When a sperm is separate from the egg we can know for
certain that life has not begun, but once the sperm enters the egg and the
genetic material combines, who is in a position to say that a human life has
not begun? For me that means that early
abortion is not the right thing. Human
life is precious from its outset. Late
abortions are simply killing an unborn baby.
How have we become so hardened as to do this or allow it without protest?
The Christian church should be speaking out against this horror of wholesale
killing of the next generation. But then the Christian church is not what it was. It pussy foots around all difficult areas in
order not to upset people. I abhor
myself for doing so little against this mass murder. It seems to me that
abortion is always encouraged without a proper look at an alternative. I understand there are many childless couples
who would love to adopt, but there is a shortage of babies. The mother deciding
to give birth to the child might find that after all her beautiful baby can be
incorporated into her life and she can manage financially better than she
realized and breathe a sigh of relief that she did not go through with abortion.
But the powers that be seem intent on reducing the population and give no
proper counselling to the mother. And in one part of the maternity wing parents
of low fertility are given expensive treatment in the hope of having a baby and
at the other end of the wing babies are aborted, most of them healthy
individuals who could have expected a long life, but no, medical practitioners
whose first promise is to “do no harm,” go through sometimes horrific
procedures to rid a woman of “an unnecessary encumbrance.” And so another human
life is tossed into a bucket, a life given by God. But God is not mocked and mankind will reap
what it sows. Those precious lives will
have to be accounted for one day. It
seems to me that Hitler might just have well have won the war because we are
treating human life as he did, expendable if not reaching his standards. So why did we bother to fight him if this is
how we behave?
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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