Abortion… As Unthinkable as Racism

~ fundyreformed
John Piper has some great remarks on the connection between racism and abortion. The link between the two gives hope that as the one used to be accepted and now is unthinkable, so the other will fade away as well.
clipped from www.desiringgod.org
We should seek to stigmatize abortion by associating it with racism as closely as the truth warrants.
People today don’t oppose the enslavement of blacks merely because they think it’s wrong.
It’s easy to oppose it because to do so is fashionable.

That’s a good thing. It always helps when the right thing happens to be P.C.

So let’s be wise in showing the way abortion is closer to racism and slavery than people see.
The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case of 1857 held that black slaves were property without rights as persons, yet today we view that as unthinkable. So the Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade (1973) held that the unborn did not have rights as persons, yet we should hope and work that the day may come when that too is viewed as unthinkable.
Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 black people were lynched in America. Today more black babies are killed by white abortionists every three days than all who were lynched in those years (L.E.A.R.N.).
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7 thoughts on “Abortion… As Unthinkable as Racism”

  1. “Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 black people were lynched in America. Today more black babies are killed by white abortionists every three days than all who were lynched in those years ”

    Genocide…alive and well in the U.S. today…The saddest reality…the afflicted race is encouraged to “do the deed” themselves…

  2. While I recognize the importance of this, especially the racial eugenics of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. However, I look at the essence of abortionism as a RELIGIOUS mentality. The Old Testament is full of references, e.g., Isaiah 57:5 and Ezekiel 23:39, to a RELIGIOUS ceremony of child sacrifice. These were pagan prosperity rituals. That is EXACTLY what most abortions are about: “a child will reduce my standard of living.” I see every other issue around abortion to be so many red herrings, a distraction from what it IS.

  3. I think the abortion issue, as a visible and problematic issue, may very well be going backstage. Obama’s voiced intention is to reduce the number of women seeking abortion. What he doesn’t tell you, but I’ll remind you, is that abortion at home is here. That the FDA was bullied into dropping prescription requirements for RU-44 is very significant.

    Now, with 17 year old girls being able to obtain the “morning after pill’ over the counter, it is certainly not going to be long before 12 year olds, or their abusers, figure sex is without repurcussions. Simply take a pill within a week of sexual activity and “poof”….problem gone. While this may not be completely true (advocates claim only an 89% success rate), it won’t change perceptions and will surely encourage the use of this “mistake eraser”.

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