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Despite the negative vote of the vast majority of House Democrats, the House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would penalize doctors who do not provide life-saving care to infants born alive after an abortion attempt. Threatening doctors who ignore babies who survive an abortion with a hefty fine or even jail time, the bill was met with derision by Democrats, who claimed the bill was “not based on science or reality.” This all-too-casual approach towards an innocent human life — particularly one who survived the violence of abortion — is indicative of the party’s attitude towards the sanctity of human life.
PassionLife is a pro-life global missions partner to missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders living in countries where abortion and infanticide are especially concentrated. In such places, PassionLife staff disciples people in a biblical worldview of human value, teaching them how to make the case for life in a secular culture, see abortion guilt and grief as an entry point for the Gospel’s offer of forgiveness and freedom, and provide models of pregnancy crisis intervention services that they can adapt to their culture and neighborhood.
PassionLife President Pastor John Ensor addressed the secular attitude towards late-term abortions with a tongue-in-cheek op-ed designed to question to status quo and urge readers to really consider the consequences.
“How can we get past the idea that we should treat infants who survive abortion as human beings with human rights? There are several good proposals out there,” said Ensor. “Australian ethicists Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva propose changing the term ‘infanticide’ to ‘after-birth abortion.’ They write, ‘We argue that, when circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible … We propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion,’ rather than ‘infanticide.’
“Problem solved! By simply changing the names of things, we change the ethics of them. Others who focus on ethics — the actual study of right and wrong — concur. In Rethinking Life and Death, Princeton professor Peter Singer assures us that because infants have only infant capacities, they may be human, but they are not persons. Killing the newborn is not wrong then, any more than killing a fish.”
Ensor satirically commented, “No doubt this new morality will make the practice of infanticide, oops, I mean, after-birth abortion more acceptable to a squeamish population that has learned to swallow abortion but not infanticide. And if ‘killing the newborn,’ to use their language, is not the same as killing a human, and if the newborn is a non-person, comparable to a fish, then I have a modest proposal. Let us digest this new morality with spicy, lemon-pepper, or honey-barbecue options. After all, if it’s not wrong to place fish over the fire and eat it, how can it be wrong to roast a newborn non-person and season it to taste?
“If we can remember that what has long been called evil should now be called good, and that human rights actually mean personal rights for those who show sufficient capacity, then all that is left to redefine is the concept of equal rights. It now must mean that some humans, I mean persons, are more equal than others. To advance my modest proposal, I would further propose that we rename ‘abortion’ as ‘pre-birth infanticide.’ This will certainly discourage the practice, since infanticide is a negative word implying that an innocent human being is being intentionally killed. Calling abortion ‘pre-birth infanticide’ might lead to more ‘post-birth abortion’ and thus provide more opportunities for us all to digest the new morality.”
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Since 2010, PassionLife has worked as a pro-life global missions partner to missionaries and Indigenous Christian leaders in China, Romania, Cuba, India, Vietnam and other countries where the plague of abortion, infanticide and gendercide is especially concentrated. In such places, PassionLife disciples people in a Biblical worldview of human value, teaches them how to make a case for life in a secular culture, sees abortion guilt and grief as an entry point for the Gospel’s offer of forgiveness and freedom, and provides models of pregnancy crisis intervention services that they can adapt to their culture and neighborhood.
John Ensor, an ordained Evangelical pastor, has been a leader in the pro-life movement for over 30 years as a speaker, author, mentor and co-laborer. John serves as the President of PassionLife, where he concentrates on helping missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders serving in countries plagued by abortion to equip the church in bioethics and pregnancy crisis intervention services. He has been recognized in the “Legacy of Life” book as one of the fifty greatest pro-life leaders of the last 50 years. John is the co-host of the “PassionLife Podcast,” with PassionLife Executive Director, Mark Nicholson. Together they discuss ministry updates and provide commentary on global current events.
