Moral Outcry

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger whose infamous eugenics quest sought to use birth control and abortion to root out the poor and those not deemed intelligent enough, has an evil twin haunting the Ivy Leagues and seeking out only the top eggs of their brightest female students to make deposits into further the rich and more intelligent.

Stunned, I read this article, on the income women can make for donating eggs for everything from stem-cell research to helping other women have pregnancies with “good” genes.

Just as Planned Parenthood would have us believe that abortion is a simple medical procedure where women are not pressured into murder, so would those canvassing the American university system like us to believe that women selling eggs are making a simple choice for life. However, it’s really a step in Sanger’s vision to create a superior race made up only of what society sees as acceptable, as if society’s standards somehow usurp the heart of God.

While apparently there are industry standards on payments to women for egg donations, these guidelines are ignored daily, according to ads in newspapers in the Ivy League universities in the nation. According to the article:

“The guidelines state that payments of $5,000 or more above and beyond medical and related expenses ‘require justification’ and that payments above $10,000 ‘are not appropriate.’ Ads in newspapers at Harvard, Princeton and Yale promised $35,000 for donors, … while an ad placed on behalf of an anonymous couple in The Brown Daily Herald offered $50,000 for ‘an extraordinary egg donor.’”

Think about this. These sums are for college students, often the ones scrambling for money, trying to pay for tuition and books. Can you fathom the temptation of one who is not educated on issues of life and ethics?  While the guidelines also state that paying extra money for certain characteristics of donors is not allowed, the article also reported that “every 100-point difference in a university’s average SAT scores was correlated with an increase of more than $2,000 in the fees advertised for potential egg donors in the campus newspaper.”

One student’s response was both truthful and alarming:

“At first, it was totally shocking to me that people would target specifically what they were looking for, like religion, SAT score and hair color. But like anything else I was first exposed to at college, the shock wore off.” 

Like anything else she was exposed to at college? That may be the key right there.

Sadly, in our nation, the college culture has become a place for values to be broken down and desensitization to take its place at the head of the class. While these are ads in university papers, they fit the humanistic stance of the universities in the nation (newspapers are not required to take ads for things that go against their standards), universities are breeding grounds for thoughts that would, as the aforementioned student noted, break down common ideas of societal standards.

Indoctrinating students is the major of many professors and actually taught to up-and-coming professors. I know this because I took one of those classes. I was literally told in a required teaching colloquium for English professors to “tear down their beliefs.” We were to cause students to “question everything they had been raised to believe.” (I didn’t and got myself a one-way ticket out of up-an-coming professorship, by the way.) So this student’s comment strikes me moreso. It’s not an accident that it’s through the top schools in the nation such desensitizing is being nurtured. The best and brightest academically are being manipulated in the area of life and death; it’s the culture of college, but it’s not the culture of life. Turning life into dollars and cents does many things: it desensitizes those involved into thinking it’s a clinical decision, it devalues the person formed by God, and it exalts the spirit of mammon, making money of more value than anything else.

The battle for the sanctity of life is not just one against abortion, but one that pursues the value of all life, not on tiered levels dictated by someone in an abortion clinic or a fertility clinic.  

God has His opinion on both these types of practices:

“Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. (Ezekiel 22:13)

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