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We
live on a planet that has lost its collective mind. One supposes we
could say this started in the United States, where all such confusion
usually originates. The reason for this is obvious because, when America
lost her moral compass years ago, she began exporting her pain without apology.
The
star performer in this milieu of pain and death is Planned Parenthood.
And its antics help us see the sad reality of how this discombobulation
has taken effect. According to one headline,
in the poor African country of Nigeria, there is a population crisis
because there are too many children. The naysayers tell us that the
fertility rate in the country is too high, and the only responses are
contraception and abortion.
The article’s author states: “Nigeria
has no population policy that would limit births, and Nigerians have
traditionally valued large families. Yet the country’s rapid population
growth, especially in urban areas, poses difficult economic, social, and
public health challenges.”
So you see, even now when some nations are encouraging people to have more children,
the population controllers prefer less of them. Rather than working to
provide a recipe for financial success for families, these people prefer
the death and destruction of families caused by contraception and
abortion.
One
would think that America could export something positive, but then
again if we look within our borders, we see immediately why that is not
the case.
In a recent poll, for example, Americans were asked for
their position on abortion. If you are a preborn child, the results are
disturbing, but not so much if your mother already gave birth to you. According to that poll,
“65% of Americans think that second trimester abortions should be
‘illegal in all or most cases.’ Similarly, the poll also found that 80%
of Americans think that third trimester abortions should be illegal ‘in
all or most cases.’” But nearly everyone was okay with killing babies
during their first three months of life.
If
you think this is a cause for celebration, then you are part of the
reason why our world is discombobulated. Folks are having trouble
recognizing the fact that every abortion kills a member of our human family.
If this simple reality were not so hard for them to understand, the
people would be striving to protect every single baby from death by
abortion.
And in Massachusetts, where groups are working to protect assisted suicide by law, there is a new law being proposed that would outlaw coerced suicide. This bill was proposed following the case of Conrad Roy whose girlfriend, Michelle Carter, allegedly pressured Conrad into taking his own life.
So,
it seems that if someone pressures another person to kill himself, that
may be illegal, but if a patient asks his doctor or close family member
to help him kill himself, that is acceptable and should be protected by
law. Does this sound logical to you?
Finally,
there is the move to legalize the availability of assistance for those
seeking to acquire assisted suicide. The advice would come via telehealth services
which, as you can well imagine, will make it easier for folks in the
privacy of their home to kill themselves. Opposing this dreadful
concept, Sara Buscher, chair of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA, said:
“Serious life and death discussions with a doctor should not be decided
in a phone call or over Zoom! Bills now introduced in Congress would
allow assisted suicide and euthanasia by telehealth, which might be the
means of making them available nationally.”
Whether
living in an African nation or right here in the United States, we are
confronted daily with the pervasive tentacles of the
not-so-discombobulated culture of death, and the question is really
quite simple. How do Americans fail to see this?
Then
we must ask how we drive such influences out of our land. The answer
resides in the heart of each of us. And while there is no single
response, there is this inspiration from St. John Paul II, who wrote:
“No darkness of error or of sin can totally take away from man the
light of God the Creator. In the depths of his heart there always
remains a yearning for absolute truth and a thirst to attain full
knowledge of it.”
Let
us pray that more and more of our fellow Americans seek and find that
absolute truth that will bring order and justice to our discombobulated
world.
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