By Judie Brown
The roar of messages defying God’s law is palpable in every nook and cranny of American culture. It is quite literally an orchestra of discord playing to the crowd day after day.
Over the years, pro-lifers have moved from exposing the moral wrongs of contraception to the heinous nature of directly aborting a baby to all manner of lethal ways to eliminate the lives of human beings.
This situation beckons us to return to basic truths. This is the only way to turn the corner.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI wrote in Humanae Vitae, “The question of human procreation, like every other question which touches human life, involves more than the limited aspects specific to such disciplines as biology, psychology, demography or sociology. It is the whole man and the whole mission to which he is called that must be considered: both its natural, earthly aspects and its supernatural, eternal aspects.”
It is the whole man who has succumbed to the whims of modern thinking. Due to the highly pressurized quest to control birth, eliminate the perceived unwanted, and deny the right to life of the aging, truth is replaced by the rhetoric of government policies and bizarre ideas.
According to one study addressing the facts of abortion, “As of February 2025, surgical and/or drug-induced abortions were performed at 777 brick-and-mortar centers across America, while mail-order, drug-induced abortions were accessible through 142 different U.S.-based organizations or centers, and 8 websites or organizations operating outside the formal U.S. health care system.”
Clearly, killing the innocent by reframing the reality of abortion is a big business, and it is not the only income-based practice in the nation. The practice of in vitro fertilization eliminates human embryonic persons at a rate far greater than the alleged successes. But again, it is the public miseducation created by false messaging that drives an industry that cannot bring itself to define a human embryo as a human being!
Given these facts, it is not at all surprising that every day people hear about assisted dying and rarely challenge the exact meaning behind these words. The primary question should be, Since every one of us is going to die at some point, why are some suggesting that we need assistance? The reason, of course, is that by hastening someone’s death through morbid practices, such groups and individuals claim to be providing a humane service.
Putting down pets is acceptable, the thinking goes, so why not people as well?
George Weigel explains, “Misconstrued and then distorted by being detached from reason and biblical morality, compassion becomes an agent of the ‘culture of death.’” Indeed, the culture of death is a framework in which every person is objectified while nobody is appreciated for the intrinsic value God has placed in the creation of each and every human being.
This cacophony of voices clamoring for the elimination of lives deemed unworthy to be lived should shock us to the core. Lest we forget, the last time the world heard those words, they foreshadowed the atrocities that history has recorded as the German holocaust.
Language has been used from time immemorial as the vehicle for creating a smokescreen so that nobody would realize that assaults on innocent human persons are the goal. This is why pregnancy is treated like a disease. This is why couples refuse to rely on the will of God and instead seek other means for having children, including surrogacy, IVF, and other reproductive technologies. And it’s why families view seniors and disabled relatives as people who would be more conveniently taken care of through death rather than with unselfish love.
The cacophony of voices is deadly, and we must never stop working to silence it.