How Evil Distorts Basic Human Rights
On the other hand, today I’m sure that they would agree that the sanctity of life is part of the civil rights public platform, because life is a human right. And as such, we must fight to protect all lives because God’s love matters.
In my recent open letter welcoming Pope Francis to America, I asked if the lion can lie down with the lamb? I believe this can happen when as my uncle Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said, we must all “learn to live together as brothers [and sisters] or perish as fools.” Yet we have a ways to go before we get there.
I work towards this goal at Priests for Life, in my work with AAO, informing, educating and activating the black community, spreading the message that abortion ends a human life. Abortion is harmful to the mother, father, the family and the community. This truth is paramount because many do not know that blacks are being aborted at disproportionate rates compared with all other people groups.
Further, as a global spokesperson for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, I share how the loss of my two aborted babies and a miscarriage, caused by abortion related damages to my body, has affected me. My children lost three siblings to abortion. My mother has three less grandchildren to love. Society has lost three contributors to the fields of medicine, or science, or education and business, or perhaps even the next great president. Only God knows for sure.
Yet faith, hope and love remain. Rachel’s Vineyard, where I received my own post abortion healing, offers God’s love and forgiveness to all who repent and ask for his mercy. No one needs to suffer alone. With over 55 million abortions since 1973, Rachel’s Vineyard has helped thousands of men and women to heal from abortion’s scars.
Abortion shockwaves have been felt across every area of our lives. Abortion has touched many families in one way or another. Abortion is not just a choice between a mother and her doctor but a choice that affects all families and society as a whole.
In the 20th century my uncle said that “America will not reject racism until America sees racism.” In the 21st century Fr. Frank Pavone says that “America will not reject abortion until America see abortion.” I agree.
We know that America is beginning to see abortion in all its evils. Thanks to the Center for Medical Progress videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s and other human harvesting agents’ horrific atrocities against the most innocent, vulnerable members of our human family, the time is right to stand up for life, to demand accountability, and to demand that our government stop supporting abortion and its by-products.
My friends, all human beings are born into a world of sin. Yet, we can all be transformed by being born again. Yes, we are in challenging times, and difficulties still lie ahead but we have a sovereign Lord who is the victor and is truth.
Dear friends, as we wage this battle to uphold the safety and sustainability of the human family, I urge you to stand for God’s truth, to live by God’s truth and pursue this truth in all areas of life.
God bless you all.
