I had just arrived as a member of the staff of the US Army Hospital, Fort McClellan Alabama. The medical officers on duty hung out in the bachelor officer's quarters, watching television; if needed anywhere, could be easily reached by phone.
The first night I was there, the obstetrics officer said, “Tom, go with me to surgery, I am going to make a Cesarian delivery.” I had never seen a Cesarian delivery previously, and it was a rewarding experience. The next night, another obstetrics medical officer, father of four children, said to me, “Tom, go with me to surgery and gown up, I have to do an abortion surgery.” I hated to show my ignorance, but in school, we were embarrassed to even talk about such. I suppose, that in order to prepare me for the shock, on the way to surgery, he said, “this women lost her husband in the war, she already has three children, now we find she has cancer, in every way, she is a mess. She has decided that we end the gestation.”
I went in the room and watched. She was draped and I could see very little about the procedure until, with the forceps, he began to drag out the body parts of the baby. I would give most anything to be able to wipe this scene from my memory, those small feet, small hands, etc. I was so sickened, I just turned and left the room. Later he asked me, “what happened?” I said, “never mention this incident to me again.” But, between me and you, I never had another ounce of respect for the doctor, the fact that he could kill and deliver innocence, a man who had four precious children at home waiting for him.
The field of bioethics is new to the healthcare community...abortion, stem cells, in-vitro fertilization, cloning, etc. It has been said that in worship, man's needs meets God's goodness and greatness. I believe that in the treatment of the innocence of the unborn and those who are worn out with living, we find our measurement as a man, as a society, as a nation. Bioethics concerns ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, politics, law and philosophy.
The one person who enjoys more respect, than any other in our nation, is the doctor. Every area of specialty, naturopath, osteopath, optometrist, dentist, chiropractors, podiatrist. Many get the idea that they are God when they put on a white coat, particularly the medical scientists, those who work in medical schools, medical laboratories, those who never have the joy of the blessed interaction of doctor-patient care. This one factor was left out in the ludicrous Obama healthcare program/legislation, those who support the Obama/communist healthcare system, those who support big Pharma, socialization of all healthcare, are mostly just healthcare scientists rather than practitioners.
You are considered a nut if you even discuss life-giving, health-giving supplements. You are considered a “quack”, when you say that 60% of your energy comes from fresh air, 40% from food. You are considered radical when you say that calories and synthetics are responsible for most illness. To the scientists, it does not matter if life begins in the petri dish, rather than the love act of a father and mother. To the scientists, it is not immoral or unethical to destroy stem cells from fertilized embryos, new individuals, in each cell of the embryo, the DNA which could fill thousands of pages. Take heed, lest any man deceive you (Mark 13:5, Matthew 24:4) Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with … cares of this life (Luke 21:34).
Satan's magic has convinced many that there is no difference in good works and Holy works. University students, even those in the healthcare professions, know little about holiness. There is nothing, I repeat, there is nothing as Holy as the sensitivity of life toward the youngest, as well as the oldest. The individual of just a few cells, or the individual of 70 trillion cells. You can be sure that with limited resources, liberal indoctrination of healthcare workers will include the message that old people do not deserve the same expensive surgery and care as the young. You can be sure that the Alzheimer's patient will not deserve the care of the active, taxpaying, middle-aged patient (even though new neuron therapy is available to the Alzheimer's patient through the nose). In the future, the greatest question facing the doctor: will he preserve elderly life, for a few weeks, months, years longer?
Many years ago, in Manhattan, I attended the great 5th Avenue Presbyterian church. After the founding of Princeton University, this church would give every new preacher from that university a new suit upon graduation. Today, the chairman of the Bioethics department at Princeton, Dr. Peter Singer, now promotes the philosophy of abortion, even weeks after childbirth if the parents are not satisfied with the baby and that “killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person.“ God will apologize to Sodom if the treatment of personhood by the intelligentsia, academia, the Democrat party, escapes the wrath of God.
As a totally blind, 100% disabled veteran, I have talked enough with the disabled and disenfranchised of the world to know about man's inhumanity to man. I have traveled every continent of the world, seen poverty as very few other people, seen the beautiful faces of poor people, not one would have wished to have been unborn We are so confused, ¼ of all students in the Ivy League universities are there because their parents were able to pay the many thousands of dollars for consultants to make the connections necessary to get their children into these schools. There are thousands of applicants for every space at prestigious universities, most with all the credentials needed, scores, previous activities, etc. Elitist parents are now paying up to $40,000 to consultants who know how to pull the right ropes to get their children into these supposed launching pads to greatness.
In this jungle of life, if not perfect, if not from wealth, if disabled, learn to endure hardness as a good soldier (2 Timothy 2:3). In the council chambers of eternity, before God created the earth, He was aware of you. Of the billions of people who have lived on earth, no one else in the world is like you, your facial features, your voice, your mind, your fingerprints, your ability to love and be loved.
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