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 depravity in attitudes about abortion, devaluing the elderly and infirm, and experiencing more mass shootings.
The following are a few examples of the consequences of what happens when a society rejects the God-given sanctity of human life.
The underlying foundation for these developments has its roots in Roe v Wade, which was the tipping point that gave approval to devalue the sanctity of human life on a mass scale.
Now, abortionists, who already have destroyed more than 60 million innocent lives, are boldly becoming increasingly evil in their efforts to expand the horrific practice.
A recent YouTube post by the far left group “Agenda Project,” features a beautiful baby girl laughing with lullaby music playing in the background. The scrolling words say: “She deserves to be loved;” “She deserves to be wanted;” “She deserves to be a choice.”
The Agenda Project’s website proudly proclaims that it has ”a proven record of exposing the Right’s radical plans for America, and for furthering the values that most decent citizens support.”
So, most “decent citizens” support allowing a mother to kill her child for any reason whatsoever.
“I have no words to describe the sinking horror I felt when I saw this,” said GRTL President Ricardo Davis. “It vividly portrays what we’re up against—and should prompt us to do a better job of confronting it.”
In addition Leana Wen, Planned Parenthood’s new CEO, has said her mission is to expand abortions and help women celebrate having an abortion. So much for the claim of making the evil practice rare.
Another example of the expanding whirlwind created by the culture of death is the growing acceptance of assisted suicide. In the five states and the District of Columbia where it’s legal, the number of people who voluntarily – or who are pressured – to end their own lives continues to increase.
(Assisted suicide is legal in California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, Washington D.C. and Washington State).
Total numbers are impossible to track, but indications are that several thousand Americans have chosen, or have been persuaded to end their own lives. For example, available reports show Oregon reporting 1,275 deaths and Washington 1,364.
Wesley J. Smith, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Human Exceptionalism, points to the notorious Jack Kevorkian as the catalyst for getting the assisted suicide movement started.
Kevorkian broke into the headlines in 1991 after admitting he helped Janet Adkins, who had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, kill herself. Assisted suicide was not legal at that time in Oregon which later became the first state to legalize the practice.
Initial reactions were negative, with even the New York Times calling the act “outrageous.”
The revulsion, however, was short-lived.
By the time Kevorkian was finally convicted of murder in 1999, his assisted suicide campaign was widely accepted in public polling. He was even lauded on 60 Minutes and was invited to Time magazine’s 75th Anniversary Gala, where Tom Cruise rushed up to shake his hand.
He was elevated to celebrity status, earning $50,000 per speech.
Summing up his thoughts on assisted suicide, Smith wrote in National Review: “Once society generally accepts the dark premise that killing is an acceptable way to end suffering…there is no way to effectively constrain euthanasia inflation.”
Finally, proof that a large segment of our society devalues human life is the growing number of mass shootings.
Four of the most deadly mass shootings in 50 years have occurred in 2018.
The recent incident at a Thousand Oaks bar—which took 13 lives—brought to 328 the number of people killed and 1,251 injured in 311 days.
Other blood baths include the tragedy in Las Vegas, where 58 people were gunned down by a madman while The Pulse nightclub shooting in Florida claimed 49 lives.
All these issues demonstrate that America’s moral decline is reaping a whirlwind of violence, whether planned as in abortion and assisted suicide, or by perpetrators of random violent acts
As Christians we know the only answer is God. Please pray that He will strengthen and empower pro-life organizations like GRTL and that the Holy Spirit will change peoples’ hearts and minds.
In that light, GRTL will continue its education and legislative efforts aimed at protecting innocent human life.
Sources: usatoday.com; firstthings.com; graceuniversity.edu.
By Wayne DuBois
Georgia Right to Life
Media Relations Advisor