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| The famous entrance gate at Auschwitz I |
Auschwitz-Birkenau consists of two main sites. The original
camp, Auschwitz I, is now a museum while at
Auschwitz II - Birkenau there are no exhibits or information boards and visitors
are simply invited to walk around the complex which covers a total area of 140
hectares. The roads lead through rows and rows of barracks and other structures,
of which for the most part only the foundations now remain. In two corners of the site are the ruins of the gas
chambers in which so many innocent men, women, and children, lost their lives,
being, for the most part, guilty only of possessing the wrong genes. After
spending the morning at the museum at Auschwitz
I we arrived at Auschwitz II at about four o’clock in the afternoon, just as it
was beginning to get dark and as the evening mist began to form. There were not
many other visitors and so we walked the ‘streets’ of Auschwitz
almost alone. Despite these ‘atmospheric’ conditions it was still very difficult to
comprehend the horror of what had taken place on the very ground on which we were
standing. For myself I was most forcibly struck by the tragedy while waiting for the bus that would take us back to Krakow and thinking of
the hundreds of thousands of my fellow human beings who must have longed
to make the same journey but who were never able to do so.
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| 'Subhumans' or human beings? |
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Both the Nazis and the modern abortion industry use
dehumanising language and pseudo-science in order to deny the humanity of their
victims. Advocates of abortion refer to the unborn child merely as a ‘foetus’
or ‘a clump of cells’ in the same way that the Nazis developed a ‘racial
science’ purporting to prove that Jews, Gypsies and Slavs were ‘subhuman.’ In
recent years the abortion lobby has even redefined pregnancy, contrary to all
established scientific understanding, in order to deny that certain forms of
contraceptive drugs have an abortifacient effect.
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Auschwitz has become
notorious for the experiments carried out on prisoners by Dr Joseph Mengele and
his team. The justification for such crimes was that they would lead to medical
advances and that it was legitimate to experiment on ‘subhumans’ if it brought
medical benefits. This is exactly the justification used by those who carry out
experiments on human beings at the embryonic stage of development. They
relegate these human beings to a ‘subhuman’ status and then argue that it is
necessary to experiment on them in order to find cures for medical conditions. In
both cases it is human beings who are the subject of the experiments.There is
no moral difference between the experiments carried out by Dr Mengele in
Auschwitz and those conducted by scientists in modern labs.[1]
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In the museum at Auschwitz
one can see punishment forms filled in by German guards seeking permission to
punish prisoners. These forms had to be signed and approved by senior officers.
This is just one of the ways in which the horrors of Auschwitz
were legitimised by formal procedures. Auschwitz
and other extermination camps were extremely well run, with clearly defined
goals, and conducted with the full support of the national governent. In the
same way the abortion industry also hides behind its façade of legality and state
support. By obtaining two signatures the taking of a human life suddenly
becomes a legitimate and respectable procedure.
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Legal formalities cannot however stifle the voice of
conscience. There is always a secret fear of crimes being recognised for what
they are. This secret guilt is clearly in evidence among the Nazis in their
panicked liquidation of prisoners and destruction of the gas chambers as Allied
forces approached the camps. It was also common for those involved in the
‘final solution’ to destroy any documents that implicated them. Despite their
inward and outward self-justification they knew that they were guilty of an
offence against the moral law and that this would be recognised once the full
facts were known and freely discussed. The abortion industry receives
enormous sums of money from national governments; they are given almost total
support in the mainstream media and the abortion ideology reigns unchallenged
in most of our institutions. Yet the smallest success by the pro-life movement,
the smallest number of people holding peaceful vigil outside a modern day
death-chamber, is enough to bring forth extraordinary expressions of fear and
anxiety on their part. They live in fear that those actions for which their
conscience now condemns them in secret will one day be condemned before the whole
world just as the crimes committed secretly at Auschwitz were exposed openly at
Nuremberg.
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| 'Subhuman' or human being? |
There may be some readers who remain unconvinced by the parallel that I have drawn in this post. I would like to end by reminding such readers that the Nazis also would have had no difficulty in responding to my post with a barrage of 'facts' and arguments that purported to justify their identification of certain races as 'subhuman'. Yet today we can see that this distinction is arbitary and their 'science' worthless. All those who support abortion, or any form of research or 'medical' procedure that leads to the destruction of embryos, are also making arbritary distinctions between human beings reducing certain categories to a subhuman status which leads to their deaths. I would urge you to consider upon what grounds you make these distinctions and whether your division of humanity has any more justification than that of the Nazis.
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[1] It is
also interesting to note that after Mengele escaped justice and fled to Argentina he
practiced medicine for a couple of years, during which time he reputedly ‘had a
reputation as a specialist in abortions.’ (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/11/world/mengele-an-abortionist-argentine-files-suggest.html)
