This Made Smoke Shoot Out of My Ears!

God must be weeping right now.  He sent His only son to become man and suffer horribly and die sinless so that our sins would be forgiven.  And, now He gets this: Belgium: Court Approves “Wrongful Life” Rule that Disabled Child Should Never Have Been Born by Wesley J. Smith.  Wrongful Life???  To what level has civilization degraded?  We are no longer civilized if we think this is right.

According to this article:  "Belgium’s euthanasia law permits people to be killed by doctors because they are disabled.  In such a discriminatory setting, is it any wonder that a Belgian court has now approved the odious notion of a wrongful life."

This particular ruling apparently revolves around a doctor making a mistake.  The doctor thought the unborn child would be born healthy.  The child was actually born with a disability.  As best as I can tell, the parents then sued the doctor because they had a child with a disability. Had they known the child had a disability, they would have legally had an abortion.  The doctor's mistake:  Thinking the unborn child was healthy when it actually had a disability.  For that he was sued!  There will be penalties.  And, the even more mind-boggling part is the court said an abortion would have been in the best interests of the child!  How in the world do they arrive at that bit of idiocy?  Being dead is in the best interests of the child????  What have we come to!      

Apparently and thankfully, I'm not the only one who is smoking (from the ears, that is).  Here is one of the comments for the above-linked article:

"Linda K.December 7th, 2010 | 10:08 am 

"Who’s to say what is a “handicap” and what is not? Who’s to say that the life growing in the womb will be a life not worthy of life? What gives the courts the right to decide? What about the aborting of children where the parents have received “false positive” test results? My sister was told that her child would be born with Down Syndrome. Being Christians, her and her husband refused to abort. Had they aborted, they would have killed a perfectly healthy baby because their son was born absolutely healthy with no Down. Think of how many people we would lose on just the “assumption” of disabilities. Come to think of it, how many are we already losing to abortion each and every day anyway? All of these children, disability or not, have a right to be born and survive. God made these children, and they are all perfect in his sight. It’s the parents who would rather kill, than to be burdened with taking care of a child, with or without disabilities. They think it’s easier to just “dispose of the problem” because society says it’s okay. I can only pray that their eyes will be opened before their day of judgement!"


I don't think I can improve on that except to say, if the Progressives have their way, look for this to creep into the United States as well.  Sadly, it is already here in the form of human-legalized abortion but it could get way worse.


Pray for our leaders that God would guide them,  write letters and make phone calls when the need arises.  In the meantime, stay close to God.  He is always the answer.


Blessings,


Mary