Albert Mohler wrote an article today about the newest addition to the Governor’s mansion in Alaska, Trig Paxson Van Palin, and how he is one of the dwindling number of Down-Syndrome babies surviving the culture’s acceptance of abortive eugenics. Dr. Mohler writes:
“Modern diagnostic tests are driving a “search and destroy mission” to eliminate babies judged to be inferior, disabled, or deformed. Some experts now believe that up to 90 percent of all pregnancies diagnosed as having a likelihood of Down syndrome end in abortion.
Back in 2005, ethicist George Neumayr commented: “Each year in America fewer and fewer disabled infants are born. The reason is eugenic abortion. Doctors and their patients use prenatal technology to screen unborn children for disabilities, then they use that information to abort a high percentage of them. Without much scrutiny or debate, a eugenics designed to weed out the disabled has become commonplace.”
But lest you think that our hatred for so-called “inferior, disabled, or deformed” offspring is contained merely to the abortion debate, I would turn your attention to the preemptive side of that mindset that is just as troubling - and just as devaluing to human life and dignity: Birth Control in light of Genetic Disease.
Our dignity is objectively rooted in the divine image that we bear - not our “wanted-ness”, “usefulness”, nor any other subjective means whereby man assumes the right to assign value to human life.
“The world is the devil’s hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.” - Anthony Comstock
‘BH
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May 6, 2008 at 11:28 am
Have you seen this site where people confess their sins anonymously, online at http://iconfessmyself.blogspot.com
May 6, 2008 at 11:40 am
Hatred.
Really? How can you hate that which isn’t even alive? If man doesn’t assign value to human life, we could kill each other with impunity. The human race would be all but extinct in a matter of days.
Choosing to not bring a child into the world who you know without a doubt would be suffering immensely is an act of selfless compassion.
May 6, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Kurt,
Thanks for stopping by. In response to your question, we hate things that are not alive every day. I’m sure you hate the ‘idea’ of evil, as well as the ‘idea’ of Nazism. Similarly, we can be begin to hate the idea of children - which the culture as a whole has already begun to espouse. Children are often seen as ‘burdensome’ and a ‘choice’ to be made on subjectively based, utilitarianistic terms such as what they “mean to” you, or if they will be “productive” members of society — rather than objectively valued because they are gifts from God, crafted and fashioned by him in the womb, in his image, and given to us as a godly heritage.
The point that you may be missing is that man does not have the objective ability nor right to assign value to other human beings. They tried that in the American slavery ideal of 2/3 a person, and again in WWII Germany in order to “purify the race” — both according to subjective human systems of value.
It’s pretty clear that these ideals are about as “self-serving” as they come.
May 6, 2008 at 5:34 pm
BH, the link you embeded for Albet Mohler’s blog doesn’t work. However you copied it, the link you have reads: http://http//www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1144
What it should read is:
http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1144
Just a little heads-up from your frozen chosen sister,
Genoise
P.S. (So when r u coming to Maine for that brunette you ordered? I can’t keep her waiting forever you know!)
May 6, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Thanks Gen. I think I got it fixed now!
And as for the emailed-ordered bride, she may be out of luck. Let’s just say “The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.” (Pro 16:9) So yeah, I’ve got plans you can be praying for…
May 7, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Good to hear BH.
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