http://www.lifenews.com/2013/02/15/black-history-month-abortion-has-killed-16-million-black-children/
February brings a collision of mixed emotions like no other month
does. This time set aside to recognize those in the African American
community who have paved the way for the liberties we now enjoy is
also one of the saddest. As we celebrate those who have fought and
even died for the rights that we now freely enjoy, I can’t help but
think of those who will never know anything about that freedom.
The children who will never hear their great grandparents tell stories
of what it was like to live during times of segregation.
The children who will never experience the joy that comes from an
extra day off from school dedicated to celebrate and remember the life
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The children who will never know how hard ancestors like Dred Scott
had to fight to give them laws they benefit from today.
Thoughts like these flood my mind amidst the elation brought in by
February. If we’re going to identify Black History, we must identify
all of Black History. By only highlighting the positive we are doing a
disservice to the memory of the unborn who don’t have a voice to speak
for themselves.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, ?for the rights
of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly;?defend the rights
of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9 (NIV)
It is our job; it is our mandate.
We live in a time where more African American men are in prison than
were slaves in 1850. For the male children who do survive abortion,
who’s teaching them to be men so the cycle of abortion doesn’t
continue? Who’s telling us this history?
Abortion alone has taken the lives of over 16 million Black children.
Our population is decreasing at an increasing rate. For every 100 live
births in the African American community, another 77 are aborted. In
New York, more babies are aborted than born. African American babies
are aborted at up to six times the rate of the majority population.
These innocent, beautiful Black children are an endangered species.
Who’s speaking for them?
Our African American forefathers would be shocked to learn that the
degree of freedom for which they died has introduced us to laws that
are now killing their posterity at an alarming rate.
I take pride and joy in my heritage as an African American woman, yet
I mourn for those who will not have the opportunity to share it with
me.
Where are our children?
J Young
jdyo...@ymail.com