Ponderings....
Since my post yesterday, I have been doing a lot of thinking about our society. The pondering has raised some questions and I think I’ve formulated some, if not answers, at least some talking points, in response. I’ll deal with the first today and others in future posts.
First question: If society places little or no value on the life of an unborn child, what led to this devaluation and how does society make peace with what conscience it has? I think that one of the measuring sticks for the value of that unborn life is socially perceived to be the degree that this life will be loved and wanted and will not be a “burden” to society at large. The excuse for many abortions has been, “I just can’t deal with a pregnancy right now” and “I just can’t afford to start a family right now” or “I have to finish xyz before I’m ready for this.” Note the subtle wording that excuses the murder of the child – ‘a pregnancy’, ‘start a family’, ’ready for this’ – no where is the word baby or child used. When the woman is in the abortion clinic, her child is referred to as the fetus or embryo and her womb (a word that connotes nurturing and safety) is referred to as her uterus. Yup, you’re right, it’s only words, but words ease guilty consciences and soothe the nagging of persistent self-accusations. Then, after turning the unborn little life into a thing that needs to be removed, like a tumor or a cancer, it becomes much easier to not want it or love it. It’s much simpler to justify the act if you point to the millions of abused and neglected children in society. Instead of doing something to help them, let’s just not create any more, and the existing children of loveless existences will grow up or die off, and we will have a society without this burden, right? The courts debated for years about when life begins, and eventually had to conclude that it does begin at conception. So to make it “right" to take that life, the courts had to try to assign the rights to that life to some entity other than itself. Thus, it concluded that although life begins at conception, the rights to that life belong to the mother until the life can live apart from the mother, and the mother could somehow search within herself for the value of that life to HER. If she did not love it, better to remove it early enough in the pregnancy that she might avoid loving it. Following this line of thinking, you will not see an ultrasound machine in an abortion clinic because if that mother got a glimpse of her precious child moving around or its little heart beating, she might feel the natural love that God gave her and feel a desire to protect the child in her womb.
I guess what strikes me as most ridiculous of these arguments is the way the tapestry unravels when you pull on one of these threads. If a life has no value because it is not loved, then there can be no condemnation for killing the bag lady that lives under the bridge. That unravels to: if a life has no value because you don’t love it, then you should be able to slaughter my grandfather because you have no love for him? Why should it matter to you that I love him and I assign value to his life? What is to prevent society from simply setting fire to all the nursing homes and saving itself a huge Medicare bill? If you say that life may be terminated because it has not come to usefulness, then you must also say that life may be terminated when it has outlived its usefulness and must attempt to now create some sort of measuring stick for when that happens. Hitler did it and so did Stalin. Many so-called ‘religions’ of the world do it by saying that if you do not become one of them you are not eligible to live. Do we really want to go there in America?
Please understand that I am not advocating blowing up abortion clinics nor do I wish to see a repeal of Medicare or Welfare or any other program that helps life to continue in whatever shape it’s in. Nor do I believe that the decision to keep a child is ever easy. What I do believe is that there should be some return to the absolute truth of God’s word. When the bag lady is not loved by anyone that we can see, God loves her. And that little baby that a woman would call a fetus is loved and known by God. He has endowed that tiny life with a unique identity, with unique DNA that will never be created again, even finger prints! He already knows the color of the child’s hair, his skin, his eyes, whether he will be short or tall, thin or fat, mechanically inclined or at home in academia. With love and care, He has pieced the child together and formed it with or without what we might call flaws or defects. He has made that child for His perfect purpose and we usurp His throne in daring to terminate that life or any other.
Please join me in a daily prayer for the unborn. Upwards of 43-million innocent babies have been slaughtered while society looked the other way and rationalized its behavior. Oh God, please save one teeny, tiny little baby today!
First question: If society places little or no value on the life of an unborn child, what led to this devaluation and how does society make peace with what conscience it has? I think that one of the measuring sticks for the value of that unborn life is socially perceived to be the degree that this life will be loved and wanted and will not be a “burden” to society at large. The excuse for many abortions has been, “I just can’t deal with a pregnancy right now” and “I just can’t afford to start a family right now” or “I have to finish xyz before I’m ready for this.” Note the subtle wording that excuses the murder of the child – ‘a pregnancy’, ‘start a family’, ’ready for this’ – no where is the word baby or child used. When the woman is in the abortion clinic, her child is referred to as the fetus or embryo and her womb (a word that connotes nurturing and safety) is referred to as her uterus. Yup, you’re right, it’s only words, but words ease guilty consciences and soothe the nagging of persistent self-accusations. Then, after turning the unborn little life into a thing that needs to be removed, like a tumor or a cancer, it becomes much easier to not want it or love it. It’s much simpler to justify the act if you point to the millions of abused and neglected children in society. Instead of doing something to help them, let’s just not create any more, and the existing children of loveless existences will grow up or die off, and we will have a society without this burden, right? The courts debated for years about when life begins, and eventually had to conclude that it does begin at conception. So to make it “right" to take that life, the courts had to try to assign the rights to that life to some entity other than itself. Thus, it concluded that although life begins at conception, the rights to that life belong to the mother until the life can live apart from the mother, and the mother could somehow search within herself for the value of that life to HER. If she did not love it, better to remove it early enough in the pregnancy that she might avoid loving it. Following this line of thinking, you will not see an ultrasound machine in an abortion clinic because if that mother got a glimpse of her precious child moving around or its little heart beating, she might feel the natural love that God gave her and feel a desire to protect the child in her womb.
I guess what strikes me as most ridiculous of these arguments is the way the tapestry unravels when you pull on one of these threads. If a life has no value because it is not loved, then there can be no condemnation for killing the bag lady that lives under the bridge. That unravels to: if a life has no value because you don’t love it, then you should be able to slaughter my grandfather because you have no love for him? Why should it matter to you that I love him and I assign value to his life? What is to prevent society from simply setting fire to all the nursing homes and saving itself a huge Medicare bill? If you say that life may be terminated because it has not come to usefulness, then you must also say that life may be terminated when it has outlived its usefulness and must attempt to now create some sort of measuring stick for when that happens. Hitler did it and so did Stalin. Many so-called ‘religions’ of the world do it by saying that if you do not become one of them you are not eligible to live. Do we really want to go there in America?
Please understand that I am not advocating blowing up abortion clinics nor do I wish to see a repeal of Medicare or Welfare or any other program that helps life to continue in whatever shape it’s in. Nor do I believe that the decision to keep a child is ever easy. What I do believe is that there should be some return to the absolute truth of God’s word. When the bag lady is not loved by anyone that we can see, God loves her. And that little baby that a woman would call a fetus is loved and known by God. He has endowed that tiny life with a unique identity, with unique DNA that will never be created again, even finger prints! He already knows the color of the child’s hair, his skin, his eyes, whether he will be short or tall, thin or fat, mechanically inclined or at home in academia. With love and care, He has pieced the child together and formed it with or without what we might call flaws or defects. He has made that child for His perfect purpose and we usurp His throne in daring to terminate that life or any other.
Please join me in a daily prayer for the unborn. Upwards of 43-million innocent babies have been slaughtered while society looked the other way and rationalized its behavior. Oh God, please save one teeny, tiny little baby today!
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