years. Find out more.

“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31b-32