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Please keep praying for the HOPE CENTRE in the UK
This article appeared recently in the UK
Please pray for the work of CBRUK and Gateway's involvement to establish the first directive, gospel-focused pregnancy center in the UK
and remember these words
We have a duty in Christ to be strong (Ephesians 6:10), to fight (2 Timothy 4:7), to be separate (2 Corinthians 6:17), to be courageous (Joshua 1:9), to suffer (1 Peter 3:17), to be persecuted (2 Timothy 3:12), to be hated (John 15:18). We all have a duty to stand for righteousness and spread the Gospel (Mark 16:15).
I know the opposed are loud and seem great in number. I know they will not come to reason or fight a fair fight. I know that they are boastful and proud in/of their sin. Nevertheless, Christ is with us (Deuteronomy 20:1) and He is greater (Deuteronomy 10:17).
https://www.theferventmama.com/stand-for-righteousness/
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EXCLUSIVE
Extreme Anti-Abortion Group’s New‘Missional Network of Pregnancy Support’REVEALED
20 November 2020
Sian Norris reports on plans for the provision of new services by a group which links abortion with Satanic Ritual Abuse, believes delaying abortion decisions is justified, and also associates it with suicide
Editor’s Note: This article contains content that some readers may find distressing
The anti-abortion organisation, the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, plans to launch a new “missional network of pregnancy support” – raising questions about the regulation of anti-abortion pregnancy advice in the UK.
CBR UK’s network “expands through a HOPE Pregnancy Help-line and HOPE Pregnancy centres” and will offer “support and advice” to women facing an unwanted pregnancy.
The organisation hit the headlines in 2019 when it displayed graphic imagery outside Labour MP Stella Creasy’s constituency office in Walthamstow, north-east London – including an image of an aborted foetus. That same year, CBR UK activist Christian Hacking was arrested outside a Marie Stopes clinic in Ealing, west London, for breaking a Public Space Protection Order – although the charges were later dropped. In 2012, directors Andy Stephenson and Kathryn Attwood were arrested outside a clinic in Brighton while operating under the name Abort67. They were cleared over public order offences.
Throughout 2020, CBR UK has continued to run its ‘educational’ displays across the UK.
This UK branch of the US Center for Bio-Ethical Reform holds extreme anti-abortion views, including the bizarre belief that abortion is linked to Satanism. In a recent interview between Tomi Aroyami and CBR UK directors Stephenson and Wilfred Wong, Stephenson told Aroyami that “Satanic Ritual Abuse and Satanism is that love of death – and what could you get a more, sort of, institutionalised out working [sic] of that than abortion”.
Wong claims that Satanists are involved in the “abortion agenda, the LGBT agenda, they are involved in sex education”. He also states that Islam and Satanism share a common goal, “which is destruction of Christianity”, while repeating a myth that changing demographics mean that Christians are starting to become outnumbered by Muslims in the EU. At a CBR UK training event in 2019, Wong defended ‘prayer vigils’ outside abortion clinics, arguing that they were necessary as prayer can prevent an abortion from working.
These views echo the spread of a Satanic abuse conspiracy theory in the run-up to the 2020 US Presidential Election via QAnon and the Save The Children movement. The theory falsely states that Democrats and ‘liberal elites’ traffic children through underground tunnels to be abused in Satanic rituals. References to abortion being “demonic” also appear on extreme misogynistic forums.
A video posted on CBR UK’s Facebook group gives some insight of its approach for the HOPE initiative. Called Hope Before Abortion (the original name for the planned service, now updated on its website to ‘Hope For Women’), it offers “some guidelines on how to shape the conversation when speaking to women and men in an unexpected pregnancy”.
These include the assertion that the only reason a woman may seek an abortion is “fear” and “for the mother to allow a baby to die in her womb, she must first allow it to die in her heart”.
The video’s presenter Kathryn Attwood suggests showing the pregnant woman “what abortion will do to her baby using pictures and videos” and encourages the viewer to “share the facts of abortion.”.
Currently, the CBR UK website directs women who are pregnant to view a graphic video to see “what a ‘termination’ or ‘ending your pregnancy’ actually is”.
Rachael Clarke, head of policy and public affairs at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), explains that women with an unplanned pregnancy “need to be able to trust those caring for them to provide evidence-based, impartial, non-directive information about their options”. Needless to say, being directed to watch a graphic surgical video does not meet this standard.
Crucially, in the video, Attwood advises the trainee to break “into the rush of abortion decision-making and encourage her to take her time”.
This delay tactic is commonly used by anti-abortion crisis pregnancy services, including the US organisation Heartbeat International. Earlier in 2020, Heartbeat International briefly listed the HOPE service as one of its affiliates on its worldwide directory, however it has since been removed.
Heartbeat International offers training webinars to staff and volunteers at crisis pregnancy services advising them to “get the caller to slow down”. The webinars claim that women are more likely to experience “emotional complications” if they “make the decision too quickly”. CBR UK points women who have an unwanted pregnancy to the Heartbeat-run Options Line.
Heartbeat International has also been accused of sharing disinformation about the mental health impact of abortion – echoed by CBR UK.
Attwood refers to “the deep, painful impact abortion will have on [a woman] for the rest of her life” and its sister project PASE cites anti-abortion activist David C Reardon’s claims that abortion is linked to suicide. The NHS explains that a woman ending an unplanned pregnancy is “no more likely to experience mental health problems” than if she continues with it.
Clarke described the move of CBR UK into “pregnancy support” as “worrisome”.
“This group has one purpose – and that’s to stop women accessing abortion services,” she said. “We have absolutely no faith that people who have, up until recently, stood outside abortion clinics with body cameras and 10 foot signs of dismembered foetuses, could be in any way able to provide the caring, impartial healthcare support that women with unplanned pregnancies need.”
CBR UK’s plans to launch a network of “pregnancy support” raises questions about the lack of regulations governing crisis pregnancy services. This comes six years after Education for Choice revealed how the majority of centres it ‘mystery-shopped’ offered “unacceptably biased and misleading information about pregnancy and abortion”.
“Previous exposés of crisis pregnancy services have found women being given false medical information by untrained staff about the risks of abortion,” Clarke explained. These include “women being shown videos aimed at coercing them into continuing their pregnancy, and offering ultrasound scans by untrained and unregistered individuals”.
Physical centres have to follow Care Quality Commission standards, but these only regulate medical procedures such as ultrasounds and general hygiene – not the content of support, advice or counselling being provided. And while government guidelines explain that pregnancy counselling “must be non-directive and non-judgemental and should not create barriers or delays”, it is still a wild west when it comes to enforcing fair and accurate advice from anti-abortion groups to women facing an unwanted pregnancy.
In 2018, The Times reported how a crisis pregnancy centre now affiliated to Heartbeat International still peddles disinformation about abortion. How much has really changed?
CBR UK is fundraising for its HOPE initiative, but a proposed service from an organisation which points women with an unwanted pregnancy to a graphic abortion video and which links abortion to Satanic Ritual Abuse shows that more must be done to regulate who is providing support to women with unwanted pregnancies, and how.
When approached by Byline Times for comment, CBR UK did not refute the claims that it links abortion with Satanic Ritual Abuse, argued that delaying abortion decisions was justified, and linked it with both suicide and a heightened risk of breast cancer.
As for the criticisms about the ‘directive’ advisory service, a spokesperson added: “We have no interest in giving the impression that abortion is something to be non-directive about. It is an act of violence that kills a baby – it would be just as bad to think we should be non-directive about killing newborns.”
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/20/extreme-anti-abortion-groups-new-missional-network-of-pregnancy-support-revealed/
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GET OUT THE VOTE: 7 weeks: Nearly no one in the world has ever seen a human embryo, alive in the uterus, seven weeks following fertilization, imaged with a rare medical technology called embryoscopy. Click, be amazed, and share this short video with people of your acquaintance who may need to be reminded of why voting can be a matter of life and death.
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GET OUT THE VOTE: 8 weeks: Nearly no one in the world has ever seen a human embryo, alive in the uterus, eight weeks following fertilization, imaged with a rare medical technology called embryoscopy. Click, be amazed, and share this short video with people of your acquaintance who may need to be reminded of why voting can be a matter of life and death.
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Max Update
12:00 noon: Tuesday June 30, 2020: Fighting with Mighty Max He’s out of surgery! He looks amazing! This surgeon did an incredible job! He moved the shunt to the other side of Max’s head so the right side can actually heal where the last doctor operated. Max managed to pull his bandage off and I got a good look at the incision and it looks awesome! Nothing like the other one on top of his head 😒 (im not happy with what that “doctor” at the other hospital did to my baby) They gave him meds for pain (something the other hospital did not do for him) so he’s resting comfortably. Once again, thank you all for your prayers and kind words! You guys are awesome!
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Max Update
12:00 noon: Tuesday June 30, 2020: Fighting with Mighty Max He’s out of surgery! He looks amazing! This surgeon did an incredible job! He moved the shunt to the other side of Max’s head so the right side can actually heal where the last doctor operated. Max managed to pull his bandage off and I got a good look at the incision and it looks awesome! Nothing like the other one on top of his head 😒 (im not happy with what that “doctor” at the other hospital did to my baby) They gave him meds for pain (something the other hospital did not do for him) so he’s resting comfortably. Once again, thank you all for your prayers and kind words! You guys are awesome!
Please Keep Praying
June 16, 2020: 8:00pm - Please pray for our Max. He was airlifted to
Orlando last night for his 4th brain surgery in the last 2 months the neurosurgeon just couldn’t
get it right and we are sick of seeing our baby going through this torture
every 2 weeks so we fought to have him transferred to a children’s only
hospital.
He developed an infection in the shunt itself so He had his first surgery today where they removed the shunt and made a drain for the fluid on his brain to drain outside of his body until the infection is completely cleared up. Then, they will put a whole new shunt with new tubing in. We’re praying this is it. This is the last time our baby boy has to endure this. The hospital we had him transferred to is the best of the best and so far we are very happy with them and what they’ve done but the neurosurgeon said we’re looking at at least a 2 week stay. It’s 2 hours away from us and we do have the other 3 boys so please pray for strength and wisdom for Jeremy and I through this journey and for wisdom for all the doctors and nurses that are working on our sweet Mighty Max - Samantha Hopping.
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February
10, 2020: Samantha Hopping (mom) writes: is back to his
sweet happy little self. He and his brother are home where they belong and we
are so blessed for that! Carter got so sick, he was so tiny he couldn’t handle
it. He stopped breathing in my arms. He was blue. Thank God I was able to stay
calm and God gave me the wisdom to give him cpr and oxygen and get him
breathing again. It was an eventful month for us with the two of them being as
sick as they were. Thank you for prayers!
2-3-2020: Cathy Horling writes: Hi – I just received this note from Tilly Ann: Good Morning Cathy. I saw Mighty Max yesterday at the hospital. He looks so good! Lord willing he will be home tomorrow. He is such a miracle and all smiles. It was so good to see him.Update: 8/5/19: Mighty Max is doing well, PTL! He is going back to the hospital this week for further testing of his lungs and eyes. Please pray that he gets good reports. Please also pray that he will have the reservoir removed from his head.
Update! 6/18/19 - Mighty Max is doing great! He is breathing on his own with just a small amount of oxygen now and hopefully will be bottle feeding soon. Then he can go home! All the glory goes to God for the miracles He is working in Mighty Max's life! Please keep the prayers going, for him. Cathy Horling
FYI: https://abcnews.go.com/US/miracle-baby-born-weighing-pound-heads-home-months/story?id=58704185
Monday April 15, 2019: Cathy Horling writes: Mighty Max needs our prayers. He is not able to breathe on his own and the doctors think it is because he has an open heart valve that needs to be closed. Great-grandma Tilly adds: Mighty Max’s surgery for his heart valve will be on Thursday @6:30 am. He’s up to 2lbs 12oz!!!!
Tuesday, April 09, 2019
1:22 PM
Great-grandma Tilly reports: 'He’s out of surgery and did great!'
4/3/19: 4:42pm: Would you please pray for Mighty Max? An ultrasound of his brain revealed severe swelling and fluid and the doctors want to do surgery right away. Max's mom is asking everyone to pray for a miracle, that the swelling would go down and all fluid is released so no surgery is needed! (Cathy Horling)
He’s gaining weight. Last weigh in he was 1lb 7.2 oz. the Lord has completely healed his intestine and the incision where the drain was is totally closed up and healed. You’d never know it was even there! He is on 15mls of breast milk every 3 hours.
They’re keeping an eye on the bleeding on his brain. The last scan showed no increase of blood so that’s a very good thing! The doctor said “he just keeps surprising us and proving us wrong” he is so active and alert ! When we talk to him he looks us right in the eye he is incredible!
3-1-19 UPDATE! 7:44pm: Max's mom, Samantha, writes: 'God is so faithful! Thank you so so much for putting Mighty Max on your prayer requests Blog! I know it's all about those prayers and God has gotten us this far! He is still doing great! He is off the oscillation ventilator and he's on the standard ventilator. The oscillation one is for critical babies so we are beyond excited that he is no longer on that one. He is getting 1.5 mls of breast milk now and tolerating it very well - another prayer answered!' Please continue to pray for Samantha and Jeremy Hopping, the parents of this precious newborn.
2-19-19: 5:30pm: Keep the prayers going for Mighty Max. He continues to defy the doctors (thank you Jesus!) and still needs more prayers and miracles. Cathy Horling.
2/12/19: 5:34pmGlory to God! Thank you Lord and thanks to all of you for praying for "Mighty Max" as he is nicknamed - he is eating and his jaundice is gone! Please continue to pray.. for this precious baby - we can already see God's hand upon him! Blessings to all, Cathy Horling
2/09/19: 10:12pm: Hi everyone, Please pray for baby Max John, who was born prematurely (at about 22 weeks) and is in critical condition. He is the great grandson of Pastors Sam and Tilly Giresi. He only weighed 1lb, 1 oz and now needs a blood transfusion. We know that with God all things are possible. Please petition Him to strengthen this precious baby and cause him to develop normally, for His glory. Amen!. Thanks so much, and blessings to all, Cathy
2/09/19: 9:14am: Please pray they named baby Max (strength) John. Right now he’s in critical condition about to do a blood transfusion thank you, Tilly Giresi (grandma)
The background on baby Max
Max has endured much in his young life. Max is the great grandson of Sam and Tilly Giresi (who , along with her husband Sam, helped in the founding of the Gateway ministry -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGk5BuZWK0. Their church (House of Mercy Mission) is in Newark.Gateway reached out to Dr. Jose (Pepe) Arruntagui, a dear friend of the ministry. Dr. Arruntegui suggested the parents offer the hospital a written waiver of personal responsibility and also request use of glucocorticoids in the 22nd week for the babies lungs. Usually a preborn is not administered glucocorticoids until the 23-week. Without this vital information and intervention, the baby may have died.
The hospital accepted the suggested information and baby Max was born on February 8th. and, according to Tilly, "took well to the breathing machine & is now in NIC unit @ Morristown" .
Now Max needs our prayers even more.
Cathy Horling writes this: Hi everyone, Please pray for baby Max John, who was born prematurely (at about 22 weeks) and is in critical condition. He is the great grandson of Pastors Sam and Tilly Giresi. He only weighed 1lb, 1 oz and now needs a blood transfusion. We know that with God all things are possible. Please petition Him to strengthen this precious baby and cause him to develop normally, for His glory. Amen! Thanks so much, and blessings to all, Cathy
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