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Bible Prophecy - Part III

The Devaluation of Life:

On March 6, 1860, presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln said:

"What we want, and all we want, is to have with us the men who think slavery is wrong. But those who say they hate slavery, and are opposed to it, but yet act with the Democratic Party - where are they? Let us apply a few tests. You say you think slavery is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to restrain it. Is there anything else you think is wrong you are not willing to deal with as wrong? Why are you so careful, so tender of this one and no other? You will not let us do a single thing as if it was wrong! We must not call it wrong in the Slave States because it is there; we must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into the Tract Society or the other societies, because those are unsuitable places, and there is no single place, according to you, where this wrong thing can properly be called wrong."

Now, substitute the word “abortion” and/or homosexuality for the word "slavery" and we have the debate raging today.

Here is what Bill Clinton, who claims to be a Christian, had to say:

“I think there are too many abortions in America. I think there should be much more adoption in America. But I do not believe that it is self evident from the Bible that all abortions are murder.”

(President Bill Clinton, ABC Interview by Peggy Wehmeyer, "American Agenda", March 22, 1994.)

The same thing is being taught about homosexuality, even inside churches.

Bill Clinton ended the gag rule that restricted abortion counseling in federally funded clinics. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala suspended the 1988 Reagan regulations on Title X. In revoking this regulation, Clinton directed that 4,000 federally funded family planning clinics counsel all pregnant women and minors regarding abortion as a "pregnancy management option," that is, as a method of birth control.

There is now a new and morally repulsive legal theory spreading among abortion enthusiasts — abortion as self-defense. This theory, reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, acknowledges the humanity of the unborn child but sees the prenatal life as an intruder to be eliminated. In her new book, Breaking Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent, Eileen McDonagh uses this chilling argument: "Even in a medically normal pregnancy, the fetus massively intrudes on a woman's body and expropriates her liberty. If the woman does not consent to this transformation and use of her body, the fetus's imposition constitutes injuries sufficient to justify the use of deadly force to stop it." She is advocating a coldly, calculated form of "justifiable homicide."

Once you start taking the lives of the unborn, the sanctity of life goes right out the window. The next class of people to lose their rights would be the elderly and the infirm. The same court system that established a constitutional right for a woman to kill her unborn child is now saying there is a constitutional right for a doctor to assist in killing a patient. Two federal courts have recently ruled in favor of a constitutional "right" to doctor assisted suicide.

A person who doesn't value the unborn and have concern for their lives most likely won't stand up for other dependent members of society, such as the elderly infirm, the disabled and the mentally challenged. The New World Order advocates have instituted a lock-step, litmus-test, gag-rule party, of which the Democrats have enthusiastically become members of. They have been intolerant of those who hold the pro-life view. The new intolerance will not abide doubt or dissent -- it claims it stands for freedom of choice, but it stifles freedom of speech. And so a movement that began by saying 'let every person decide' has ended up by silencing anyone who disagrees.

The Clinton White House clamped down on abortion protesters, with the President signing legislation that makes blocking a clinic a federal offense. The Freedom of Access to Abortion Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) passed in late 1993. "The scope of FACE is so broad that it makes no distinction between violent and non-violent protesters, and, simply because they are pro-life, subjects them to the same harsh penalties," stated Elizabeth Law, director of government relations for the Family Research Council. The law limits First Amendment rights based on political beliefs. Praying, sidewalk counseling, picketing-- any activity construed as blocking clinic sidewalks or driveways-- is strictly prohibited for anyone with a pro-life viewpoint. In theory, this legislation prevents acts of violence at abortion clinics, but in actuality, it hinders free speech rights for a single group of people -- pro-lifers.

In Feb. 1997, Ron Fitzsimmons, a leader of the pro-abortion movement and Executive Director of America's National Coalition of Abortion Providers, admitted he had "lied through my teeth" in the ABC "Nightline" program in November 1995 about both the number of and the main reason for partial birth abortions. He now says there are far more partial birth abortions performed than was previously acknowledged, and on healthy women bearing healthy fetuses. It was Fitzsimmons' statistics which claimed only about 500 such abortions, which were cited by President Clinton when he vetoed the ban on partial birth abortions.

Once a government begins to define life and humanity, there is no end to the possibilities for subjective and selective determination as to who will be allowed to live.

At one time, blacks were not recognized as human beings. This was the rationale behind the slave trade that brought black Africans to the United States. They were transported in slave ships that held them confined in the same manner that livestock is confined when shipped to the slaughter houses. In Nazi Germany, only the Aryan race was considered human, and we know the consequences of that thinking. The treatment of Jews and other non-Aryans was similar to that of animals. And the Nazi genetic experiments remain a source for horror stories to this day.

NEXT WEEK:

The Devaluation of Life: Part C

“Abouna” Gregori