There are many tough issues facing our country today, and three of the
most perplexing are abortion, euthanasia, and suicide. In our "throw-away"
society, life simply does not seem to be as important as it used to be, and
many people condone these three types of murder as socially acceptable.
However, it is not hard to see that each of these murders is a sin, and are
very contrary to the natural law - which is always about survival at any
cost. In natural law, nature decides when a person or anything else dies.
Suicide, euthanasia, and abortion are easy ways to change natural law, and
so many people accept them today as normal, everyday occurrences. Man has
discovered it is simple to alter the natural order of things, and so he
does it without thought of the moral and religious obligations of his
However, the natural law of God and the universe dictate otherwise.
Abortion is the ending of a human life at the choice of the parents, rather
than God. God is the only being who should be capable of making that
terribly personal and moral decision. If God deems the child should live,
it should live. This is the natural order of things, and the reason the
child was conceived in the first place. God willed it. It is not the
place of the parents to take the place of God when choosing who should live
and who should die. In the natural world, the fittest survive and thrive,
and this is the miracle of God's work, too. He knows and understands which
should live and which should perish. Playing God is playing with the
natural order of things, and it is wrong.
Suicide follows the same principle. Taking one's own life is morally
wrong, and is a person trying to outguess God. Only God knows when it is
your time to go to him, and choosing to take your own life goes against all
that is good and right. As with all these choices, it is the "easy" way
out of problems and de...