If you have a baby with disabilities and you choose to keep that child instead of killing it are you just plain stupid?

As a mother of twin boys with autism and another son who is gifted and has other disablities, I found the article about 'Animal-Rights' promoter Peter Singer at WorldnetDaily.com infuriating and frightening.  It has me so incensed I just had to write about it today. 

Singer wants to decide for God whether or not it is in the best interest of the family to kill disabled babies.  He sees no distinction in a child that is born and a child that is still in his mother's womb.  And since abortion is legal, what's the big deal?

According to Singer, humans are no different from animals, and a human life is not worth more than a cow's life.  Although, he would kill ten cows before he'd kill a human, but not because they are of less value.  No, he'd only kill less humans because humans are able to mourn and cows are not. 

Uhm, then, if cows aren't able to mourn -- how does that make them no different than humans?  

What makes this guy really scary is that he's a professor at Princeton University.   He's teaching students that it's okay to kill babies with disabilities for up to 28 days after birth. 

Of course, it comes as no surprise that he supported the decision to starve Terrri Schiavo to death.  He thinks that her death will bring about a paradigm shift in how we humans think about allowing people who are less than perfect to live.  He is pleased that it's a turning point in our opinion of whether or not human life is sacred.

"Anyone who ascribes rights to babies or humans with intellectual disabilties must be willing to attribute rights to beings who can't understand the concept," he said.

Oh, okay, so say, you can't understand the concept of sanctity of life and belief in a One True God, Mr. Singer.  Perhaps you are Diety-Impaired.  You know, someone who has the disability of not knowing the One True God.  

Who decides which disability is the worst?  Who decides what a disability is?  I can't dance the ballet -- does that make me ballet-impaired and thus worthy of extermination? 

People who think disabilities are only a curse, do not know people with disabilities very well.  I know that there are suffering people in the world, and it makes me very sad.  There is a children's home near me full of children who cannot talk or walk or even sit up and feed themselves.  I know very well the horror of it all.  But when I've taken my dogs into that home for pet therapy -- I can see that even the children who cannot talk or function as I do have a purpose and are precious to God.  They bring happiness to people around them. 

My boys with disabilties have taught me much more than I will ever teach them.  Because of them I've had to learn to live one day at a time.  I've had to learn to live one second at a time!  I've had to do things differently from the way I've always wanted to do them, and it's been good character training for me!

If we loose our life we find it.  I have seen the blessing people with cognitive disabilities bring to our body of believers at our church.  They are precious!  They make us all smile and feel so loved and so needed.  Is there anything better than that?

Singer believes that people who cling to the thought of the Sanctity of Human Life are "a rump of hard-core, know-nothing, religious fundamentalists."

Know-nothing?  Oh contraire!  I know the Truth!  And the Truth is what matters most!  All human life is sacred!  We are created in the image of God, and no baby is unwanted by God! 

As in the days of the ancient Greeks and Romans when Christians became the first foster parents in the world -- we have got to step up and do our part in this fight for life!   The ancient Greeks and Romans discarded babies if they weren't perfect, and Christians would find them in the woods, adopt them, and keep them, and raise them up.

Please check out the work of CHASK.  Consider adopting a special needs child.  It will be one of the hardest things you will ever do.  It will turn your life and family upside down and inside out.  But if God tells you to do it, then He will give you the tools and the strength and the grace to do it!  It won't be easy.  I'm not going to kid you.  But guess what -- doing the work of the Lord isn't and Jesus never promised it would be.  If all the suffering we ever do for Jesus is to raise a child with special needs -- we can be grateful and thankful!

I am so thankful for my boys.  It has been a hard road, but it has been a road worth taking.  And I am not sorry.    I would do it again.  And again.  And again.  There is just nothing like being their Mom and I wouldn't trade my babies for anything.  So often I think I am doing something for them, and it turns out that I get so much more from it.   I start out doing it for them -- but it turns out being something good for me.

Isn't that just like God?  The things the devil uses for harm in our life the Lord takes and uses for His Glory when we let Him have His Way.  I am so thankful He is there and that He loves babies even more than I do!

And if God doesn't lead you to adopt a special needs baby, then at least teach your children about the sanctity of human life.  Expose them to people of all abilibies, shapes and sizes.  Teach them to respect differences in people and to avoid labels.  And most importantly, teach them that ALL human life is sacred because we are created in the image of the One True Creator God!

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?  But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Luke 12:6 & 7



My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 139:15 & 16

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Posted by AcceptanceWithJoy

It is not only scary that he teaches at Princeton (a school whose motto is "Under God's power she flourishes" and was started to train Presbyterian ministers) ~ but he teaches in the Center for Human Values. How can someone that has said the following be employed in any position that has anything whatsoever with determining human value?

"Whatever the future holds, it is likely to prove impossible to restore in full the sanctity of life view. The philosophical foundations of this view have been knocked asunder. We can no longer base our ethics on the idea that human beings are a special form of creation, made in the image of God, singled out from all other animals, and alone possessing an immortal soul. Our better understanding of our own nature has bridged the gulf that was once thought to lie between ourselves and other species, so why should we believe that the mere fact that a being is a member of the species Homo sapiens endows its life with some unique, almost infinite, value?

Once the religious mumbo-jumbo surrounding the term "human" has been stripped away, we may continue to see normal members of our species as possessing greater capacities of rationality, self-consciousness, communication, and so on, than members of any other species; but we will not regard as sacrosanct the life of each and every member of our species, no matter how limited its capacity for intelligent or even conscious life may be. If we compare a severely defective human infant with a non-human animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the non-human to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication, and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant. Only the fact that the defective infant is a member of the species Homo sapiens leads it to be treated differently from the dog or pig. Species membership alone, however, is not morally relevant." (Peter Singer, 1983)

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Posted by ktneis

I cannot believe some people can be put into high profile areas to better our children and then lead them to the slaughter. He should be taken out of his position and maybe, not wishing it, but if he was stricken with a debilitating ailment he may come to his senses and repent and appreciate the life God gave him. To think that our lives, perfect or NOT are not worth more than an animal just angers me as Christ Died for Human Kind so we could be with him forever. This person really needs our prayers.

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Posted by HeidiHomeschools

......for stopping by my blog, and for your kind comments.
This is a great post! It's scary to me that there are people in the world that have these views~ very sad. Thanks for sharing.
Heidi

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Posted by hugs4Him

Beautiful. Wonderfully, beautifully put.

It is a sad, sad thing that Mr Singer's attitude is not only his own.

As you know I have special needs children & you're preaching to the choir, but I loved hearing the sermon! I also needed that boost, that reminder that raising my son, although very difficult, as been good "character training" for me!

Wonderful post.

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Posted by Majormom

Wow, do people with opinions like Singers get my back up! I won't even get started on what I think but you did a good job of putting it into words for me. Thanks for posting on such a touchy topic. Hugs, J

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