Every Human Life Has Value
Carolyn R Scheidies
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Our society has gone from valuing the individual to valuing what each individual can contribute. We debate quality of life rather than the intrinsic value of life. The further our culture moves away from its Judeo-Christian foundation, the more it tends to devalue human life and the more culture man 
ufactures a quality of life index.
After all, as evolutionists point out, we are merely the product of evolutionary processes with little or no intrinsic value simply because we are human life. Some even question whether human life is of more value than a horse or a cow or an endangered tree. Our quality of life depends upon not who we are, but what we offer society as though life were some sort of trade off.
But this nation, and this people, was founded on the belief that we, that human life, does matter; that God created a world in which every human life has meaning, and each person, regardless of size, age, or physical abilities, regardless of what some would term "quality of life, has the right to be alive and free.
Over the last couple of decades, human life has become more and more expendable descending into the realm of that nebulous term "quality of life." The news media has reported stories of parents killing their own handicapped children instead of loving and caring for them as long as they live. Why? Because they decided the quality of life, whatever it might have been or regardless of how precious that life was to that child, was not enough to maintain their parental role of love, security and protection.
Others have taken the life of another when they considered the person to be suffering too much. Another quality of life determination. Still others have taken their own life when they could not face life without all their abilities. A reflection, maybe, on how others value our quality of life? Life itself seems to be of little value on the quality of life scale.
What would have happened if these people had given up or society decided they weren't worth keeping alive and decided their quality of life did not entitle them to live?
After all, as evolutionists point out, we are merely the product of evolutionary processes with little or no intrinsic value simply because we are human life. Some even question whether human life is of more value than a horse or a cow or an endangered tree. Our quality of life depends upon not who we are, but what we offer society as though life were some sort of trade off.
But this nation, and this people, was founded on the belief that we, that human life, does matter; that God created a world in which every human life has meaning, and each person, regardless of size, age, or physical abilities, regardless of what some would term "quality of life, has the right to be alive and free.
Over the last couple of decades, human life has become more and more expendable descending into the realm of that nebulous term "quality of life." The news media has reported stories of parents killing their own handicapped children instead of loving and caring for them as long as they live. Why? Because they decided the quality of life, whatever it might have been or regardless of how precious that life was to that child, was not enough to maintain their parental role of love, security and protection.
Others have taken the life of another when they considered the person to be suffering too much. Another quality of life determination. Still others have taken their own life when they could not face life without all their abilities. A reflection, maybe, on how others value our quality of life? Life itself seems to be of little value on the quality of life scale.
What would have happened if these people had given up or society decided they weren't worth keeping alive and decided their quality of life did not entitle them to live?