Valuing life: abortion is just the tip of the iceberg
by Paul Huxley, Christian Concern:
“Some lives aren’t worth living”.
That’s the claim behind the campaign for assisted suicide and euthanasia. They want our country to pass laws that allow doctors to help end patients’ lives.
This is likely to be a big issue in the next five years of parliament. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said he wants the law to change and has pledged to give parliamentary time to a bill if he becomes Prime Minister.
The campaigners say they only want euthanasia under certain conditions. The patient has to consent. They have to be terminally ill, with only six months left to live.
In their minds – those lives aren’t worth living.
But this attitude goes far beyond assisted suicide.
Judges in our legal system frequently rule that it’s in the “best interests” of patients in critical conditions to die – meaning that further treatment to preserve must be stopped by force. The logic? “This life isn’t worth living”.
People arguing for abortion ask if children should be forced to grow up with parents who didn’t want them. They think their lives are not worth living.
It’s not only about so-called moral issues. When you dig deeper, you realise that this devaluing of human life is not a peripheral issue, of interest only to Christians, but it underlies a host of the biggest problems our society faces.
This attitude says that human life has no inherent value. There is no recognition that life might have purpose. There is no assumption that life is good, or preferable to death.
It is the outworking of atheism. Of a scientific materialism that claims that everything in existence is the chance result of a Big Bang and 13.8 billion years of waiting around. If we’re all a cocktail of chemicals, motion in matter, why would a living combination of atoms be better than a dead one?
This valueless, meaningless worldview is shown obviously on these so-called ‘moral issues’. Unborn babies are branded ‘just a clump of cells’ as if it makes them disposable.
But this is just the tip of an even bigger iceberg that remains hidden.
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