It Is Happening Right Before Our Eyes!

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When I was a young teenager, the movie Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, was popular science fiction. One of the movie’s most disturbing features was the government-run “Thanatorium,” where people voluntarily went to be euthanized. The experience was made as pleasant as possible: soothing music, beautiful images of forests, rivers, wildlife and sunsets—the last glimpse of a beautiful world before the lights went out.

At the time, it seemed like dystopian science fiction. But as with Star Trek, which predicted technologies that eventually became current reality, some of the ideas in Soylent Green are beginning to look less like fiction and more like a warning we ignored.

Consider the progression. Abortion was first presented as something that would be legal only under limited circumstances and within a limited period of pregnancy. This was horrific enough. Yet the boundaries have continually been pushed. In some places, abortion right up to the minute of childbirth is now legal! The philosophical line has increasingly become negotiable, there is no shortage of people willing to keep moving the goalposts.

The recent Clancy children murder, is a case in point. The “WOKE” are actually arguing the legitimacy of killing already born children! This unfortunately will not be the end point.

Now the same woke culture is increasingly advocating euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Canada has legalized medical assistance in dying, and physician-assisted suicide is legal in a number of U.S. states. What begins as an exception for people suffering from terminal illness can create an entirely new moral question: Who gets to decide when a person’s life has become too painful, too burdensome, too expensive, or simply no longer worth living?

That is where Soylent Green becomes particularly uncomfortable. In the movie, the government doesn’t present euthanasia as murder. It presents it as compassionate, dignified and voluntary. There are no screaming alarms or sinister-looking executioners. There is music, comfort, flowers and beautiful scenery. In other words, death comes with good public relations.

And history gives us another sobering warning. Nazi Germany did not begin its murderous policies with the Holocaust. Its regime first embraced the idea that certain lives were defective, burdensome or unworthy of living. Under the T4 program, disabled and institutionalized German citizens were murdered by the state. That history should permanently make us suspicious whenever a society starts dividing human beings into categories of lives that are more—or less—valuable.

The danger isn’t that tomorrow morning Montana will suddenly open a Soylent Green Department of Human Resources. The danger is the gradual erosion of the principle that every human life possesses inherent value simply because it is human, including the unborn. Once that principle disappears, the criteria for who deserves protection can change with politics, economics, convenience and culture.

The anti-life movement may insist that every step is compassionate, progressive and humane. But perhaps we should occasionally stop and ask where the road leads before proudly stepping on the accelerator. The culture of death is growing and it is evil.

Science fiction has a funny habit of becoming tomorrow’s reality. Let’s make sure Soylent Green remains a warning—not a government policy manual. Let’s start backtracking and stop playing God when it comes to this gift called LIFE!