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It’s about the year 1580 BC
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The children of Israel have been in Egypt for
over 350 years.
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It had been generations since Jacob had
brought 70 people to live in Egypt as welcomed guests of the Empire by
invitation.
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Now there were between 600,000 and 2 million
(depending on whether the census counted families or only men able to go to
war)
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After the death of Joseph, almost 300 years
earlier, the Israelites had fallen in to disfavor and were now considered slave
labor to the Egyptians.
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The Bible says there arose a new king in Egypt
who became increasingly concerned about the slave population outnumbering the
slave owners.
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The king decided to develop a strategy to
control the number of births among these undesirables.
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He shrewdly sold this idea to his government
who put his plan into action.
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What was his plan … free late term abortions
paid for by the state.
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In other words … Margaret Sanger’s early 20th
Century promotion of eugenics, which inspired her to create Planned Parenthood even
after being prosecuted for her book Family Limitation under the Comstock
Act of 1914.
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Sanger popularized the term “birth control”
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Sanger was a member of the Socialist Party of
America and won the Humanist of the Year Award in 1957 and inducted into the
National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Most recently, July 21, 2020 disavowed by
Planned Parenthood when they were questioned on eugenics.
“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is
both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge
Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within
communities of color.” - Planned
Parenthood
Exodus 1
7 But the children of Israel were fruitful and
increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land
was filled with them.
8 Now there arose a new king over
Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people
of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;
10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them,
lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our
enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.”
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to
afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply
cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more
they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.
13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve
with rigor.
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard
bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All
their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
15 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew
midwives, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah and the name of
the other Puah;
16 and he said, “When you do the duties of a midwife for
the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstools, if it is a son,
then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she
shall live.”
· Kill the babies, destroy the hope.
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Herod tried this when Jesus was born.
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Destroy the family, destroy the future of
those people.
17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as
the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.
18 -21 God
blessed the Hebrews and the Midwives
22 So Pharaoh commanded all his
people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river,
and every daughter you shall save alive.”
Exodus 2 Amram Jochebed Miriam
Moses
1 And a man of the house of Levi went and
took as wife a daughter of Levi.
2 So the woman conceived and bore a son.
And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she
hid him three months.
3 But when she could no longer hide him, she
took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt
and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the
reeds by the river’s bank.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what
would be done to him.
Exodus 5:1-10 The rest of the story
1. She saw a future when others had no hope.
a. Conceived
a child
b. She
didn’t go with the status quo.
2. She did all she could for as long as she could.
a. She
protected her child for as long as she could.
b. Take
what you have, start where you are, and do the best you can.
3. She trusted God with her greatest treasure.
a. She
prepared an ark to the saving of her household, just like Noah.
b. She
pushed Moses and released him into the hands of God.
