Thursday, June 6, 2013

UNBORN NON-PERSONS

 And they were bringing children to Him so that He might touch them; but the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw this, He was indignant and said to them, “Permit the children to come to Me; do not hinder them; for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.” And He took them in His arms and began blessing them, laying His hands on them.” (Mark 10:13-16)


We were discussing this passage during a Lent Bible Study. The Bible study leader pointed out that, according to some commentators, children in Jesus’ time and culture were considered non-persons. Then he asked us to name some non-persons in our time and culture. 

My immediate answer was, “The unborn”. 

What people are thought of as not being people more than the unborn?
In the First Century A.D., when Jesus Christ walked the earth, the dominant culture in His part of the world and well beyond was that of the Romans, who dominated other cultures and peoples with their mighty empire. 

Apparently the Romans considered children to be the property of their fathers. The father got to decide whether or not his children could even exist as part of his family. A newborn would be laid on the ground and if the father did not pick him or her up, they were left abandoned on the ground to die or taken in by someone else. If allowed to live, children were still considered property, like servants or slaves. 

Jewish children, as a rule, seem to have received better treatment. However, the idea of children as property was not absent, and Jewish families, especially poor ones, still sometimes abandoned their children, though usually making sure there was someone nearby who might take them in.

In any case, the way Jesus treated the children even His disciples wanted to turn away as unworthy, or at least nuisances, was radical. He declared and demonstrated that children were not only worthy, but that they were people that we could learn from and whom we should be more like.

Today, in most cultures, including much of the institutional church in those cultures, unborn children are considered the property of their mothers. Unborn child are seen as non persons, body parts that have been added through conception to their mothers’ body. These spare parts may be removed from the mothers’ family at any time for any reason, destroyed and disposed of before they can even be born. 

It is not natural for mothers and family members to turn their children over to death. This is something they have been taught to do by an abortion industry fueled culture of death that is over a generation old. Our culture has taught us to be silent about this and even to shout down opposition. We have learned the lesson well, even in the institutional church. 

Now, as in the First Century AD, Jesus Christ rebukes us when we treat children as non-persons and property. Likewise He rebukes us when we treat children as less than human or even as lesser humans. Jesus rebukes us when we directly abandon unborn children to death, when we give approval to those who do so, and yes when we fail to speak out and stand up for “the least of these”.

In the United States of America and in many other countries, we think (or we try to tell ourselves) that we are a civilized society because of form of government, our “education”, our technology.
But a society in which people will in any way participate in abandoning the most helpless among us to death is not a civilized society.  The fact that those people call themselves Christians makes them not more civilized, but less civilized. 


As Christians, Christ calls us to be more than civilized, He calls us to be Christ-like, to be like Him. He welcomed children and held them up as models of faith and what it means to be a part of His Kingdom, The Kingdom of God. Jesus calls us to do the same.

(Copied from my blog, "Choking on Camels", at chokingoncamels.blogspot.com )

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

RACISM AND ABORTION PART 2   


God created human beings in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)


In Part 1, we examined the history of eugenics and its racist core. Now let’s look specifically at the main tool of eugenics, abortion. We will see how abortion is rooted in racism, and how the goal of abortion is genocide, and in particular the genocide of the black race.


Linda Gordon, author of Woman's Body, Woman's Right—a major work dealing with the history of birth control in America—indicate[s] that Margaret Sanger "defended women's rights to abortion." In her own book, “Women and the New Race”, Sanger declares that “"the most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it." [i]


In “Racism and Abortion Part 1” we looked at The Negro Project. Dr. Dorothy Ferebee gave a speech in support of this project at its inception. She “…peppered her speech with the importance of “Negro professionals, fully integrated into the staff, ... who could interpret the program and objectives to [other blacks] in the normal course of day-to-day contacts; could break down fallacious attitudes and beliefs and elements of distrust; could inspire the confidence of the group; and would not be suspect of the intent to eliminate the race”. [ii]


“Sanger even managed to lure the prominent but hesitant black minister J. T. Braun, editor in chief of the National Baptist Convention’s Sunday School Publishing Board in Nashville, Tennessee, into her deceptive web.”[iii]
 

“[I was] moved by the number of prominent [black] Christians backing the proposition,” Braun wrote in a letter to Sanger. “At first glance I had a horrible shock to the proposition because it seemed to me to be allied to abortion, but after thought and prayer, I have concluded that especially among many women, it is necessary both to save the lives of mothers and children.”[emphasis mine] [iv]


It’s too bad Braun didn’t stay with his first glance, and that he didn’t put more thought and prayer into his conclusion. How he concluded that abortion could save the lives of mothers and children, much less that it was necessary to doing so, defies logic and Christian morality. The Negro Project to exterminate blacks, birth control and abortion are all very closely allied.


Sanger, by hiding the true agenda of herself and other eugenicists, managed to trick a number of black American leaders into supporting the project and the heavy use of birth control in disproportionately Afro-American areas. “They certainly wanted to decrease maternal and infant mortality and improve the community’s overall health. They wholly accepted her message because it seemed to promise prosperity and social acceptance.” But Sanger and her American Birth Control League offered no other medical or social solutions or support. Birth control was the answer to their problems in her estimation.[v]


Of course, as we saw in Part 1, once the nation became more open to more drastic measures, when blacks moved further away from slavery and oppression by winning their civil rights, abortion became the answer.

It is a tragic irony that elective abortion became legal in this country because the Supreme Court ruled, in Roe v Wade, that Texas was in violation of Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment—the same amendment that gave blacks legal personhood. Now, the Due Process Clause was being used to strip the unborn of legal humanity and human rights, and targeting blacks in the process.[vi]


Since Roe v Wade, Afro-Americans have taken a disproportionate blow to their population. From 1973 to 2008, 14 million black American babies had been aborted—over one fourth of their estimated potential population. More black babies were killed by abortion than by AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer and heart disease combined. With blacks being only 12.3% of the population, 36% of aborted babies have been black, making black women almost three times as likely as white women to have abortions.[vii] Detailed stats on black mortality in 2008 show 285,522 blacks died of all other causes while 363,705 died of abortion.[viii]


This lopsided number of Afro-Americans killed by abortion, this huge decline in the black population, cannot be coincidental. No, it is a deliberate targeting of blacks, and Hispanics/Latinos, as shown by this map, which shows how abortion mills are placed in areas with disproportionately large populations of blacks as well as Hispanics/Latinos.[ix]


A common response to this disparity by the abortion industry and abortion proponents is that it’s not targeting minorities for genocide, but that facilities are simply placed where the greatest need lies.

Yet they have long argued that they are trying to reduce the number of abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies through the use of birth control chemicals and devices. That should mean the black pregnancy rate and thus black abortions is down. But as of 2011, the pregnancy rate among black women was three times as high as that of white women. Black women made up less than 13% of the female population, yet had nearly 37% of the abortions.


“Virtually overnight, they went from claiming that they did target racial minorities with noble intent to claiming that they don’t target them at all.” They began quoting a fabricated statistic, not coincidentally put out by their own Alan Guttmacher Institute, saying that only one out of ten PP facilities were in minority neighborhoods. The mainstream media was happy to start printing articles quoting this statistic, which according to the map cited above is clearly false. 


The details of how Guttmacher Institute created this phony statistic is in a pdf on racial targeting and population control from Life Dynamics. Also in this document are detailed charts showing what the map also shows: clear targeting of minorities.[x]
 

There is also a unusually large number of minority communities with multiple “population control centers”. Of 116 zip codes with more than one of these facilities, 84 were disproportionately black and/or Hispanic/Latino.[xi]
 

Apparently, “the greatest need lies” in lowering the black population by any means, whether birth control or abortion. 


In a Live Action sting, an actor said he wanted to donate money specifically for aborting Afro-American babies in order to lower the black population. Not one Planned Parenthood employee refused the money or expressed concern about his racist agenda; many even agreed with it. Many PP facilities set up funds—out of our tax dollars--specifically for minority member abortions. “With more than 79% of clinics in minority neighborhoods, and more than 1400 black abortions daily, these programs are doing precisely what our actor asked them to do.”[xii]


Black female PP President Faye Waddleton later confirmed in a CNN TV interview that they received funds from people who wanted to have black children aborted.[xiii]


“The intent of Sanger’s Negro Project is firmly intact. Nearly 40% of all African-American pregnancies end in induced abortion.9 This is by design. Abortion kills more black lives (363,705)10 than all other causes of death combined (285,522).11 The African-American abortion rate is up to 6 times that of the white population (as in NYC where black babies are aborted at 5.8 times the rate of white babies).”[xiv]


“Abortion is the number-one killer of blacks in America,” says Rev. Hunter of LEARN. “We’re losing our people at the rate of 1,452 a day. That’s just pure genocide. There’s no other word for it. [Sanger’s] influence and the whole mindset that Planned Parenthood has brought into the black community ... says it’s okay to destroy your people. We bought into the lie; we bought into the propaganda.”81 [xv]



Is Hunter right, or is genocide too strong a word?



“Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, RACIAL or religious group, as such: KILLING MEMBERS OF THE GROUP ; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, CALCULATED to bring about its PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART ; IMPOSING MEASURES INTENDED TO PREVENT BIRTHS WITHIN THE GROUP ; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." African Americans are the only minority population on the decline.[xvi]



The abortion industry is undertaking the mass killing of a group of people of a specific race, the black race. They are also, to a lesser degree, imposing measures intended to prevent the births of black babies. It has already been demonstrated that they are deliberately targeting the black race in order to commit genocide, and that this has always been and is now the agenda of Planned Parenthood, by far the nation’s leading abortion provider, in particular.



So it seems that Dr. Johnny Hunter is not merely being an alarmist when he says genocide. He is also accurate when he says blacks have bought into the lies and propaganda. And he should know.

In January, 2013 Hunter “is quoted on Twitter criticizing the association between the NAACP and Planned Parenthood because of that organization's racist and eugenics history. Within minutes, after saying that Planned Parenthood has the NAACP on a leash, LEARN’s Twitter account is suspended and taken down. To put it succinctly, Hunter had been "Yetted."



Samuel Frederick Yette “was an award-winning journalist, author, lecturer and university professor. In 1964, he had been appointed Executive Secretary of the Peace Corp after which he became Special Assistant for Civil Rights to the Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. He later became the first Black reporter hired by Newsweek magazine where he rose to the position of Washington D.C. Bureau Correspondent.”



In 1968, Yette “wrote a book exposing high-level plans within the United States to use birth control and abortion as instruments of Black genocide.” Soon after this he was fired, under pressure from the Nixon White House. His award winning book, which was selling well and being used as a college text book, was taken off the market and Yette was dropped by his publisher.



Not much has changed since 1968. In 2012, the Presidential campaign of Afro-American candidate Herman Cain was gaining steam. Then he dared to remind the public that Planned Parenthood had been found by wealthy white eugenicists, and that PP was disproportionately placing their abortion and birth control facilities in minority communities.



Within hours of calling for the defunding of PP, anonymous women began popping up, saying that Cain had sexually harassed them. When Cain was forced to drop out of the race, these women disappeared as quickly as they had appeared.[xvii]



The accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain are well known, but the connection with his attacks on Planned Parenthood and their racist agenda is not. However the timing was too close and too perfect to be coincidental. Herman Cain, like Johnny Hunter, had been “Yetted”. The same has happened to a number of black pro-life leaders, from Alveda King (niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) to Dr. Benjamin Carson, who has recently been attacked by the mainstream media and abortionists for his pro-life stand.



The Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, NAACP and Jesse Jackson among others saw what was going on. They were the first pro-life groups. So what happened to them?  They turned away to promote their own liberal agendas and for profit. Jackson referred to abortion as genocide in 1969 and tried to pass an amendment to ban all abortions. He later flip-flopped to get money to run for President. The NAACP has ignored Alveda King and others at NAACP conventions, ironically blocking them with buses and covering window and doors with black paper. Recent NAACP President Benjamin Hooks said they would not discuss abortion because it would divide them.[xviii] Meanwhile the black race is being subtracted from at a great rate.



“The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968)



Dr. King was among a select group of black leaders chosen to promote a seemingly beneficial plan to promote healthy family planning. It was a plan of wolf in sheep’s clothing and Trojan Horse proportions. Dr. King, a man of love, peace, non-violence and strong Christian faith would be assassinated before the genocidal agenda of Planned Parenthood would be made public after the passage of Roe VS Wade. The abortion agenda is in direct conflict with the teachings of Dr. King.



Yes, Dr. King was offered the Margaret Sanger award in 1966. But he did not attend the ceremony, and the award was accepted by his wife Coretta Scott King. She, unlike her husband, was pro-choice. Her speech never mentioned abortion and talked about the connection between civil rights and the early efforts of Sanger.[xix] The connecting of the Civil Rights Movement with the “fight” for women’s rights to “choose” became popular. It seems unlikely that Dr. King, who always fought for justice for “the least of these”, saw the “right” to abortion as a civil right.



Thankfully, more and more Afro-Americans are discovering the truth about Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. They are dispelling the lies with the light of truth through many pro-life efforts and groups, some of whom have been noted in the endnotes of this document. Black And white pro-lifers are uniting in a common cause—saving the lives of our preborn children and sparing mothers, fathers and families from the horrors of abortion.



We are all created by God in the image of God, male and female, and all of our children have the right to live, as all of our human races have the right to survive and thrive.




Do you have any doubts about the genocidal agenda of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, as well as many in our government and among white elitists in our society? Rather than simply writing off this blog post, please take the time to check the end notes and read the documents and other documents referred to in them. Look up the groups noted in the end notes and read their writings; many of these groups have Facebook pages. Please watch the movie Maafa 21 on YouTube or in high definition at http://www.maafa21.com/


Please look into how you can participate in spreading the truth and standing up against the genocide of the black race and of other races in the name of “population control”.  All of us are human beings with equal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, created by God in His image.






[iii] Ibid


[iv] Ibid, pp 11, 12


[v] Ibid, p 12







[xi] Ibid, p 22










[xix] http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/martin-luther-king-unborn.htm (see links at the end for parts 1 and 2 a “Martin Luther King Jr. and Planned Parenthood” pdf

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

RACISM AND ABORTION PART 1  

God created human beings in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

In my last installment I demonstrated how “Slavery and Abortion” are closely linked by several core commonalities. 

It is well-known that at the center of slavery, of course, lies racism, the idea that skin color makes some people less worthy of life and freedom than others. 

What is not so well-known is that racism is a key driving force behind abortion.

It’s not that there isn’t plenty of information about the racism-abortion connection available. But just as a great many people once ignored or at least were unaware of the obvious racism that lies behind slavery, a great many people now ignore or are unaware of a likewise obvious relationship between racism and abortion. 

From the founding of our nation until the end of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, every aspect of the economy in every part of the country was invested in the slave business, whether illegal or legal.
When the slaves were freed, the economic balance was upset. The freed slaves had become a “liability”, released into the economy untrained and uneducated. 

Many whites, especially the elite, feared intermarriage, migration to the North, and being overrun by the black race.

The first solution discussed was colonization, “sending the Africans back to Africa”. This plan was rather quickly dismissed as rounding them up, loading them on ships, and shipping them off might appear too much like slavery all over again. The political climate of the times would not tolerate this; in short, it would have been politically incorrect. But a more palatable replacement was at hand.

Frances Galton was of a wealthy family that profited from the slave trade. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin, who himself believed the superior whites would soon wipe out the other inferior races. Galton only “rejected” slavery after it ended, along with many others wealthy white elitists who “founded” the “science” of eugenics. They believed blacks were “unfit” and unable to have or live in a civilized society.

The first eugenic attempt was to try to pit all whites against all blacks. But then (as now), there were too many people who either weren’t racist enough or who wanted to keep their racism quiet in this new era in which all people have been declared equal by decree and by Constitutional amendment. Also, just being racist didn’t mean that whites wanted to kill blacks. Such eugenics were too blatantly negative. 

Next was a positive eugenics shot at black genocide. The idea was to push whites to have so many children that blacks would be so outnumbered that they would fade out of society. But that clearly wouldn’t work, as the blacks were multiplying faster than the whites.

So the next genocidal move was to try to get blacks to have fewer children and basically commit racial suicide. However, as with the previous “positive” eugenics endeavor, Africans in America were not inclined to cooperate. 

Enter eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who taught that blacks were increasingly taking “us” over and that “we”, meaning wealthy elitist whites like her husband, were subject to their needs. She said these “inferiors” should never have been born. [1]

Birth control could make that happen, could ensure that fewer and fewer blacks were born. Sanger became the “front woman” for the eugenics movement, which bankrolled her. However, birth control, while somewhat effective, would still take too long. So she advocated putting birth control chemicals in the water and food supplies of certain areas of the country that were high in black and other minority populations.[2] This was also apparently too politically unwise and perhaps impractical as well. Nevertheless, there are advocates for spiking water and food supplies in certain areas with birth control chemicals to this day.[3]

Sanger was also an early advocate for abortion and infanticide. At times she spoke against abortion on demand, but on other occasions she favored not only abortion but also infanticide. In the very volume in which she had denounced abortion wrote, "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”[4] She was a chameleon, changing colors and appearing to change her ideas with shifting political climates or just in different circumstances with different audiences in mind. This situational flexibility held true in her American Birth Control League, later Planned Parenthood, and it does to this day. 

The country was not ready for elective abortion or infanticide, so Sanger initiated the Negro Project, in 1939. The key was “Negative eugenics focused on preventing the birth of those it considered inferior or unfit”, whether by birth control and sterilization, or by immigration laws that kept “undesirables” out and segregation laws that kept them separate from the rest of society to avoid interbreeding.[5] There were laws against interracial marriage into the 1960’s, sponsored by eugenicists. 

Indeed, Sanger advocated for “corralling” “inferiors” in segregated camps much like concentration camps.[6] There she probably hoped to spike the water and food supplies with birth control, more easily focus negative eugenics efforts such as forced sterilization, and prevent interracial marriages.

She “persuaded a few reluctant, yet incredibly influential, black ministers to join in her Birth Control movement. To dispel the rising doubts among those who objected to Birth Control on religious and moral grounds, Sanger wrote that “the ministers work is also important…offering to train him in their ideals because “we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members”.[7]

For years forced sterilizations were legal, and most states had laws for forced sterilizations. They started in California but were done in all areas of the country. The last state to have legal forced sterilizations was Oregon. “Oregon did its last sterilization in 1981 and did not abolish its eugenics board until 1987. Sterilization was disproportionately to blacks and the poor, often against their will. Welfare benefits depended on it, and that included their children, even to 10 years old.”
I
n 1969 a Planned Parenthood president attacked a eugenics board for a declining number of sterilizations, almost all of which were done to blacks.”[8] Many forced sterilizations took place in PP facilities. But while they continued legally until 1981, they were by this time on the decline.

Another attempt at black genocide, legal forced sterilization, was failing. As was a less subtle effort, the lynching of blacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups, and their supporters. The KKK was supported by Margaret Sanger and the racist eugenicists, and Sanger spoke at their rallies.[9]

The victory of the Afro-American civil rights movement and laws giving them equal rights, at least legally, spelled the gradual end of the plan to exterminate blacks by legal forced sterilization, and of the “contributions” of lynching as well. The eugenics boards asked the government to put birth control in the water supplies of “urban” areas. This was discussed in the United Nations in 1969[10], but once again this idea failed, at least for now. 

So what were the racist eugenicists, racist organizations like Planned Parenthood, and the racists who supported them to do now?

“What is striking is that lynching came to a gradual end in 1968 at about the time abortion was decriminalized, starting in Colorado in 1967, California in 1968, and New York in 1970. Roe v. Wade followed in 1973.”[11]
 
Racists dealt with their “crisis”, the end of legalized slavery, by instituting legalized birth control and sterilization, and by supporting lynching. Now they, through Planned Parenthood and other abortion organizations, had another lethal weapon, against their new “crisis”, the civil rights victory—legalized abortion on demand. 

Having given some background and history on racism and eugenics, in Part 2 we will examine more directly the connection between racism and abortion.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

SLAVERY AND ABORTION 
     
God created human beings in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:27)


Barack Obama recently pledged support of gay marriage, leading to a call for a national Marriage Equality Act. This has emboldened gay rights advocates in associating the plight of homosexuals and the struggle of blacks for freedom from slavery and for civil rights.[i]


During his gubernatorial campaign, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli “took heat…for comparing the anti-abortion movement to the fight against slavery.”[ii]


So which of these, if either, is a fair comparison?
  

The purpose of this article is to see if there is a connection between slavery and abortion. (For those who want to look for a possible link between slavery and homosexuality substitute homosexuality related terms for abortion related terms.) 
 

A chart equating the treatment of Jews in Hitler’s Nazi system, of blacks in slavery and of the unborn in a culture of legalized abortion on demand reveals several things common to all three.


Jews, blacks and the preborn were defined as less than or lesser human beings, they had their rights and freedoms as human beings taken away using the language of “choice”, they were a class of people who had things others wanted or were seen as keeping others from getting or doing what they wanted, they were seen as a disease on society or diseased themselves, and they were seen as a drain on society’s resources because they were unable to and would always be unable to take care of themselves.[iii]


Another chart comparing slavery and abortion shows these additional similarities: slaves and the unborn were both were considered non-persons and were treated as property, and they could be bought, sold or killed in the case of slaves, and kept or killed in the case of the preborn. Both slave abolitionists and pro-lifers were not supposed to impose their morality on others. Slavery was and abortion on demand is legal, and both by 7-2 Supreme Court decisions.



Further links between the two can be found by clicking, at the bottom of the page (below another chart showing parallels between reasons for abortion and euthanasia), a link entitled “Another comparison: Slavery vs Abortion”.[iv]


An article that discusses the slavery debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as well as William Wilberforce and slavery in England, points out further likenesses between slaves and the unborn. These include arguments that they have no Constitutional rights, that the Constitutional right to privacy protects the decision to own or kill them, and that because blacks and the preborn have been or might be abused, slavery or abortion is the best thing for them.[v]


In a blog article, Dr. Alveda King compares and ties together the three movements for the rights of slaves, women and the unborn. [vi]
 

The tragedy is that the slaves have been freed and women have their rights, but in the name of women’s rights the preborn have had their rights taken away from them just as women and slaves once were not allowed their rights.


It seems to me that the slavery-abortion comparison is not only fair, but that the parallels between the two are clear and shocking. But does it matter?


Yes, I believe it matters a great deal.


It matters because of a continuing connection between racism and abortion that will be the subject of my next blog article, coming soon.


The abortion-slavery correlation matters because anyone who is against slavery should be against elective abortion for the same reasons they are against slavery.


The enslaved were and are human beings created in the image of God, and thus of unique and sacred worth.

Likewise the preborn are created in the image of God, from the moment of conception. Human life begins at conception, and that’s basic biological fact, not religious dogma.[vii] The unborn are just as human and just as valuable, and they have just as much of a right to live as anyone and everyone else.