Made in His Image, part 9

Eugenics Today

Sadly, eugenics didn’t end when the Allies conquered Hitler and the Nazis. It is alive and well today, too. One of the ways we see this is in the killing of unborn babies with disabilities, or, to use the vernacular, abortion.

Although there’s much good that can come out of prenatal testing, many parents use it to “screen” their baby.

According to one researcher, “An estimated 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate their pegnancies,” (ttp://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_ParentingResource/down-syndrome-births-drop-us-women-abort/story?id=8960803)

Nine out of ten babies are killed while still in the womb simply because they have an extra chromosome. And how many other babies are killed because of other defects?

It doesn’t take much to extend the ability to take the lives of those with disabilities outside the womb. In fact, two bioethicists recently published a paper suggesting just that. Using the term “after-birth abortion” instead of infanticide, they argued that if it were acceptable to terminate the lives of babies in the womb because of a discovered disability, then it should be legally acceptable to take the life of a baby soon after it is born based on that same criteria.

And, of course, why stop there? Listen to British journalist Virginia Ironside discuss how she would handle a suffering child—not a pre-born baby, not a post-born baby, but a child.

And really, why stop there? Ladies, this shocks and appalls us. We’re sickened when we hear things such as this. But, this is the logical extension of denying the good, sovereign Creator God of the Bible who creates some to live with disabilities and some to live with health for His glory and for our good.

In fact, the basis for the sanctity of life is found only in the pages of the Bible. God has created each and every human in His image and He has told us that because we are all—everyone of us—image-bearers, we are not to take the lives of other image-bearers, no matter how “disabled” they are. Every child is a gift from God.

 
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