Posted by
Rev John Spinks on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:59:03 PM
As the battle rages in our nation about a government take over of healthcare, one issue that has been a big part of the debate is how to handle the abortion question.
It confounds me that we would even mention abortion in the same conservation as healthcare. Abortion and healthcare are diametrically opposed to each other.
Abortion goes against the laws of God. Abortion deprives the most innocent and defenseless among us the basic right: the right to life. This is a right that our founding fathers fought and died for.
Remember these words from the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Abortion is the taking of a human life that is designed and created by God. To take a life of an unborn child is not “healthcare”.
No matter how you dress it calling it a woman’s choice, at the end of the day abortion stops a beating heart.
The question I have is, if we allow the government to take over healthcare and provide funding for abortion, what is next? Where will stop?
A couple of years ago the subject of life and death was brought to our attention in the starvation death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida named Terri Schaivo.
Because of what that poor woman was forced to endure, people around the nation and around the world began thinking about the issues of life and death.
We in America have devalued human life. This is a scary thought.
By doing so, we may be opening the door for a government run healthcare to raid on our elderly in the nursing homes? We may be giving the government access to the mentally ill and the deformed.
Are we going to allow the federal government to pick and choose who gets care and who gets a needle for a quick and cost effective end to their life?
If the cost of ending the life of the elderly and sick is deemed more cost efficient under a government run “healthcare plan,” this same government that aborts babies will not flinch at giving the needle to the sick and elderly.
We are living in a nation where human life has become a cheap commodity. It has become effortless to throw human life away before it ever appears in our world through abortion.
It is becoming easier to discard those individuals that are seen as worthless and as being a drain on society.
Might we be headed down the path of some European countries? Best selling author Michael Fumento reports the following startling statistics.
In the Netherlands, which has a policy of legalized euthanasia, in 1990 alone there were 11,800 euthanasia deaths.
These accounted for 9% of the total deaths in the Netherlands that year.
In other words, nearly 1 out of every 10 people who died in the Netherlands in 1990 died by euthanasia, at the hands of a doctor, a nurse, or a family member.
Of these 11,800 deaths, some 5,491 were performed without the patient’s consent!
Are we as a Christian nation going to allow this to happen?
We are going to be powerless to stop it unless we see Life as a precious gift of God. Every single life is special. Every life is an act of the creative hand of God.
I drive a school bus here in Hall County. Recently I had a student come to me on the bus with tears streaming down his face and tell me his mom said he was a mistake.
I told that young boy that God loved him and had a plan and a purpose for his life.
This is a prime example of the thought process that so Americas have today regarding life. Sadly many Americans who call themselves Christians hold the same view, by there actions or lack thereof in regards to abortion.
If we are ever going to stop the holocaust of abortion, and the coming onslaught of euthanasia, in this country the attitude of devalued human life must change.
It is time that the American people demand a human life amendment to the Constitution. We must protect the life of the unborn, elderly, sick and the mentally ill.
If we fail to do this we are all endanger from an out of control federal government.
It is time that we let the voice of the aborted cry out from the grave stop the holocaust. I rest assured of one thing the millions of aborted babies are sitting at the feet of Jesus in heaven today!
Waiting For The Shout!
Rev John Spinks