Sanctity of Every Life

Here's an article that is absolutely correct in its assertions about the sanctity of every life, and the need to protect every preborn child. I read it on the eve of "Sanctity of Life Sunday." Selected portion:

If a woman has a prenatal test for Down Syndrome and it comes back positive, nine out of 10 of those pregnancies will be terminated.

So in all this hullabaloo about women controlling their bodies, we’ve opened up the Pandora’s box of selective genocide. If your genome isn’t quite right, practice shows, we’re fine with sucking you out and flushing you. It is a loathsome prenatal discrimination against the handicapped.

A group of handicapped, by the way, which the last generation realized happily are typically capable of being full and productive citizens.

Indeed.

I recall reading Koop and Schaeffer's Whatever Happened To The Human Race, in which they powerfully made this very point. The handicapped are quite capable of being happy, of having a rich and meaningful life. Who are we (the presumably healthy individuals) to suggest they aren't worthy of life? What audacity. What recklessness. What an affront to the Maker of Life.

The "less fortunate" among us is still created in the image of the Almighty. Let's not "play God" any more. Let's accept the gifts the Creator gives us. Even those packaged differently than we expected.

Thanks to Bob Lonsberry for writing this. Read the entire piece here.