I am not insensitive to the many situations where a pregnancy can be dangerous, inconvenient, heartbreaking, mind-testing. I thankfully have not experienced this testing. I am not condemning the woman who has been tested in such ways. I am not the judge of her heart or her actions. I am not here to condemn anyone. How can I condemn a heart when I know the forgiveness of God that gives me great joy and peace.
But I can condemn what we do as a society, and what we allow as the law of this land.
Our new President, Barack Obama, so strongly puts himself behind abortion rights that he does not see anything wrong, in fact he supports, POST BIRTH ABORTION. [see: Washington Post Article]
There are so many scenarios that put us to the test, put our feet to the fire. As women, as human beings, we are constantly being challenged to grow through things that sometimes seem at the time impossible to live through. Yet we endure and sometimes grow and shine despite the challenges that we have faced. Sometimes we even begin to see the absolute blessings that have come because of these challenges in life.
Rather than experience the tough stuff though, we have a tendency to look for the opt out clause in everything. This is human nature I suppose. We don’t want to suffer, we don’t willingly choose to suffer for the sake of someone else. We largely forgotten the absolute magnificence and God glorifying act of laying our will down to God and our life down for another.
We have the example in our soldiers willingly will lay down our lives for us when they choose to fight in distant lands but even today that is not being discussed as much. These men and women leave their country, their loved ones to answer a call of duty so that we can remain safe here. And sometimes I think that we have become hardened to this truth. I know that I don’t remember to pray for our troops in harms way every single day, much to my shame. I am trying to correct that now. I am remembering to pray for our country and our new president and administration coming in to power.
If I have forgotten some of these good things it is not hard to see how I, we, have also become hardened to other even less pleasant deeds.
The truth is, the tendency of human nature is to harden the heart to what hurts us. It is far easier to put these discussions on a back burner. It is far easier to let someone else decide these major issues. We rely on the advice of doctors, politicians, and leaders who, in some cases, have proven to be morally corrupt. Is there anyone we can trust anymore? Do I even trust myself? I HAVE to go back to the timeless truths of the Bible because nothing in human nature is trustworthy, even myself.
We opened the door to abortion and now euthanasia, the horrors and completely legal abuses that can and will result from opening these doors is potentially massive in scope. And the flow is flooding inward toward us.
I mention “first, do no harm” a great deal, and with a reason. What is true for an infant will ultimately, at some point in the future, be true for masses of human beings. A pandemic will bring out the best and the worst in all of us. To not get this right now, will be are undoing later. Fear of the ill and infected will be a fiery furnace for us all, “first, do no harm” must be in all of our thoughts.
Is there value to ALL human life? The sick and dying, do they have value. The Down’s Syndrome infant, born alive, breathing and kicking. Does this child have value? Do you have value if you have complications from the flu like encephalitis lethargica or other life altering and socially burdensome effects? There is value to all human life and this must be set in stone.
Discount me as a “religious” bumbling fool, for if I am wrong that is what I am, but I am willing to stake my life on this “foolishness”.
I value the timeless, constant, and valuable word of God that has proven itself over and over as worthy. My college attending family members pick up textbooks written today that are full of spelling and grammatical errors. What other errors are being perpetuated in these books? Find me an error in the Bible, it cannot be done, although not everyone has heart and eyes open to see the hidden truths. The invitation remains open to all who are called to Jesus Christ. And this Christmas, especially, the call to recognize that baby in the manger as the Messiah is so strong, perhaps as a blessing to us before the Holy Spirit is taken from the world. I see Him in evidence more and more every day.
How we treat the least of these is how we treat Him.
Widows and children, how do we treat them today?
With increasing euthanasia and infanticide.
From wikipedia
Abortion – In the 18th–19th centuries various doctors, clerics, and social reformers successfully pushed for an all-out ban on abortion. In the 20th century various women’s rights groups, doctors and social reformers successfully repealed abortion bans. While abortion remains legal in many Western countries, it is regularly subjected to legal challenges by pro-life groups.[2]
Partial Birth Abortion – “Partial-birth abortion” defined by law
Since it was first coined in 1995 by pro-life congressman Charles T. Canady, the term “partial birth abortion” has been used in numerous state and federal bills and laws, although the legal definition of the term is not always the same. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act defines “partial-birth abortion” as follows:
“An abortion in which the person performing the abortion, deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus. (18 U.S. Code 1531)”
In the 2000 Supreme Court case of Stenberg v. Carhart, a Nebraska law banning “partial-birth abortion” was ruled unconstitutional, in part because the language defining “partial-birth abortion” was deemed vague.[8] In 2006, the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart found that the 2003 act “departs in material ways” from the Nebraska law and that it pertains only to a specific abortion procedure, intact dilation and extraction.[2] Some commentators have noted that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act’s language was carefully crafted to take into account previous rulings.[9] Although in most cases the procedure legally defined as “partial birth abortion” would be medically defined as “intact dilation and extraction”, these overlapping terms do not always coincide. For example, the IDX procedure may be used to remove a deceased fetus (e.g. due to a miscarriage or feticide) that is developed enough to require dilation of the cervix for its extraction.[10] Removing a dead fetus does not meet the federal legal definition of “partial-birth abortion,” which specifies that partial live delivery must precede “the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus.”[11] Additionally, a doctor may extract a fetus past the navel and then “disarticulate at the neck”, which could fall within the terms of the statute even though it would not result in an intact body and therefore would not be an intact dilation and extraction.[12]
Post Birth Abortion – Jill Stanek has brought this evil to the light of day. Reading what this nurse has experience first hand and the investigative work that she has done is crucial to this discussion.
Resources and background: Media Matters – Media cite anti-abortion activist and Obama critic
To vote NO is unconscionable when first we strive to do no harm. To vote no means that post birth abortion can be allowed in Illinois.
“This is not about Roe vs. Wade” Bill Bennett
Is this who we want to be as Americans?
With globalization and post birth abortion and euthanasia the law in some countries, like the Netherlands, do we want to be identified as individuals with such things, for surely what we allow to happen under our watch is our responsibility?
Do we ever want to give up our voice in such matters? The United States with full states rights was and is such a marvelous governance concept, why must it be abandoned with such seemingly little regard.
And again, I am not saying that we should ever condemn those who have believed a lie told to them, especially one with such ferocity. We should and must have compassion on those who grieve when they realize what has been allowed to take place. It is legal recourse that must change and that will only come about through changed hearts.
My concern
A pandemic will be one of those situations where our hearts are put to the test. We will all endure some very tough times ahead.
When we, collectively, have no value for innocent human life, and because so many of us have largely remained silent, apathetic, and willingly unaware of the horrors of abortion…judgment may be visited upon us through reaping what we have allowed to be sown while we were not paying attention. The progression beyond abortion is apparent to those who do not turn away. If we can turn a blind eye to the suffering of babies fresh from the womb who have been declared substandard and not fit for life by a doctor or a woman giving birth, what hope do you have to live out your days if YOU become “substandard” in the future?
Euthanasia is already spreading. It is not difficult to redefine the definitions once the door is opened a crack.
We are opening doors that must remain shut.
And beware, there are some who think there are lives we can do without…is yours next?
Prepared Citizens 