By Judie Brown
The local squirrel donned his cowboy hat so adorable.
But then the animal authorities took his life, so horrible!
They feared Peanut might have rabies,
And unlike so many preborn babies,
This furry critter was mourned.
In a nation that can focus on an animal with all the compassion it can muster, one need not wonder why this same country shuns innocent human beings by the millions. There is something terribly wrong with such a scenario, and yet we are living it in America.
Just prior to Election Day, the International New York Times told readers that “Republicans shift message on abortion, sounding more like Democrats.” Such messaging is not only accurate, but it exposes the soft, dark underbelly of a political system that chooses to leave an entire class of human beings in their rhetorical trash heap. Unlike the favored animal status of Peanut the squirrel, the preborn—our own children—are increasingly unwelcome.
Saint Paul taught the Philippians, “Let your behavior be free of murmuring and complaining so that you remain faultless and pure, unspoilt children of God surrounded by a deceitful and underhand brood, shining out among them like bright stars in the world, proffering to it the Word of life.”
It is this particular set of words that is so desperately needed in a world that frowns on her children, condoning their deaths prior to birth, and often after birth or in old age.
In many respects, this nation has become a people living callous lives without regard to the consequences. Such a condition is not healed by an election, a televised speech, or any event remotely considered in our day to be a national focal point. Quite the contrary, people have grown cold to the truth about sinful acts because it is simply unpopular to be otherwise.
So into this malaise we offer an antidote. Like the words to the song “Popular” from Wicked, we know that growing closer to the source of Truth—the Lord Himself—each of us has the opportunity to become a source of blessing and inspiration to those who have yet to understand the dignity of the human person.
Politics and national debates aside, the truth is before every human being always and in many ways. But it seems far more difficult to find during a time when even public sources of health information have become fonts of folly.
Take the subject of contraception, for instance. A recent Healthline article reads, “Abortion ends a pregnancy, while contraception prevents pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Contraception may work by preventing fertilization or preventing implantation.”
In other words, according to one alleged healthcare website, ending the human being’s life prior to implantation is not abortion! And so go the lies.
There is never enough space or time, not to mention words, to delineate the multiple fabrications like this one that are spewed forth under the guise of reliable information. But one thing never fails to escape us: The truth never changes. Biology is real, and killing a human being is wrong.
Armed with simple truths like these, we carry on knowing that while squirrels may still be mourned in public, the babies, created in the image of God, will never be far from His care, His sorrow, or our persistence.
Never cease to defend all innocent and vulnerable human beings! Lives are depending on it.