“For government is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong…” Romans 13:4 (HCSB)
At the risk of being perceived by some as “political”—despite the reality of this verse in Romans that explicitly declares the role of human government in God’s creation, and despite the fact that God has ordained His church to be the moral compass of such government, directing as to what is right and what is wrong—I must weigh in on the most pressing debate in our country in 2009: the health care issue.
It’s known as HR 3200, a 1,000-page tome that essentially creates a health care system operated by the federal government and funded by we the taxpayers. Cost estimates for this system range upwards into the trillions of dollars—more money than we can fathom with our limited minds.
The debatable details of this proposed health care system almost seem infinite. But as I have read through a fairly good portion of this bill, one issue became a glaring red flag in my mind: the sanctity of human life.
And I don’t see where this bill views all of human life as sacred and worth preserving.
To what do I refer?
Section 122 of the bill [Section 122 (b)(8)] describes minimum care that would be covered would include “preventive services.” These “preventive services” would be recommended by a Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services.
Ah, now here is where more is said by what is not written than by what is written. “Preventive Services” could be defined by some—especially given the position of the current White House administration—to include elective pregnancy termination, or abortion. Follow me with this line of thought:
Someone in the White House will be selecting this Task Force on Clinical Preventive Services. Is it not reasonable to conclude that this Task Force will include someone with ties to Planned Parenthood?
If that is the case, is it not reasonable to conclude that this Task Force would see elective abortion as a “preventive service?”
And, if HR 3200 is the reform on American health care that would create a government-run health care option, then Section 122 (b)(8) would open the door for elective abortion to be funded with taxpayer money.
And, because there is nothing in this bill that specifically excludes abortion as a funded service, and since the Supreme Court has already said that since abortion was not specifically excluded in the United States Constitution and is therefore a constitutionally protected right, you can be assured that should this bill be signed into law, your money and mine will go to funding elective abortions on a national level.
I have to say, I have a hard time trusting a government that does not view all of human life as being sacred and precious, especially when that government desires to enter whole-hog into the health care industry. And if that government cannot produce a health care takeover bill that specifically excludes federally funding abortion, what else in that bill would demonstrate little regard for the preciousness of human life?
Again, it all comes back to the issue of personhood. When does a human become a person? We have a president who admitted that such a question is above his pay grade, yet he is dictating national policy that declares the unborn the right of personhood. This president desires to install a public health care system that will be administered by like-minded officials. And if they agree that the unborn are not persons, who else will lose their personhood status? The terminally ill? Those on long-term life support?
A slippery slope indeed. I want no part of it.
