Question 5.94
5.94 In your opinion, therefore, the battle of John Paul II against this âculture of deathâ is still quite relevant?
In the early 1990s, the pope, seeing the peoples of Eastern Europe sinking little by little into the oppression of materialism and moral relativism, which is even more insidious than Soviet ideology, initiated a great struggle. John Paul II had understood that the new attacks on human life were becoming a veritable social system, rampant slavery. I think that the Malthusian ideology is still just as powerful; his idea endures, and his plan of action is to promote anti-birth policies in many poor countries. Likewise, international statistics on abortions are horrifying. Worldwide, in 2014, around one pregnancy out of four was voluntarily interrupted. That means a little more than forty million abortions in just one year. What makes this figure even more ghastly is that the âright to abortionâ, that is, legal permission to kill an innocent baby, fortunately remains very limited in three-quarters of the countries in the world.
During the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, in October 2014, Archbishop Paul BĂši Van Doc of ThĂ nh-PhĂ´ HĂ´ Chi Minh, explained to us that the most tragic case in the world was Vietnam. Indeed, this country performs 1,600,000 abortions per year, 300,000 of them on young women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen. This is a real catastrophe for the country.
In France, 220,000 elective abortions are performed each year, which is one abortion for every three births.
A war has been declared against human life, with gigantic financial resources. How is it conceivable that so many defenseless children should be eliminated in their mothersâ wombs under the pretext of a womanâs right to control her body freely? Womenâs dignity is a noble, important cause to fight for, but it is not achieved by murdering unborn children. John Paul II had understood that wellmeaning intentions concealed a veritable battle plan against life. In Africa, when I see the astronomical sums that are promised by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to increase exponentially access to contraception for unmarried girls and women, thus opening up the way for abortion, I can only protest against such a lethal project.
What are the hidden motivations of these large-scale campaigns that will end in tens of thousands of deaths? Could it be a well-designed plan to eliminate the poor in Africa and elsewhere? God and history will tell us some day.
Euthanasia has become a new ideological battlefield of Western post-modernity today. When a person seems to have finished his race on this earth, some organizations, under the pretext of relieving his sufferings, consider that it is better to put him to death. In Belgium this ârightâ, which is not a right, has just been extended to minor children! While ostensibly helping a child who is suffering, it is possible to put him to death in cold blood. Proponents of euthanasia prefer to ignore the fact that palliative means today are perfectly suited to those who have no more hope of a cure; cold-hearted, brutal death has become the only answer. Euthanasia is the most acute indication of a Godless, subhuman society that has lost hope. I am astonished at how those who propagate this culture strike a conscientious pose and put on airs as though they were the heroes of a new humanity. In a strange sort of inversion of roles, prolife people become monsters to be slain, barbarians from another age who reject progress. With the help of the media, the wolves persuade the unwary that they are well-meaning lambs siding with the weak! But this just makes the plan of those who promote abortion, euthanasia, and all the attacks on human dignity that much more dangerous.
If we do not overcome the culture of death, mankind is headed for its perdition. Now, at the beginning of the third millennium, the destruction of human life is no longer a barbaric act but a sign of progress in civilization; the law takes a right to individual liberty as the pretext for giving man the option to kill his neighbor. The world could become a real hell. This is no longer a sort of decadence but, rather, a dictatorship of horror, a programmed genocide of which the Western powers are guilty. This relentless campaign against life is a new, definitive stage in the relentless campaign against Godâs plan. Nevertheless, in all my travels, I notice a reawakening of consciences. The young Christians of North America are gradually taking the lead to drive back the culture of death. God has not fallen asleep. He truly is with those who defend life!