Donald Campbell, Physician, Butte, MT (Photo credit: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library)Financial IQ Philippines Quick Hit(s):
A nice article from Francis Kwong. Sometimes even though it is more logical to follow one path... it is worth trusting your gut and instinct.
A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said, “Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even one year old, and I’m pregnant again. I don’t want kids so close together.”
“Ok, what do you want me to do?” the doctor asked.
“I want you to end my pregnancy,” she answered.
The doctor thought for a while. And after some silence, he said to the woman, “I think I have a better solution for your problem. It’s less dangerous for you too.” The woman smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to yield to her request.
The doctor told her, “You see, in order for you not to have to take care of two babies at the same time, we’ll kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we’re going to kill one of them, it doesn’t matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms.”
The lady was horrified. “No, doctor!” she exclaimed, “How terrible! It’s a crime to kill a child!”
“I agree,” the doctor replied. “’But you seemed to be ok with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.”
Human rights have become a favorite topic in the world today. Yet while they can go and talk about human rights, intelligent societies don’t really know what it takes to be human. “It’s just a fetus,” they say of the unborn. Amazing isn’t it? And that the proponents of abortion always come from people who are already born. So what about the rights of the unborn child?
This is what happens when you take God and The Word out of society. You hear such battle cry as: “Protect the forests! Take care of animals! But kill the babies!”
God knew you even before you were formed in your mother’s womb. He created you – wonderful and beautiful. That’s what my Bible says. That truth is where you find your humanity, your dignity in life.
But man’s selfishness has twisted how society defines humanity and life. But I pray to God that will not be the prevailing attitude here in our country.
Let’s talk about situational ethics.
Situational ethics is now being taught in many schools, especially in the West. But one teacher wanted to illustrate the faultiness of this human reasoning, so the teacher presented the following situation to a class of students:
“How would you advise a mother who was pregnant with her fifth child, based on the following facts: her husband has syphilis; she has tuberculosis; their first child was born blind; their second child died; their third child was born deaf; their fourth child has tuberculosis. The mother is considering an abortion. Would you advise her to have one?”
In view of these facts, most of the students agreed that she should have an abortion. The teacher then declared, “If you said ‘Yes’, you would have just killed the great composer Ludwig von Beethoven!”
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