{"id":1180570,"date":"2022-01-02T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1180570"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:34:38","slug":"how-an-mlb-pitcher-and-gun-rights-lobbyist-are-teaming-up-to-abolish-abortion-one-state-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-an-mlb-pitcher-and-gun-rights-lobbyist-are-teaming-up-to-abolish-abortion-one-state-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How An MLB Pitcher And Gun Rights Lobbyist Are Teaming Up To Abolish Abortion\u2026 One State At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-an-mlb-pitcher-and-gun-rights-lobbyist-are-teaming-up-to-abolish-abortion-one-state-at-a-time%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1180570&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Since 1973, Americans have murdered roughly 63 million preborn babies. Over the past five decades, the pro-life movement has attempted to curtail abortion through an incremental approach \u2014 regulating the lethal procedure via gestational age restrictions, \u201cborn-alive\u201d protection acts, and various medical ordinances for abortion clinics. By doing so, pro-life groups leave entire subsets of preborn babies unprotected for the sake of political expediency.<\/p>\n<p>Today, however, calls are growing for a paradigm shift away from incrementalism and toward immediatism \u2014 the complete and total abolition of abortion, without exception or compromise. Among the organizations calling for such an approach is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionforlife.org\/\">Action for Life<\/a> \u2014 the legislative arm of the Christian ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/endabortionnow.com\/\">End Abortion Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Sarfate \u2014 the president of Action for Life \u2014 is a former MLB pitcher who played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros, and Baltimore Orioles before becoming a five-time Japan Series Champion. Zach Lautenschlager \u2014 the vice president of Action for Life \u2014 is a professional political operative who was instrumental in passing \u201cconstitutional carry\u201d laws across the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily Wire, Sarfate and Lautenschlager explained how they were brought together by their desire to glorify Jesus Christ while establishing equal protection for the preborn \u2014 one state at a time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018God Just Wrecked Me\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sarfate and Lautenschlager had drastically different experiences in coming to faith.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, Lautenschlager grew up in a multi-generational Christian home. \u201cMy folks taught me who Jesus was from the very start. What blows me away every day is how sinful I am in myself, and how gracious God is despite my sin\u2026 I\u2019m still a sinful, fallen human being, and God\u2019s grace is so massive, so huge, and His loving kindness is so amazing. The older I get, the more I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarfate, on the other hand, was not saved until his adulthood. \u201cI grew up playing baseball my whole life\u2026 When I got drafted the second time, I wasn\u2019t a believer. I was actually raised in a Catholic church \u2014 just dabbled in it every once in a while when I felt like I needed some kind of good luck. Even in the big leagues, I would go to chapel on Sundays \u2014 thinking that if I did that, God would definitely bless me with a scoreless inning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I left the United States and went to Japan that God just wrecked me and saved me from my sin,\u201d Sarfate continued. \u201cHe allowed my heart to be changed \u2014 and that was in 2011\u2026 I was in an atheistic country with no Christian teammates, so I was off to fend for myself and study on my own and be held accountable by literally no one. I didn\u2019t even have a church back at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Sarfate was introduced to Apologia Church in Phoenix, Arizona, where Jeff Durbin \u2014 who leads End Abortion Now \u2014 serves as the teaching pastor. Sarfate and his family spent three years serving with the organization; however, abortion ministry had been \u201cnear and dear\u201d to their lives for far longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife was adopted. She was adopted through a one-night stand at a truck stop in Yuma, Arizona,\u201d said Sarfate. \u201cHer parents that adopted her were not Christians; they just couldn\u2019t have kids, so they adopted her. She got saved first. God used her to bring them to Him when she was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met her, I was not a believer. She was part of my walk and coming to Christ,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I was able to share the gospel in Japan for ten years \u2014 all because one woman chose life in 1982 and did the right thing, the hard thing. Her case is what everyone uses birth control for \u2014 they use abortion as birth control now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer birth mom never met her and never will probably meet her. She chose life, and what God has used from this little girl and the people that have come to Christ through her \u2014 and the Japanese people that I\u2019ll see in heaven one day \u2014 is just an amazing story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarfate was injured in 2018 \u2014 the year after he was the MVP of the Japan World Series \u2014 which led to him joining Action for Life on a full-time basis. \u201cJeff came to me knowing that my career was coming to an end and said, \u2018You want to save babies some more?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Of course.\u2019 What he had for me was that we\u2019re going to do legislation now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Sarfate met Lautenschlager through a two-day Christian political leadership class at Apologia Church. Indeed, the Lautenschlager family \u2014 descended from John Hart, a Founding Father who signed the Declaration of Independence \u2014 has been passing down expertise about the American political system for generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got involved in politics when my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1973, Americans have murdered roughly 63 million preborn babies. Over the past five decades, the pro-life movement has attempted to curtail abortion through an incremental approach \u2014 regulating the lethal procedure via gestational age restrictions, \u201cborn-alive\u201d protection acts, and various medical ordinances for abortion clinics. 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