When Lives Don't Matter

A victim of an abortion

During his three-year ministry in ancient Israel, this is one of the things that Jesus Christ said: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10)

Of course, Christ was referring to Satan who not only seeks to destroy human beings in the flesh, but who also seeks to murder their souls via false religions that deny the necessity of the cross in the redemption of mankind.

But make no mistake about it; Satan is all about murder and the destruction of human life. Murder is his most precious weapon because he uses it to prevent the salvation of human beings. Those who die outside of Christ are doomed eternally.

And so, even though the devil doesn't murder human beings directly, he motivates fallen human beings who are under his influence to do his bidding. While many folks in what passes for the modern civil rights movement are babbling about how black lives matter--as if no one else's life does--the lives of unborn babies and young infants apparently don't matter. At least not to a growing number of people.

Since 1973, when the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) legalized abortion, over 55 million babies have been murdered. And that's just in the U.S. Across the world where abortion has been flourishing in many nations much longer than it has in America, millions more unborn babies have been snuffed out by abortion executioners.

Last year (2014) the most abortions occurred in China where 7,930,000 unborn infants were terminated. Next came Russia with 2,287,300 followed by Viet Nam with 1,520,000; the U.S. (1,365,700) and the Ukraine (635,000). Though China led the way in sheer numbers, Russia actually had a higher abortion rate (68.4 abortions for every 1,000 births) compared to China (26 per 1,000 births). Russia's rate was much higher because of Russia's smaller population. 

If pre-birth abortion isn't bad enough, we now have folks who call themselves "medical ethicists" clamoring for post-birth abortions. That's right; you read that correctly. There are those who want to murder living, breathing babies because they don't believe their lives matter.

In 2012, the Journal of Medical Ethics published an article written by medical ethicists Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva who argued that newborns and infants aren't actually human beings with personalities. Thus, according to their reasoning that would've made Josef Mengele blush, these infants should be fair game for execution if their parents decide they're better off emotionally and economically without them.

Giubilini and Minerva actually said this: "Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are morally irrelevant, and ending their lives is no different to abortion. The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of a fetus in the sense that both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life of an individual." 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk  

Many folks will dismiss Giubilini and Minerva as kooks. They shouldn't because there are a lot of people in high places who agree with them. One of them is a radical named Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. 

Singer has called for a massive reduction in the world's population in order to rescue the planet and save the environment. Like Giubilini and Minerva, Singer doesn't believe that a child achieves "full moral status" until age one or two, so their parents should be able to "abort" them legally.

Naturally, like most people who possess such a disdain for human life, Singer is an atheist. Since atheists don't believe in God, they embrace Darwinian evolution as the explanation for the existence of life. While the Bible reveals that human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26) atheists believe that human beings are merely the end product of millions of years of random evolutionary forces.

And people who believe that see no value in human life. Nearly 2,000 years ago the apostle Paul wrote this concerning people who reject the truth of God for a lie: "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." (Romans 1:21-23)

When people reject God, human life becomes cheap and meaningless. And when human life no longer matters, then anarchy, chaos and mass destruction follow. How far the world has plunged morally in just the past 50 years! How much farther will it continue to fall? That's a terrifying question.