Gifts from God

Tonight driving home from school I heard someone equate the abortion of innocent babies to that of the holocaust. While I've heard this illustration previously it struck a chord when he discussed how the Jewish people and other minorities had been treated because they were thought to be non-human. Today that is how so many people look at unborn children, that they are non-human, and because they have now become non-human we can abort them and use them for experiments, rationalizing it all by claiming it's the woman's right and that experiments will save other lives. This is in no way meant to diminish the struggle or concern there is for women who have found themselves pregnant due to unspeakable and horrible crimes of another individual or the concern for losing one's own life; but we have become a society so focused on happiness and pleasing ourselves, that we have lost sight of the value of a child and relegated that's child's status to non-human. Every life has value and every child deserves the chance to be born! We relegate the God who created us, who formed us in our mother's wombs, who can count our tears and the hairs on our head, to a non-significant non-existent being while we exalt ourselves to being like god while we decide who should live and who should die. What gives us the right to choose death. When will we realize what the selfishness of only seeking our own fulfillment has done to our society. Many times recently I have heard quoted the scripture after Cain killed his brother Abel, that God heard the blood crying out from the ground, and the statement and reality of that one soul crying out from being murdered, and how that sound must be magnified in God's ears with all his children that have been sacrificed in the name of selfishness. I can not imagine what it would feel like to carry a baby full term and give birth to give that child up for adoption, but at least that child would have a chance. There are women, unable to have children of their own for one reason or another, who would give everything they have just to have the opportunity to be pregnant to feel the life growing inside of them and to connect with their child even before they are born, to pour their heart out in love over that child, and rejoice in the opportunity to welcome that child into this world.