The Culture of Death

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We live in a culture that is increasingly choosing death and reaping the awful harvest in the name of convenience, choice and greed.

There are many reports today about the awful mix up at a Melbourne hospital where "the wrong twin" was aborted. A woman carrying twins at 32 weeks was supposed to have had one of them, believed to have serious heart defects, terminated. For some reason the healthy baby was accidentally removed. Later the woman had a Caesarean to remove the sick baby.

There has been no mention in any reports of threats to the mother's health, so we can only conjecture that the termination was intended to prevent either complications during birth or to lessen the grief of the mother. In other words it is about the convenience of the medical staff and/or the mother.

What is truly awful about this is the fact that our culture somehow accepts that it is OK to kill a baby that is in some way judged to be defective but tragic when a "normal" baby is accidentally killed.

A baby whether born or still in the womb is human, and therefore infinitely precious, regardless of its apparent physical health.

When we make judgements about the worth of a life based on subjective values like "quality of life" we really do walk a slippery slope towards a black hole.

Today it's a "foetus" with heart problems.

Next week it might be a 90 year old with heart problems.

Or a 40 year old with intellectual problems.

Or someone from a "wrong" race or religion.

It's tragic when babies are born with big health issues. It is worse when a culture embraces the notion that some people are not worth keeping.

6 thoughts on “The Culture of Death”

  1. This is very bad. It starts with aborting a "foetus with heart problems", but where does it go from there. Once we are desensitized, anything is fine.

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  2. All states in Australia have essentially abortion on demand (with rebates from our national health care scheme Medicare), but I think Victoria where this incident took place has the worst laws of all allowing routine abortion to 30 weeks.Ray Comfort's documentary 180 is a really hard-hitting and effective opinion changer. He likens abortion to the holocaust. In interviews with people on a street he says "Complete this sentence: It is OK to kill a baby when…"

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  3. 30 weeks! WOW!! And yes, I can see the parallel to the holocaust. It was a German man who had lived through the Holocaust that talked to me about this one day in the grocery store in Canada, maybe 30 years ago. He said it starts with allowing an early abortion and ends with killing anyone you dislike or diagrees with you, He warned me then that this was the way things were going.

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  4. Now the push is on for assisted suicide and euthanasia. In Holland and in Washington State they have found that it is very easy to bypass the medical "safe guards" of requiring, for example, two doctors to agree that you are terminally ill. Now, it seems there is subtle pressure for older people to seek euthanasia so they won't be a burden on people.From there it is only a small step to argue that people with Downs Syndrome or mental illnesses to be killed as they will never have quality of life. And that takes us back to Germany c. 1935And that is exactly what happens whenever a society turns its back on God.

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