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Who Determines Who’s Worthy of Life?
By GuyEWood
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The Last Children of Down Syndrome: Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
“Suddenly, a new power was thrust into the hands of ordinary people — the power to decide what kind of life is worth bringing into the world.”
Sadly, prospective parents are choosing death over life. In Denmark, some 95 percent of prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome end in abortion.
As Albert Mohler notes in The Briefing, the selective killing of babies based on diagnoses of Down syndrome is similar to the proverbial canary in the coal mine in that it presages a time in which babies are aborted for any number of reasons for which they are deemed unfit for life.
“Think about it this way, Karl Emil’s sister, Ann Katrine, said: ‘If you handed any expecting parent a whole list of everything their child could possibly encounter during their entire life span — illnesses and stuff like that — then anyone would be scared.’
‘Nobody would have a baby,’ Grete said.”
Pray for life and consider how you can become involved as a voice for those who have no voice.
Filed Under: Abortion, Blog, Pro-Life Tagged With: abortion, down syndrome, pro-life
