A Truck or a Baby? The Seduction & Demise of A People

March 22, 2007

A Truck or a Baby? The Seduction & Demise of A People

I don't know why, but God has placed a burden on my heart lately for the African American community. Perhaps it's because people like Dr. Lillie Epps have been pulling back the curtain on what abortion has done and continues to do to the Black community at large. In her recent story for Black History Month she quotes some staggering statistics.... For instance:

African American women make up 13 percent of the female population but account for 36% of all abortions, according to the Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57% of all abortions are performed on Black and Hispanic women, while they make up only 25% of the United States population.

The CDC reports that three times as may black babies are aborted as white ones -- a ratio that has grown by 50 % over the past 15 years.

From 1973 to 2004, approximately 15 million blacks have lost their lives to abortion in the United States. The 2002 census shows that the black population in the U.S. stands at approximately 36 million. That means that nearly 30% of the black population has been lost to abortion, more than one in four. More than 1,200 daily.

Dr. Epps also relates a story of a young couple in love -- and pregnant. She tells the story much better than I could:

The young couple went on to explain that they were both in college and solely dependent on their parents. "We cannot support a baby and school too. Plus, our parents said that they will cut us off if we do not get rid of the baby." Then the young woman proceeded to tell me that her parents had even offered to buy her a brand new Ford Explorer if she would have an abortion. "A baby versus a truck!" I thought to myself.

At that moment, the room became silent. The couple began to cry. They sat there holding one another until, with tears in his eyes, the young man lifted his head and said, "We really do not want to abort our baby, but what other choice do we have?"

How devastating are the lies of abortion that place the value of a truck over the value of a human life -- a grandparent's own grandchild!

I have known that the statistics for the Black community were significantly higher than that of the white, but I never realized how much. I never realized how they have been targeted and deceived. [See Dr. Epp's article for more information on how this has been done.]

The question that always comes to my mind is, "So now that we know, what can we do?" It begins, as always, with raising awareness. Talk about it with the people in your life. Share these statistics with others -- pastors, ministry-minded people, civic leaders. But we cannot stop there! We must put our heads together, strategize and join forces for the sake of these people. And we must pray for them. We must pray for godly wisdom. We must be willing to lay our own lives down at the foot of the cross in surrender to the God Who loves ALL people enough to leave heaven, take on the frailty of human form, and live and die that we might know Him....and go and do whatever and however He compels us. If we do not go and do, if we do not contend for them, who will?

This is not political. It's personal. Just as our Savior is a Personal Savior and our God a Personal God. Abortion within the Black community is personal, affecting real people, real families, for generations living and to come.

May God grant us wisdom to know, courage to go, and victory on behalf of His people....

Open your mouth for the mute,
For the rights of all the unfortunate.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Proverbs 31:8-9 NASB

For more information, see LifeNews.com's report March 21, 2007.

Posted by mary at March 22, 2007 10:40 AM