Family News in Focus reports a disturbing new trend in eastern European countries – using injections derived from the cells of aborted fetuses for women’s beauty treatments. Even more distressingly, young girls are actually being paid to sacrifice their unborn children for this scheme: “In countries like Georgia and Ukraine, young girls are being used as incubators for the babies whose cells will be harvested. About the 12th week, the baby is aborted and the fetal cells sold to cosmetic clinics. The girls earn about $200 for their trouble.”
Is there any lower point on the slippery slope to moral debauchery than offering girls cash to give up their unborn children to be butchered in order to create beauty treatments? The injustice of such horrendous filth should touch the conscience of every human being on the face of this planet, yet the Left is strangely silent. Liberalism cannot afford to ascribe even the slightest hint of value to unborn human life without destroying the underpinning of their entire pro-abortion philosophy – that a fetus is a mere blob of cells, belonging to the mother, able to be disposed of at will. The developing malignancy of the pro-abortion abortion crowd worldwide just goes to show how seared their collective consciences have become.
With stem cells, abortion, or any other decision involving human life, the question should not be what is most pragmatic or beneficial, but what is moral and ethical. Nazi hatchet man Dr. Josef Mengele of the Auschwitz concentration camp was notorious for conducting experimentation on human subjects, experiments that could easily be classified as “scientific.” Does a liberal exist that would justify such atrocities against human life as those committed by the Nazis? Yet when it comes to the most innocent among us – the unborn – there are no holds barred. Liberals argue that it is far more important to benefit currently living human beings than to foster a value for unborn life. Is this ethic really any different that the philosophy espoused by Nazism? In the case of Hitler’s attitude, one race was more highly valued than another; in contemporary liberalism’s viewpoint, less developed human beings are the Nazi equivalent of Jews and Slavs – an inferior class of human being that may be experimented on or exterminated without moral qualm.
When it comes to the sanctity of human life, Psalm 139:13-16 is particularly encouraging: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
What a remarkable divergence there is between the Judeo-Christian view of innocent human life and the view of abortion advocates.