Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a new abortion law entitled ‘Reproductive Health Act.’ According to the Associated Press Reports, the new law “safeguards rights laid out in Roe v. Wade and other court rulings, including a provision permitting late-term abortions when a woman’s health is endangered.” According to the New York State Department of Health, 285,127 induced abortions occurred in the state between 2012 and 2014. The average number of live births for the same three years was 237,499.
Let’s take a moment to further prove to ourselves that society is not evolving towards a higher plateau, but actually imploding on itself. The feminist movement, in its practical reality, is treating women like men and eliminating the gender construct entirely. Our solution to racism is to enact more racist policies. You don’t see what I mean? If the most important factor to an employer in choosing whether to hire or not to hire a candidate was their race, you would say that’s racism correct? Well, you’ve just described minority hiring programs as racist. The same holds true for our solutions to sexism. We describe abortion (the act of killing an unborn person, whether in your mind the person is not yet a baby or is a baby) as “reproductive health.” On a medical scale of unhealthy things, sugar consumption, smoking, and lack of exercise are things we’ve all heard about from Drs, but I’m guessing that every Dr. would probably say death is even more unhealthy. The definition of reproduction is, “the production of offspring by a sexual or asexual process.” So, categorizing abortion as part of reproductive health sounds a bit absurd right? Eliminating the production of what you’re attempting to reproduce sounds a bit….counterproductive no? But absurdity is our standard operating procedure in the West.
Abortion is the modern version of something that’s been common throughout human history – infanticide. You can read some brief details about infanticidal history here: https://www.wikigender.org/wiki/history-of-infanticide/
For my purposes, I’ve highlighted some things to note.
The Greeks and Romans –
The Greeks considered infanticide barbaric, but instead of outright killing their babies, they practiced exposure [3]. Exposure would be just leaving the child.it was not considered murder because a passerby or a God could take pity on the child and save it [4].
In Rome, exposure was common, in a letter from a man to his wife during 1 BC he says:
“I am still in Alexandria. … I beg and plead with you to take care of our little child, and as soon as we receive wages, I will send them to you. In the meantime, if (good fortune to you!) you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, expose it.” [5]
Another option would be to take the child to the family patriarch and they would decide whether the child should be killed or left to exposure. Usually babies with birth defects were killed. By 374 AD infanticide was illegal in Rome, but offenders were rarely ever prosecuted.[6]
Pagan European Tribes –
German tribes also practiced a similar exposure to unwanted children. Many were left in the forest without food….this was especially common for children born out of wedlock. [7]Child sacrifice was common among the Gauls, Celts, and Irish. “They would kill their piteous wretched offspring with much wailing and peril, to pour their blood around Crom Cruaich”, a deity of pre-Christian Ireland [9]
In Japan –
Infanticide was called “mabiki” which means to pull plants from an overcrowded garden. Mabiki was still practiced in the 19th and early 20th centuries. [15]
In India –
Female Infanticide was common in India . Parents often threw their children into the Ganges River as a sacrificial offering. This practice could not be stopped until the early 19th century. [6
In Africa –
Children were killed if they were believed to have brought bad luck. So more often than no, twins were murdered because they were considered to be bad omens. Also if a parent died during childbirth, the baby would be buried alive. [6]
In China –
Marco Polo wrote about seeing many babies exposed in Mani [11]. Sex selective infanticide was common in China . Han Fei Tzu, a Chinese philosopher in the 3rd century BC wrote that
“As to children, a father and mother when they produce a boy congratulate one another, but when they produce a girl they put it to death”[12] .
Many Chinese tribes practiced infanticide by putting the baby into a bucked of cold water, called “baby water” [13] .
The 2006 edition of a book by two prominent historians stated that even by now, in China, infanticide seemed more likely for a girl than a boy.[14]
If you go back in history beyond the Greeks and Romans, you read practices of infanticide among Persian, Egyptian, Jewish, Canaanite, and other ancient civilizations as well. What galvanized the world’s population to consider these practices as barbaric? It wasn’t a what, it was a who, and the who’s name was Jesus. In the same history of infanticide, the author says this about Christians.
”Christianity abhorred infanticide. In Apostles it was written, “You shall not kill that which is born” [8]. In 318 AD Constantine I felt that infanticide was a crime. In 374 AD Valentinian stated that people must rear all children. The Council of Constantinople issued that infanticide was murder and in 589 AD the Third Council of Toledo worked on ending the Spanish custom of killing their children [6].”
History doesn’t portray people as trending upward towards higher states of moral, social, and political constructs. History reveals mankind trends towards animalistic behavior such as cannibalism and infanticide. The person who elevated our moral, social, and political constructs was not a revolutionary. He didn’t lead transformation of society, he preached transformation of the individual spirit. He was described as “meek and lowly of heart.” He was executed as a criminal, but according to historical evidence, he lived again. And wherever his followers went throughout the world, they brought about dramatic change in morality and society. Not through hostile takeovers, but by gentle love. Constantine and members of the Roman church may have used Jesus’ teaching for their own selfish purposes, but there’s no denying the historical effect that the teaching of Jesus had on each new location it was proclaimed. So, why do I say things are not going to get better? Isn’t it obvious that the West has turned it’s back on the one man who undeniably made things better? The next logical step after abortion is that we allow parents to kill babies after they’ve been born. This won’t be a new thing, it’s as old as time. The only hope for our society is to acknowledge our evil, ask for forgiveness, and as John the Baptist said, “Bare fruits in keeping with repentance.” Consider this commentary made by Malcolm Muggeridge on his observations of Western society through WWII into the modern years.
“So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over–a weary, battered old brontosaurus–and became extinct.”
Jesus asked us this all-important and very logical question during his life – “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?”
Do you know where you came from? Do you know why you’re here? Do you know what is truly right and wrong? And do you know where you are going? Jesus has answers to these questions that will satisfy your spirit. He is our only hope to transform our society once again, and he works through you and me.
Surrender the hunger to say you must know
And the courage to say I believe
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see
So we follow God’s own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable
Come be a fool as well
Michael Card – God’s Own Fool
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