We hear a lot about various endangerations these days, don't we? Intentionally exaggerating to make my point, the furry ground mouse in Iowa, the red-winged sapsucker in New England and the multi-prismed colonial trout in Minnesota are on the endangered list. Concern is broad while a devoted hand full hold the masses at bay at times from proceeding with the routines of living.
Oil and gas exploration are barricaded in the name of preserving pristine landscapes. The ACLU continues to protest crosses and the sacred name of Jesus by threatening to remove both from military cemeteries as well as chapels. The buzz phrase used to freeze man in his progressive tracks is protect and preserve.....rights.
Therefore, I find it ironic and sad that the same sort who can be given to such great causes would not find it in their hearts to protect and preserve the unborn fetus. Unborn babies, to many of these who protest the weakest of causes, evidently are of little regard. Millions of tax payer dollars are being invested in Florida to provide a canal for endangered turtles to make their trek from water to land and back. Yet, protecting and preserving the birth canal of humans is, in their minds, ridiculous and religiously antiquated.
It makes the words of Jesus arise to yet another new understanding. You strain at gnats and swallow camels. Indeed we do.
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Another example...the newborn that was found in a trash bag and dumpster in Sapulpa enraged the public. Isn't abortion in the same category of abandonment? Why the absence of outrage?
I agree completely. I favor preserving the lives of endangered animals, but I also favor preserving the lives of children.
We do, indeed, seem to have everything bass-ackwards.
Great post Mr. Rush. Like Lita, I personally don't understand the disconnect between the outrage at an abandoned newborn (and related laws to prevent such) and the sacred "right" to terminate that same life just hours or days before (and related laws to protect such).
And yet, would changing the law really address the deeper (and earlier) issues that lead to this excruciating decision? Probably not. I know of at least 4 women who have made this terrible choice, and who suffer continually for it. It is very evident that the law is of little consequence to them.
As a male, I cannot even feign to fully appreciate their pain. But as a believer, I can't help but think Christ would do all He could to console them rather than judge them; and how much He would do to heal others that are few steps behind on that same journey...law, or no law.
I shudder to think of how many women -- our sisters in the faith who sit with us in worship...our wives, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, daughters -- secretly carry this guilt and shame. I say, shame on those of us who speak boldly, yet ignorantly, from a "positional stance", for we stand in the way between them and the wonderful, merciful, healing grace of Jesus our Christ.
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