Didn't Take Long To Come To This...

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.

Anti-bullying campaigns are useless...unless...

I'm tired of hearing about anti-bullying.

My 7-year-old came home the other day with his artwork about it. The words "no" and "stop" were key themes. I'm annoyed by the negative spin our kids are fed.

Where's the positive stuff? Where's the proactive teaching, rather than anti lessons. When have you last heard a conversation stressing pro-kind, pro-loving, pro-thoughtful, pro-helpful, pro-honest, pro-generous?

The bullies are getting all the attention. Why not spend our time and resources building up these hurting, lonely, neglected kids, instead of teaching others how to stay away from them? Their actions aren't the problem. It's the fighting, divorcing, money-hungry, I-wanna-buy-cigarettes-before-milk adults that need a lesson.

It's the media and some educators and parents that, without considering the ramifications, stuff evolutionism down kids' throats. "You're an accident, kid. Your existence is meaningless. And that body you're trying to understand? Well, it's just a cosmic gob of goo. Nothing special about you in the universe. You live. You die. Nobody cares. But go out and be nice to people because everyone deserves to be treated with respect."

If you're a nobody, you don't need respect. Might as well go out and tease others so you somehow feel better about yourself. And if you're the one getting teased? It's devastating how often a mind comes up with inconceivable ways to cope with the hurt.

But now, if there is a loving Creator that designed your amazing body...

If there is Someone Who knew His universe wouldn't be complete without your unique presence...

If you are so important to Him, that He knows all the days He's got planned for you, and wants to spend an eternity with you after your body releases it's last breath...

Now you have the tools to go out and treat people the way you want to be treated. The way you were designed to be treated. Treat others with kindness, thoughtfulness, honesty and generosity. And we'll teach your parents and authorities to do the same, cuz He loves them too. And if you're the one being bothered, you can stand against it, cuz you know the truth. The One who created you and loves you, was beaten and spit on and mocked and teased. And He was nailed to a Roman cross--vulgar and unfathomably painful. He did that so you wouldn't have to die. So you would know how much He loves you.

So much for needing an anti-bullying campaign.