Abortion: Modern Day Slavery

She's probably glad her mother didn't exercise her "right" to choose death.

Recently I read a book, “Amazing Grace” by Eric Metaxas. This wonderful book is about my new hero, William Wilberforce. Every American should read it. It is a story of a man to inspire anyone to action. It makes me ask “How can I, a weak thing of this world, make any difference?” The answer is: only with God! After reading about this man who persevered in his mission to stop the slave trade, I began to ponder many things, especially some of the hot current issues President Obama is putting into law.

This is a time in America of moral confusion and massive degeneracy. What does God have in store for the USA? Are there William Wilberforce’s out there moving into action? I pray there are. Can each American Citizen who has integrity and conviction let his voice be heard? Now is the time. We should all strive to stand strong and teach our children to be a Wilberforce.

We have our first black president. As many have said “We’ve come a long way since the time of slavery in America”. But have we really moved away from those dark days when black Africans were violently wrenched from their homes on the Dark Continent? It was the time when British, French, Spanish, American and even other Africans treated men who they could overpower as an object that could be stolen, and property to sell for financial gain. These captured blacks were sent on torturous trips across the ocean in the smelly, unbearably hot lower decks of ships. There they traveled in blood, and diarrhea, with sores and sickness.

The accepted belief of society in those days, which seem so long ago, was that these were inferior people; they did not need to be treated with the respect of the more superior white man. Slaves were immature creatures, undeveloped in mind and so could be overpowered and used by “better” men, they thought. Only with this ingrained attitude of society could people justify their injustice towards this black race. In their educated minds they told themselves these were naturally inferior people and so will fall into such positions of treatment by virtue of the natural way of things. Hadn’t it always been so? “Taking people and enslaving them was not a sin,” they reasoned.

If such an attitude and belief was widely accepted in America today wouldn’t we all stand and speak against it? I’m sure our government would say yes. But isn’t this same disdain for human life accepted in the form of abortion? Is it a sin to take people against their will? Who spoke for those helpless Africans so many years ago? People like William Wilberforce were a voice for those who could not speak for themselves.

Society and government’s attitude of the 1700’s and 1800’s had to change. Their eyes had to be opened. Slavery had to stop. Should people today turn their eyes away from aborted babies and say “That is how it is”? Are babies inferior people? Is there any male or female who should only be considered property to be used or destroyed for financial gain? No!

I ask myself how can a black president who is so proud to represent his people, ancestors of slaves, support the very same attitude as the slave traders of long ago and of the society of that time? All life is valuable. I would like to ask Obama: “Should babies be treated as the black men and women who were torn from their homes against their will?” Many slaves were murdered or treated so horribly they died. Should innocent babies who are aborted but born able to survive be tortured by being put in plastic bags to die? Should Africans have been put in the holds of ships to suffer and die?”

This is a moral issue. God gives life. Does Obama and our government have the right to say a living baby should die like this? Should not our government protect everyone’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Babies are not inferior, they are not property. They have the right to life just as a black African had the right to life and freedom many years ago in our land. Have we come a long way from the times of slavery? Do we treat all human lives equal or are some lives different and not equal? Obama and our Government seem to think some are not equal.

Should our Nation be forced to support the abortion of babies in our country (and other countries)? Should the curse that the slave trade brought to the British society of the 1700’s have been forced on them by their government? Should the curse of abortion be forced on our society by being allowed by our government? Governments should protect its’ citizens!

It took time to educate society on the moral issues and the ills and abuses of slavery. It took a movement and awakening towards God to open eyes to truth. Before God all life is precious and worth value, all are equal to pursue freedom. Because of this awakening in the 1700’s many men and women started standing up and letting their voices be heard. Only the arrogant men who rejected God fought against them to keep slavery alive. Arrogant, sinful, human, nature will always try to take others’ freedoms.

If Obama could be transported back to the times of slave trade and witness some of the atrocities to human life he would be outraged. If he were taken to an abortion clinic and forced to see a 6 month black baby aborted and if he could see the mental suffering of the mother of that baby what would he say? I wonder.

Let our voices be heard. And let our government hear us. Persevere like Wilberforce and stand with conviction and strength in God. Above all, pray our people will have an awakening.