The horrors
of the German concentration camps of WWII will forever haunt the conscience of
mankind. Not only were millions of lives
deliberately destroyed, but the Nazis “harvested” and sold gold fillings and
hair extracted from many of the corpses.
Such cold-blooded inhumanity is difficult to comprehend. Yet, today we are seeing a similar holocaust
occurring with Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby parts as “fetal tissue”.
Jesus
strongly warned against dehumanizing others.
It is not uncommon to hear people today decry women being treated as
“sex objects”. This is exactly what
Jesus warns against in the Sermon on the Mount when He says everyone who looks at a woman with lustful
intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart (Mt 5:28). A woman is not an “object”, she is a person,
and when one directs his lust toward someone he doesn’t know or have any
connection with, he is treating her simply as something less than a human being
of value.
The
defenders of abortion have done a masterful job of dehumanizing a baby within
the womb. They have done so by
deliberately changing the language describing an unborn child. You will never hear a pro-abortion advocate
speak of a child in the womb as either a child or a baby. That instantly recognizes his or her inherent
value as a human being . The child is,
instead, a “zygote”, a “fetus”, a “product of conception”. You will never hear an advocate for abortion
calling that baby a baby.
Such word
play is disgustingly effective in rendering the child as somehow less than
human. I am amazed and appalled at how
educated, sophisticated adults who are doctors of medicine can calmly speak of
harvesting organs from a child with no more emotion than a butcher would have
in describing removing the internal organs of a turkey or chicken. The only possible way this can occur is by
convincing themselves that what they are deliberately dismembering and
destroying is not human.
My youngest
grandson, Henry, was born last February.
Melissa, my daughter, delighted in sending Carol and me pictures of
Henry in utero via the wonders of modern sonograms. I can understand why abortion advocates fight
tooth and toenail against laws demanding that a mother see a sonogram of her
child before she authorizes the death of that child via abortion. A baby, in utero, is a baby. Early in his development, you could identify
Henry’s fingers and toes, see his little head.
We were viewing pictures of a baby, yet unborn, but still a clearly
identifiable human being. Calling Henry
a fetus or a product of conception fails to do justice to the miracle of
creation he was and is.
As I listen
to very erudite, sophisticated women defend killing babies as a part of their
“reproductive rights”, I once again am forced to shake my head in sheer
frustration. Abortion has nothing to do
with a woman’s right to have sex. It has
everything to do with destroying the consequence of irresponsibly having sex. If women’s rights to reproduce were truly
being taken away, the “products of conception” they so cavalierly destroy would
certainly be reduced in number. Again,
this has nothing to do with a woman’s right to reproduce. It has everything to do with destroying the
consequence of that action.
The
cold-blooded sale of baby parts is horrifying to those whose conscience has not
yet been “seared as with a hot iron.” It
is, to say the least, off-putting to read the defense of this activity by
Planned Parenthood defenders. They speak
of the selling of baby parts in a kind of “well, why not?” way. I guess they have so successfully convinced
themselves that a baby is not a baby they can carve them up and sell them off
like cattle. As I listen to these
defenders attacking those who shot the undercover videos as “extremists”, all I
can think of is if it’s extreme to be horrified by what’s going on, then I pray
there are still a lot of extremists out there.
Perhaps the
defense that repulses me most is the claim that nothing “illegal” has been
proven. “Sure, we chop up babies and
sell their parts, but hey, it’s legal.”
If there was ever a demonstration of the truth that something can be
deemed legal and also be grossly immoral, this fits the bill. Increasingly in our sick culture we are
seeing the immoral made legal. That is a
sick (I don’t know what other word to use) gamut to make the indefensible
acceptable. It never can and it never
will.
I know of
nothing that has occurred recently that could and should shock this nation into
action like the videos that have been released showing the cold-blooded way in
which dead babies are being marketed. If
this doesn’t touch the heart of this country, that heart is stone cold dead.
May God
help us to be heart-broken and outraged over the horrors being masked by
monsters playing word games.
Dan Rouse
