Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and Christian apologist Francis A. Schaeffer issue a stern warning concerning 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. 1, 1939.... All state institutions were required to report on patients who had been ill for five years or more or who were unable to work, by filling out questionnaires giving name, race, marital status, nationality, 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 patients 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), 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 United States 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 concerned.... The Constitution called us three-fifths human and the whites further dehumanized us by calling us 'niggers.' It was part of the dehumanizing 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 question 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), 209.]

Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, we have seen 61 million children murdered for convenience and money here in the USA. Abortion is the premeditated murder of an innocent, helpless human being.

Worldwide, 1.3 billion have been aborted since 1980. More people were aborted than the 57 million who died as a result of WWII.

Every human being has a right to life from conception to natural death. 

Childen have the right to be born to a married father and mother, to be loved, to be nurtured, to be disciplined and to be protected—spirit, soul and body.

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 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 overdose of medication, or by withholding needed medication?

I was touched, influenced and inspired by the writings of Former Surgen General C. Everett Koop MD, Christian apologist Francis A. Schaeffer and Dr. William J. Bennett.

See William J. Bennett, The De-Valuing of America—The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992).

Essay 27 (Revised), from my eBook, Essays Exposing the Myths of Political Correctness.

Copyright © John E. Russell 1993, 2017

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