Moral Outcry

The more I learn about World War II, Hitler, eugenics and extermination of people groups, the more stunned I am at the double talk which emits from the mouths of those who would dub themselves pro-choice but who would, with another breath, condemn Hitler.

The fact is, supporting the alleged right to an abortion is tantamount to making a pact with Hitler to destroy people deemed less valuable. Hitler called them Jews. Pro-abortion folks call them “unplanned pregnancies.” There exists no difference in the outcome. Semantics never change reality.

Sounds harsh? Abortion is harsh, but it’s also agreement with an enemy. And not just Hitler.

In Christianity we talk about agreement. This is usually in reference to prayer. But prayer isn’t just that thing that happens when you bow our heads and close our eyes, asking God to do something. Prayer is agreement. Jesus has made it clear that when we agree with Him in prayer, we will receive, not because He’s a prayer genie, but because in order to pray rightly  it must be in agreement to  Him and His word. "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (John 14:13). Agreement is a source of great power in the Kingdom of God. Prayers of agreement are how the Lord runs the Kingdom.

Now reverse it because we know there is always an opposite in the kingdom of darkness. Satan is the great counterfeiter.

If we support that it’s okay to react to a pregnancy with abortion, to eliminate a person from the earth, to assign our value as a person to more significance than the person who doesn’t have a voice yet and can’t argue with us, then we are agreeing with the very philosophy Hitler espoused, which was a philosophy rooted in the doctrine of demons and kingdom of darkness.

In this article, from the journal Medicine and the Holocaust, Chelouche discusses the role of medicine and abortion in Nazi death camps, and asserts that “abortion was used as a weapon of mass destruction in Eastern Europe” (203). Chelouche quotes Hitler in 1942:

“In view of the large families of the Slav native population, it could only suit us if girls and women there had as many abortions as possible. We are not interested in seeing the non-German population multiply…We must use every means to install in the population the idea that it is harmful to have several children, the expenses that they cause and the dangerous effect on woman’s health… It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics.”

Of course, our nation has taken Hitler’s advice quite well, whether or not it was intended. We call these special institutions, about which Hitler spoke, “women’s health clinics.” Planned Parenthood operates the majority of them in our nation.

I’ve been stirred by the connections to the Holocaust and abortion. The deeper I dig, the more bones I find. In 2000, as I was finishing a master’s degree in English, I wrote a thesis which happened to be about a book set in the Holocaust and one set in the future. The fact is, writing this thesis for a secular university degree changed my life because, as I researched, I found a distributing pattern. The conclusion I reported was that if our society was not careful with our future advancements, we would “hurtle forward into the past,” growing to an era where eliminating people would no longer be limited to a religion or single people group but to anyone we deemed inferior for any reason we chose.

At my thesis defense, a couple of the questions I got concerned the viability of such an assertion. At the time I didn’t even have a revelation about the shedding of innocent blood or understand the depth of what I was writing, but I knew it was true. Today, ten years later, as I see it unfold in our society, I shudder that we have hurtled so far forward into the past that we now call the very activities we condemned in the Holocaust by such names as “women’s reproductive health care” and “personal choice.”

Hitler liked "choice", too.