The Right to Kill

 I missed the Vietnam War by about a year but was very aware of the disgraceful treatment of our veterans at that time. Imagine calling a soldier a “Baby Killer” just for serving.

We kill millions of babies each year in this nation, but if you stand up for the rights of these precious innocents, you are labeled a hater.

I don’t want any more laws. I pray that we once again value human life. There are birth control treatments out of the wazoo. To men and women alike, if you don’t want to be responsible for a life, don’t conceive.

Beyond that, I would like to see the same standard that we apply to our service men and women and those who serve in law enforcement used in these cases where killing a child is involved. In war, sometimes civilian casualties are inevitable. The standard is military necessity.

Sometimes, a law enforcement officer must use deadly force to protect the lives of others or his or her own. Neither the soldier nor the lawman has the RIGHT TO KILL another human.

Let’s apply a standard similar to those who support and defend our Constitution or those sworn to protect and serve when it comes to the killing of innocent children.

Yes, the woman has a unique position. She carries the unborn child but she does not have the right to kill. Just as not everyone is called to serve in the armed forces and not everyone is beckoned to law enforcement, so too, not every woman is called to conceive a child.

Let’s not delude ourselves any longer. Masquerading the right to kill as the right to choose is repulsive, especially in our Western society, where birth control methods are ubiquitous.

It’s more than a fetus. It is a living human made in the image of God. Killing such an innocent being is, at best, manslaughter and most likely depraved indifference murder.

There is no right to kill. There is a duty to care for and nurture children in and out of the womb.

Are there exceptions to be considered for rape and incest, perhaps, but there is no right to kill. Let’s quit hiding behind the language of the right to choose and call it what it is—murder.

We must not kill for convenience!