In September of 1960, on the campus of DePauw University in Indiana, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a keynote speaker for “School for the Prophets” at Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church. King’s message to Methodist clergy of Indiana was based on a sermon he had previously given, called “Paul’s Letter to American Christians.” King looked to St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans and contemplated: “America, as I look at you from afar, I wonder whether your moral and spiritual progress has been commensurate with your scientific progress.”
He told his audience, “Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men. God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race and the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers, and all men will respect the dignity and the worth of all human personality.” (emphasis added)
‘The whole human race’
A human’s life begins at fertilization, and preborn humans — whether zygote or embryo or fetus — are members of the human race. They aren’t any other species and could not be anything other than human persons. If “God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race,” as King states, then He is indeed interested in the freedom of the youngest members of the human race — human persons who exist in the womb.
A person’s right to life does not come from the government, just as a person’s inherent value as a human being does not come from the government. If it did, then every government that has oppressed any group of human beings throughout time would find justification for its tyrannical acts. Governments would be ‘free’ to determine the worth and value of the people under their governances — leading the way to mistreatments, from forced sterilization to genocide. Such atrocities have been witnessed and experienced throughout history (notably during the time period of World War II) and continue to be seen today in nations such as China.
But these human rights abuses — the denial of God-given rights and the torture and killing of certain targeted members of the human race — also occur today in the United States. No government is immune from falsely believing it has the power to determine whose life has value and whose doesn’t — even the nation that built itself upon the very idea of freedom. In the years following King’s 1968 assassination, American society ushered in further discrimination and death disguised as the “freedom” of certain human beings at the expense of others.
How can a free nation allow human rights abuses to flourish? By promoting the abuse under the guise of that two-plus-centuries-old tagline of the United States: freedom.
Reproductive ‘freedom’
“Freedom” is the new rallying cry of abortion advocates.
This new marketing tactic recently took over the name of one of the most vocal pro-abortion groups in the nation. NARAL Pro-Choice America rebranded itself (for the fourth time) and now calls itself ‘Reproductive Freedom for All.’ But it blatantly ignores one group of persons from its idea of “all.”
NARAL’s rebranding is just one example of how stridently the pro-abortion movement prides itself on its so-called dedication to “freedom.” Yet, it expects — demands — that freedom include the permission to kill innocent human beings. It anticipates that certain women will kill their children — the poor, the uneducated, the sexual assault survivors, the young, the old, the sick, the mothers of the sick. Under the abortion industry’s expectations, only the elite — the ‘chosen’ — should live. And it conceals the atrocities, the violence, and the trauma of abortion behind that rallying cry of “freedom.” All the while it’s hiding the bodies of the victims of this so-called “freedom” in mass graves within the walls of medical waste incinerators and dumpsters.
Labeling a violent act “freedom” does not make it so. There is no freedom to kill innocent members of the human race — and abortion is the organized killing of specific innocent humans.
Murdered in the name of freedom
Baby Harriet was just one innocent member of the human race who was targeted for death by abortion, though the reason why remains unknown. Her broken body was found in a medical waste bin outside a D.C. abortion facility in 2022, along with Baby Phoenix and 113 other children. The heartbreaking, startling images of their bodies are evidence of a deeply misguided interpretation of ‘freedom’ in American society.
Baby Harriet was found in medical waste bin outside DC abortion facility. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Baby Phoenix was found still in the amniotic sac in a medical waste bin outside a DC abortion business. Photo courtesy of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising.
Abortion advocates in the Biden administration appear to advocate for more deaths like Harriet’s and Phoenix’s. This administration has vowed, if reelected, to enact a federal law forcing abortion on demand to be allowed for any reason at any time in every state under the guise of freedom.
Harriet and Phoenix, along with millions of other preborn humans, have been denied their God-given freedom. Their inherent human rights and worth have been ignored for too long. But, “God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race” — and so must we be.
