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ESSAY 27
THE DEVALUING OF LIFE IN AMERICA
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Christian
apologist Francis A. Schaeffer issue a stern warning concern-
ing the devaluing of life in America. They quote Psychiatrist
Leo Alexander, who served with the office of Chief of Counsel
for War Crimes in Nuremberg:
It started with the acceptance of the attitude
basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is
such a thing as life not worthy to be lived. . . .
. . . .
The first direct order for euthanasia was
issued by Hitler on Sept. l, 1939. . . . All
state institutions were required to report on pa-
tients who had been ill for five years or more or
who were unable to work, by filling out question-
naires giving name, race, marital status, national-
ity, next of kin, whether regularly visited and by
whom, who bore the financial responsibility and so
forth. The decision regarding which patients should
be killed was made entirely on the basis of this
brief information by expert consultants, most of
whom were professors of psychiatry in the key
universities. These consultants never saw the pa-
tients themselves.
The Nazis set up an organization specifically for the
killing of children, which they called, "Realm's Committee
for Scientific Approach to Severe Illness Due to Heredity and
Constitution." Children were transported to the killing
centers by "The Charitable Transport Company for the Sick."
"The Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care" collected
the cost of killing the children from the relatives, who did
not know that they were paying to kill their own kinfolk.
The cause of death was falsified on the death certificates.
[Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, M.D., WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE? (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H.
Revell Company, 1979), pp. 103-107].
It hasn't been too far back in the history of the United
States, that black people were sold like cattle in our slave
markets. For economic reasons, white society had classified
them as "nonhuman." The U S Supreme Court upheld this lie
in its infamous Dred Scott Decision.
Jesse L. Jackson, in 1977, tied the prior treatment of
blacks with our present treatment of the preborn:
You could not protest the existence or treatment of
slaves on the plantation because that was private
and therefore outside your right to be concern-
ed. . . . The Constitution called us three-fifths
human and the whites further dehumanized us by
calling us `niggers.' It was part of the dehuman-
izing process. . . . These advocates taking life
prior to birth do not call it killing or murder,
they call it abortion. They further never talk
about aborting a baby because that would imply
something human. . . . Fetus sounds less than
human and therefore can be justified. . . ."
What happens to the mind of a person, and the
moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting
of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
What kind of a person and what kind of a society
will we have twenty years hence if life can be
taken so casually? It is that question, the
question of our attitude, our value system, and
our mind set with regard to the nature and the
worth of life itself that is the central question
confronting mankind. Failure to answer that ques-
tion affirmatively may leave us with a hell right
here on earth. [Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett
Koop, M.D., WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMAN RACE?
(Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company), 1979,
p. 209].
Sixteen years after Mr. Jackson's prediction, we have
seen 31,000,000 preborn children killed for convenience and
money. There is no telling how many newborns have been
sedated and deliberately left to die of starvation.
For a former "insider" expose of the brutal and woman-
exploiting abortion industry, read Carol Everett's book,
BLOOD MONEY (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Press Books, 1992). Her
book tore at my heart. It spoke of how degenerate a part of
the medical community had become. Carol Everett later found
Christ and now ministers hope and healing.
The infamous pathologist Jack Kevorkian has grabbed
headlines by murdering sick people. But, secretly in the
hospitals, how many old and sick people have been "put to
sleep" by other physicians simply by administering an over-
dose of medication, or withholding needed medication?
I was touched, influenced and inspired by the ideas of
Bill Bennett. See William J. Bennett, THE DE-VALUING OF
AMERICA--THE FIGHT FOR OUR CULTURE AND OUR CHILDREN (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1992).
END