I heard a very strange priest on the radio just the other day comparing abortion to slavery. That seems a bit far fetched. Have you ever heard such an idea? 

Sincerely,

Mae Shugenah

It’s not quite as far fetched as you may think. 

Before I launch into the slavery/abortion comparison let me point out the relationship between Planned Parenthood and the Nazis. Margaret Sanger was the foundress and inspiration for Planned Parenthood. She believed that certain races were inferior and should at least be lessened numerically if not eliminated all together. She was distressed by the mentally ill or “feeble” and seems to have been even more concerned by the increasing numbers of African Americans and Hispanics in the United States. She proposed to eliminate poverty by not allowing the poor to reproduce.

She was, in my humble opinion, a fascinating blend of racism, classism and materialism.

Do a Google search for Margaret Sanger and the "Negro Project."  You will be horrified. She proposed using well educated and prosperous people of color as part of the scheme, but her goal was none the less to cleanse the “racial hygiene” of the nation and the world.  In this she had many contemporary fans and collaborators, the Nazi party among them. 

Margaret Sanger herself carried on a correspondence with Ernst Rudin part of Hitler’s “racial hygiene” apparatus. She personally appointed Lothrop Stoddard to the board of her organization. He went on to meet with Hitler and was much favored by Joseph Goebbels. To be fair, Margaret Sanger never agreed with Hitler’s plan to kill adults of defective groups, but she did agree with him about forced sterilization, concentration camps for those inferiors who refused birth control, forced abortions and the like. 

Planned Parenthood carries on her work in ways of which she would be proud, had she not already gone on to her eternal reward. 

They aren't doing as well with poor Hispanics as they would like, blame the pesky and oppressive Catholic Church, but they have been a great success among people of African origin. It is estimated that 80 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority neighborhoods and that black women have 37% of the abortions performed in this country, at least twice as many as women of European origin, though African Americans comprise only about 12% of the population. Since 1973, at least 16 million black children have been killed by abortion, making death by abortion the most common cause of death among African Americans, greater than any single disease or violence.

16 million!!! 

Hitler would be amazed. With all his hard work, he only managed to kill 6 million Jews, but 16 million members of one race eliminated? Amazing! And all with the pious collaboration of members of the very race being targeted, all in the name of rights and prosperity and freedom. The Nazi legacy lives on, with politicians taking the place of concentration camp capos.

You asked about the slavery/abortion idea. In America before the Civil War, proponents of legalized slavery used three principal arguments:
 

	First, unfortunate though it might be, slavery was a constitutionally guaranteed right, that is, the right to property.
	Second, it was economic necessity. How would the overseas trade of molasses, rum and cotton continue without it? The American economy, north and south, depended on it.
	Third, and most cynically, it was really better for the slaves. They were delivered from darkness of pagan Africa (where Christianity had, in fact, existed since the first century AD) and brought to snug slave cottages in the sunny Christian South. There they could dance and sing with their abundant leisure hours, free from care, while the vigilant master looked after their well being. That was the myth that we Americans told ourselves in order to stomach a convenient evil.

Well, is the same not true for abortion? Is it not unfortunate, but still our constitutional right? Is it not an economic necessity? Who will feed and educate those poor children?  Is it not really better for the children themselves? Why should they be brought into a world of poverty and crime where they are unloved and unwanted? 

Abortion occupies the same place in our souls that slavery once did because it is really a form of slavery.

It says that the body of one person belongs to another who may do with it what she pleases. “It’s my body!” cries the modern woman. No it is not, not as far as Christians are concerned! The Scriptures remind us that the body is made for the Lord (1Cor. 6:13) My body is not my own. It belongs to the Lord, as do the bodies of spouses and children. 

You may say that you’re not a Christian. How dare I impose my Christian beliefs on you? 

Fine. Let’s take away Judaeo-Christian foundation of the culture. Hitler and Stalin ripped the Christian heart out of Europe, and look what a glorious vision of the world took its place, the strong free to devour the weak, the rich to enslave the poor. If you work to keep abortion legal, you are in the company of those in the last century who believed that slavery and murder are the rights of the strong, but I read that “...the Lord hears the cry of the poor.” Their children are not mine to kill, no matter what people like Ms. Sanger and Herr Hitler say.

It is thought that between 12 and 16 million people were dragged from the safety of Mother Africa by the slave ships of Europe and America and that, of those,  perhaps four million died on the journey. 

There have been at least 16 million of their descendants killed by abortion, four times as many as died on the ships and were thrown to the sharks of the cold Atlantic Ocean.  The sharks of racism and materialism are still making a fortune dragging Africa’s children from the wombs of African mothers.

What has changed except that now it is done with help of politicians who tell us they are progressive while we swallow the lie? 

For the life of me, I cannot understand how anyone, even someone as slimy as the average politician can stomach the legal murder of children from a certain social class and certain racial groups in the name of personal rights. But I am dumbfounded when a politician of African or Hispanic origin willingly collaborates in the murder of his own. Abraham Lincoln once said that if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong. 

Mr. Lincoln could not have conceived of legalized abortion, certainly not on this horrific scale. Just as surely, if abortion is not wrong, then nothing is wrong, not war, not slavery, not death camps, nothing. Have we not gone mad? 

Have we not lost our very souls? 

God have mercy on this country and on the whole world.

Rev. Know-It-All