Jerry Cox and Charisse Dean recently went on Arkansas Alive with Pastor Happy Caldwell to discuss the upcoming Pastors Day at the Capitol.
You can watch the video below–and don’t forget to sign up for Pastors Day at the Capitol for FREE by clicking here.
This week the federal Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly changed the rules governing abortion-inducing drugs like RU-486.
In 2000 the FDA issued straightforward instructions governing how doctors were to administer RU-486. However, as we have written before, many abortion clinics have ignored those instructions, choosing instead to administer the drugs in manners different from what the FDA requires.
According to National Right to Life, 14 women have died and thousands of others have been injured by being given RU-486 in a manner inconsistent with the FDA’s protocols.
As a result, states like Arkansas have begun adopting laws requiring abortion clinics to follow the FDA’s protocols when administering abortion drugs like RU-486. That’s what Act 577 of 2015 championed by Rep. Charlene Fite and Senator Linda Collins-Smith did.
In response to these laws, it seems, the FDA has decided to change its protocols to make it easier to dispense RU-486.
Under the old protocols, drugs like RU-486 could be given up to the seventh week of pregnancy, and each round of drugs had to be given to the woman under the supervision of the doctor. Under the new protocols, RU-486 can be given up to the tenth week of pregnancy, and the drugs can be sent home with the woman for her to take on her own.
RU-486 operates in two doses. Each woman is given two sets of drugs that kill and expel her unborn baby; the drugs effectively trigger a miscarriage that many have described as terribly painful and that research indicates is prone to complications.
Under the FDA’s new protocols, a woman who is some two and a half months pregnant will be given abortion-inducing drugs and sent home to take the drugs and miscarry her unborn child. It’s a chilling prospect.
This rule change helps abortion clinics, who now can sell abortion drugs to more women more easily—and later in pregnancy—than they could under the original FDA protocols. However, it hurts women who now are going to be subject to unsafe abortion practices with the FDA’s full approval, and it contributes to the deaths of innocent, unborn children killed in abortion.
The FDA needs to reconsider the course it is charting with this rule change. Coming from an agency charged with protecting public health, this decision is very troubling.
Franklin Graham–son of Billy Graham–is coming to Little Rock this April, and you are invited to hear and pray with him.
Graham has launched a state-by-state tour called the Decision America Tour. The goal is to hold meetings in each state to pray for our nation.
We are helping the team at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association invite people to attend the prayer rally in Little Rock this April. I hope you and your church will plan on attending the rally and help us get the word out to your friends and neighbors.
Franklin Graham and his team will be at the Arkansas Capitol Building in Little Rock to pray for America at 12:00 PM on Tuesday, April 12. You can find additional details here.
If you are a leader in your church, we have special resources you can use to promote this prayer rally in your congregation.
You can download and print copies of a special insert to place in your church bulletins. Simply click here to download.
You can download and print copies of a special poster promoting the event. Simply click here to download.
You also can download promotional videos to share in your church or Sunday school class:
Click here to download the 15-second video.
Click here to download the 30-second video.
Click here to download the 93-second video.
Ronald Reagan once said that if we ever forget we are one nation under God, we will be a nation gone under. These prayer rallies are an excellent opportunity to pause to pray that God will bless and restore our nation. I hope you will commit to pray for America–and I hope you will be able to join us in Little Rock on April 12.
Please promote this upcoming meeting as much as possible in your church–and let us know if you have any questions or if there is anything we can do for you.