Sanctity Of Life

Our society is two full generations down the path of devaluing life. Consider abortion, 60 million infant murders since 1973. That's Hitler times 10! Beyond the importance God Himself places on the lives He gave, these deaths have ripped 100 million or more people out of our society, considering the children that they were never allowed to have. The demographic implications of this are enormous. Policymakers refuse to consider the obvious fact that these distortions are hitting minority populations hard, since the abortion industry is a racist construct. But also troubling, we are an aging population with a declining birth rate. This condition places enormous burdens on the economy, healthcare, education, social services, retirement benefits, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the job market, tax and spend government policy, etc. Even policies involving immigration and trade are skewed because we have devolved in our respect for life. Child-bearing, marriage, family, fatherhood, and motherhood flourishes when optimism for the future is bright. Despair, doubt, and fear of the future has caused birthrates to plunge in the Western world. Many people fear they will not be able to provide for their own family, further depressing the birth rate in our culture.

Beyond infancy, our culture is stigmatizing numerous people demographics. Young men are being ostracized and discriminated against in college admissions. Soldiers are returning from war zones, with physical and mental injuries, to a country that ignores them. Middle age men 40-60 have seen an erosion in job market opportunities resulting in increased dependence on government benefits. So how is this a disrespect for life? Because the help we offer is welfare and opioids. That leads to depression, despair, suicide, and overdoses. This is one of the primary reasons that life expectancy has declined 3 consecutive years in the United States. We are over-regulating health care. It is becoming too expensive and out of reach for most people. And we have an opioid crisis that is exploding, with the contributing causes being obvious, illegal migration, Obamacare regulations, and the vast expansion of Medicaid. Most policymakers don't care. It really makes you ask, "who and how many people do they want to kill?" by their inaction.

And then let's consider the elderly. This erosion of life and dignity will force a moral showdown in the hearts of everyone eventually. Assisted suicide laws are proliferating. Healthcare regulations and insurance requirements may begin to require cost-benefit assessments on the elderly to determine if additional healthcare and its associated expense can be justified or should your loved one be sent home to die out of sight. Will we respect and honor our parents? Or will we extract what we can from them and then discard them as human debris? There is a growing socialist worldview that is pushing our society to the latter.

I pray God will give you wisdom to value life as the marvelous gift it is. Protect the unborn. Care for the newborn. Shepherd the little ones. Encourage youth to vitality of living through education, work, marriage, and family. Support the middle-aged when life hits hard and hurts. And reverence the elderly with dignity that affirms God's greatness.