By Judie Brown
A BAND-AID is a temporary covering for a small injury that requires time to heal. The most well-known type of this injury is the skinned knee on a small child, whose mother affixes a BAND-AID after kissing the “owie.”
But BAND-AIDs cannot fix all the pains we experience; that requires much more work. Once we grasp this concept, we can turn to threats to life, such as how to stop others from taking the lives of human beings. When we do so, we readily see that using a BAND-AID to end the imposed death of babies or of the sick and ailing is nothing but an alleged solution without a realistic result.
In the current state of our culture, we see disregard for vulnerable human beings nearly everywhere we look. For instance, we see it in the case of the patient whose organs are being sought for donation. Physician Heidi Klessig writes:
Currently, organ donors receive absolutely no transparency about how their deaths will be determined prior to organ donation. No organ donor is ever given the information that any reasonable person would want to know in order to give fully informed consent. Do we really think the process will be transparent and publicly accountable going forward?
This is a troubling question for anyone who truly believes that agreeing to donate one’s organs means that the patient would first die and then his organs would be harvested. Obviously, that simple assumption is not reality.
Signing an organ donor card can be as protective of a patient as putting a BAND-AID on a gunshot wound. And we all know how that would turn out.
Turning to the nascent human being who is still developing prior to being born, we see the same sort of devious scenario.
In Idaho, voters will be casting their ballots on an abortion measure, which the media describes as a vote to overturn “one of the strictest abortion bans in the country.” In reality, that flawed law does not actually protect every preborn child. But as we know, the abortion proponents want clear sailing for the commission of any abortion for any reason at any time during pregnancy. And so the battle rages.
Pro-life apologist Victor Nieves wrote recently regarding the “burning building” argument of saving as many babies as possible:
Choosing to save your own mother, or in the original question the toddler, does not mean that the other party is not a human being with a right to life. The burning building hypothetical has become a favorite tool of abortion advocates, but it has absolutely nothing to do with whether abortion is wrong and does not disprove the fact that human life begins at fertilization.
Choosing who you will save in a terrible circumstance where unfortunately you cannot save everyone is in no way comparable to choosing to intentionally murder an innocent human being.
Indeed, once anyone begins to argue such possibilities, he is giving away the principle by suggesting that his BAND-AID is better than doing nothing at all. But that has never been the quest set before us as pro-life advocates.
Whether we are striving to stop medical aid in dying (imposed death) or murder by abortion, we must adhere to God’s law.
Our intention is to save everyone by ensuring that those we are striving to educate comprehend the truth that there is no such thing as a disposable human being—an individual we can choose to ignore while saving others. No BAND-AID strategy will stop America’s murder problem.