Posted on 05/06/2013 4:59:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 1854, Abraham Lincoln confronted America’s first “pro-choice” Senator, Stephen Douglas, in a speech in Peoria, Illinois.
“Choice” then was about slavery, not abortion.
Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which addressed the sticky question of how to deal with the legality of slavery in new territories entering the union. The Kansas-Nebraska Act resolved this by “choice.” Residents would vote to decide if slavery would be legal in their territory.
Lincoln challenged Douglas’s “pro-choice” position on slavery. According to Douglas, said Lincoln, “…the principle of the Nebraska Bill was very old; that it originated when God made man and placed good and evil before him, allowing him to choose for himself, being responsible for the choice he should make.”
No, said Lincoln. “God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice. On the contrary, he did tell him there was one tree, of the fruit of which he should not eat, upon pain of certain death.”
Our constitution, conveyed by the nation’s founders 65 years before Lincoln spoke those words, circumvented the question of slavery, permitting the great paradox of a nation founded on the ideals of freedom, which allowed slavery.
The struggle for racial justice in America – whether fighting slavery, or fighting for civil rights - has always been informed by absolute standards of right and wrong, of good and evil, that transcend even the cleverest human mind. Black history is testimony to where we wind up when those standards get lost.
Yet, once again, those standards have gotten lost. And, once again, black Americans are bearing the brunt of the cost of a nation that has lost its moral rudder. This time as result of wantonly legal and available abortion.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, blacks accounted for 35.4 percent of abortions performed in 2009, despite representing, according to the 2010 census, just 13.6 percent of the US population.
Let’s not be deluded that this is an accident.
Analysis of 2010 census data by an initiative called Protecting Black Life shows that 79 percent of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics are located in walking distance of minority neighborhoods – 62 percent within 2 miles of primarily black neighborhoods and 64 percent of Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods.
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, systematically targets minority women for abortion.
Before the Civil War, there were church going Americans who rationalized slavery by believing that blacks were less than human. This view was legally formalized in the US Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision.
It is not surprising that our first “pro-choice” Senator, Stephen Douglas, supported the Dred Scott decision.
Views echoing Dred Scott help rationalize Planned Parenthood’s targeted destruction of black children in the womb.
In 1957, Mike Wallace interviewed Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and asked her if she believed in sin.
Sanger, whose racist and eugenicist views are well documented, replied, “I believe the biggest sin in the world is parents bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they are born.”
It is a sign of these dismally confused times that it was our first black president, Barack Obama, who, last week, became the first sitting American president to address Planned Parenthood.
In his address, the President did not use the word “abortion” once, nor was there a single reference to the current trial and murder charges against Philadelphia abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell.
You’d think he was addressing Ronald McDonald House, not an organization that provided 333,964 abortions last year, disproportionately on black women.
Black unemployment and poverty rates are almost double the national averages. I suppose Planned Parenthood, with support from our president, and $542 million in taxpayer funds, feels it is doing its part to solve this problem.
If I had a time machine I would go back to ‘ 61 and urge a young Ann DuNham to visit a Planned Parenthood facility (or similar)
zero could have encouraged pp to seek out healthy families to adopt these unborn children, but he didn’t.
Thanks for posting.
So said wize Old Abe.
You know, liberal prison reformers love to point out the “unfair rates of incarceration of black and Hispanics”. I think the message of the “unfair and venomously intended high rates of abortions of blacks and Hispanic babies” should be amplified by prolifers in much of the same way.
“Choice” is always about presenting sin as an alternate lifestyle, whether that lifestyle is slavery, abortion, or homosexuality.
Margaret Sangar would be proud. She and Mr. Hitler agreed on the undesirables. And now the organization she helped create has blossomed.
No the police finally got involved because he was writing too many prescriptions and when they went to bust him they found blood all over the floor, walls and instruments. They found little babies feet stored in jars, they found baby remains stored in the freezer above where the employees stored their lunches.
My God what have we become? Our country is damned. I cannot believe the hoo hum attitude of Americans hearing or seeing this. 90% of them were black babies!!!
I am really having a hard time with this story, to just go on with our lives normally while this is going on in Planned Parenthood clinics all across America is so hard to take. Even worse the President of the free world goes and fellowships with those butcherers, and says God Bless you? The week the trial goes to the jury?
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