Human Life is Precious as Gold for Sale

“Human Life is precious” - that is the message we often hear: “Human Life is precious”. We all know how delightful it is to hear a small child laugh or to look into the trusting eyes of a newborn. And when we look into the eyes of our own son or daughter our joy is even greater. But beyond the intrinsic value of a human being there is an economic value as well. Will there be enough younger workers to keep the social security going? Will there be people to purchase all the manufactured goods and all the “services” and pharmaceuticals? Will there be enough people - with the right skills - to defend our country?

Human Life is precious . However to many entities human life is precious only because of the income that can be realized from a human life - it is the “price tag” that makes human life precious. This is especially true now that so many people are putting wealth and their own interests first and waiting too long to reproduce. Aging, desperate for a baby - and sometimes quite wealthy - some infertile people will pay any sum in order to get a baby “of their own”. Singles and gays also hope to adopt or otherwise obtain an unrelated child. This is great news for adoption businesses and for those businesses who broker the raw materials needed to create a baby - including human eggs, human sperm and now even frozen human embryos.

Human life may be considered “precious” but any real respect for human life has gone completely down the drain. Human life is no longer intrinsically precious.. “It” is precious based on “it’s” DNA, looks, health and potential. “It’s” ancestors are usually not even mentioned or if ancestors do happen to be mentioned they are referred to in dehumanizing terms as “genetic parent”, “birthmother” or “birth family health history”. In an attempt to get more raw materials to make babies and more babies for adoption, the very real human life from which the “desired life” springs is demoted to the lowest status possible, the status of a breeder of babies for the wealthy.

Many “Christian” people insist upon decimating families that are not of the “family unit” type. They rationalize that forced adoption is better than forced abortion - the only two “choices” they are willing to consider for families with single parents. For males, offering only these two “choices” is ideal - because it means that males need not concern themselves with either pregnancy prevention or with taking responsibility for their own child if they are not married to their child’s mother.

Churches love to promote the phrase “human life is precious” - but unfortunately it seems even for churches, the economic value of human life trumps the intrinsic value of human life. It’s hard to believe that the “experts” are not aware of the harm they cause mothers and their children when they are separated for adoption. For churches, providing “adoption services” is a great “fund-raiser”. “Adoption services” nets them plenty of donations (for this “charitable” work) and of course the church adoption agencies charge fees for “counseling” services designed to get more babies for their real clients, the adopters.

They say "things have changed" - but with adoption things have not changed except to become more devious and competitive.

Rather than churches helping the poor, churches remove the healthy, desirable babies of the “poor” (often naïve Christian college students) and sell the babies as indulgences to those whose marriages are not “blessed by God”. In earlier centuries, when people could not reproduce their marriages were annulled. Infertility is not a measure of “goodness”. Infertility may be the result of STDs, overweight, environmental toxins, bad habits like drinking or smoking, drug use or may result from an infection following an abortion. For males, even holding a laptop on their lap can lead to increased body temperature and infertility. Yet, churches seek to “save” these marriages through the sale of human life.

And because churches have been promoting adoption and selling human life for so long now, how can people comprehend that making even  more “artificial orphans” through adoption or reproductive technologies will cause suffering? It’s not a desirable thing to be an orphan, cut off from family. Do Americans really want to fund “Embryo Adoption Awareness Training” making it so that clinics will be encouraged to make more “spare” embryos in order to offer them for sale? Do United States citizens want “reproductive tourism” to the United States which is known for allowing it’s citizens to be used as incubators and as the source of raw materials to make babies?

Human life used to be considered more precious than gold but now Human Life - is only precious as gold for sale.