Reality is Staring You in the Face from a Glass Dish
As I look into the eyes of my two-week-old baby boy, another pair of eyes looks back at me from my computer screen. Those eyes are sitting next to the rest of its body strewn over a glass dish. A person in the background proclaims: “Another boy!”
Our human instinct is to look away from images so repugnant we can barely stomach the next gruesome video release. But, to avert our attention is to ignore a present evil that must end. It is to turn a blind eye to the reality staring at us from the abortion clinic table while being prepared for shipment to a buyer.
Swallow hard, then take a close look into that dish. Count the fingers and toes on what we’d prefer to label “fetal tissue.” But, be especially careful with its little heart. You wouldn’t want your fingers to smush it. After a long, hard look inside your own heart, explain to me how the debates surrounding this can be about anything other than the life of the boys and girls discussed so callously in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress led by David Daleiden.
Perhaps you look to the research potential of using embryonic stem cells to justify this horrifying crime against humanity. To address that point, let’s take a moment to review some key points of the Nuremberg Code dealing with medical research ethics and remind ourselves of the context under which it was produced.
“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” Did the baby consent to donate his organs for research?
“The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.” Abortions regularly cause mental suffering in the mother with symptoms similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. These women’s mental anguish is unnecessary and totally avoidable.
“No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur…” I don’t think this means trying not to crush the heart, liver or lungs before you vacuum them out.
Columnist Matt Barber draws parallels to Dr. Josef Mengele, one of the doctors in the trial that led to the Nuremberg Code:
Much of Mengele’s “medical research” was conducted on children and newborns — especially twins. One witness described what happened after Mengele once delivered a Jewish “fetus”: “But when he saw that there was only one baby and not twins, he tore the baby right out of the mother’s uterus, threw it into an oven and walked away,” she said. “We saw this.”
Cryin’ shame. Were he alive today and working for Planned Parenthood, Mengele’s abortion could have easily yielded an extra $300 for this “intact specimen.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor who famously faced the gallows for his efforts to end the Nazi holocaust and assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was likewise an outspoken abortion opponent and pro-life advocate. […]
If pro-life advocates like those at CMP are modern-day Dietrich Bonhoeffers, and they are, then what does that make abortion supporters and providers?
We must not continue looking away in willful ignorance, no matter how uncomfortable it is. We must not speak in euphemisms of “women’s health”, “tissue”, and “procedures”. We must regognize the grim truth of the severed baby parts in the dish looking up at us, asking “Why?”
We need more Bonhoeffers.
We need more David Daleidens.
We need another Nuremberg.
May God help us all to see this for what it is and fall to our knees in repentance.
