by Katie Schuermann

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Do you know what gives a child — any child — value in this world?

God’s love.

And do you know who God loves?

The whole world.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16, ESV).

The world. This includes every child created in a petri dish, every child stored in liquid nitrogen, every child disposed of by a clinician in a fertility clinic, every child transferred to a womb for implantation attempts, every child who dies from failed implantation, every child miscarried, every child selectively terminated in the womb, and every child born from IVF.

It has never been our means of parentage that determines our worth in life nor our right to walk the earth with dignity and purpose. Every person’s value has and always will come from the same Source: God’s love.

That means you and me and all of us humans are the same in this regard.

Never doubt it.