Moral Outcry

As an African American woman, abortion survivor and general lover of mankind, I have to say that I am outraged over what is happening in Houston, TX right now. Even now as I write this the 2nd largest abortion facility in the world is being constructed in our nation. This is atrocious beyond words. What's particularly grievous to me is the fact that this death-center is being built right in the middle of 4 minority neighborhoods. Three of these neighborhoods have an average 85% Hispanic population and the fourth is 80% Black American. Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger's agenda from the start of her organization, was to use birth control and abortion to bring about black genocide.Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion movement of this day are not even attempting to hide their plans when it comes to sticking this center in the midst of minority neighborhoods. They likely don't have to hide them because they know we are not concerned. We are used to their tactics, and as a whole we are not too interested in challenging them. For most Americans, and most Christians, abortion has become normal to us.We have accepted it, we are familiar with it, and we don't believe it will ever truly end. This is upsetting to me. I want to challenge that way of thinking. We need to understand that abortion is more than a so-called women's right issue, or a matter of choice, like it is projected to be. The abortion movement in America has been and still is fueled by greed and racism. From it's infancy there has been a wicked plan behind it to wipe out Black Americans and those who are seen as undesirable. By our lack of knowledge and concern many in Black America have bought into this plan and gone right along with it, believing it is for our benefit.

This is the hour for Black America to rise up and take a stand for life!  We have been ignorant about this issue for too long. We have been complacent for far too many years. Right now there are cities in America that have more black babies dying yearly than even being born. We can't afford apathy any longer. I know that it's hard. It's hard to believe that this is really happening. It's hard to wrap our minds around the reality that millions upon millions of our children have died in the womb . It's like a horrible car accident that we pass on the road and can't bear to look at. But I am pleading with you- we have to look at this! We have to look at it , square in the face. We have to take the blinders off our eyes, open our ears and take a good, hard look at reality. If we were an animal we would be in danger of extinction. This is the sad but true and urgent, reality.

An African American friend of mine said something once that struck me to the core. He said " In the African-American community we value education, position, status. We are pursuing so many things to give us identity and worth as a people. We have been oppressed and downcast for so long, so we tell our children..." If you get a good education, if you get a good job, then you can overcome, you can make a better world for yourself". While education and jobs are important, there is something more important, it is our lives. Our very lives as a people, our very existence as a race is at stake. Is that even a priority for us, it is even on our radar that we are dying as a people group?  If it's not, we need to reevaluate our priorities.

Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. once said " We've been on this mountain for too long". It's been almost 40 years in America that we have had legalized abortion- legalized, government approved slaughter of our sons and daughters. It is time for a change. Black brothers and sisters, I believe from the depths of my heart that this change can and will began with us. But it won't just happen. Change doesn't just happen, automatically. Someone has to do something, someone has to say something, someone has to make it happen. Will we make it happen? Will we do our part in challenging this decree of death in our land? Will we rise up and take a stand, no matter what it costs? If our friends don't understand, if our parents think were strange, if our bosses and our co-workers think we've lost our mind. In spite of all that, will we stand? Will we give of our time, money, resources..whatever it takes to see this thing end?

In the days of old there were abolitionists who gave everything to see men set free from the chains and bondage of slavery. Their houses were burned down, their children were killed, their money was drained in pursuit of a dream. They dreamed that slavery could end and men and women could be free. They gave everything to see that dream come to pass. I have to say as a Black woman that there is a greater evil than slavery in our day. That evil is abortion. Slavery was a sore on our nation's history. It was despicable. But for all that it was, the slaves still lived. They lived, and though it was hard, so many of them loved God and had a painful but still a worthwhile existence. Abortion kills a child before it breathes its first breath. It is far more evil than slavery. If these men and women gave their all to a lesser evil in their day, what will we give in fighting this great evil in our day? What will history say of us as a people when we stand and condemn our white brothers and sisters for enslaving us but we are killing our own children and we don't care? What will we say when we stand before the God of heaven and earth. 21st century believers who have written articles, watched documentaries and stood in such opposition against slavery..yet stand silent now against abortion. We see the faces of the slaves that have gone before us, we look at pictures and we see the scars on their backs and the pain in their brows. We can't see the faces of the millions of black children that we have killed in the last 37 years. We can't hear their voices that cry out to us from the ground like the blood of Abel. We can't see their faces, or hear their voices, but that doesn't mean their pain wasn't just as real.

I plead with you, Black America. Hear my voice. I am an abortion survivor. I was minutes away from being murdered but by the grace of God I survived. Listen to me and know, this is not about money or politics, its about life. I should have died, and I am alive. That is what this is all about. I am the dream of God's heart. If I was aborted, his dreams would have been as well. 50 million of his dreams have been aborted already in America. How can we afford to let anymore of his dreams die? I refuse to let the dreams of my Father die any longer! I can't do everything, but what I can do, I will. I will pray, cry, write and speak until I see something shift in America. Until I see a massive move among my people. Until I see the chains of death broken off of our wombs and my people set free. Black America, we are no longer enslaved by white men, but we will never be truly free until abortion is overturned in our land and the nations of this earth. Our freedom will come at a cost. Are we willing as a people, to pay it?