The government program “Aid to Dependent Children” is an example of when government steps in to help it creates another problem. Recently I was reading about Federal programs. Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) was created as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in 1935 and was intended to supplement existing state relief programs for widows and to provide support to families in which the father was deceased, absent, or unable to work. Families on ADC received support based on the number of children and the father did not live with the family. It appears the Federal government had a hand in destroying the family.
Calls for government to prevent abortions have given rise to laws designed to extend the legal concept of "personhood" to pre-born humans. These laws give legal status as a person to any fertilized human egg, from conception until birth. This includes the zygote before it has implanted, and according to medical science, implantation is the beginning of a pregnancy. These laws permit the rights of the pre-born humans to supersede the rights of the mother. Recently in the news a woman was declared dead but against her and her families' wishes she was kept on life support by the state due to her being pregnant.
Christians need to be wary asking government to enforce their moral views.
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