When Humans are Reduced to Animals, Abortion and Euthanasia are Easier to Justify

Ultrasound of Unborn Baby

By Wesley Smith
Life News

There is too much anti-humanism around these days, efforts large and small that either state–or insinuate–that we are just another animal in the forest.
Here’s a small example that I think it is worth noting for those who care about human exceptionalism. In an otherwise interesting story about how a company is soon to market “leather” made from yeast, The Economist reporter slips in a gratuitous anti-human meme:

The whole leather industry, based as it is on animal hides, is vulnerable these days to sensibilities about the relationship between human beings and other animals that would scarcely have crossed peoples’ minds in former years.

The objectionable term is “other animals.”

The anonymous reporter could just as easily have written, “about the relationship between human beings and animals,” and the sentence would have lost none of its meaning.

Why didn’t he or she? My bet is that the reporter was inserting ideology into the story.

That ideology is that humans are just animals, with no greater or lesser worth than other species.

We see a lot of that these days in some areas of scientific discourse and, as here, in the popular media.

Human/animal moral equivalence is certainly the meaning of the animal rights mantra, “a rat, is a pig, is a dog, is a boy,” coined by PETA’s alpha wolf, Ingrid Newkirk.

Of course we are animals in the strictly biological sense, as are clams, flies, and bacteria. But not in the moral sense. 

There is an important distinction we must maintain. Humans are morally different from animals. Our lives matter more because we are more than the mere sum of our biology.

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Blogger's comment: 

Scripture tells us we are made in the image and likeness God, our Creator. We are told to be fruitful and multiply. He gave us dominion over the animals. Genesis 1:26-28 

Either human life is sacred or it is not.  Those who do not have a Biblical worldview are destined to define humans as souless mammals, no different than any form of life. Thereby justifying the killing of unborn children, euthanasia and assisted suicide.