California anti-abortion stalwart Walter Hoye blogged for Issues 4 Life Foundation last summer on "why African-Americans accept abortion." He finds that the Black church has failed to confront what he calls "womb lynching," and that today, as a result, a conceived African-American child has less than a 50% chance of being born: every 72 seconds an African-American baby’s life is terminated by abortion. At this rate, Hoye writes, the African-American race will be in danger of extinction by the the end of this century.
Why African-Americans Accept Abortion
The acceptance of abortion by African-Americans is one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century.
Abortion is nothing new and the reasons for it can be found rooted in the Church’s failure to consistently and effectively demonstrate the love of Christ in the terms of James 1:27.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Until the quality of life for women is improved by the practical applications of unconditional love, many woman will continue to be attracted to the false sense security abortion provides.
Abortion is not just another surgical or medical procedure that is hygienic and safe.
Abortion is an intrinsically evil act that gravely violates the dignity of an innocent human being by taking his or her life.
Abortion gravely wounds the dignity of those who support it and leaves those who commit it in profound psychological and moral trauma.
Marginalizing abortion marginalizes the sanctity of human life itself and dehumanizes the members of any society.
The freedom, independence, empowerment and sense of security promised women by abortion is a lie.
Can equality for women be achieved at the expense of murdering their children?
Of course not.
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.”
Abortion is oxymoronic, a “cruel kindness” if you will.
Abortion is the lie that promises to improve the “quality of life” at the “expense of life”.
Embracing abortion as a necessary social policy to guarantee life would ultimately result in the end of life.
Given that according to the 2006 U.S. Census the African-American community is no longer replacing itself.
The acceptance of abortion in the African-American community is a form of racial suicide.
During the Civil Rights movement African-American’s were willing to be hosed down by Fire Departments, bitten by dogs, beaten by police officers, unjustly incarcerated, financially ruined and lynched by racist white folk to secure access to water fountains, restrooms and seats in the front of the bus.
I believe most of us would assume that African-American’s would do more for their posterity than they would for the right to use a urinal.
However, if you assume this to be true you’d be wrong.
Today an African-American child has less than a 50% chance of being born.
Every 72 seconds an African-American baby’s life is terminated by abortion.
At this rate, the African-American race will be in danger of extinction by the year of our Lord two thousand one hundred (2100).
All this and African-American Pastors are strangely silent regarding the issue of abortion.
I wonder why?
Such silence allows the African-American Pastors to trivialize abortion by equating the killing of babies with other evils in the world when the numbers from pro-abortion communities clearly prove there is no comparison.
Such silence allows the African-American Pastors to politicize abortion by comparing Democrats to Republicans as if winning such a contest will bring our dead babies back to life.
For the record, since 1973 abortion alone, accounts for over fifty (50) million prenatal murders.
According to Father Frank Pavone’s June 11th, 2009 Blog entitled “One Solitary Child” …
“Worldwide, there are 42 million abortions every year.
That means that in the last thirty years, there have been over 1.5 billion abortions! 1.5 billion!
That’s the equivalent of approximately one quarter of the entire population of the planet!
One quarter of the earth’s population, murdered, snuffed out, gone.”
Such silence from the African-American pulpit allows Pastors to avoid wrestling with their congregation over two (2) potentially Church splitting and/or job threatening issues:
1. The biblical truth about abortion and
2. Why they support a President who does not publicly support the biblical truth about abortion and other biblically defined evils.
In my opinion, such silence from men called and ordained by God Himself to preach an uncompromising gospel at all cost, is just inexcusable.
Again, such silence from the African-American pulpit allows the race card to be played in the Black Church and the discussion to be moved from murdering children to whether or not abortion is a Civil Rights issue.
Yes, much has changed since the Civil Rights movement.
Segregation is illegal in all public schools and most private places.
While discrimination still exists in many hearts today, our country has come closer to the ideals of liberty and justice.
Still, why does it appear that African-Americans are more than willing to sacrifice their posterity for prosperity?
To put it bluntly, it appears…
The more affluent African-Americans have become, the fewer children we want.
The higher our material expectations rise, the more we perceive children prevent us from achieving them.
The more affluent African-Americans have become, the less inclined we are to take risks which might destroy our quality of life.
The more affluent African-Americans have become, the more we tend to only associate with the rich and identify with their lifestyle.
Thus, in a divided society like the United States of America, affluence creates materially comfortable prisons, emotionally isolated people and morally bankrupt protocols.
The Bible puts it this way in 1st Timothy 6:10:
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
1st John 3:8 teaches us that “… the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the work of the devil.”
Since torturing babies to death is incontestably the work of the devil, abortion is incontrovertibly evil and the benefits abortion promises are ALL lies.
Still, why can’t African-Americans see this?
Oh we can see it.
There is no doubt that “momma is pregnant with child”.
There is no question that a baby, an innocent human being is murdered every time an abortion takes place.
The biological evidence is overwhelmingly clear.
Human biology has been incredibly revealing.
The biological evidence for the humanity of the unborn child is undeniable, and even advocates of abortion rights now admit this.
Abortion is simply prenatal murder.
In light of Planned Parenthood’s founder’s (i.e. Margaret Sanger) racist and eugenic past, abortion is no less than womb lynching.
The facts are in now and it is painfully obvious who the baby is and what abortion does to him or her.
Oh I can assure you, African-Americans can and do see this.
So why is there such a difference between what we as African-Americans know to be true in our hearts and how we vote?
How can African-Americans consider themselves more religious than the U.S. population as a whole and support the shedding of innocent blood?
Read Proverbs 6:16-17 …
“These six (6) things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven (7) are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood.”
St. Francis of Assisi once said “Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”
In other words, it is time for the Church to speak the truth in love by meeting both the physical and spiritual needs of people.
I believe the answer is not in the White House, but in the church house.
I believe when the Church becomes relevant in the lives of the people …
The Word of God will once again be relevant in the hearts of the people …
And when the Word of God is relevant in the hearts of the people …
I believe abortion, anywhere and everywhere this evil exists, will come to an end.
So join me and let’s go to work.
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