Moral Outcry

We hear often of the dangers of online games and internet addictions, but I never thought of it as a pro-life issue until I read this tragic story and realized how easily such actions could occur.

Three-month-old Kim Sa-rang died of malnutrition in September while her parents were engaged in 12-hour sessions of Prius Online. In the 3-D fantasy game, players nurture an online girl who gains magical powers as she grows.

While this seems isolated, I would argue that in our era, it’s probably not. Like car crashes, we only hear of the ones that are bad.  The Bible has much to say about the destructive power of imagination and fantasy. While it’s not talking about neglecting your children while playing video games, the signs of the times are clear. We are a people fascinated by entertainment, often to the detriment of truth. We like what tickles our ears and stirs our excitement. In this case, it’s cost a baby her life as the parents, ironically, raise a fake little girl on a computer screen.

I learned of the arrest of Rev. Mahoney for praying on public property just before I left for the evening. When I came back, my heavy heart was met with more comments than I have ever seen on a Bound4LIFE blog. At first I was excited. Christians were upset; we were going to stand. And there was some of that. But there were comments that implied we needed to be quiet, not cross lines to pray, not stand up publicly or we might not look like real Christians.

I certainly understand the desire to project the right image of Christianity. I honor that. We are supposed to epitomize love. Everything we do should be in a right spirit and with honor even to those who oppose us. But let me say this: Being loving does not mean laying down our swords. At no time did Jesus not speak when the laws of God were in violation. He spoke in love, but He spoke.

Most of us are familiar with Ezekiel 22:30, the verse is frequently quoted from pulpits and in prayer meetings. " God is looking for a man to stand in gap on behalf of the land, so He will not destroy it".

We hear that scripture and eagerly shake our heads in agreement. "Yes", we say, "We must stand in the gap, we must be faithful to pray".

Watching the video tape of Rev. Mahoney's recent arrest outside of a Planned Parenthood in D.C, brought this question to mind. What if the "gap" is sometimes more than a spiritual position before God, but literally a physical location, perhaps a tiny space of sidewalk, right in front of a chamber of death?

It is easy to get caught up in arguments about private and public space, property lines and boundaries. We can be so concerned about being " politically correct" and observant to the laws of the land, that we forget the true issue at hand.

We lose sight of what is occurring before our eyes. There are children being murdered daily in buildings throughout our nation. Behind closed doors, and fences, little children are having their lives sucked away. Do we understand the magnitude of this? If we did truly see it for what it was, I doubt we would get offended when a man desires to pray in front of a clinic, even if it costs him his liberty.

If there was a building in our town that was slaughtering toddlers, or massacring puppies, we would all be up in arms. There would be few arguments about space and lines. Activists would be lining around the block, protesting and demanding it's closing. The uproar would be loud and consistent, until the place closed down.

Tragedy in Pennsylvania:

A 30-year-old Polk Township man has been arrested for his role after a 13-year-old girl performed a self-induced abortion using a pencil. Michael James Lisk has been charged with rape and concealing the death of a child.

State police were alerted to the case on Sunday after staff at Lehigh Valley Hospital treated the girl, who said she conducted the "home abortion" on herself using a lead pencil last Wednesday.

She subsequently became violently ill and began having contractions before ultimately delivering a baby at her residence.

The girl had been in contact with Lisk while she was in labor, police said. Lisk allegedly arrived at the her residence and removed the baby in a plastic shopping bag, later burying it in a wooded area along Middle Creek Road.

The baby's body was later discovered by a state police forensic services unit.

During their investigation, police learned that Lisk had been having a sexual relationship with the girl since June 2009. The girl believed he was the father, according to police.
 

Did this young lady need help? Yes. Did she need options? Yes. The problem for pro-aborts is that they don't so much care that she killed her child, but that she did it herself thus inflicting injuries on herself. Folks, being more careful when killing your baby doesn't make it better or right.

Part V - America's Nuremberg

“Some research may, by necessity, involve deception.” This line doesn’t come from the villain’s secret lab in an old movie, rather it comes from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s (UTHSC-H) research handbook. The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) covers research that involves human participants. Institutions receiving federal funds must have an Internal Review Board (IRB) even for the non-funded research. As UTHSC-H’s link above explains, this review process has its origins in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg trials actually were a catalyst in ensuring that medical research was ethical; hence, the creation of the Nuremberg Code.