Does America value animal life over human life?
- Americans spend $4.7 Billion on dog food annually.
- 2.3 million babies are aborted in America each year.
- In 2004, Michael Vick was sentenced to jail for his involvement with dog fighting and animal abuse. The country along with PETA was outraged with this kind of violence. I am not saying that I am for that kind of treatment of animals, but I wonder if Michael Vick and a girlfriend got pregnant that same year, and then decided to have a abortion would he have been criticized by the public? The sad truth is no.
Have we lost the value of life or have we merely flipped it to animals? I love my dog Belle. God willing, she will be with us another year, but I would never put her life worth close to my three daughters lives.
Church, it is our responsibility, our call to stand up for human life. We have been made in the image of God.
As I type this, we just finished watching Marly and Me as a family. I thank God for life!
I have a friend who recently was attacked by his lab (yep, a lab…what they say is one of the most docile dogs, turned on him). He may lose part of his middle finger on his left hand and has lost sensation on his ring finger. so, not only is he facing this serious injury, but he had to have the family pet put down.
But Pete didn’t do it just based on this one incident. Earlier that day his lab had snapped at his little girl. He just couldn’t take the chance.
Now, Pete loves to work with his hands. He helps us out with CRM although he doesn’t attend MABC. In fact, he helped finish the Micah cold weather shelter on the morning before he was attacked that evening.
He probably could have overlooked the attack on himself, but just the risk of an attack on his daughter was enough to settle the point.
Was listening to a show on a Christian radio channel last week about the adoption of embryos. Seems this one lady had the idea after she’d gone to a fertility clinic, she didn’t want them to just “flush” the other embryos that would have been “backups” to her attempts to have her own child. Now they are working to have embryos from fertility clinics “adopted”.
Wonder how many Christians who would consider an “in utero” embryo abortion an “abomination”, have given any thought to the fertility clinic embryos.
We do the best we can with what we know, where we are, when we’re there.