“House of Horrors?” Country of Horrors?

Maddi Gillel

By now you’ve read about Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his Philadelphia abortion clinic also known as the “house of horrors.” It is exactly that.  I’ve heard bits and pieces of the case and don’t want to hear anymore; it’s too heartbreaking and disturbing.

Gosnell has committed extraordinary atrocities and hopefully will never be allowed to harm another woman or child.  But the bulk of abortion doctors are performing a legal ‘medical’ procedure. They are doing what the ‘mother’ asks and pays them to do, and what our society allows them to do! Nevertheless, where are their hearts/did they ever have one?

So, we’ve talked about the doctors. Number two on the list are the women who request this procedure. I have no sympathy or tolerance for women who do this.  Do they not know what causes pregnancy? With all the birth control so available in our society, there isn’t any excuse for abortion!  Do these women have no moral code in their heart/mind/life that tells them that pre-marital/extra-marital sex are wrong and that ending their unborn child’s life is not the way out of their predicament?  Last but not least – where are these women’s hearts?  How can they allow a tiny helpless baby to be killed – inside their uterus, OR outside!?  Where is their tenderness, sympathy, their motherly intuition? Can they feel any emotion at all?

Now, third on the list is our society.  I would venture to say that if we think nothing of killing the smallest and most helpless in our society – the sky is the limit.  Then we have no sympathy or tenderness for old people, the maimed, physically or mentally impaired, how about minority groups?  By the way, Planned Parenthood’s founder stated that the program’s purpose was to get rid of and prevent the birth of the undesirables in our society.  Planned Parenthood performs the most abortions per capita on women of minority groups with African Americans at the top of the list. You do the math and draw your own conclusions.

Remember Nazi Germany. They started out exterminating the Jews, the mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, and moved on to religious groups.  Evil usually begins small, and then, incrementally and insidiously, takes over: Nazi Germany and WWII.

The actress Ashley Judd and her batty views have been in the news lately. God is ambiguous to her and she believes it is abominable to “breed.”  She’s white and beautiful.  She would be the last in Nazi Germany to have been given any grief.

This is the state of many in our society today: heartless, Godless, narcissistic, unsympathetic, past feeling.

So, who should really be on trial in the above case?  The mother?  Probably. The Doctor? For sure.  Our society? Absolutely.

Shame on us.

 

Auschwitz, Abortion and Connecticut

Gordon Jones

This past summer my wife and I had the opportunity of traveling through much of Europe. We saw many cities, churches and museums. Of all that we saw, our visit to Auschwitz made the deepest impression. To walk on the grounds where millions of men, women and children were murdered and tortured was an overpowering experience. Their blood and suffering have consecrated those grounds and anyone who walks those paths can feel a small portion of the pain and anguish of those poor souls who were so unfairly hated and killed. There was not pretext that this was just punishment. This had nothing to do with what they did, it was simply who they were.

It was Dr. Mengele who watched the prisoners get off the train and to each he would signal the officers either a thumb up or a thumb down. The thumbs down meant they went immediately to the gas chamber. The others went to the camp where they were slowly starved and worked to death. It was here and at the nearby camp of Birkenau that Dr. Mengele conducted his horrific experiments involving the torture of twins among other atrocities. While listening to his cruel and perverse experiments I was deeply troubled to hear of one story in particular.   After visiting the children’s block Mengele drew an arbitrary line on the wall. He then instructed the guards to go through the camp and any infants and children who were shorter than the line were taken immediately to gas chamber. More than five hundred children were killed as a result.

The evil that took place at Auschwitz haunts me still because of the cruelty and the random torture and murder of the innocent children is such a painful thought. As I pondered these horrific images it began to dawn on me that I own a portion of guilt for the murder of innocent children. It became much more real to me that we, as a society, have drawn an arbitrary line on the wall and have killed millions of innocent children because they were less than 22 weeks old. We are killing more than one million babies a year. We are making the atrocities of Dr. Mengele look small by comparison.

I cannot escape the guilt that I am part of the society that not only tolerates these atrocities, but encourages it in many ways. I feel a great empathy with Lincoln’s words at his second inaugural address where he placed equal blame for the sin of slavery on the North who had been complicit in the slave trade until a few decades before the Civil war. He viewed the war was just punishment to both the North and the South for those sins. In reality, we find our country in wars and with atrocities on all sides. How is it possible that the massacre of 20 innocent children in Connecticut could bring the entire nation to their feet while the killing three thousand children every day with the surgeon’s blade goes completely unnoticed?

“Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man (or nation) by whom the offense cometh.” –“we shall suppose that American slavery (abortion) is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God,– He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war (atrocities) as the woe due to those by whom the offense came.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war (abortion) and senseless killings may speedily pass away.”  -Abraham Lincoln

 

Reader Poll: “Women: Would you consider being a surrogate mother for an adult child or other family member?”

Here’s the question we asked UFI readers:

“Women: Would you consider being a surrogate mother for an adult child or other family member?”

Here’s how readers responded:

16 percent       “Yes”

65 percent       “No Way”

19 percent       “Uncertain”

This question was asked in the quake of a slate of news reports of women being surrogate moms for their own children or other family members.  In other words, some of these women carried their own grandchildren to term.  (You can see some of those stories linked below.)  Based on the poll response, it appears that the vast majority of our female readers had no interest in that. 

We should probably clarify that there is a difference between being a “gestational carrier” (the pregnant woman’s egg was not used) and a “surrogate mother” where the pregnant woman contributed her own egg.  Perhaps that understanding would have made a difference in the response.

Artificial Reproductive Technology (ART) including In vitro Fertilization (IVF) is fraught with many ethical questions.  ART has been used over the decades to bring children to married couples who were unable to have their own children – a wonderful thing.  They have also been used to rob children of both a mother and a father – as is the case when homosexual couples and single moms utilized the technology.  These technologies have also paved the path for indiscriminate destruction of human embryos.

Click Here and scroll to the bottom of the page to cast your vote on our current poll question!

Woman delivers grandchild after daughter’s fight with cervical cancer

Woman gives birth to her own grandchildren

Carrying these babies for my brother

 

 

Reader Poll: “Do people have the right to sell a body part if they so choose?”

Here’s the question we asked UFI readers:

“Do people have the right to sell a body part if they so choose?”

Here’s how they responded:

22 Percent           “Yes “

57 Percent           “No”

21 Percent           “Not sure”

 This appears to be one of those questions that has caused a fairly large difference of opinion among our readers (usually the response is more unanimous one way or the other).  We asked this question because of a recent article discussing a flourishing European black market for organs.

“Vulnerable, desperately poor people are seeking to sell their kidneys, lungs, bone marrow or corneas, abetted by the Internet, unscrupulous organ traffickers and a global shortage of organs for transplantation,” states the news story.

Should people be allowed to, in effect, cannibalize their own bodies to pay the bills or even to take a better vacation next year?  Where does the notion of  “individual freedom” factor into this?  There are some who make the persuasive case that:

• The illegality of the organ trade business forces it underground and allows the criminal element to exploit the most vulnerable.
• There are already “many people who profit from transplants, including doctors, nurses, health care administrators, manufacturers of medical equipment, and so on.  The only party not allowed to profit is the one who endures the greatest pain and risk:  the organ donor.”
• There are many risky professions (professional fisherman, drilling rig operators, fireman, etc.) Yet there isn’t a ban on those folks risking life and limb to make money.

Because of the global shortage of organs available for transplant, many people die that otherwise might have been helped.  Is there not something a foot here where both parties might win for minimal risk on the part of the donor?  Or is this just another way that the poor are being exploited?

We at UFI have to admit that this is a thorny issue that will require much more reflection and study; thus we find ourselves in the “not sure” category.  What do you think?