by Laura Dodsworth, The Free Mind
How we lost respect for life, from birth to death and beyond.
Just when you think it can’t get worse, it does.
Each week brings another step into a culture that has stopped valuing human life. I have said before that we are living in a death cult, and the evidence keeps mounting. We no longer respect human life or cherish it, let alone any sense of its sanctity. I feel a grief deep in my bones. It is heartbreaking that we have reached this point.
Here are three examples, from birth and death to beyond.
First, abortion is now effectively decriminalised until full term. The horror is plain: a woman can abort a baby at any point, for any reason, right up to nine months, without fear of punishment. Now the SNP proposes that abortion on the basis of sex should be allowed. We know what that leads to — baby girls are aborted in cultures which prefer boys to girls. It has happened in India and China, where the resulting demographic imbalance has warped their societies. It is staggering to see supposed feminists argue that a woman’s right to abortion at any stage of the pregnancy for any reason is desirable, even though it will mean many baby girls not being born. When a culture that once valued the individual weakens, it is inevitably pushed aside by cultures that do not value the individual at all, but are strong through sheer force and will.
What next?