#130 How to give your child a longer life.

That was the headline in today’s Wall Street Journal in the health section. Immediately I thought, “you start with allowing *her to be born.”

Hippolyte has an interesting blog on “choice” and Planned Parenthood. He thought it was a joke when he saw the organization’s “Choice on Earth” Christmas card. They also had a similar "Choice" card in 2002. Choice, as he points out, is a code word for “kill” in this context (when used within a discussion of schooling, it means right wing conspiracy to give tax money to the Catholic Church). But what I found so interesting and very moving in the blog is his account of “once upon a time” he thought choice was OK too--that a baby was just some other impersonal collection of cells.

He concludes: "A holiday card that uses pretty designs to spread a message that is universally understood to refer to the killing of a yet-to-be-born child is completely disgusting. I predict society is waking up to this, and in time will look back on such brazen disregard with mystery and contempt."

Agape Press notes that Herod is alive and well at Planned Parenthood: "Herod the Great is most remembered for his decision to murder innocent children in his failed attempt to kill Jesus while he was still a baby. As the authors of the Life Application Bible say in their profile of Herod, "The murder of innocent children ... is a tragic lesson in what can happen when actions are motivated by selfishness" (p. 1645). Sadly, that lesson hasn't been learned by our modern culture. Millions of innocent children are the victims of a modern day Herod -- Planned Parenthood."

*More females than males, in all cultures, are aborted.