Posted by
Bowe Hoy on Sunday, November 09, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Dr. Alveda C. King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, has written a profound article, "
A Convenant with Life: Reclaiming MLK's Legacy". Dr. King's article is profound in many ways by revealing: 1) MLK's support of life and the Republican Party; 2) the Democratic Party's long history of supporting slavery, racial discrimmination, and abortion; 3) the terrible consequences of abortion on women (including her own personal story), the black community, and society; and 4) the effects of removing Judeo-Christian principles out of government, schools, and the family.
Here is an excerpt from the article:
Dr. 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.” How can the “Dream” survive if we murder our children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her mother. In the hands of the mother is the fate of that child —whether the child lives or dies — a decision given to the mother by
Roe v. Wade. That choice, the final choice of whether the child lives or dies, should be left to God, Who ultimately says “choose life!”.
I join the voices of thousands across America, who are SILENT NO MORE. We can no longer sit idly by and allow this horrible spirit of murder to cut down, yes cut out and cut away, our unborn and destroy the lives of our mothers.
Well said, Dr. King. The comparison between abortion and slavery is one that needs to be communicated. It took years and years for abolitionists to finally convince the public of the evils of slavery. For a long time the public sentiment was that abolitionists were narrow minded, religious zealots who had no right to impose their moral views on everyone else. People should have the freedom to choose to own slaves, they said, no one should infringe on that private matter. Sound familiar? But eventually, after years and years of blood, sweat, tears, and toil by abolitionists - the public finally woke up to the realities of slavery. Pro-lifers are facing many of the same obstacles and challenges today that abolitionists faced years ago. And our goal is the same - to outlaw an evil practice that has been condoned by society and government for too long.
Two victories which pro-lifers have won recently are the partial birth abortion ban and the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, both of which were vehemantly opposed by President Elect Barack Obama. On this issue, Dr. King asks these two haunting questions, "
Who can hear the silent cry of each baby who is artificially breached before coming to term in his or her mother’s womb, only to have her skull punctured, and feel, yes agonizingly 'feel', the life run out of her before she takes her first breath of freedom? Who among us is so cold-blooded as to vote to deny health care to a baby born alive during a late-term abortion and allow that baby to die?" Cold-blooded is accurate, if not understated considering that our president elect voted against the born alive bill four times. Since Mr. Obama is not sympathetic to the loud cries of a premature baby born alive due to a botched abortion, it is not surprising that he is oblivious to the silent cries of babies who are victims of the barbaric partial birth abortion "procedure".
Unfortunately, Obama's callousness toward the most helpless victims, the unborn, will perpetuate the inflicting of pain on another set of victims - the black community. Dr. King revealed a fact that has been largely ignored by the media and the black community, "There is a crisis in our community of our own making. The abortion rate in black communities is three times that of whites and twice that of Hispanics, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research group." The abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, has specifically targeted blacks, specifically in low income areas. The black community needs to realize what his happening. Black babies are being aborted at an astounding rate. This fact makes the overwhelming support of Obama by the black community - 95% by many observers - astounding and disheartening. Obama is the man whom many blacks are counting to be their source of "hope". But Obama is also the man who does not believe that certain children - many of whom are black - deserve the same hope that he aspires to deliver. The irony and hypocrisy would be comical if it wasn't so tragic.
Kudos to Dr. King for her courage to reveal the truth with conviction and grace. Kudos to her late uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, for his lifelong fight to provide life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to all - born and unborn.