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A CHANGE OF HEART...
President Barack Obama appears to emulate two of our nation’s finest presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. I hope that this is true, and that he will follow their lead in the area of civil rights.
Both of these men were willing to change their course once they realized that they were wrong. Abraham Lincoln was not opposed to slavery when he went into the White House. He found it necessary to become anti-slavery to preserve the Union. In 1935 attempts were made to persuade Roosevelt to support the Costigan-Wagner Bill, which was, in fact, a bill making lynching illegal. However, Roosevelt refused to speak out in favour of the bill. He argued that the white voters in the South would never forgive him if he supported the bill and he would therefore lose the next election. Largely because of Eleanor’s deeply felt and strongly fought battles for racial justice (for which she was often reviled), FDR is today perceived as a champion of the rights of African Americans. Both of these men later had a change of heart. I am praying that Barack Obama will have a similar change of heart regarding legalized abortion on demand, and become a champion for the cause of this most helpless and most persecuted
minority in history. It would put him in the history books alongside Lincoln as both the most despised president for some, such as NARAL, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, and the most heroic for others: those of us who see the Unborn as not only as living human beings, but persons in their own right.
I am astonished that while Barack Obama celebrates his personal triumph of civil rights, he promises to intensify his discrimination against another minority. He has sworn to continue the persecution of the Unborn and to deny them the rights that he so proudly enjoys. Among these, and the one upon which all others rest, is the basic Right to Life. The Unborn will continue to be killed without laws to protect them, in the same wanton manner that blacks were treated as non-persons and were enslaved and lynched in the past. God help us all if we are too blind to recognize their humanity. God help us all if we don’t understand that the right to be born - the Right to Life-was the original civil right. To continue to violate it by legalized abortion is equivalent to lynching or exterminating another minority.
Just as the Nation had a compelling interest in defending the Negro, and just as the World had a compelling inerest in defending the Jew, the State has a compelling interest in defending the Unborn.
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