I just watched some video clips of three baby pandas in
Guangzhou, China from their birth and filmed again this week. They were so
cute, making funny noises that sounded like those little horns you blow at
birthday parties. From almost hairless, now the baby pandas have distinctive
black and white markings and fuzzy fur. They are just now being introduced to
their mother, having been kept in an incubator and cared for meticulously.
Pandas are an endangered species, so each tiny cub is important. They’re so
important to zoos that the Edinburgh zoo paid six million pounds to the Chinese
government for the loan of two giant pandas, a male and a female.
I went out to the outdoor bench where I like to have my
devotions, and I decided the bench needed repositioned. Then I sat down and
noticed that, in the bare patch now uncovered, there were a lot of red
ants and just about as many little white pill-shaped packets, almost as big as
the ants. Those red ants were moving like crazy! Within just a few
minutes, they had moved all of the
packets underground, out of the sun. Soon, there
wasn’t a red ant or a packet to be seen.
I came back inside and did some research. I found out that the
little white ant packets were capsules containing baby ants. The ants didn’t want
their babies exposed to the elements. They protected every one.
Which brings me to human babies.
I believe that an unborn human is a child. Just
like an unborn ant is valuable to an ant, an unborn human should be valuable to
humans. Just as the ants protect their own unhatched little ones, we should protect our unborn children.
Baby pandas are cared for with white gloves. Unborn human children are butchered in the womb.
I read some statistics the other day: In the United States,
each year 121,000 people die from accidents, 580,000 from cancer, 600,000 from
heart disease, and 1,600,000 from abortion. Abortion is the number one killer
of Americans.**
I wish we were more like ants.
Thou shalt not
kill (Exodus 20:13)
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her
fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished,
according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the
judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for
life (Exodus 21:22-23).
**Statistics from National Pro-Life Alliance.
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