Neighborhood Ministries

Abortion is a slippery slope. Roe vs Wade (1973) claimed we didn’t know when life begins and can’t protect a baby in the womb because we don’t know if it is a person yet. We should error on the side of caution. While it is difficult to realize that a baby growing in you is a person, especially when the abortion facility hides the ultrasound so you don’t see it, it leads to a devaluing of life that spills into other situations. They went further in Planned Parenthood vs Casey (1992) and said a woman has a right to abort the child even after we know it is a person, if it gets in the way of her happiness. It has led to increasing instances where babies that survive abortions, are killed after they are born. Eventually it leads to killing children with or without the consent of the parents. The Netherlands has now joined Canada and a number of European countries that approve euthanizing children. While killing an unborn baby can be justified by saying we don’t know when it becomes a person (because they deny what we now know about the unborn child), to kill an adult is to knowingly end the life of a person and cannot be justified by claiming ignorance. Once you take that step, it leads to withholding treatment for adults who are critically ill or merely old. In the Netherlands, the rate of induced deaths is about 1/4^th of the total deaths (about 25%) compared to that of the U.S. where it is 2.5%. Finally it leads to where anyone can feel it is their right to kill those who get in the way of their happiness, whether it is their employer, their coworkers, or their neighbor. We are now seeing the end result in an increasing number of mass murders.