Feticide: Greatest threat to mankind| Syro Malabar church Laity Forum
The whole of Kerala state was shaken by the discovery of the dead body of a newborn baby in the middle of the road in Panampilly Nagar,Kochi. Today, we are living in Kerala where people glorify feticide. We never have the right to annihilate a life on the earth. Any law that gives such rights is inhumane and immoral. There should be a legal system to provide severe punishments against such crimes.
“Thou shalt not kill” is a meaningful and vivid thought that should stand up as a wall protecting the fundamental value of our human relations. The fundamental value of human relations is the value of life. Therefore, no one should kill anyone. One of the biggest threats to life today is feticide. Every day the news media reports such homicides.
It can be said that the summary of all the evils happening in the world is contempt for life. Life is attacked by wars and organizations that exploit human beings. The value of life is attacked by gambling on creation, by throwaway culture, and by systems that subject humanity to calculations of utility. Deplorable conditions exist where many have to live in subhuman conditions. This is contempt for life. The worldly images against human life are wealth, comfort, power, and achievement. These are false standards that determine the value of life.
Indian laws that allow abortion of unborn babies up to 24 weeks old are immoral. Abortion on the grounds of physical and mental infirmities, extramarital affairs and rape cannot be justified. A human child is being sentenced to death for something he had no part in doing. It is most immoral, unjust and cruel.A country like India with a people deeply aware of the value of life and a culture that values life, legalizing feticide is not the right thing to do. The laity forum opines that this is not only promoting the culture of death, but also promoting the situational morality that “terminating unborn babies is not wrong doing”.
Tony Chittilappilly, Laity Forum Secretary
Syro Malabar Church,
