Christians must stand against the dark and deadly logic of Lebensunwerten Lebens, especially right now where the commitment to the unborn is being tested by political loyalties. Our commitment must be unwavering, uncompromised, and kept a priority. The fundamental truth that all life is worth living is the bedrock of a healthy and flourishing civilization. 

The leading cause of death in 2025 was not heart disease, or cancer. In fact, it’s something entirely preventable.  

According to the World Health Organization, 73 million humans died at the hands of a greedy abortion industry worldwide. That’s the equivalent of 12 Nazi Holocausts in a single year, more than two victims per second. That’s about 10 million more casualties than cardiovascular disease, cancer, Covid-19, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and indeed every other cause of human death combined in 2025. 

An argument you’ve probably heard before is often used to justify this mass genocide: The preborn are merely a “clump of cells” and therefore don’t have the same right to life. This rhetoric has a long history. In Germany in the 1930s, Hitler and the Third Reich popularized Lebensunwertes Leben, “lives unworthy of life” to justify their mass extermination of Jews, dissenting Christians, and anyone else they deemed. This distinction between lives worth living and lives not worth living is always made, of course, by those who place their own lives in the “worth living” category. 

The Tutsis in Rwanda were called Inyenzi, or “cockroaches.” KKK literature reduced blacks in the U.S. to “gorillas.” The two million victims of Khmer Rouge were deemed “microbes” who must be “swept aside” and “smashed.” White supremacists at the Unite the Right rally spoke of the “anti-white vermin.”  

It’s not a jump then to call the 73 million victims of abortion mere “clumps of cells” instead of fellow humans to be dignified and protected as lives worth living. It’s a dark page torn from the same dehumanizing playbook. 

The dehumanizing clump of cells argument—our generation’s version of Lebensunwertes Leben—has helped justify the elimination of nearly 100% of preborn humans with Down syndrome in Iceland, with up to 90% of those precious image bearers aborted in the U.S., over 160 million tiny female image bearers in Asia, with sex selective abortion rampant in the U.S., along with the termination of one-third of black image bearers in America since Roe v. Wade.

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