Presbyterian-affiliated Whitworth University openly partners with the area’s Planned Parenthood, according to several reports.
The same students who are encouraged to be dedicated Christian scholars are also given the opportunity to work with the local abortion clinic.
“They are not equipping their graduates to be Christians and follow Christ,” Katie Lodjic of Students for Life of America tells One News Now.
In an editorial for the university’s newspaper, student James Silberman writes:
Whitworth referring pregnant women to Planned Parenthood is tantamount to referring them for an abortion. There are three pregnancy-specific services provided to pregnant women by Planned Parenthood, according to Planned Parenthood data reports: prenatal care, adoption referral and abortion.In 2014-2015, 94 percent of their pregnancy related services (323,999 out of 343,422) were abortions. The organization does everything they can to steer women toward abortion by giving each of their facilities an abortion quota according to former employees. Here is former clinic director, Sue Thayer, discussing the quotas. Pictures taken at a Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Colorado indicate that facilities which exceed those quotas are given awards.
In March, Whitworth sponsored a community fetal tissue research event. A recap of the event published on the website of the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research shows Planned Parenthood was defended against claims of wrongdoing. Furthermore, the event highlighted a supposed upside of abortion: using the body parts of preborn human beings for science. The event was called “Reflection on Precious Gifts: The Stewardship of Fetal Tissue.”
The Christian school clearly violates Proverbs 24, Silberman writes, which says: “If you refrain to deliver those who are drawn unto death, and those who are ready to be slain; if you say, ‘Surely we did not know this,’ does not He who ponders the heart consider it? And He who keeps your soul, does He not know it? And will He not render to every man according to his works?” (vv. 11-12). {eoa}
