An Inconvenient Truth

From Philly.com:

"He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell's West Philadelphia abortion clinic. 

"Gosnell, 72, is charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, seven infants allegedly born alive during abortions and killed by cutting their spinal cords with scissors. If the jury finds him guilty, Gosnell could be sentenced to death."  (Read remainder of the article HERE.)

If you can stomach this article, you may find it ironic, as I did, that at the end, the writer is trying to contrast the horrific practices of this baby killer with a more 'respectable' baby killer, Charles Benjamin, another man who has performed over 40,000 abortions. Evidently because Benjamin, (who performs abortions at Einstein Medical Center in Logan and Planned Parenthood's Center City clinic) had a cleaner, more aesthetically pleasing environment, and kills the baby when it is still in the womb, the murder is considered more acceptable. 

The end result is the same: a formerly-alive baby is dead.

From the UK Telegraph, regarding the Gosnell trial:

'Beyond breaking the 24-week limit, the implication of a guilty verdict is that those were not just “parts of a woman’s body” but human lives that Kermit casually snipped away with a pair of scissors. That they only became human lives the moment they left the mother’s body is an absurd proposition: the issue here is clearly age and development of the fetus. Inside or outside their mother, a guilty verdict suggests that they had reached the point of becoming human beings with rights.

' To quote columnist Kirsten Powers:

Regardless of such quibbles, about whether Gosnell was killing the infants one second after they left the womb instead of partially inside or completely inside the womb — as in a routine late-term abortion — is merely a matter of geography. That one is murder and the other is a legal procedure is morally irreconcilable.'

What have we come to, that we are killing our own children because we find them inconvenient.

And don't you wonder why the mainstream television news has been virtually silent on the ongoing trial of Kermit Gosnell.  Even before the horrible events in Boston and Texas dominated the news, I had never heard of this until I read about it online. It certainly seems that a story like this should be covered by all of the major TV networks.

There has been a justified outpouring of rage and grief over the massacre of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary.  What about the others, 'the most vulnerable among us,' who are murdered while we deliberately look the other way and say nothing...

As someone has recently said,  'If there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.'

To view what state policies are regarding late-term abortion, study this chart from Guttmacher Institute, State Policies on Later Abortions.   Dr. Josef Mengele would have been proud.

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Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    before you were born I set you apart

 Jeremiah 1:5a

Jesus said, Let the little children come to me,

 and do not hinder them, 

for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

Matthew 19:14

If anyone causes one of these little ones-

those who believe in me- to stumble,

it would be better for them to have a large

millstone hung around their neck

and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

 

There's got to be something better...

cbsnews.com

What's the deal with this rash of violence we've seen in recent months? Is it really all about guns? Is it about mental health? Is it about violent movies and violent video games? Are people just worse than they used to be? Or maybe all of the above?

Do you ever wonder how different things might be if we hadn't made a concerted effort over the past decades to rid ourselves of any sense of responsibility and accountability to the God of the Universe who made us to glorify and enjoy Him forever? When we tell people there is no God, then naturally, they do what is right in their own eyes. 'What's right' is going to differ from person to person, and what 'right' does anyone have to tell anyone else that anything is wrong? or that anything is right?  Maybe kidnapping children is their thing. Maybe killing a classroom of kids is their thing. What does it matter? Who's to say it is wrong to do it?

We can hardly turn to society to be our standard. We saw what happened with the goodness of society in the Soviet Union under Stalin, in Germany under Hitler, etc.. Society cannot be counted on to do the right thing. And besides, what IS the right thing??

How did we get to the point that we cringe at a TV commercial which shows a homeless, abused dog, but go through our day with little or no thought of the million unborn babies murdered in this country each year.

We want to think that we are moral, but outside God, there is no morality.  He is the standard. He has given it to us to obey - for our own GOOD, so that we can love Him and enjoy life and prosper and be happy and help our neighbor. It is all good. But when we turn away from Him to the dark side, there is no longer any standard. When we get rid of God and make up our own rules, then the guy who held that little boy hostage in the bunker has every bit as much right as anyone else does to do what he wants.

We all know, whether or not we'll admit it, that things in our society are dreadfully wrong. We know there must be something better.

Ephesians 2:1-10

<sup>"It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. 

You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. 

It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing."  - The Message</sup>

"To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen."

Jesus: the only One who gives us hope and a future.