Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, October 05, 2009 6:23:53 PM
Why does abortion not have the same stigma as slavery?
‘There have been other times like this. Like the many years we felt we could continue as a nation while denying the humanity of our black slaves. If we want to insist that a culture of responsibility means taxing one American to pay for another's abortion we have a long way to go. But this is where we seem to be today.’ –Star Parker
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/10/05/outrage_over_acorn,_but_not_abortion#
Slavery today is a used as a club against the South to justify Lincoln’s war, and as a means to dismiss the Bible as a book for slaveholders. But more than that, it is used to disparage the American founders and to find fault with American constitutionalism.
Are those who blame America really that offended by slavery when they justify a welfare state financed by confiscatory tax policy? Welfare enslaves whole families for generations, and the tax burden robs men of their property and diminishes their liberty.
The outrage against slavery is the outrage experienced and held in common towards all tyranny against any man. The outrage is born in our conscience that bears witness to the sense of man’s nobility. Just as we know that slavery as practiced in the Southern States was wrong, we also know that abortion is wrong. Men are infinitely far above the animals in that they bear the image of the divine nature; they possess a soul that will never die.
Why do we marvel at the resurrection when births are so common? Just as the eternal soul is joined to each child in the womb, even so at the resurrection, body and soul will be joined again. Both events are of God and testify of His blessing of life. In sin men misuse what God has given. In Christ’s redemption, grace overwhelms the sin of men.