Listen carefully to what Devin's mother says. Had she known she were a carrier for Fragile X Syndrome, she would have had her eggs fertilized outside of her womb, tested, and implanted only healthy eggs. This son whom she obviously loves and adores would not have been born. She would rather have his just forming life destroyed than let him be born with a disability.
This is what we are doing with the gift of genetic testing? Reverting to eugenics- from which the science of genetics evolved? What kind of people can reason like this?
Oh, that's right. All of us.
The human heart is deceitful and desperately sick. (Jeremiah 17:9) We live in sin and obey the devil, the one at work in the sons of disobedience. We've all lived that way, following the inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature, we are subject to God's wrath. (Ephesians 2:1-3)
God says to take tender care of the weak. (1 Thessalonias 5:14) He commands we learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, and plead the widow's cause. (Isaiah 1:17)
But we don't do it, and so God's justice demands consequences. The wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:23) But, God in His great mercy, sent His Son as a propitiation, to absorb the wrath of God and to suffer our consequences. The good news is that, God showed His love for us in that while we were still sinning Christ died for us. And now all who repent and believe in Christ and his work on the cross will be saved. (Romans 3:21-26, Mark 1:15)
We're then given a new nature. No longer children of wrath, we are children of God. (Romans 8:15, Titus 3:7), heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17), given His righteousness (1 Corinthinas 1:30). And, now, we're told to renew our minds (Ephesians 2:23).
So, we don't reason like Devin's mom anymore. With our renewed minds, we know that as God knit Devin in his mother's womb, Devin's form was not hidden from God. God knew Devin had Fragile X Syndrome. And, yet, Devin was fearfully and wonderfully made, a wonderful work. How precious are God's thoughts toward Devin! And Devin's mother. (Psalm 139:13-16)
And also with our renewed minds, as we now seek God and His ways, we do as He commands. We stand up for the weak, needy, poor, oppressed, and the very, very tiny. We love justice. We show the hope of God to Devin's mom and to Devin.
We don't let murder in the name of genetic testing just happen. We do something about it.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (Proverbs 14:12)
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