Rally 2010

President Obama gave a speech on April 23 about the holocaust, and nearly all of his comments also apply if you read it as if he were talking about abortion instead,

“It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal, used to kill; education that can enlighten, used to rationalize away basic moral impulses; the bureaucracy that sustains modern life, used as the machinery of mass death, a ruthless, chillingly efficient system where many were responsible for the killing, but few got actual blood on their hands.”

I have long been aware of the parallels that exist among the holocaust, slavery, and abortion. It is obvious to me, and I can't understand why it isn't to everyone, that all of these horrors have existed because of the failure of large groups of people to realize and acknowledge the humanity and personhood of others.

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 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. In the same way that Hitler determined who were persons with the right to live and who were not.   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-is 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.

Many years ago, I knew a young man, 10 years old, who had muscular dystrophy.  A short time before he died, he reassured his mom, “Don’t worry, God thought of everything.”

Sometimes we get really discouraged and we feel all our Pro-Life work is for nothing.  We have had a lot of reason to be discouraged.  But this year, there was a real victory.  During the 40 Days For Life prayer vigil, the Planned Parenthood in Kalispell closed.  This should be a real lesson in humility for all of us in the Right to Life Movement. In spite of all our strategy, all of our lobbying, all of our various approaches, and every kind of attempt to bring an end to abortion, we find that God is the one who will bring about the changes we hope for.  Despite all our feeble human efforts, we need only to remember that God is in charge, and to humble ourselves enough to ask Him to take over. “Don’t worry.  God thought of everything,” should be enough to give us peace of mind, but it is hard when we believe that something is wrong and we want to put it right. If you are not doing so now, I am asking you to pray daily for a change of heart for President Obama, and for an end to abortion. Don’t hold back. Think big - because God is bigger than any of the obstacles. Pray for an end ot all abortion everywhere.  And don’t worry.  God thought of everything.

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