The slippery slope ...

Someone on an adoption forum I visit regularly shared a news link and the following comment today:

"And now, out of China come heartbreaking reports of a large conspiracy to buy and sell children, some of whom were reportedly placed with foreigners adopting from government-run orphanages ..."

My response to her post was this:

Sadly, this is a tragic yet unavoidable outcome of China's one-child policy and the practice of abortion in that country. A child is a human being whether in its mother's womb or outside of it. Once the sanctity and safety of the womb has been violated and human life has been devalued in its beginning stage, it is inevitable that human life will lose its value at every stage of life. Our own country is the same way - though perhaps these tragedies do not hit the news here in stories of baby trafficking between orphanages but rather in mothers drowning their children, babies left for dead in trash cans and toilets, child pornography, rampant child abuse, and the list goes on.

One thing leads to another when we step outside of the safety of God's will. In at least one European country, it is now legal to kill a newborn baby in the case of defects or life-threatening illness. Of course, the devaluing of human life does not only affect children but it begins to affect every stage of life - take the elderly or the handicapped, for example. Euthanasia, stem cell research, Kavorkian, Terri Shiavo ... When did everything become so confusing and terrible? When we stopped protecting life in its infant stage, in the womb. It is a slippery slope into a dark abyss and things will only get worse if our world continues to operate in prideful rebellion towards God.