What Price?

Our society first accepted the premise that abortion was not murder but was a matter of a woman’s right to choose to “fix” a difficult situation she found herself in. Then society said that doctors could not take a moral stand of their own but must, if requested by the woman, perform an abortion. The laws have been tweaked and twisted to allow for various objections and exceptions until society now, not only grudgingly accepts abortion as a “woman’s right” but defends and imposes it on all who celebrate God’s creation wish to preserve life, no matter what form it comes in. Somewhere, in the tweaking and twisting process, the “value” of the life came into play. It became OK to kill an unborn baby if its life might somehow be of less value than a “healthy” baby or a “wanted” baby – that somehow, if a baby was unwanted, it had no worth. Somehow, the “extra” babies created by the process of invitrofertilzation became a commodity that could be purchased for stem cell research. When this happened, society could now put a price on the priceless. Now, the value of life (read, “quality of life”) becomes the measuring stick by which we determine if a life should be allowed to continue. A woman may kill her baby in the name of choice. The terminally ill may kill themselves in the name of dignity. The Michael Schaivos of the world are allowed to remove the feeding tubes from their wives in the name of choice (read, “convenience”). What’s the next step? Wouldn’t it be simpler to euthanize your wife than to work on your messed-up, difficult marriage? What about that patience-trying, rebellious teenager that just wrecked your BMW? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just eliminate him than pay the hospital and rehab bills, now that he’ll never walk again? If followed to its logical conclusion, the argument for the “right” to kill a baby is more frightening than Mein Kampf! I praise God that he is still sovereign and He’s still in control of even this moral spiral that society is in. I anticipate the day when Jesus will return and right this mess. In the mean time, Pastor Tom, (see engagingyourworld.blogspot.com, 1/20/06) I will pray that He will bless your efforts to save babies now and that the love of Jesus will shine from Family Matters.