By Judie Brown
When you see a spider on the floor, or perhaps a rat in your garden, what do you do about it? Pests come and go because that is the way God designed the world. But would you ever consider birth control for rats instead of extermination?
This is not a silly question! You may have missed it, but a recent headline reads: “How to Get Rid of New York City Rats without Brutality? Birth Control Is One Idea.”
Key words: without brutality. One wonders how any thinking person could write such words about rats when human preborn babies are brutally killed with abandon throughout their young lives and no one gives a wit! Well, not enough people, to be sure.
Why is this? As Professor Edward Feser recently tweeted, “Liberalism has so rotted out minds that even many who are appalled by what happened in Paris frame it as a matter of offending people. No, it is about the evil of dishonoring God, and of undermining social and moral order, which requires being oriented to God above all.”
Reading this reminded me of words spoken by Jonathan Roumie, the Catholic actor who plays Jesus Christ on the television series The Chosen, during a talk at the Eucharist Congress in Philadelphia:
I understand the reality of what it is we believe and what that host represents, and what that bread and that wine, once the Holy Spirit comes down and changes them, what that actually means to us and who that actually is now that we are about to receive. And so know that every drop of blood and sweat and tears, and there were many tears going into these scenes, for many, many reasons, but the primary being that, look what we get to experience. Look what we get to receive in our lives, every day, at least every Sunday, hopefully more than every Sunday. Receiving the Eucharist, going to daily Mass for me has changed my life. The Eucharist for me is healing. The Eucharist for me is peace. The Eucharist for me is my grounding. The Eucharist for me is His heart within me.
To this I would add that the Eucharist is the gift that makes it possible for us to withstand the horrors of today’s vile culture where hell on earth exists in abortion offices, Planned Parenthood facilities, and among euthanasia advocacy organizations. Countless actions and words undermine the truth that differentiates you and me from the spiders and the rats.
It is true that man is of a higher species than animals and insects, but the question of why so many act out in ways similar to insects and animals begs a question. Why is that human beings, created in the image of God, involve themselves in words and actions immediately evident as wrong, despicable, evil, or worse?
The United States Congress is advocating for practices that separate us from the idea of the human person. Most recently the Democrat-sponsored Right to Contraception Act would have mainstreamed the foundation of hell on earth in ways not immediately apparent to most. Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser explained:
With this bill, the devil is in the details. It requires taxpayers to bail out profit-driven abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, where expectant mothers are sold abortions 97% of the time. It could even go so far as to create a “right” to abortion drugs. It’s clear the Democrats’ priority is not helping women, but helping the abortion lobby that spends millions to get them elected.
Meanwhile, according to LifeNews, the bill is a “‘Trojan horse’ for subjecting children to ‘transgender’ procedures.’”
My fellow pro-lifers, let us examine our nation’s moral compass. Human beings are endowed by God with free will. Choosing to exercise that will in an amoral vacuum is never going to end well! Consider this simple truth: If the city of New York is working to spare the rat population from brutality, why is it that human beings struggle so hard to brutally kill their children, maim their bodies, and eliminate their elders—all under the guise of choice?
This is hell on earth.
