June 2019 – Article 1: Are you aware of the current unknowns and far reaching potential dangers associated with ever changing technology and artificial intelligence? Announced by researchers at Cornell University, their technology one day could permanently alter the concept of humanity and how we live our lives. It might eventually result in robots that can reproduce themselves. “We are introducing a brand new, life-like material powered by its very own artificial metabolism. We...
Physician-Assisted Suicide Flawed
May 2019 – Article 4: From the Reno Gazzette Journal By Kirk Bronander Published 3:50 p.m. PT April 22, 2019 | Updated 1:14 p.m. PT April 23, 2019 https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/04/22/physician-assisted-suicide-flawed-process-says-professor-medicine/3544171002/ Physician-assisted suicide a flawed process, says professor of medicine A bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) was introduced in the 2019 Nevada Legislature. As an internal medicine physician in Nevada, I...
Sorry, Your Time is Up
May 2019 – Article 3: When it comes to what’s morally right, the world increasingly gets things upside down. This is especially true in how we care for the elderly and infirm. In southern Belgium, there’s a retirement home for aging animals that allows them to live out their final days in peace. But don’t look for the first country to legalize euthanasia to show the same compassion for people. A recent study shows that 40 percent of Belgium residents believe the country could save money by...
Engineering the Ideal Child
May 2019 – Article 1: Not willing to trust God when planning to start a family? A growing number of people are taking the process into their own hands. Australian couples are spending $20,000 to choose the sex of their designer babies at clinics in the United States. The Fertility Institutes, which also has clinics in Mexico and India, has helped 370 Australian couples create the child of their dreams. Aside from gender, they are also choosing eye color, with blue being the most popular....
REACHing Forward to 2019
January 2019: Happy New Year, Y’all! 2018 was a blitz year for Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) and for Personhood. Even in the face of challenges and setbacks our team has stood firm and taken great strides to advance the protection of all innocent human life from the earliest biological beginning through natural death. Allow me a moment to review some highlights that illustrate how your prayers, service, and giving are making an impact. GRTL Endorsed Candidates and the 2019 Legislature The...
Talking With the Unconscious
December 2018 – Article 3: Ongoing research continues to demonstrate the need to resist efforts to abandon those considered to be in a vegetative state. These developments are a clear break from attitudes in the past. In 1968, an ad hoc Harvard Medical School committee declared that patients in an “irreversible coma” were dead from a legal and ethical point of view. The pronouncement was quickly adopted in the United States and around the world and became the most common standard by which...
Reaping a Whirlwind of Death
December 2018 – Article 1: Once evil gets a foothold, it always gets worse. It’s a fulfillment of what the prophet Hosea said: “For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7, ESV). Pastor Charles Stanley has often described the idea of sowing this way: “You reap what you sow, more than you sow, later than you sow.” When that concept is applied to America’s rapidly growing culture of death, the results are absolutely frightening. We’re reaping escalating levels of...
“Roots” Changed My Life
November 2018 – Article 1: We all have defining moments in our lives. Usually they are moments marked by the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a new job, a move to a new state, and so much more. One of my most defining moments can be said in two words: “Kunta Kinte.” For some of you that will immediately bring to mind an image of a young LeVar Burton in the television mini-series “Roots.” While others may not be familiar with that show, for me it was—and will forever be—heavy on...
The Morality Pill
October 2018 – Article 3: No doubt the world is a mess and getting worse. What to do? Christians know the only answer is Jesus Christ. Proverbs 16:6 says, “…by the fear [reverence] of the Lord men depart from evil.” Like looking for love in all the wrong places, the ungodly are perusing non-biblical solutions that will never work. Even if they succeed in imposing any level of humanistic morality on our decision-making process, their solutions pose serious problems that threaten our...
Never Give Up On Life
September 2018 – Article 2: Life at every stage is a precious gift from God that should be valued, cherished, and protected. Sometimes that’s hard when faced with disease, disability, pain, and mental illness. But that should never be a justification to seek one’s own death. Tragically many do, and thanks to the worldwide culture of death that promotes assisted suicide and euthanasia, this is becoming an increasing problem. They’ve gone from promoting the lie of “death with dignity” to...
