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In Our Modern Dystopia, We Treat Animals Like Children And Children Like Animals

With God and the Imago Dei kicked to the curb, it’s a Peter Singer world where babies are less than human and animals get promoted to take their place.

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It’s a shocking but obvious reality that an unborn baby in America might be better off as a puppy in some cases. Recent news stories like the nightmare saga of McKenna West’s struggle to save “Baby Gabriel” from an execution his biological parents attempted to force on her and Massachusetts giddily unleashing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy merely serve to underline that reality. The more we treat animals like children, the more we’re treating children like animals, and it’s disgusting and blasphemous.

“Baby Gabriel” (now Rumi), readers will be happy to know, “is now recuperating under the loving care of his parents and his heroic team of doctors, nurses, and medical staff,” according to the parents’ attorney. Of course, the only reason this is the case is that his surrogate mother refused the parents’ command to abort him and a court ordered them to get their baby a life-saving heart surgery. So the definition of “loving” here is, uh, complicated.

What’s not complicated is that Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed treated their son as something less than human once they found out he was less healthy than they expected. At that point, the baby-acquisition process became more like shopping for a goldendoodle. The one we picked out didn’t pass the vet check-up? Oh, that’s concerning — did you have any other males left with that cool color pattern? Only, in the pet-shopping process, the consumer just moves on instead of pressuring the pet store to off the pooch instead of giving it up for adoption.

It would be fabulous if the pet-shopping approach were limited to Gilkar and Ahmed, but it’s not. That’s why there are several seasons’ worth of true-crime horror stories involving biological parents (or mere baby-buyers) forcing surrogates to abort unborn babies — or just getting the abortions themselves, as is the case with Kate Dineen and Alex Lawton, “poster parents” for the Massachusetts........

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