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Mississippi Horror: Doctor Aborts Babies in the Name of Jesus

Mississippi Horror: Doctor Aborts Babies in the Name of Jesus

Last updated on: August 12, 2014 at 8:28 am by Nancy French

Mississippi Horror: Doctor Aborts Babies in the Name of Jesus 2014-08-12T08:28:38-05:00 Nancy French

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Russell Moore’s article in The Gospel Coalition, “Aborting in the Name of Jesus,” led me to a recent article in Esquire about the “ministry” of Dr. Willie Parker. Parker flies into the state of Mississippi to perform abortions, because no doctor in the entire state is willing to.

Moore writes:

Dr. Parker says he aborts unborn children because Jesus wants him to. Parker, the article says, preached in Baptist churches as a young man, before going into medicine. He had, he says, a “come to Jesus” moment where he became convinced that he ought to do abortions. “The protesters say they’re opposed to abortion because they’re Christian,” he says. “It’s hard for them to accept that I do abortions because I’m a Christian.”

The whole Esquire article is worth a read. Its author, John H. Richardson, glowingly describes his subjects. Parker is “perfectly bald**,** with a salt-and-pepper goatee, a small gold hoop gleaming in his left ear, and a warm smile on his dark brown face.” He has an “almost priestly cadence” when he delivers these lines:

“I see women who are crying because they are Christians,” he continues, “and they are torn up by the fact that they don’t believe in abortion but they’re about to have one. What I tell them is that doesn’t make you a hypocrite.”

Yes, he’s almost like a priest, except there’s one minor detail#…#he’s delivering a message of pure evil. Forget for a moment that Parker is about to vacuum babies from their mothers’ wombs. His words unrelated to infanticide call into question his supposedly Christian worldview. Take, for example, his words of wisdom for people who are agonizing over feelings of discomfort over a decision: “If you’re feeling conflicted, if you are not comfortable with what you’re doing, you may be processing this far longer than you need to.”

Or, his occupational advice to a stripper worried the abortion might keep her off the pole too long. He explains to her that “dancing” is perfectly acceptable occupation, by saying, “That’s how you make your living.”

One of the women is worried that the abortion might prohibit her from a swimsuit on her upcoming beach vacation. That’s not a selfish concern, he tells her.

Moore sums up Parker’s sinister – and intellectually dishonest — advice best:

He tells them to ignore everything but their own consciences, and then, of course, he informs their consciences that abortion is morally acceptable. “If you are comfortable with your decision, ignore everything from everybody else.”

Here’s what he says about faith:

“My belief in God tells me that the most important thing you can do for another human being is help them in their time of need.”

Yes, Parker describes killing our society’s most helpless and innocent as “helping another human being in their time of need.”

However, the women (whom he advises not to think too long about this permanent, fatal decision) don’t buy his “abortion is morally acceptable” shtick.

“I don’t believe in it,” one woman said. “If I caught it later and it was just like a whole little person#…#but I know I can’t be the parent I want to be for my child.”

In fact, the Baptist “exit counselor” says not one mother who just had an abortion ever said abortion was morally acceptable.

When one woman discovered she was having triplets, she wept. Parker dismissed her anguish by saying, “ Some women think multiples are more special, so they get more upset.”

Oh, but Dr. Parker can’t stand people who ask about the emotional well-being of the mother after going through with something she knows is wrong (even if the baby is “really little” as he told one of his patients). Instead, he contemptuously describes how people opposed to abortion are unconcerned about women’s health and minorities.

“These poor women [who are having abortions] have to come through all those verbal assaults from the ‘antis,’ as he calls them, the taunting and the judgment and the cloying malice of their prayers.”

Want to see photos of these malicious folks? Hilariously, Esquire actually snapped a couple of photos of these terrible “antis.” Here’s one person walking with a sign quoting such “hateful” passages as Jeremiah 29:11. (“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”)

Here’s another photo of the rare, menacing species: four adults and what looks to be a 14 year old boy singing out of hymnals.

The abortions take less than five minutes each, presumably because the victims can’t quite put up a fight. (William Rashbaum, the NYC abortionist who aborted over 20,000 babies, used to have a recurring dream of a baby attempted to cling to the walls of a uterus by its fingernails.) Parker does not seem to have any internal conflict over his profession. In fact, he invited the reporter into the post-abortive room where he dumps the parts of the dead children into a kitchen strainer, washes them off with water, and identifies the body parts. He does this to de-stigmatize the process. Here, the reporter chillingly details his experience as Parker shows off the dead baby parts.

Come closer, he says. Have a look#…#

This one is six weeks. It’s just lumps of red tissue floating in water.

When the triplets arrive, he points out one sac, two sacs, three sacs.

But then he brings in one that’s nine weeks and there’s a fetus. He points out the scattered parts. “There’s the skull, what is going to be the fetal skull. And there are the eye sockets.”

Floating near the top of the dish are two tiny arms with two tiny hands.

Parker continues to examine the tissue. He points to a black spot the size of a pencil tip. “That’s an eye.”

“That black spot?”

“That black spot is an eye. And here’s the umbilical cord.”

The reporter seemed taken aback by Parker’s display. “It’s hard not to look at those tiny fingers, no bigger than the tip of a toothpick,” Richardson writes.

Parker has no such qualms.

“At some point, we have to trust that people can deal with the reality of what this is,” he says.

Indeed.

Come closer. Have a look.

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