Elective Amputations and Abortion

Receptionist: Good morning, welcome to our clinic. How my I help you?

Patient: Yes, good morning, I'd like to have my eyes removed.

Receptionist: Alright, and is there a problem with your eyes?

Patient: Well, no, they're perfectly healthy. I'd just like to have them removed.

Receptionist: Ah. I see. Well just have a seat and the doctor will be right with you.

...15 minutes and two magazines later....

Doctor: Hello, would you come on back now, please?

Patient: Thank you.

Doctor: We'll be removing your eyes today, is that correct?

Patient: Yes, that's right.

Doctor: No problem. That is, of course, your right to do so, and we want to respect that. Now if you'll lie down, this won't take long at all. Just let me grab my melon baller and some scissors...


Absurd, right? What could be more so. If you or I walked into a doctor's office anywhere and asked for a healthy body part to be removed, we would be refused service without so much as the bat of an eye. There would be no crisis counseling to prepare us for the procedure and no concern that we'd go out to some back alley and remove the offending part ourselves with a rusty knife if we are refused service. No medical professional would so much as entertain the idea, and besides, there isn't a health care plan or system on the planet that covers random removal of body parts at the patient's whim.

Yet, everyday across this nation women enter clinics of abortionists and have healthy babies removed from their bodies as easy as you please - and many people want their health care to cover it. And as certainly as a procedure to remove a healthy right leg or a left eyeball would effectively cripple the patient, an abortion would do (and does) equal damage to a person's heart, mind and soul, not to mention that it mercilessly snuffs another life in the process.

*Credit goes to the administrative assistant in our church office for this interesting angle on the abortion issue.