AmericanPapist Comments
Ironic that such "aryan" ideals still keep coming back even as Pope Benedict visits Auschwitz.
Pathetic that a 'thinking' society is still influenced by the notion of a 'perfect' individual.
If reminds me of how you shop for things in stores. Despicable.
This sort of thing has been going on for a while in Europe.
When I was pregnant with kids #3 & #4 in England, NHS policy did not allow the ultrasound technician to reveal the sex of the child. It seems that a lot of families were aborting girls, because boys are valued most in Asian/European societies.
This eugenic trend will take its toll in about 20 years.
I wrote about this topic earlier when the WaPo reported on the preimplantation screening of embryos for predisposition to cancer. Kevin is absolutely right when he describes this practice as "shopping". When children are seen as something one obtains, then parents "shop" for a "good value". This actually ties in to the earlier post on NFP. If the default position is to be open to children as a gift from God, then these children are accepted, flaws and all. If the default position is to be closed to children until our human judgment deems it time to obtain them, they take on the same status as a new car or a bigger house. How sad!
The love and mercy of God towards mankind is really astonishing.
When one reads something like that, the first idea that crossed the mind is that mankind really does not deserve to exist.
When we think of the millions and millions of children who are killed by abortions, who among us, if we were given the by God the power to decide the fate of the Human race, would not destroy it as an act of justice in the blink of an eye.
And yet, God Almighty, who knows everything, continues to love us, to show us His way, and to save us from death, by the merits of His dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who was sent for our redemption. The mercy of God is indeed boundless.
Deliver us from evil!
I suppose nothing should surprise me anymore when it comes to abortion....
I had two younger brothers. The older of the two was born with club feet. Fortunately, he didn't have to have surgery, but he wore casts for most of the first three years of his life and special shoes until he was six. He was so uncomfortable that he didn't sleep through the night until he was 3 and didn't learn to walk until then either. By the time he was in high school, he was on the cross country team at school.
My other brother was stillborn due to anacephaly (a neurological defect where the brain doesn't completely form). Back then ultrasounds weren't routine, so we didn't know anything until he was born. Several months later, my mother said something that has stuck with me to this day - even if she had known that my brother would never survive, she still would have carried him to term. Her rationale was that she at least had nine months with him when he was growing inside her and the few moments when she got to hold him after he was born.
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