Abortion - THe Hidden Holocaust Part 7

I. The Slippery Slope

a. Small Steps to Big Changes

Just a few decades ago some of the medical reasons given today for having an abortion would have been unthinkable and entirely unacceptable. Yet by many small steps we have come to the place where children are being murdered for the most minor of reasons. And at the end of the day, there is no good reason to kill a child.

One study concluded that "Of all eugenic abortions prescribed on the basis of genetic history, one-half to three-quarters of the unborn children destroyed are not affected by the disease. More "normal" children are killed than ‘handicapped' children." (Pro-life Answers for Pro-choice Questions, page 223)

Some argue that if a child is going to be born with a debilitating illness, deformity or disease then an abortion should take place. Some suggest it while others strongly recommend it.

But the argument that began by dealing with severe cases has taken us a step at a time to the place where we have the phrase "designer babies" becoming main stream.

There are abortions taking place today on children on the medical basis that they are found to have Down syndrome, missing limbs, an extra finger or cleft palate.

The mother of a five year old girl wrote into the London Times in 1990 with this comment:

"I was horrified to read that many couples now opt for abortion rather than risk having a baby with such a minor physical imperfection. My daughter is not some subnormal freak... she can, and does, lead a happy and fulfilled life... What sort of society do we live in when a minor facial deformity, correctable by surgery, is viewed as so abnormal as to merit abortion?"

Many unborn children diagnosed with Down syndrome never have the opportunity to enjoy life. To many in today's society they do not deserve to live.

There is a recorded case in 1982 when a baby was born with a minor defect that would not allow food to pass into his stomach. This condition could have been easily fixed by surgery. However, because he had Down syndrome the doctor and parents agreed to allow him to starve to death. The public become aware of the situation and many families came forward offering to adopt him. But for some reason the parents preferred that their baby die.

That may sounds outrageous but a survey in the US revealed that two out of three doctors would go along with parent's wishes to deny life saving surgery to a child with Down syndrome. Nearly three out of four said that if they had a Down syndrome child, they would choose to let him starve to death.

This reason is just one of many given for allowing babies to be killed or to die.

But the slippery slope begins with small steps and each small step leads to the horrors that we see today.

There is an historical precedent set by Hitler. No doubt killing Jewish people on the basis of their nationality would have at one point been abhorrent to the vast majority of those involved. But first Hitler killed 275,000 handicapped people.

What was once abhorrent became acceptable and before the nation knew what was happening 6 million Jews had been murdered.

Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg argues that the key to the widespread destruction of the Jewish people was the use of degrading terminology such as "useless eaters" and "garbage" which blinded society to the fact the real people were being killed.

One pro-choice advocate referred to pregnancy as a venereal disease and abortion as the cure. Others have referred to unborn babies as debris, garbage, and refuse to justify abortion.

Once the person has been dehumanised then we can take any action against them we like with minimal repercussions.