PRIORITIES FOR LIFE MATTER!

More and More , we live in a world that has made a wholesale rejection of traditional values. Many believe we are in a new enlightened age of free thinking and free wheeling, and have embraced change of older and even ancient moral positions.

Today it is considered a foregone conclusion that we should do all within our power to prevent cruelty to animals and even take expensive and far reaching measures to protect the rights of animals. While it is an obvious humane and virtuous position to love and protect our animals and to ensure a good home for discarded pets, other areas once of paramount importance have been neglected and even wilfully interdicted by adversarial methods.
One issue that comes to mind in our culture that demonstrates a skewed priority is the lack of respect now for unborn human life in our western world.

I read recently that over 50 million Americans have been aborted since 1973.(I dont have figures for other Western nations but probably on a par) This is an extreme disregard for the sanctity and protection of the growing child in the mothers womb. The pregnant womb once signified the place of greatest safety and nurturing anywhere in our culture.

Wikipedia says: Total military dead in WW2: from 22 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. Abortion has now killed in USA alone more people than twice the number of worldwide military personnel killed in WW2. If this is not a super mega holocaust /genocide , what is?

Nowadays, in our modern value system, it is considered quite normal to approve of and even encourage abortion on a massive wholesale level. It is even considered to be just a method of birth control for many. Another troubling issue is the widespread attitude that only out of touch people or whackos would oppose abortion. Also even more troubling is that some of these abortion methods are hugely barbaric and many times go wrong and result in a slow and terrible death to the babies. Particularly, the saline (salt) method to abort a baby has allowed many unborns to survive the salt attack and writhe in pain for hours outside the mothers body, accounts have been told by attending nurses of them lying and left to die in medical waste receptacles, denied the rights of emergency treatment and care that a born baby in distress would receive.It seems, only born babies have citizenship rights of emergency treatment for life threatening injuries.

For those readers who are only now reading for the first time of these sad accounts, you are probably denying that these situations ever occur in an enlightened age and nation. Sadly just like many other modern issues not covered here, it is hard to believe it could and does happen.

I wont go into the brutality of partial birth abortion procedure details, most will be familiar with that.
Many young pregnant women and girls are given counselling advice by "so called" experts who encourage and advocate abortion as the best solution to their inconvenient pregnancy. They assure them there will be no negative, physical, psychological or spiritual after effects of terminating the baby.

The huge numbers of women who now attest they would never have taken that road if they had known the tragic fallout
of guilt, sorrow and mental/emotional pain is often not even discussed and mentioned to new girls receiving rosy assurances to go ahead and abort.

Another reason not to abort is that huge numbers of childless couples are longing for the chance to adopt a baby and provide a wonderful loving home and family. Another reason is that our population is rapidly aging and we need new children to be future leaders, providers and workers in our culture. The number of retired on social Security cannot be sustained by the shrinking younger workforce.
The main reason is to obey the Lord and let Him decide who lives and dies.
I didnt expect to write on this subject today but it just came out of me as I started typing, so here it is.

PS: The great news for the one out of three Moms and Dads who had or endorsed abortions is that God is a forgiving and healing Father of Love and Mercy. There is no need to go through life beating yourself up about past bad decisons and not forgiving yourself. The minute you ask God to forgive you and make genuine decisions to change and make good decisons in future, He instantly forgives and gives Power to live a New Life with His Strength, Peace and Comfort for a broken heart.

We are all sinners (sin is an old archery term meaning to miss the mark) and we have blown it one way or another. We have all failed miserably at times, even if we are strong Christians. The Bible defines all hatred against ones fellow man as murder and all lustful longing for anyone who is not our spouse as adultery, even if we dont actually carry it out in the physical realm. This shows that we have all failed in these areas, so we cant look down our noses at someone who has "blown it" with bad choices, we all have done that.

see the words of John the Apostle of Love below
2 My dear children, I am writing this to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. 2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.