Endangered!

baby, prolife, pro-life, family, marriage

baby, prolife, pro-life, family, marriage

Endangered!

What is the difference between a housefly, an armored snail and an unborn baby? Answer: only one of these creatures is valued enough to be protected by law. That special status goes to the armored snail. It’s an honor shared by many (hundreds) of insects, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals and even plants listed by the Federal Government as “endangered species.”

Yet, when it comes to the resale value of parts, it is only the human baby that has value. The reason is that they are human. As the undercover videos have revealed, baby parts are a hot commodity—making extra money over and above the abortion fees. It is the very fact that they are human that makes their parts so valuable. Our culture is sick.

The A List
It’s tragic that the kangaroo rat and a variety of mice and bats rate higher than unborn humans. Never mind that only within our species are souls that will last forever. Pre-born human babies simply don’t make the A list.

The evil of such reality is felt in the depths of our beings. This thought crossed my mind the other day as a housefly breathed its last under my swatter. In some circles, the lives of unborn babies are of no more valued than this fly, I realized.

My fly-inspired thought gave me the idea to look at the list of those living things that our government actually does protect. Did you know that there are 22 different crustaceans, 57 insects (mostly beetles and butterflies), and 12 arachnids included on this list? Do any of you even care? Probably not. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for preserving life. We ought to be good stewards of all that God created.

We may even find a cure for cancer one day with one of the beetles. More likely, some of the plant life on the list (over 700 in the flowering plant category—much, much less for lichens and conifers) could be used to cure something. But the real source for cures will come from one that is not on the protection list. It will come through a human, regardless of the additional plant or animal matter involved in such a discovery. It will come from a human that was allowed the right to live and use God’s gifts for the good of humanity.

Answers to many of society’s ills have been vested in the minds of babies. Those with the opportunity to survive, will impact our world while the gifts of the others will be lost to us all. Call me sentimental, but I pick the baby over plants and critters every time.

Erring on the Side of Caution

As I scanned the lists, I was struck by two thoughts. One: how does anyone know which clams or arachnids are really endangered? Think about it. Hidden populations could be anywhere. Who searches out the nooks and crannies frequented by clams and arachnids and determines their numbers to be deficient? Same with lichens, frogs, snakes and mice… Even some of the larger creatures might not be as endangered as thought. For instance, a few years ago, researchers stumbled upon an estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas cleverly hidden in a swamp in equatorial Africa. This doubled the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.

Who decides which of the creatures—of which most of us have never seen or care to see–make the list? How can the scientists, biologists, and various friends of the planet know for sure that there aren’t colonies of the various species across the miles upon miles of uninhabited land that makes up the bulk of this planet? The answer is that they can’t be sure. If we can lose a hundred thousand gorillas, we can lose track of anything. But just to be on the safe side, some scientists have deemed an assortment of creatures and plants need to be protected—just in case.

Given their desire to error on the side of caution, this brings me to my second thought. Maybe someone should tell the wildlife enthusiasts that this philosophy is not all bad. As a matter of fact, it’s very good to error on the side of caution. So why not be consistent and extend it to include babies? Are unborn babies really alive? Do they possess an eternal soul? Can they feel anything in the womb? Does it matter to society whether they live or die? Well, if you happen to be a scientist who questions some of this, why not error on the side of caution just like you do with Monito gekos, cavesnails and Santa Cruz long-toed salamanders (not to be confused with the other 12 protected salamanders)?

When in doubt, protect it. Right? It hurts my brain, as I’m sure it does yours, that a person can face up to a $25,000 civil fine and $50,000 criminal fine, plus imprisonment, for knowingly violating the Endangered Species Protection Act. Yet, there are no penalties for ending the life of a baby before it has had a chance to be born.

The True Endangered Species
Given the viability of some human populations, perhaps the Endangered Species Act is an avenue we can use to preserve the lives of babies destined for abortions. For instance, take a look at Europe. A few years ago, the BBC did a 3-part report on Europe’s declining population. With a shrinking working population, Europe is discovering that dipping below replacement level does not bode well for society. One German minister recently warned of the country “turning the light out” if its birth rate did not pick up.

As reported in the BBC:
Many European countries already have policies in place – some more explicitly pro-natal than others.

Sweden, stressing gender equality rather than stating directly that it wants to boost birth rates, provides a mixed package of higher pay for women, flexible working for both parents and high quality childcare.

France, meanwhile, is positively proud of its avowed pro-natalism, providing a series of tax and cash incentives for those having babies.

Other countries have also started toying with the idea of straight payments. Poland, where the population has fallen by half a million in the last six years, has recently passed legislation that will see women paid for each child they bear.

In Italy, where the population could shrink by as much as one third by 2050, one town has started offering couples 10,000 euros for each newborn baby.

The point here is to keep the horror of abortion alive in each one of us; to never forget the devastating effects it has on us all. It is to clearly demonstrate the insanity of deeming pre-born human life outside the reaches of government protection. If a piece of lichen can be protected, we should be able to muster concern for babies. God created each tiny baby and we need them all.

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2 thoughts on “Endangered!”

  1. The decline of Europe began with that most useless and immoral WW I. When it ended, nihilism became the rule of the day and yet continues. I have no idea, short of Devine intervention, when or if, it will come back.

  2. The lights are going to be turned out in Europe, and it cannot be fixed. In a sense, it cannot be redeemed. Due to what they have done, what they have failed to do, nothing they can do now can turn their birth rates around. It is already too late. There will be demographic death of the cultures of the countries of Europe as we know them. And in many of them, Muslims will take over – not as refugees, but as legal citizens of each country. Those of the generations who had one or no children, who had therefore better cars, longer vacations at five star resorts, and designer clothes will die alone; and the countries of their births will be unrecognizable by 2100 CE – and I use CE because it will no longer be referred to as AD. The exquisite stone church I saw in Dundee, Scotland that is now a pizza restaurant with a neon “Take Away” sign is a silent but eloquent harbinger of what the grandeur of Christendom will become. Guy McClung, San Antonio, Texas

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