INFANTICIDE IS NOW LEGAL??

        I doubt that whoever first said “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile” could have imagined that American citizens would one day be trying - and succeeding - to make infanticide legal. There have always been some people in every culture capable of being so (confused, warped, misinformed, selfish - your choice) as to treat babies as disposable. But I didn’t think I’d live to see the day the governor of a state would want to make it happen.

        Yet last week we heard Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam join New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in explaining it’s proper and right to bear a child into the world, make it comfortable and then call a meeting to see if it should be allowed to live. Their actions prove once again, “The unthinkable becomes thinkable, then acceptable, and then preferable.” 

        As Georgi Boorman wrote today in The Federalist, “Where is this evil coming from and how do we stop it?” Her article answers her question well.

        Certainly, abortion and infanticide have been practiced in history, but not in America and certainly not among Christians. It’s bad enough that “enlightened thinkers” of the past - Cicero, Seneca, Aristotle, etc. - believed it proper to drown, kill or dispose of children deemed sickly, deformed or otherwise disposable. But some people of “progressive” states are now considering disposal of any newborn, no matter how normal, healthy or cute, as long as the mother and/or others think the child is inconvenient. Babies ought never be considered discardable trash.

        Judeo-Christian morality has tried to save us from this kind of evil. Up until the epic 1973 “Roe v. Wade” decision of SCOTUS, it succeeded well. But “Give them an inch…” is surely showing itself true in most states, especially New York and Virginia. Who will be next?

        Murder, the needless and selfish taking of human life, has always been forbidden in the Bible. “You shall not commit murder” (Matthew 19:18) has been and always will be  in the Ten Commandments. But after two millennia of laws enacted against it, are we now to think infanticide is okay? 

        It’s time for moral people to stand against those who would tell us this kind of murder is acceptable and preferable. It’s time for Christians to say, “Enough!”

Lord God, forgive us for letting this happen in our nation.

Rev. Bob Tasler, www.bobtasler.com