Ironically, the people who seem so determined to stamp out discrimination of every sort are often the same people who willfully ignore the bigoted and discriminatory nature of the abortion industry. Even a cursory glance at the statistics reveals that a disproportionate number of abortion’s victims are minorities, females, and disabled persons. Any abortion—even of a healthy white male baby—is discriminatory. It determines that the small, the weak, the helpless, and the voiceless do not have equal rights with the rest of us.
“Human Weeds”
Two decades before Adolf Hitler attempted to create a “master race,” Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had already demonstrated her own morbid fascination with eugenics—the Darwinian notion of “improving” the human race through selective breeding. Sanger wrote extensively about her plans for discouraging reproduction among certain peoples in articles with titles like: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics,” “The Eugenic Conscience,” and “The Purpose of Eugenics.”
Sanger harbored an intense disdain for the less fortunate. “Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth,” she wrote. “We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.”
Who did Sanger have in mind when she wrote of human weeds? Perhaps this question is best answered by Sanger’s own “Negro Project”—a program which she boasted was “helping Negroes to control their birth rate.” When African-Americans voiced concerns about the ultimate aspirations of her birth control clinics, Sanger sent a letter to a colleague stating:
If we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results.…The minister’s work is also important … We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs.
Blacks Most Affected
The civil rights movement has made tremendous strides since the 1920s, yet Sanger’s legacy of death endures. Abortion is now the leading cause of death for black Americans, claiming more than 1,400 African-American lives per day. Joseph Parker is the pastor of Campbell Chapel AME Church in Pulaski, Tennessee, the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. He bluntly stated, “Planned Parenthood kills more black people in three days than the Klan has killed in its entire history of existence. Yet many in the African-American community don’t even see Planned Parenthood as an enemy; (they) would see them as a friend.”
Though black Americans comprise only 12 percent of the U.S. population, black women account for a stunning 29 percent of all abortions in America. The Centers for Disease Control confirmed, “The abortion rate for black women (29 per 1,000 women) was 3.0 times the rate for white women (10 per 1,000).”
Abortion not only disproportionately targets racial minorities, but it has done immeasurable damage to women. Radical feminists blindly embrace abortion as the cornerstone of the women’s rights movement, yet new studies reveal that abortion has decimated the world’s female population.
“Missing” Women and Abortion
One international study recently discovered that there are roughly 107 million “missing” women in the world—largely due to gender-selective abortions. “We are confronted by the slaughter of Eve, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions,” said Theodor Winkler, author of the study. “Women live in a very insecure world indeed. Many fall victim to gender selective abortion and infanticide (boys being preferred to girls).”
Too many parents no longer embrace all children as a blessing from God and use abortion as a means to “weed out” children with undesirable attributes. Scientists are now debating the ethical implications of creating genetically engineered “designer babies.” In Texas, one “embryo bank” allows prospective clients to choose the race, educational background, attractiveness, hair and eye color, and other genetic traits of sperm and egg donors before purchasing embryos.
In a society consumed with external appearance, the less fortunate are seen as less valuable. Thus, unborn babies diagnosed with genetic disorders or physical abnormalities are far more likely to be killed in the womb.
One study revealed that roughly ninety percent of pregnant women whose baby is given a Down Syndrome diagnosis choose abortion.
In an editorial in The Washington Post, Patricia Bauer, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, offered this chilling comparison:
“In ancient Greece, babies with disabilities were left out in the elements to die. We in America rely on prenatal genetic testing to make our selections in private, but the effect on society is the same.”
Many Americans are intent on playing God rather than trusting God.
Most Americans have seen the remarkable photograph of an unborn baby reaching from the womb and grabbing a surgeon’s finger. That baby was Samuel Armas, who was diagnosed in the womb with spina bifida. Thankfully, Samuel’s mother refused to abort God’s gift of life. “Abortion is wrong,” she said. “Life in the womb is God-created, even with birth defects. God doesn’t make mistakes, whether creating a child with spina bifida, Down syndrome, or even more severe issues. It is still a life that has just as much a right to live as any ‘normal’ unborn child.”
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