Value Life

            Families, communities, and nations are stronger when they value life at all ages. Life has value whether it is an unborn child, a sick or handicapped individual of any age, or the elderly. Any human being who is alive has purpose and should be treated with respect, and those who die naturally, by accident, or in defense of life and liberty should be honored and treated with reverence. Life is a gift from God, and no one but God has a right to say when that any person’s life is finished.

            Americans were upset and angry when New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a pro-abortion bill into law this week. The bill can only be described as radical because it legalizes abortion for any reason right up to birth. He says that “he hopes other states follow in New York’s footsteps and pass similar pro-abortion laws.” Members of the New York State legislature cheered as the governor signed the bill.

            A day or so later Americans were stunned to learn that Virginia was considering a law that would allow a baby to be killed even as the mother is giving birth. We can thank God that there were enough Republicans in the state legislature to kill the bill! 

            What is wrong with people today that refuse to allow convicted murderers from receiving the death penalty and have laws protecting animals from abuse but allow innocent unborn babies to be killed by their mothers? This is plain evil, and this nation will pay the penalty of God’s punishment if we allow this type of wickedness to take place. There is no hope for individuals, states, or nations that refuse to protect innocent lives. If we want to strengthen our families, communities, and nations, we must be willing to defend the innocent lives that are among us.

Value Life

            We can strengthen our families, communities, and nations by valuing life itself. It should not matter whether a person is born or unborn, old or young, sick or healthy, white or colored. All lives have value and should be cherished.

            The U.S. State Department recently took a stand for life when they did not include “reproductive rights” in their annual report on global human rights. This means that the State Department does not consider abortion to be a human right.

            According to LifeSiteNews, Ambassador Michael Kozak stated “that forced abortions and involuntary sterilization would be considered violations of human rights.” He also said, “We’ve really gotten at it by flipping back to the original U.S. statutory language. It’s in places like China where in order to enforce their – now – two-child policy that there are reports of coerced abortion and involuntary sterilization [or] in North Korea, where the government also coerces [or] forces abortion – although sometimes that’s for political punishment rather than family planning.”

            Kozak said that the report “includes only rights recognized in human rights law and only those that are `most egregious.’ Among those he included torture, extrajudicial killings, forced

Disappearances, criminalization of libel, and then he added `criminalization of LGBT consensual sexual activity…’” The author questions why LGBT is mentioned at all and emphasizes: “There is no human rights treaty that mentions homosexuality, let alone genital activity between homosexuals.” So it appears that the State Department corrected one error by ruling that there are no “reproductive rights” in human rights law but made another one by saying that there are LGBT rights there.

            Obviously, we cannot win all the fights, but we did win a big one to have the State Department say in their report that there are no “reproductive rights.” This statement may have influence on ending abortion on demand. Families, communities, and nations are stronger when all human life is valued.