So the media is all aflutter lately about the devastating practice of ultrasound screening to check the sex of the baby. In many cultures, girls are deemed inferior to boys, and the result of many screenings is the forced miscarriage (read: abortion) of the baby girl. If a woman is found to be pregnant with the fairer sex, they are often subjected to beatings, verbal abuse and even divorce and abandonment.
I'm perplexed as to why these newscasts are condemning this screening practice. What did they think would happen when they were proponents of the earlier movement of women's freedom to choose? Had they never heard of the argument used by those hoping to keep pre-born babies safe...namely "the slippery slope"? It goes like this: If you make abortion legal for very specific medical reasons, it will ultimately lead to choosing abortion for illegitimate, selfish reasons. And now we see our medical system being used to dispose of little girls, cuz they're worthless compared to their masculine counterparts. Anybody with a brain of foresight saw that this would be the natural outcome of allowing abortion to be a "right".
And consider this. Media has also been a vehicle by which our society continues to see unborn children as not yet human. So why now? Why are they up in arms about the frequent outcome of these ultrasound screenings when they continue to air conversations refusing to name these little ones as babies? Have we as a society reached a low too low for even the secular media, by allowing abortion simply because the child isn't the right gender? Is this a turn in the tide? Will those who bring their babies to term and give them up for adoption finally be praised rather than ridiculed and mocked?
Women's advocacy groups should be up in arms. Oh, wait. They're the ones who've pushed to give women the right to choose to abort little girls. Just cuz they're little girls. Doesn't make sense to me that now they're concerned about the low value given to unborn girls. Just doesn't make sense. And I'm praying it'll make our nation think. Hard.
Oh, and a little something for you cowardly men who abuse these dear ladies who carry your child...the fact that you have an unborn daughter, rather than a son, is your problem, not your wife's. It's your sperm that washes this little one and determines he will be boy. Chew on that for a while.
Usually, I'm not learning anything high-falutin'. It's the simple things that make life extraordinary...an aura of thanksgiving, the indescribable warmth of a faithful husbands'embrace, the rhythmic breath-sounds of a longed-for baby. God is good. Jesus is real. And my life is evidence of that--even on the tough days. As a follower of Jesus Christ, a wife and mother, and the wife of a pastor, I am honoured to share what God is doing in my life, to His glory.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
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