Unless you live under a rock, you have seen the horrifying
news and videos about abortion providers selling the organs, limbs and other
tissues of pre-born babies to labs for medical research. As believers, we are
heartbroken over this news. Psalm 139 tells us that we were knit together in
our mothers’ wombs, and that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. These tiny
babies are being ripped apart as their mothers’ hearts (whether they admit it
or not) break in agony over their decision. How our Lord must weep over these
things! As we grieve this tragic and horrific development, we can only imagine
how grieved our Creator must be.
What is the excuse these individuals give for their
egregious behavior? “Research.” Stem cells, fetal tissues, chorionic villi, and
whatever other bounty they are after, are all to be used for medical research. Their
reasoning goes something like this: If we can improve the lives of those who
are already born and suffering with MS, spinal cord injury, ALS, and countless
other diseases, and these babies are being aborted anyway, what is the harm in
harvesting whatever will help us improve the prognoses of individuals who are
already here?
While this argument may sound plausible on first hearing, we
as believers know that it is a lie from the pit of Hell. These tiny humans who
are being aborted are no less “already here” than the forty-year-old man with
ALS. The abortionists and researchers have made one terrible error in their
thinking: They have believed a lie about what constitutes life. Here is the
truth: Life begins at conception. Body and soul are joined together
at that moment, and when you take that life, whether at 6 weeks, 12 weeks, or
24 weeks, you have taken the life of a human being who is already here.
If you suffer from a genetic disorder, spinal cord injury,
or any other affliction from which these researchers hope to deliver you
through fetal tissue study, you may have thought twice about whether this type
of research is ok. As you suffer pain, disability, and the loss of so many things,
it is only natural to desire healing and relief. In moments of desperation, you
may have rationalized, as the abortionists do, that since this is being done anyway,
why not use the tissues to help people? Some have even invoked the Scripture,
“What Satan intends for evil, God can use for good,” (Genesis 50:20) to assuage their guilt
over giving their assent to these procedures.
But you should know that the research argument is what the abortionist
will use to comfort mothers who are agonizing over whether to have the abortion
in the first place. They are told that their baby’s tissue may one day save
many people from genetic disease, or bring about a cure for spinal cord
injuries. For some, this must be the tipping point in their decision.
But, my believing friend, this cannot be our rationale. The
abortionists have woven a web of lies, and many have fallen into it. It
will never be ok to murder one person for the betterment of another, even many
others, even others who are suffering terribly. In the economy of human life,
there is no fair trade. A human being is a human being, and until we as a
society wake up and embrace this truth, people will be murdered in the name of
research. The bodies of the tiniest, most vulnerable members of our society are
being carefully torn from their souls so that their liver tissue can be preserved
and sold to the highest bidder.
If you suffer from chronic disease or injury, you have a
unique opportunity to speak truth to those who ask you, “If research on aborted
fetal tissue could heal your disease, would you give your approval?” Your
answer must be a resounding, “NO! My life is no more precious than the person
whose life was taken for the research that might heal me or ease my pain. The
Creator and Sustainer of the universe, who created me and ordained my disease
will also comfort and strengthen me to endure it without killing anyone else to
make it better.”
My dear, suffering friends, you have an incredible
opportunity here. Speak the truth, and speak it loudly. Tell everyone you can
that you would never desire a cure that would require the horrors that we are
seeing today. Your testimony, as one who suffers from the very affliction they
use to defend this practice, could be a powerful tool for change.
Volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center, speak out on social media, and pray for
these precious babies and their moms. You have suffered, and God has heard your
prayers. You have begged Him to redeem your pain, to use it for His glory.
Perhaps He has brought you here for such a time as this.
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