The Bookends of Humanity

This morning I awakened with thoughts of the “bookends” of humanity: the unborn and the elderly.  The rest of humanity is pressed between these two ends without whom we would cease to exist.  If we hold no value and have no respect for the beginning and the end of human life, we will have none for the rest, as is evidenced throughout the world today.  Consider this - in the earliest throes of accepting and embracing abortion, the elderly were, for the most part, still respected and honored in their families and society as a whole.  The family came together in the care and nurturing of their aging elders.  As the abortion industry has grown, so has the industry of “care” for the elderly.  It is now considered selfish for one to hope their children will care for them as they age.  In fact, it is quickly becoming a most honorable thing to turn one’s self over to a facility when they can no longer care for themselves or, better yet, to commit suicide [euthanasia] so as to avoid excessive cost and inconvenience to the family and society. 

So, what was once considered precious new life and honorable old age is now inconvenient life on both ends with any value at all being only relative to what the pregnant woman and/or those around her “feel” about the unborn child or how the family members “feel” about their elderly.  Need I expound on where this “relative to feeling” train is headed??