In early history, children were prized because they were necessary for the preservation of the family or group. In fact, women (who produced children) and children were so prized that they were often kidnapped or taken as captives of war from neighboring groups. Over the years, they were often valued to help out on the farm and farm families had a lot of children. As cities have grown, the value of children has declined. At various times in history, they have lost their value and various means of aborting unwanted children or killing them after birth, were developed. However, at no time in history has it taken on the proportions it has today. Lately, children have been looked down on as a burden on society because they don’t support themselves. Over recent years, we have seen the overall value of children change from valuable labor to excess baggage. Without God, everything and everyone has value only if they contribute to society. From that standpoint, unborn babies, young children, those who are chronically or terminally ill, the elderly, and those suffering serious injuries are expendable and even a burden that should be eliminated. Our society views children as having no economic value. Children today are often viewed as “accidents” or byproducts of making love rather than as gifts from God. In addition, the constant promotion of abortion gives the impression that children are disposable. Yet many people wonder why children have low self-esteem. Environmental activists seek to restrict the birthrate to preserve nature and groups like Planned Parenthood seek to restrict the birth of populations they don’t like, such as Blacks and Hispanics, and the poor. They look at whether they can contribute what they cost to maintain or will they restrict our opportunities? We have no way of estimating what the future economic contribution of a child will be. Many non-White and poor White orphans have gone on to make great contributions, when given the opportunity and the education. Many people have overcome great trials to accomplish more than anyone could have believed. I was paralyzed from the waist down at age two and they said I would never walk again, yet I not only was able to walk again, I went on to accomplish far more than many people thought possible. God values all life because He created it for a purpose. When it no longer has a purpose here, God will end it. We have no right to judge the value of a life solely on what it can contribute financially. Many people contribute a great deal to those around them long after they can no longer contribute financially. Christians recognize that each person is created by God for a purpose and to take that life is to destroy God’s creation. Many individuals contribute a great deal that cannot be measured in dollars and cents and God created them regardless of their skin color and nationality.
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Fifth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Oct 5-B
Value of Life-Since the world believes we are here by accident, people do not value life beyond themselves. Those joining the church for the first time must be taught the value of life through example. They must see the church honoring others as God’s creation, not just because they have economic value. They will see the value of the individual as the church supports those experiencing difficulty and celebrates the accomplishments of members. They will see it as the church involves members in decisions rather than merely making decisions in board meetings and informing the congregation afterward. They will see it as the church encourages them to discover their talents and use them to build up the church and to minister to those beyond the church that are in need. But they will see it most as the church seeks to protect the unborn, the crippled, and the elderly, who can not protect themselves and who have no economic value. Babies who may not be wanted by their parents, may be an answer to prayer of someone who wants children but cannot have them on their own. Those who are sick, disabled, or elderly may continue to contribute love, encouragement, or other benefits that cannot be measured. Even those whose only apparent value comes from the fact that they were created by God and belong to Him. Walking with Christ helps us see things as God sees them and not just what we see on our own. Unfortunately, many churches today have lost the value of the individual and members become lost in the crowd.
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Fifth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Oct 5-A
Value of Life As Christians, we recognize that every person is created by God for a purpose and only God has the right to say when that life ends. While liberals say that that they care about the girl who is pregnant and want to help her, they simply want to get rid of the baby so it won’t be a problem for society. They say that the girl has a right to take the life of her baby if it will inconvenience her, but once you state that, you open the door to allow other people to claim the right to kill someone who inconveniences them, whether it is an aging parent, a terminally ill family member, or simply someone that gets in their way on the freeway. In addition, every life is created with a purpose and we should not allow any life to be wasted. God wants us to have life and that more abundantly so we should seek to help everyone to reach their full potential by helping them find God’s purpose for them and helping them achieve it.
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Planned Parenthood and liberals in Congress are continuing to push abortion drugs to States that do not allow abortions because the pro-life laws hurt their profits and have forced them to shut down a number of abortion centers. They continue to teach young children to engage in sex and reassure them that they can be protected by contraceptives but do not warn them that the contraceptives have a high failure rate and do not protect them against sexually transmitted diseases so they will produce unwanted babies and fuel the abortion industry. Then they convince them that an abortion will solve that problem. They get paid by the government to teach the sex ed classes, distribute the contraceptives, and do the abortions. Then they get paid selling the body parts of the aborted babies. They have a very profitable racket going. Now that their profits are being threatened, they are adding gender confusion to their sex ed classes and selling kids on the idea that all their problems stem from the fact that they were born in the wrong body, which is a figment of their imagination. They then reap the profits when the government pays them to administer the body altering drugs and the body altering surgeries even though there is no evidence that they are even helpful, and they do great harm to the children.
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Many liberals are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, saying he got what he deserved. He never attacked anyone or belittled them, he merely asked them to defend what they believe. They hate him so much because they cannot defend their positions and they know it. The positions are selfish and self-serving and they cannot be defended because they go against what is best for everyone. I have written a series of values comparing Christian values with the values of the liberals to illustrate how irrational they are. They only make sense if you are only thinking of yourself and what is best for yourself. To them, it is alright to kill a baby, an elderly person, someone who is gravely ill or injured, or who is mentally disturbed because they see no value in those people and feel we are better off without them. They feel it is alright to eliminate those who stand in the way of their happiness and celebrate his death because he forces them to defend what they cannot defend and they don’t like being exposed as fools.
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Many people criticize those who support banning abortions in all cases, including cases of rape and incest. However, by allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest, it is essentially legalizing rape and incest. Since abortion centers don’t report the ages of clients, it disguises the extent of incest and rape against children. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of children (1 out of 5) get abortions every year without their parent’s knowledge. Abortionists also do not report such cases to law enforcement agencies (though they are required to by law) so the rapists are never prosecuted. In addition, by destroying the baby and the placenta, abortion providers destroy the evidence needed to prove rape and incest and makes it impossible to prove who the father of the baby is, allowing the rapist to walk away free. Since abortion clinics do not require proof of identity, many underage girls get abortions by borrowing a friend’s Medicaid card to cover their abortion.
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We now have a case where someone in Texas is trying to sue a doctor in New York for mailing abortion pills to someone in Texas following an online teleconference. We don’t know if the pills caused injury or death or were mailed to a minor without the parents consent, but abortion is illegal in Texas. The New York county clerk refuses to file the case because New York has laws to shield New York abortion doctors from out of State lawsuits. It follows a lawsuit in Louisiana where a New York doctor prescribed abortion pills to a minor via telemedicine. Other medical providers are held liable for negligence and abortion providers should not be an exception. In addition, they are providing abortion pills to someone in a State where abortion is illegal. The doctor may be in New York but the abortion is taking place in a State where it is illegal. Telemedicine is where you go online and do a doctor visit online. The doctor than prescribes medicine without even seeing the patient in person. That alone is serious enough. Nothing is done to verify the pregnancy to rule out a tubal pregnancy which could be fatal. The fact is that the abortion pills also can cause serious complications which can be life threatening. The woman might be allergic to it or the abortion may not completely expel the placenta resulting in infection or uncontrolled bleeding which could result in death if not treated immediately. Yet the woman takes the pills at home with no medical personnel available. She may not even have anyone to call help if she cannot.
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Even if we allow abortion, the government should not be paying for them. With funding for Medicaid already strained, it makes no sense to add millions of dollars to fund unnecessary abortions when the government is cutting what it pays for medical research (like for cancer) and for care of Seniors and the chronically ill for treatment of life or death medical issues. Almost all abortions are elective. (The Supreme Court challenged abortion providers to provide an instance where an abortion was needed to save the life of the mother and they have never been able to provide one) Eliminating funding for abortions would provide more money for medical care. Cutting funding for abortions would also force women to pay for their own abortions making them think more carefully before having unprotected sex and enable increased prosecution of rapists and those engaged in incest which would reduce the number of babies aborted. (For the facts see “Abortion” in “In The World But Not Of It, Part –A” and study course “Value of Life”)
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Democrats blocked a bill called “Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act”, that would end legalized infanticide. A number of States have legalized killing a baby up to 28 days after birth, by using perinatal instead of prenatal in the law. Perinatal includes the period up to a month after birth. It passed the House but Democrats blocked a vote in Senate. While liberal politicians pushed through Roe vs Wade on the grounds that we could not tell if the baby was a person or not, they have continued to push the limits. They have fought attempts to limit abortions to before it has a heartbeat and brainwaves at only a couple weeks old. They have pushed abortion up to and including at birth through a partial birth abortion where the baby is reversed and delivered feet first. When all but the head is out, they puncture the skull and remove the brain so the baby is born dead. While it is definitely known that the baby is a person at birth, they turn a blind eye. However, some babies did not die in the abortion and were born alive. They would smother it and throw it in a trash can or leave it out to starve to death. All the time, they have covered up their acts to avoid a public outcry. Over time the American people have become accustomed to the killing. Recently they have been able to legalize killing it in some States. The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would require doctors to fight to save babies born alive.