Choice on Earth: Which Way We Fly is Hell
December 01, 2004
Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
In the Netherlands, where elective euthanasia is legal for “adult patients suffering great pain with no hope of relief,” the main medical association is pushing for the right of doctors to kill “terminally ill people ‘with no free will,’ including children, the severely mentally retarded, and people left in an irreversible coma after an accident. … The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital’s guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities.” Read the whole AP news story here… but don’t be fooled by their poll data concerning public opinion on Roe v. Wade and potential Supreme Court nominees. The Associated Press told people who took this survey that Roe v. Wade made abortion legal just in the first three months of pregnancy–a complete falsehood. National Right to Life responds to other media distortions.
Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion Christmas cards are ready to offend again. Father Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, says “For years now, the pro-abortion forces have realized that they will lose touch with the American public unless they start presenting abortion in the envelope of moral and even religious language. Hence they speak more and more of a choice ‘between a woman and her God.’”
Responses to Jemila Monroe, apologizer (on behalf of less godly, pitiless Christians) to Planned Parenthood, by Dawn Eden, Touchstone Magazine’s Mere Comments blog, and yours truly have been collected here by Andy Vogel, a former Messiah College classmate of Monroe’s. (More responses here, here, and here.) Ms. Monroe (among others) has replied to my remarks in the comments on Vogel’s blog; others appear here. A second classmate who was in Monroe’s bioethics class (where some hateful person declared “abortion is murder”) commends Monroe thusly:
“I praise Jamila for her willingness to stand up and speak her mind. It takes great conviction to follow your heart on a whim and I think that if it didn’t affect a whole community or city, even that one person who heard the message of grace and love had a better day because of that moment with Jamila’s family. As encouraged I am that Jamila stood up, I do think that there is some sterotypical thoughts on issues such as abortion, among many others, that deserve a closer look by the Christian community. Everyone shouled remember to take a closer look before your judgement is spoken or expressed next time. Have a great day!”
Another problem for another day.
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