Horrendous arguments don’t usually begin in the public eye. They begin in smaller circles, between very smart people. And then one day we begin to see the actual results.
Let’s take infanticide.
1973:
“Of 299 consecutive deaths occurring in a special-care nursery, 43 (14 per cent) were related to withholding treatment.” Duff and Campbell, New England Journal of Medicine, October 1973.
1983:
“Where is the line to be drawn in the case of infanticide? This is not really a troubling question since there is no serious need to know the exact point at which a human infant acquires a right to life.” Tooley, In Defense of Abortion and Infanticide, p. 133.
1985:
“Decisions about severely handicapped infants should not be based on the idea that all human life is of equal value, nor on any other version of the sanctity of human life.” Kuhse and Singer, Should the Baby Live, p. 172.
2004:
“The Groningen Protocol was developed in order to assist with the decision making process when considering actively ending the life of a newborn, by providing the information required to assess the situation within a legal and medical framework.” Wikipedia
“According to A.A.E. Verhagen, who launched the initiative (Groningen Protocol): ‘It’s time to be honest about the unbearable suffering endured by newborns with no hope of a future. All over the world doctors end lives discretely out of compassion, without any kind of regulation. Worldwide, the US included, many deaths among newborns are based on end of life decisions, after physicians reached the conclusion that there was no quality of life. This is happening more and more frequently.’
2011:
“When labor was induced and a baby was born, Dr. Gosnell would kill it by cutting into its neck and severing its spinal cord in a process he referred to as ‘snipping.'” New York Times, January 19, 2011.
A final word from Dr. Grace Vuoto, Executive Director of the Edmund Burke Institute for American Renewal:
“There is nothing merciful about mercy killing: it is just another glorified way for the young and strong to discard those who are inconvenient. America is on the path to a war of all against all, as parents devour their children before they are born and children devour their parents as they are dying.”
The Works of God 
I read this while feeling my sweet baby boy, due to be born on Thursday (March 3), squirming around in my quite swollen belly. The thought that a life which means infinitely more than my husband or I could ever express, and then even more infinitely so to the Father God who created my son in His image, could be so easily discarded as having no worth puts an ache in my heart that I could never put into words. The Holy Spirit understands my heart’s groaning cries for the babies who are viewed in this way and whose lives are foolishly and recklessly taken.
Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do; if Jesus’ blood does not cover these people I fear their eternal suffering under wrath will be particularly horrific.
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