Hopefully, it is becoming less mainstream to kill human life in our world through abortion. It appears that way in our area at least as an abortion facility planned in May 2013 in the 4600 block of South Claiborne Ave. in New Orleans has yet to get off the ground.
No work has been done on it in the last six months because most of the people involved in building it decided they did not want to be involved in a project that killed human life.Now who can object to that? Most of the people of this world would take a similar stand.
The killing of human beings, even of the unborn, is the worst evil we can conceive in a democratic society. In fact, we reach the same conclusion when it comes to the execution of the worst criminals our world has to contend with. Let us put it this way–if they are criminal to the point of no return, perhaps they need mercy so they can live in a prison, under guard. It is not necessarily our duty to take their lives away.
If there is some hope of redemption, they should be allowed to change in a way so that they will hopefully reform and possibly even benefit society. To kill them would end their possibility of reform and the possibility of proving they are not guilty of the crime of which they are charged.
Many have died for crimes they did not commit.
The commandment “Thou shalt not kill” should not only apply to just criminals, but to all of human society which needs to calm down terrorist activities that have confronted the world in recent months, especially in the Middle East. Look at the world over there–it is common practice to kill to satisfy their eagerness to get revenge.
But revenge is not a reason for killing, and it is not even a reason for hating. We must love our neighbors as ourselves even if there are reasons for questioning them. If we do that, there is never any chance we would wish death upon them.
And when it comes to unborn babies, there is never a reason at all to hate, and definitely not to kill.
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