The definition of genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. There are currently two kinds of genocide in the world. First, there is the genocide that occurs in war, it is illegal, prohibited by law, and prohibited by the United Nations. It occurs against the conscience of the world. Then, there is genocide that occurs in peace, it is legal in most countries, and is encouraged by the UN. This type of genocide is abortion.
Since its arrival to our country in 1973, abortion is responsible for the deaths of 49,551,703 babies. All major American War’s from The American Revolution to the War in Iraq have accounted for 1.3 million deaths. Let’s do the math. The total number of aborted babies (in a span of 36 years) is 37.8 times more than the total number of deaths in every American war since 1775 (234 years).
The targets of American genocide are disproportionately found among children from poor families, handicap children, and African American children. In fact, ninety percent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. The ability to decide the fate of someone in the womb based of real or perceived life challenges or parental preferences is a scary thought. In China, this has lead to gender selective abortions that are at epidemic proportions. In black communities: for every baby born three are aborted, that is over double the abortion rates of white babies. “The abortion industry plants their [abortion clinics] in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope. The greatest irony is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.” Alveda King (Niece of Rev. Martin Luther King)
The scourge of abortion is caused from a lack of love and hope. The lack of love is the selfless love exhibited by Jesus Christ on the cross. This love, which calls us to sacrifice our self, our time, and our money, is the only antidote to abortion that will win in the long run. Not until we value people regardless of what their health prospects are, their poverty level, or above our own convenience, will we be able to overcome this American Genocide. As Mother Theresa said: “It is poverty to DECIDE that a child must die so that you can live as you wish”.
Finally, we must be vigilant against the “Culture of Death” identified by Pope John Paul II. This Culture of Death is a political, social, and economic thought process that wants to control our culture by maintaining access to abortion, supporting Euthanasia, and preventing mentally, physically, or economically challenged babies from seeing the light of day. We must protest against this stain on America’s culture and PRAY to end abortion!

–Michael Costello

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

–Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If there was only one injustice in the world that you could eliminate, what would it be and why?

–Nathan Peereboom

“Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges … [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]”

–Dr. Sharon Welch, Associate Professor of Theology and Applied Theology, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Author of Communities of Resistance and Solidarity.

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If I could only eliminate one injustice it would be the flawed egocentric structure of the mind. The Greek philosopher Protagoras, (praised by Plato as a ‘teacher of virtue’) famously exclaimed that “Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not”. That is, man is the standard of all things, even of man himself. One measures another man in relation to another. Because of this, life must exploit itself in order to continue. The tall man is so in relation to the short man. The rich man is so in relation to the poor man. This causes the best consolation of your fellow man to be the reality of those in a plight far worse. ‘Oh, you don’t have X? Well at least you aren’t a starving African living in the Republic of Liberia.’

This applies anywhere from Wall Street to the jungle. A panther must kill just as a man must exploit his own kind. The former case is propelled by a means for survival, and the latter, by unfettered greed and insatiable ambition as a means of alleviating the boredom of life. I would not eliminate life itself, as such a wish is an endeavor of folly, but I would eliminate the design of it, being an injustice unto itself.

–Blake Thomas