ST. LOUIS — On Thursday, March 26, at 3:30 p.m., scholars from Concordia Seminary, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, and other institutions of higher learning will process for one hour in full academic regalia outside the Planned Parenthood facility at Forest Park and Boyle Street in St. Louis. The public is invited to this event. After the march, the scholars will return to campus for an event titled “Lutheran Forum on Planned Non-Parenthood,” which will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Werner Auditorium. This event, whose subtitle reads, “Will Adam Go AWOL? Will Eve?,” is equally concerned with “life” issues. Participants will take a hard look at scientific schemes to bypass the Creator in the construction of man as a designer-made commodity (see attachment “Forum in Focus”).
'Academics for Life' Set to Demonstrate in St. Louis
The plan to stage an “Academics for Life” procession at the Planned Parenthood facility evolved in part as a reaction to a column by Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann criticizing the appointment of Kansas Governor, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a vigorously “pro-choice” politician, as Secretary of Health and Human Service. Gov. Sebelius’ great benefactor is Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kan., who calls himself a practicing (ELCA) Lutheran while publicly boasting of having performed 60,000 abortions, chiefly late-term, and killing more than 100 unborn children a week.
The organizers of the “Academics for Life” procession consider that seen together with other anti-life moves planned or already decided by President Obama, the Sebelius appointment gives cause for deep apprehension. They feel the time has come for Christians regardless of denomination to lend visible support to the “40 Days of Life” people praying and fasting outside Planned Parenthood facility.
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