By Judie Brown
In Hinduism, the cow is a sacred animal. Merriam-Webster defines “sacred cow” as “one that is often unreasonably immune from criticism or opposition.” For our purposes, sacred cows are concepts that the culture of death deems desirable. Their motto seems to be, “The more people we can eliminate, the better.”
As illogical as this is to the thinking person, those who condone killing strongly disagree.
Consider the term bodily autonomy. The entire argument of those who practice the misguided theory of freedom of choice to kill oneself or another person hinges on this concept.
Speaking of autonomy, the Center for Reproductive Rights defines reproductive autonomy as the ability of women to live their lives with dignity even as they exercise their right to kill their own children. Add to this New York state’s legislative proposal affirming bodily autonomy to take one’s life, and the picture of death becomes very clear.
Contraception is another sacred cow. We see this in Pennsylvania, where lawmakers are concerned that residents may not have absolute access to it. Their answer was to pass a law requiring insurance companies “to continue providing contraception at no cost to patients . . . even if Congress rolls back the Affordable Care Act.”
Yet another sacred cow is the capability of doctors to decide who lives and who dies. When the Trump administration pulled back emergency abortion guidance in order to review it, the crowd went wild, or at least the media did. It appears that Trump may have muddied the waters regarding emergency medical treatment, including abortion. But the media swiftly defended a doctor’s ability to continue to kill, reporting that “several states have enacted their own protections to ensure emergency abortion care remains accessible.”
Sacred cows such as contraception, abortion, and assisted suicide go directly against the will of God and encourage man to become his own god; this results in massive human human casualties. Yet too many people just don’t care.
Such recent occurrences remind us that proposals permitting these legal assaults on others are contrary to the principles upon which our nation was founded. Casey Chalk noted this, writing that these pro-life principles are “counter to our increasingly post-Christian culture, which elevates autonomy as the greatest of all virtues. It’s also in tension with our culture’s acceptance of in vitro fertilization and surrogacy, which treat children not as gifts, but products” and by extension assisted suicide.
Further, he opines:
It’s not just that suicide undermines love of God. It also undermines love of neighbor, the second greatest commandment. As Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper argued, each of us has obligations to one another. . . . We have obligations to parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors, and fellow parishioners and citizens. We are obliged to love and serve them, and even communicate the love of Christ to them.
It is this obligation to love our fellow human beings that alone will undo the damage caused by a culture of autonomy, which literally means a culture despising the very Lord who gave us life!
Sacred cows are fine in India, but for us, we will choose LIFE and its author every time.