"History Repeats Itself"

"History Repeats Itself"

I get kind of annoyed when I hear people say "I can't believe America has come this far or has gone this bad" when referring to abortion. But in all reality these are the standards that our country was born and raised on. Our country has always chosen a "better life" over equality of all humans and they will do whatever it takes to fulfill their plan, even kill. 

Mistreatment of Native Americans

        When Europeans first came to the Americas, they thought that they were discovering new land. Instead they were greeted with a land which was already inhabited by people with their own way of life. What happened after that is described by some as an American Holocaust. A lot of death and destruction came to Native American tribes when the European explorers and settlers landed. (lcsc.edu) 

Columbus, 1492 - Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas on October 12, 1942. He brought with him the hope of prosperity and an excitement of discovery of a new world. Little did the voyagers know, there was already a “world” which existed in that land. That sense of hope and discovery from one part of the world eventually led to the death and destruction of another.Many Native Americans believe that when Columbus first landed in the Americas, it was the beginning of what is now referred to as the American Holocaust. Columbus brought with him greedy men which ultimately led to discrimination, diseases and the death of thousands of Native American people. Columbus himself brought men who were looking for gold. They took the inhabitants and made them into slaves. In some accounts, the Natives were murdered, tortured and deprived of the necessities. This occurred throughout other voyages as well, as Columbus and his men went from island to island. (lcsc.edu) 

English Europeans - It wasn’t necessarily the Spanish that did all of the damage, it was what (or who) followed after that. When the English started to come to the Americas from Europe, they didn’t particularly care who was already living on the land and they certainly didn’t have any regards for the Native Americans way of life. Europeans looked at their discovery as a new way of starting over and they saw the land as one that they had complete rights to. The English wanted the land and they would literally take it from them without a second thought. Native Americans soon became a minority as settlers poured in from Europe and began to expand. Not only did they treat them poorly but many tried to kill them altogether. (lcsc.edu) 

As we can see, through our countries history we were founded on these horrible morals, we haven't "gone bad" we've been bad all along, so to speak. Columbus and the Europeans had no right to take away the Native Americans land, but they felt that the Native Americans weren't qualified to own this land because they were standing in the way of their dream. Our government made laws to protect the "rights" of these people with the "American Dream".

Slavery in America

       In the early 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants (who were mostly poorer Europeans). After 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 Africans ashore at the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, slavery spread throughout the American colonies. Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women. (History.com)

       In the 17th and 18th centuries, black slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice and indigo plantations of the southern coast. After the American Revolution (1775-83), many colonists (particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the economy) began to link the oppression of black slaves to their own oppression by the British, and to call for slavery's abolition. After the war's end, however, the new U.S. Constitution tacitly acknowledged the institution, counting each slave as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation in Congress and guaranteeing the right to repossess any "person held to service or labor" (an obvious euphemism for slavery). (History.com)

           

Slavery in America is another example of our country practicing inhumane actions. Slave traders had no right to take these people from their country and force them to come to America and be slaves. All of these actions were legal at one point or time. Our government made laws protecting slave owners "rights" to have these slaves.

Abortion in America

         Planned Parenthood dates its founding from 1916. To understand Planned Parenthood, one must understand the ideology of Margaret Sanger. While Planned Parenthood adamantly insists otherwise, it is clear that Sanger (1879-1966) was a eugenicist. She believed that birth control served a great eugenic purpose by stopping those she described as the genetically "unfit" from reproducing. In her 1920 book, Woman and the New Race, Sanger explicitly called her work "nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives." As she wrote in The Birth Control Review, "the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective." (nrlc.org)

         For example, Planned Parenthood has never ceased to target the poor and disabled, Sanger's favorite examples of the so-called "unfit." In the year 2000, almost 75% of PPFA clients had incomes at or below 150% of the poverty line. In 1997, PPFA's Plan of Action asserted that its "core clients" are "young women, low-income women, and women of color." (nrlc.org)

Planned Parenthood was started on the foundation of inequality for those Margaret described as "unfit". And many people today still agree with her ideas. As we can clearly see, history really does repeat itself. Abortion is without a shadow of doubt murder, by the parents, doctors and all those who support this despicable act. From the day of contraception every baby has the right to live. Our government, as it always has in history, supports the rights of those who don't deserve it and in so doing has stripped away the right that all men are created equal. We have now come to a point in our country where there has been question to whether a baby, after a botched abortion is born and laying on the delivery table has the right to life. Planned Parenthood has stated that, that decision should be left up to the parents and the physician. WHAT??? Now, I believe that abortion at any time of the pregnancy is MURDER! But this right here, what we are talking about is consider murder in all 50 states. 

So the question stands, "How could our country have come so far or have gone so bad?" We can answer that question by simply saying that, history repeats itself. We see that although our country was founded on a truth that all men are created equal, it has always found a way to make exceptions and decided that only certain men are created equal and should have equal rights. Whether it be Native Americans who rightfully owned this land but had it taken away from them, or the people that were unrightfully forced to come to America and be slaves, or the precious little babies that are fearfully and wonderfully made but has been denied the right to live before even leaving the mother's womb. History is repeating itself through abortion.

What does the Bible say?

1. Children are a gift from the Lord.

Psalm 127:3-5  - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

2. God treats a fetus (baby) in the womb as a living person.

Psalm 139:13-17 - For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

3. The Bible says murder is sin.

Exodus 20:13 - Thou shalt not kill.

4. God hates abortion.
Proverbs 6:16-19 - These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

        Well I have come to conclusion that history repeats itself. But as we can see Native Americans and slaves gained their equal rights. But now it's time to fight against another inequality of life in our country, ABORTION. As we can see, abortion is clearly wrong in God's eyes and we as Christians need to fight for the rights of these babies. I sure hope that history will repeat itself and these precious little babies will one day have equal rights to live. 

“If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem.” 

- Eldridge Cleaver