Sanctity of Life

Sanctity of Human Life Week

“This is murder! The president should do something about this!” These are some of the passionate responses of our MYC high school kids to a video we had just watched together. Kermit Gosnell, a baby killer from Philadelphia, was the subject of a CNN interview with a Philly district attorney. It was the killing of a woman and at least seven babies born alive which prompted these responses from the kids. In case you haven't heard, Mr. (I can't call him doctor) Gosnell has gotten rich performing late term “abortions” by inducing labor and then killing the babies after the children were out of the womb alive. The woman had died from anesthesiology he had prescribed. There are more grisly details I will not mention here. Feel free to look up this story if you have a strong stomach or if you have been deceived to believe abortion is a medical “choice.”

“You couldn't pay me enough to work for him!” “I could never do that!” “If he killed my child, I'd kill him, but then I'd be guilty, too! ” These were more of the responses. “God would forgive him if he repented.”, and “Yes, God would forgive him because we have a forgiving God!”, are also quotes from kids in the discussion. In terms of insight, passion, and participation, this was one of the best talks we have had with our older club kids. I believe that some of them understand that once it becomes accepted to do something like kill unborn babies in the womb, then the next steps would include killing babies after they are born, or maybe the handicapped or elderly. The only part of the CNN interview and our talk for which they had no response was when, after it was suggested that our president should stop this kind of murder, I asked if they would like to know Obama's position on this issue. After they said yes, I had to tell the disappointed group that as an Illinois State Senator, he had voted against a law that would have required doctors to give medical care to save the lives of babies who had survived attempts to kill them and had been born alive. Support for Obama during the election had been unanimous for the kids in MY club when we took a poll. I didn't grab for a “gotcha!”moment and wasn't even tempted to follow with “I told you so!”, but just let the kids think quietly for a few seconds before jump-starting the conversation with another question. My goal in showing the video wasn't to bash Obama, but to encourage these kids to recognize what is right and wrong, and to realize where allowing wrong to be the law of our land is leading us.