Monday, May 21, 2007

Selective Reduction - Still Grasping to be as God Is

Al Mohler comments on what he calls “The Revenge of Conscience.” If you have not heard of selective reductions and their use by fertility doctors, be warned. Is this where unbridled freedom takes us?

Have we now reached a point of no moral return? Mundy’s article forces us to face the fact that we have become a society that considers ‘selective reduction’ just part of what is necessary, given the power of new reproductive technologies. We will become killers even as we become givers of life. A needle is inserted into one baby in order to kill, another needle in yet another baby in order to save.

The cold, clinical, calculating nature of the decisions reported by Liza Mundy takes us to the heart of the human problem. The essence of sin is the ambition to be as God.

The appearance of these articles, published in major American newspapers in a span of mere days, tells us something important. So does the fact that each of these articles reflects a sense of moral disquiet. Mundy reports that many women develop intense moral disquiet and persistent depression after undergoing the procedure. A source cited by Mundy explained that ‘psychoanalytic interviews with women who underwent [selective reduction] describe severe bereavement reactions including ambivalence, guilt, and a sense of narcissistic injury, all of which increased the complexity of their attachment to the remaining babies.’

Read this post and the articles it references closely. This holocaust must stop.

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