1985 September/October issue Part 2

Disposable Children

A ruling of the internal Revenue Service now allows parents a tax exemption if a child intended for abortion lives for any length of time. The breathtakingly fancy mental footwork necessary to justify such action goes something like this: what was meant to be discarded is not a child. It is called a "p.o.c." (product of conception, which of course is what children and all the rest of us are). The bad news is that this disposable tissue, this mere scrap of Kleenex, turned out to be a child and (alas) was born. The good news is that you can get a tax exemption for a dependent child. The best news is that its dependence is only temporary. Call it a child, then, till you get your money. You need not go to the trouble of keeping it.
You can call it tissue again and toss it out. Thus the abortionist's mistake becomes the taxpayers windfall, and the doctor who orders the child abandoned (i.e., killed by neglect and sometimes by active means) is not charged with murder but paid for what is now called a post-natal abortion. Now will you stand up against the outrage called "pro-choice"? Now do you understand its implications? "Because they have not seen fit to acknowledge God, he has given them up to their own depraved reason. This leads them to break all the rules of conduct. They are filled with every kind of injustice, mischief, rapacity, and malice....... They are without natural affection and without pity" (Romans 1:28, 29, 31 NEB).