A Single Issue

A Single Issue by Veronica Garrett 

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Exodus 1:15-17

In recent months I came face to face with a horrific, startling truth.  What is the #1 cause of death for African Americans?  Heart disease, Cancer, or Violence?  None of the above.  The leading cause of death for African Americans is abortion.  It's been said that the most unsafe place for an African American child in this country is in it's mother's womb.  In Proverbs 6:17, one of the seven things that the Lord hates-- hands that shed innocent blood.  That we might launch a prayer campaign for the hearts and minds of mothers and fathers to honor God in trying times.

In the mist of great oppression the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly  The new Egyptian king's plan included killing the Hebrew baby boy's in his effort to weaken the Israelites.  He instructed the Hebrew midwives to kill the babies but they feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt told them to.  They let the boys live.  So then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live? "  

The midwives answered Pharaoh, Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptians.  The give birth before the midwives arrive.  In Exodus 1:20, God was kind to the midwives and because they feared Him, he gave them families of their own. Many men and women have failed to make the right decision in a difficult time and yet God's forgiveness is available to all that ask. We cannot out sin the grace of God.  In fact every mother and father who has lost a infant/young child to death, to include abortion or miscarriage will someday be reunited with that child in heaven if the mother and father have receive Jesus Christ. However, we cannot solve problems that we are not willing to acknowledge.  Our hearts should be broken before the Lord as well as for the 1,400 black babies that die each day due to abortion.   Tragedy is never an issue of race and all babies matter as much as the black ones.  The startling truth is the affect on the African American baby are disproportionally greater than all other races combined.

In the black community and this is a statistic that most people don't know, is that over 1400 black babies a day are lynched out of their mother's womb. At the end of the day when the sun goes down today, when it goes down tomorrow, another 1400 black babies would have died. That is devastating our community. Here's what's happening. Demographers have said to us this fact, that it takes 2.1 children per family in order for a family to replace itself -- 2.1. In America because of Roe v Wade in the white community it is down to 1.8. Demographers tell us when it goes to 1.8, it is at a place called "irreversible reduction." It takes about 100 years to turn it back around. We have reached in the white community irreversible reduction. In the black community it is 0.9. We're having 0.9 babies per family -- that's called elimination. And that has been the goal and the mission of the eugenics movement in America and the genocide that is going on by Margaret Sanger and the Planned Parenthood group and the abortion industry has targeted the black community.  From the time that Margaret Sanger stepped her foot on the scene, the eugenicists found in her an ally to produce a genocidal holocaust in the black community. In the 1960s and the 1970s, black people were resisting it and they took to the streets.  And most people don't know the Black Panthers came into existence for one reason, to run Planned Parenthood out of our community. That's why they came into existence. Of course, they had some other political ideologies that were on the left but nonetheless, the reason why they came in was to try to push Planned Parenthood out because they realized that these people were targeting our babies and our women and they have been successful and their success has been because of a deception.

May our hearts be filled with love and compassion for the unborn as well as those who have made the decision to abort.  I pray to God for a spiritual awakening in the body of Christ.  May women in the world become as resolved as the Hebrew women of days passed.  I believe that abortion which being referred to as a single issue is an understatement.  Ending the lives of 1400 babies each day is more than a single issue.