30 April 2013 -
The trial of Dr. Kermit
Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist, has gone to the jury. The
stark depiction of his repeated murders of babies has stunned even this most
jaded of men. I won’t call him a butcher because that would wrongly
associate him with the honorable and honest people who put food on our
tables. Instead, I call him a high priest in the religion of
abortion in America.
His evil
tendencies were enabled by the liberal intelligentsia in our government,
courts, and salons of learning. These elite thinkers started with
the eugenics movements of the early 1900s, passed Roe v. Wade in 1973, and
today use the Gosnells of the world to snip through all moral constraint on the
abortion table. Their doctrine is clear. They long ago
elevated secular humanist rights over life and death, trying to divorce society
from the moral constraints of Judeo-Christian standards. They then
strenuously preached these rights until Supreme Court justices found their
arguments more legally convenient than were the fundamental rights of
life. Finally, they expanded the rite of abortion until Dianne
Feinstein (D-CA) suggested that a newborn baby should not be considered human
life until the mother and the doctor say that it is. Such perverse
power corrupts all who participate. Many a Kermit Gosnell, as
well-paid high priests in lab coats, now regularly administer grisly sacrament
rites to the desiccated witches of the left and their elite intelligentsia
sycophants. Soon, the jury in Philadelphia will decide if we will
pass even more of our children through the pagan fires of Moloch or again
defend what used to be God-given moral standards for the legal protection of
human life.
Another way to approach
the issue.
Neither in a religious
nor medical sense do we know when a human fetus becomes a human being. Medically,
we can’t come close to making such a determination. We can’t even
precisely assess the earliest moment when a particular unborn child will
survive outside the womb. Therefore, when abortion must be
considered, it is never a medical decision alone; it should always be, first
and foremost, a moral one.
Using religious terms,
we don’t know when, during pregnancy, that our spirit enters our mortal body
and we become a living soul. Using more religious terms, I would
never presume to establish such a moment using anything but revelation from Him
who gives life. As far as I know, Christian revelations throughout
history declare that life is sacred and that God demands that we use the power
to create and take life only in certain, carefully prescribed ways. I
understand now more than ever that we are never more accountable to God than
when we create mortal life.
Mortality is, nonetheless,
mortality. This life is imperfect in its passage. There
are circumstances when the decision to take the life of an unborn child is the
least horrible of the inevitable consequences of this mortal coil. But,
those circumstances are so rare in our medically-advanced society that they
shouldn’t be used to justify liberal abortion laws. Therefore, when
abortion is used as the remedy for the non-life-threatening consequences of
prior errors in judgment, it is just another mistake piled on the first one. If
I am going to err when I try to resolve previous mistakes, I want to err on the
side of life. Always.
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