Good Morning Church! Do You Understand The Significance Of A Beating Heart?
I don’t think I fully understood it until I heard my State Representative Dr. Sabi Kumar explain it.
As our State House of Representatives prepared to vote on the Heartbeat Bill, Representative, Dr. Kumar, joined me on the radio Thursday morning.
He so clearly made the case, that I wanted to share it with you in my Sunday post.
He said as a doctor, many times, as an intern he would be called into a room where a patient had passed away, and he would have to certify that the patient had died.
“What do we do? We check for a heartbeat. If there is no heartbeat there is no life.”
“So it is very logical to say,” he continued. “That in a ultra sound. In a pregnant woman’s womb. If there is a heartbeat. There is life. This is a living baby.”
He went on to say, as physicians, abortions should not be taking place because of the oath they take as doctors.
He said, while the oath has changed over the years, the original oath given to physcians by Hippocrates, said that abortion was not permitted.
Hippocratic Oath
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this contract:
To hold him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to be a partner in life with him, and to fulfill his needs when required; to look upon his offspring as equals to my own siblings, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or contract; and that by the set rules, lectures, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to students bound by this contract and having sworn this Oath to the law of medicine, but to no others.
I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art.
I will not use the knife, even upon those suffering from stones, but I will leave this to those who are trained in this craft.
Into whatever homes I go, I will enter them for the benefit of the sick, avoiding any voluntary act of impropriety or corruption, including the seduction of women or men, whether they are free men or slaves.
Whatever I see or hear in the lives of my patients, whether in connection with my professional practice or not, which ought not to be spoken of outside, I will keep secret, as considering all such things to be private.
So long as I maintain this Oath faithfully and without corruption, may it be granted to me to partake of life fully and the practice of my art, gaining the respect of all men for all time. However, should I transgress this Oath and violate it, may the opposite be my fate.
Translated by Michael North, National Library of Medicine, 2002.
You will be happy to know that the Heartbeat Bill did in fact pass the Tennessee House of Representatives on Thursday, and it is expected to pass in the Senate as well.
Our governor, Bill Lee has promised to sign the bill.
And, it’s passage will be a clear example of how Tennessee can lead our nation forward, as our new Governor promised during his campaign, and throughout these first few months in office.
As I finished my interview with Representative Dr. Sabi Kumar Thursday, and I decided to feature his thoughts in my Sunday post, I listened again to his remarks and noted one of the most profound statements he made as we began to discuss the pending vote on the Heartbeat Bill.
He said, “Life is a gift from God. ‘The choices’ we have to make are, when do we want to have a family, and how many children we will choose to have.”
“But,” he said, “When it comes to life? We receive this gift from God and then we do our best to preserve it.”
“Abortion, is tragedy.” he said.
“A baby is killed.”
“A mother is emotionally and otherwise scared.”
“And the doctor who preformed it, has lost his soul.”
As a nation we have witnessed a divide as deep and as wide as the divide between life and death, or darkness and light.
In the last few months the soul of our nation has been put to the test.
Will we choose life or death?
Never has the choice been more obvious to those who love the Lord.
The infanticide being practiced now in several of our states, will go down as one of our darkest moments in our history.
A report from CNSNews.com stated; On Jan. 29, Joseph Strickland, head of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas, said the video of New York lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) celebrating their new law that allows abortions up to the day of birth is “a scene from Hell.” He also called on Americans to “stand against this holocaust in every way you can.” And latter borrowed a quote from another bishop to describe the scene in Albany. He said the scene was like “the CHATTERING OF DEMONS the distracting hubbub of the father of lies.”
I truly believe that those who love darkness have overplayed their hand.
As we face the week ahead I hope you will join me in praying for Godly leadership to guide us, and prevail.
Our battle is not against flesh and bone.
And it is only when God’s people who are called by His name, turn and seek Him once again, that this dark battle will end.
