Heartbeat Press - October 2024 Edition

Dead Eyes - Windows to Troubled Souls 

    A cold wind whistles low across the leaf-barren trees, and the murky darkness grows ever so slightly. A distant door slams, raising all the hairs on the back of your neck. A low chuckle rises from an unseen throat hidden somewhere in the shadows moments before a bolt of lightning suddenly illuminates the sky above you. For one brief moment you are face-to-face with a horrible, shallow-faced figure with beady dark eyes that flash with the lightning but reflect absolutely no light. In another instant, the world is dark again and you are seemingly alone. Except you know you're not. That thing with the empty eyes is still there, its presence permeating every fiber of your being, letting you know that it is sickeningly real and very close by. 

    Have you ever looked into someone's eyes only to see nothing looking back at you? Not a thought, not a hope, no soul to speak of...simply an empty vessel? As the description above suggests, this type of creature is something you would normally only expect to encounter in a gothic, black and white horror movie (see anything Universal or Hammer House of Horror ever made), accompanied by special effects and precisely-timed jump scares for the best entertainment. Yet, more and more, this type of creature can be seen in the real world and is more common then anyone may realize. You only need to look into its eyes to identify it. The abortion doctor is one of these creatures. As melodramatic as this sounds, one look into the eyes of any abortion-committing individual proves my point, as even the deepest of stares reveal only a beady emptiness and a total lack of empathy that stretches to the black pits of these individuals' souls. Abortion history also proves my point.

    - Kermit Gosnell, previously covered in Heartbeat Press' October 2022 Edition, had no humanity behind his eyes, only an inky blackness that sucked inward indefinitely. Years of legally-committed murder and deftly-hidden serial killer behavior rotted his soul, eventually leading to his imprisonment without possibility of parole, but not before hundreds of children and at least one woman met their ends at the hands of the former doctor. 

    - Dr. Josef Mengele, the Holocaust's notorious "Angel of Death," who experimented on captive Jews during World War II, escaped The Nuremburg Trials of 1945 but went on to apply his "talents" to "women's healthcare" in Argentina. Operating out of back-alley clinics and keeping a low profile, Mengele preformed abortions and also had empty eyes that were ever-glinty in the pursuit of his trade of death. Mengele never faced justice for his crimes, Holocaust or abortion, and, like many abortionists, never showed remorse for his intentional ending of human life.

    - Even Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood's founder and golden child, covered in Heartbeat Press' October 2023 Edition, had ebony eyes that whispered of the deadly intent the woman had. Her work alone irreversibly bolstered abortion in the USA and led to the corruption of the 1940s Women's Movement. 

Every one of them willingly destroyed life and every one of them had dead eyes reflecting the absolute blackness of souls that were willing to murder children and destroy mothers in the name of "good," "progress," or "healthcare." But more than the act, the optical calling card (still seen in doctors today) is solidified by the explanation for it, expertly summed up by former abortionist, Dr. Anthony Levation. When asked if he saw humanity in aborted babies, the doctor remarked, during a panel discussion for Live Action News, "Did I know those were human being? Absolutely. I...didn't...care." That is what abortion does to those who commit it. It kills their souls and leaves them with nothing behind their eyes but the depth of their sin. 

    But my purpose here is not to demonize these individuals. Their actions are theirs to answer for with or without my condemnation. Rather, my heart cries for each of these monsters because, behind their dark souls and horrendous acts, I can also see the children of God they were meant to be before they sold themselves to evil, as strange as that fact is to realize. Consider for a moment that, under the rot and decay of mechanically-committed murder, the heart of a Child of God, one capable of great good, is still softly beating behind the hollow eyes of every abortion doctor. They just have not yet encountered the all forgiving, world rocking, grace of God. A grace He offers for every sin...even theirs.

    Like every gothic horror monster artfully presented with crackling lighting and foggy stars illuminating their dark eyes, these modern monsters are capable of redemption. If they weren't, Abby Johnson, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, and Dr. Noreen Johnson wouldn't have the awe-inspiring testimonies that make them Pro-Life powerhouses today. A complete soul change is possible; it is God-timed, but until it occurs I encourage you to remember Jeremiah 33:8 and meditate on God's plan for everyone's redemption. As foreign as it sounds, I encourage you to pray for the modern monster that is the abortion doctor. Pray that their hearts would begin to beat again and that the blindness would fall from their eyes. God has a powerful plan for each one of them; their redemption stories just haven't started yet. 

Sources: Live Action News, Google, Wikipedia, YouTube

Photo Credit: Dr. Health Clinic.com

Leaves

Never has death smelled so sweet,

Or bestowed such music on still, attentive ears.

And yet the leaves live this contradiction,

Every fall.

                

Would that man could do the same. 

Photo Credit: Renee Kurilla

Heartbeat Press - October 2023 Edition

Margaret Sanger - America's Abortion Monstriarch 

Last October for our Halloween edition, Heartbeat Press covered the spine-tingling tale of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his horrific contributions to the abortion industry. His televised trial captured the attention of the nation in December 2013, and had the two-fold effect of exposing his decades-long rap sheet and pulling abortion and all its cruelty into the public view for everyone, Pro-Life and Pro-Death, to consider. Convicted of many charges (including malpractice, retention of untrained staffers, and the murder of hundreds of babies and at least one woman), the trial put Gosnell and many of his associates behind bars, ridding the world of a few monsters. But the reality is that their crimes could never have been perpetrated if abortion wasn't rooted in and condoned by American culture. One of the people responsible for that atrocity is quite a special monster herself.    

    Born in Corning, New York, in 1879, Margaret Sanger seemingly entered the world with a deep-seated grudge against marriage and the family unit. She vocally expressed her distain for both from an early age and began her young adult life by founding a center (with her sisters) in 1916 (renamed Planned Parenthood in 1942). The main goal of the center was to dispense birth control pills to combat what Sanger considered a needless amount of children being born. Since birth control was illegal at the time, the center was eventually raided and Sanger spent 30 days in jail after refusing to pay a fine. While modern feminists applaud Sanger for this and many other "brave" acts of societal defiance, they often forget or are unaware of Sanger's other "accomplishments." 

    In 1939, Sanger, who not only protested the traditional family but was also a proud eugenicist, created "The Negro Project" with other prominent xenophobes of the time. This endeavor, which called upon Black doctors to sterilize other African Americans (willingly or unwillingly), aided Sanger's vision of racial purity and displayed her prejudices against 14.1 million members of the American population at the time. She was once quoted as saying, "The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among white, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit." Years later, Sanger would be given an honorary KKK membership as the members of that group highly praised her work.

    Throughout the 1940s and '50s, Margaret Sanger traveled the country, tirelessly preaching her doctrine of birth control and limited family, saying, "Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches." When unchanged or rising birth rates hampered her cause, she eagerly endorsed abortion, saying of it, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it," and, "Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally-tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." As she had hoped, her teaching began to take root and were eventually touted by the worst of humanity.

    Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels both greatly admired Sanger's work and applied it to their own goal of racial cleansing during WWII. More notably, Dr. Josef Mengele (the notorious butcher of Romany and Jewish prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp) took his inspiration directly from Sanger's ideology, justifying his torment of human being with the defense that they were inferior to his race and therefore "subhuman" without the right to basic care and decency. After the war, Mengele went on to perform abortions, further advancing Sanger's cause, and many policies that Sanger boldly defended (Buck v. Bell) were used as Nazi defense during the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46.

    Margaret Sanger died in 1966, but her work was quickly picked up by other "visionary" feminists in the name of women's empowerment. If only they could see the hypocrisy of that goal. While Margaret Sanger may not have committed any abortions herself of actively sold them (though birth control goes hand in hand with and in many cases is abortion), her actions spurred on those who would, and her organization remains the biggest provider of abortions in the country. The blood of millions is on her hands and the minds of millions still bow to her whims. 

Photo Credit: The University of Chicago

Sources: Live Action.org (Margaret Sanger) (Josef Mengele), Forgotten History, Wikipedia.org, The Denver Post.com, Encyclopeidaushmm.org

Heartbeat Press - June 2023 Edition

The D.C. Five - The Catalyst to a Calling

Though the reality of abortion should be widely known by now and recognized for its horrors, no proper information about the industry has been forthcoming since abortion became popular in the 1970s. Every aspect of abortion, except falsified data, has been hidden just below the surface, with the understanding that the average adult will not dig to uncover it. Abortion and all its atrocities are kept in intact thanks to the willfully-ignorant masses who would prefer to keep a deadly practice in place rather than face the truth and find alternatives. It has been left up to the Pro-Life movement to expose everything. Often this comes in the from of investigative reporting, which, over the last fifty years, has done much to reveal every dark corner and slimy orifice of abortion. 

    On the afternoon of March 25, 2022, Pro-Life investigators in Washington D.C. made a horrific discovery in the refuse outside of the Washington Surgi-Clinic. Though this clinic had previously been investigated by Live Action News and was recognized for its cruel and unusual methods of abortion, the investigators were not ready for what they found. Crammed into a tiny white bucket and bobbing just above the surface of evaporating formaldehyde, the bodies of five pre-born babies greeted investigators in the stark white light of an afternoon sun that none of them had lived to see. 

    Each baby, later judged to be between 20 and 40 weeks old, was horribly twisted and wrinkled, the remains of their bodies mashed together like so much playdough. Little hands and feet that had been perfectly formed were now curled close to the bodies in protective fists. Pale skin that should have held a rosy glow was splotched with dried blood. And each head hung limply, barely connected to the rest of the body thanks to matching gashes at the base of each baby's neck. One body, later identified as a little girl, looked up at the investigators with an unseeing milky gray eye that had refused to close even after her life drifted away.

    Spiriting the bodies away, Pro-Lifers set to work determining an exact cause of death, though they already suspected the answer. Having been born alive after failed abortions, each baby had been subjected to a transection. Described by former abortion workers has a literal beheading, a transection is accomplished when an abortionist takes scissors and snips the baby's spinal cord at the base of the head, killing the child almost instantly. As a preferred method of post-birth abortion, this method is "quick" and "easy" and was a favorite of the notorious abortionist Kermit Gosnell (the subject of this paper's October 2022 edition).

    Christopher, Harriet, Angel, Holly, and Pheonix (as they were later named) have yet to receive justice. Though the investigators who found them have tried to dig deeper into their deaths and have demanded reparations from the Washington Surgi-Clinic, the doctor who committed the murders is still working today, and any further investigations have been hampered or quashed completely. 

    

    This story holds extra significance for us here at Heartbeat Press. A little over a year ago, when I first learned of this story, the brutality and injustice of it was the final push I needed to commit to the work of the Pro-Life movement. While I had been contemplating how to bring action to my convictions, I was dragging my feet on several possibilities. But, after seeing the mangled bodies of the D.C. Five, and knowing that their deaths could have been prevented, something shook lose inside of me. I knew I couldn't stay silent any longer, and Heartbeat Press was born.

    Harriet in particular pulled at my heartstrings. This poor little girl could have lived a beautiful life. Her soul could have touched those around her and she could have made a difference had she not had the misfortune of being born "unwanted." But, in one swift and incredibly violent blow, everything she could have been was taken away forever, leaving nothing but a broken shell. Even so it struck me that, even in death, Harriet refused to give her murderer satisfaction. She died with her eye open, displaying her undeniable humanity and the injustice of her death. Almost laughing in the face of those who killed her, Harriet's gaze seemed to day, "My existence can't be ignored. I was here. My body, which you tried to hide, speaks volumes to the plight of the unborn and may save more children like me." Harriet did not die in vain. She existed and she still speaks to those who will listen. She and millions of others deserved to live and now...they deserve justice. 

Photo Credit: Adobe Stock 

Sources: Liveaction.org