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In the days and months leading up to WWII, the Nazis had a concept they adopted that helped them justify their belief that certain people were not worthy to be allowed to live; it was called, “life unworthy of life.”  The idea of “life unworthy of life” comes from a nondescript little book with the chilling title; Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens, or “Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life: Its Measure and Form,” by professors Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche. The philosophy that Binding and Hoche presented, along with ideas they gained from the eugenics movement in America, led to the sterilization of German citizens, the killing of impaired children and adults, and eventually the Jewish Holocaust. There is great truth to the phrase “ideas have consequences.”

Some think it bad form to compare abortion to the Holocaust. I don’t. The killing of unborn children in the womb can and should be compared to the mass killings of Jews and others before and during the Holocaust. Also, the perpetrators of both events historically had a particular ideology that saw their victims as non-persons. For that matter, abortion should also be compared to America’s history with chattel slavery. Blacks, like the not yet born, were viewed as non persons; as property, and were treated in barbaric ways just like the Jews.

This Blog’s Purpose

But abortion in 2025 differs dramatically from slavery in the 1860’s and from the concentration camps of the 1940’s.

When our United States Supreme Court suddenly found a Constitutional right to abortion and handed down Roe, there were about 200,000 abortions in 1973. That’s 200,000 children killed before they're born in one year. After 1973 abortions rose to over 1 million children killed every year with an estimated total of 63.4 million by 2023. And even though the Dobbs decision overturned Roe and Casey, it hasn’t decreased the number of abortions women are having, because of the abortion pill, mifepristone, or RU486 as it is called in France where it originated. In fact, abortions will most likely increase and will be much harder to regulate and track as time goes on.

The subtitle of the book, The Nazi Doctors, is “Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.” I think that’s a fascinating subtitle and thesis. Robert Jay Lifton, a renowned psychiatrist, wrote the book to analyze the “darkest side of human nature” found in the German doctors who performed, quite soberly, the atrocities that were done on men, women and children in the camps.

I too am interested in examining why people do wicked things and why others support them. I am most especially interested in how it is that God’s people, people who name the Name of Christ, can justify abortion in the capacities that they do, and I intend to write in a way that pushes back against the narratives that lead Christians to believe that supporting abortion in any form is okay. What’s behind the push for abortion in this country? Why has this particularly gruesome practice become something of a sacrament in American culture? How did we go from the American Medical Association labeling abortion a “foul, unprovoked murder” to abortion as “healthcare”? My hope is that if we examine the presuppositions and ideas and attack the narrative that, over time, have resulted in the deaths of 63 million children and counting, the wickedness of those ideas will be visible to us and to future generations and we will stop whoring after Molech as we do. “When anything becomes exposed by the light, it becomes visible.” (Ephesians 5:13) LORD, be our Light and give us eyes to see.