The Extra Stickler
by Kathy Brown on December 26th, 2009 | 1 comment
Slavery was a terrible blight on the record of human history. It survived in America as long as it did for several reasons. (1) It was, for quite some time, Constitutional. (2) Owners of slaves insisted that the black workers they had were their property, not people. (3) Slavery was an industry that had an economic basis; money was made from it. (4)Those who objected to slavery were told it was none of their business; no one forced the practice on anyone else.
Do these arguments sound familiar? It is ironic that many of those who did, or would, march for Martin Luther King’s dream, support a right to destroy the unborn. There are two obvious differences between the victims of slavery and abortion. The intention of slavery was not to snuff out life. Additionally, those who suffered under the oppression of plantation bosses had hope they would someday escape and perhaps be able to fight for the freedom of others. Not so for the captive infant. This contrast should logically compel those interested in civil rights to increase their efforts to fight for the innocent and powerless in the womb.
Why would proponents for justice have a selective application of their principles? That is because sitting in the middle of the abortion quandary is an extra stickler. The attempt to eliminate abortion touches on a forbidden topic: sexual autonomy. That is a discussion so fervent and undesirable that we avoid it at all cost. We would rather destroy the evidence that points to the underlying problem than admit to the real issue. It is a bloody exchange that calls up the conscience of many.
The peaceful-minded Christian does not relish interrupting the cultural conversation concerning the obvious consequences of disregarding right and wrong. The guardians of a generation lost to the incinerator pan will be held accountable; if not by the high calling of ethics, then by the God who insists that the human being is much more than a collection of tissue, but a valuable, made-in-His-image life to be given every opportunity to breathe and grow in His likeness.
We must be thankful for the movement led by a courageous Christian, Wilberforce, to end the horrors of slavery. How much more should we be looking for the last day that we allow a more vulnerable underclass to be silenced.
From Amos 5:24
"But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream."
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