The Greatest Racist

 

Today in our society, the worst thing you can call anyone is “racist.” It denotes that a person is prejudiced against people of other races, shows or feels discrimination, and believes that a particular race is superior to another. To combat racism, we have seen a proliferation of diversity classes in educational curricula and job training. We are taught today about micro-aggressions or the little ways we show racism toward a different race. No doubt micro-aggressions exist; however, the most reprehensible form of racism on the planet is abortion. This is racism that murders little defenseless babies before they ever see the light of day. It is racism that says these lives don’t matter.

The US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case of 1857 in St. Louis was dead wrong. That case stated that slaves were property without the rights of free persons. When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office as our 16th president, he was determined to see the dreaded institution of slavery ended. He and many other Americans knew that the Supreme Court was wrong. It took a civil war and 600,000 soldiers, dying along with the president to free the slaves. Though in practice, they were not free until the 13th amendment abolished slavery. Even then, prejudice and hatred would endure for nearly 100 years in many places, prohibiting freedom.

Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade of 1973, which denied the unborn the rights of free persons. Since that day, 12 states like California, Illinois, New York have enshrined in their state constitutions the right to abortion. Despite these states’ actions, Missouri was the first of 20 states to ban abortion. Little by little, people are beginning to see that abortion is a horrible crime against humanity. Thanks to technological advances, no one dares argue that life begins at conception. Thanks to crisis pregnancy centers, young women can now see their babies before their eyes and decide to keep them. People are even starting to see abortion as the form of racism that it truly is. Let us pray that this racism against the unborn will end. Let us pray that these babies will one day be totally protected by the law in all 50 states. Let us pray that these babies will be seen as human beings worthy of the dignity of life they deserve.