American Holocaust

By the title you may be wondering “What in the world is this about? I took history classes in high school and we never learned about an ‘American Holocaust’.” And you’re right! History teachers today do not tell you of this American holocaust because it is not history. It is the longest war raged in the past century. The Holocaust I’m talking about is nearly 9 times worse than the Jewish Holocaust that took place in Germany under the leadership of Adolph Hitler during World War Two. This holocaust has been going on since January 22, 1973. Thirty-six years and eight months ago, the Supreme Court passed Roe v. Wade, the most controversial and politically significant case in U.S. Supreme Court history. In Roe v. Wade, the Court held that a mother may abort her pregnancy for any reason, up until the “point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable.’” The Court defined viability as the potential “to live outside the mother’s womb, albeit with artificial aid,” adding that viability “is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.” The Court said that, after viability, abortion must be available when needed to protect a woman’s health.¹ Truth is that since that dreaded date in 1973, 50 Million unborn children have been murdered in America. Across the globe, 46 Million babies are murdered annually (that’s approximately one every two seconds!) and approximately 115,000 every day. In America, nearly 1.5 million murdered every year and approx. 3,700 every day! Approximately 24% of all U.S. pregnancies end in abortion. Here are some stats for you:²

1. 52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.
2. White: 60% of all abortions, their abortion rate is well below that of minority women. Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely.
3. 64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4%of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.
4. Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4% of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3%, Jewish women account for 1.3%, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7% of all abortions. 18% of all abortions are performed on women who identify themselves as “Born-again/Evangelical”.
5. Women with family incomes less than $15,000 obtain 28.7% of all abortions; Women with family incomes between $15,000 and $29,999 obtain 19.5%; Women with family incomes between $30,000 and $59,999 obtain 38.0%; Women with family incomes over $60,000 obtain 13.8%.
6. 1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
7. 52% of all abortions occur before the 9th week of pregnancy, 25% happen between the 9th & 10th week, 12% happen between the 11th and 12th week, 6% happen between the 13th & 15th week, 4% happen between the 16th & 20th week, and 1% of all abortions (16,450/yr.) happen after the 20th week of pregnancy.
8. An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

Characteristics of Women Having Abortions⁴

• Over half (56%) of all women having abortions between the ages of 15-44 are in their 20’s.
• Nearly eight in 10 U.S. women obtaining an abortion report a religious affiliation.
  • 43% are Protestant
  • 27% are Catholic
  • 8% are other religions
• 41% of women having abortions are white, 32% are black, and 20% are Hispanic.

 

• Black and Hispanic women have higher abortion rates than non-Hispanic white women. Black women’s abortion rates are 49 per 1,000, Hispanic women’s are 33 per 1,000 and non-Hispanic white women’s are 13 per 1,000.
• According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the most recurrent characteristics of women having abortions over time are non-White, poor and unmarried.

Reasons For Abortion

 

• 98% Personal Choice (unwanted or inconvenient)
• 1.7% Life/Health of Mother or Child
• .3% Rape/Incest

 

Abortion by Gestational Age

 

African American Community 

• According to the CDC, each year 616,074 African Americans are born.
• 458,500 babies will have died from abortion.
• 284,877 blacks will have died that same year through anything from natural causes to heart disease.
• There are 743,377 Africans Americans dying yearly. This number is 127,303 more than those that are born.
• From 1973 to 2004, nearly 30% of the black population were erased through abortion. Out of the average 4,400 babies dying daily that are reported abortions, an estimated 1,300 are African American. They account for 32% of women having abortions yearly, yet make up only 13% of the American population. African American women are 3 times as likely to have an abortion than other women.

 

If those statistics don’t cause you to think and astound you, I don’t know what will. Exodus 21:22,23 says, “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life.”(KJV) Exodus 20:13 also says, “Thou shalt not kill.”Think about what God has told us through His Word.

Daily, doctors go to work in their clinic and shed innocent blood. Proverbs 6:16 says, “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.” Deuteronomy 21:7 says, “And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.” Isaiah 1:15 says, “And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.” Isaiah 59:3 says, “For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.”

 

What do the doctors have to say?³

“My heart got callous against the fact that I was a murderer, but that baby lying in a cold bowl educated me as to what abortion really was.”–former abortionist Dr. David Brewer

 ”I want the general public to know what the doctors know- that this is a person, this is a baby. That this is not some kind of blob of tissue.”–former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levantino

 ”I have taken the lives of innocent babies, and I have ripped them from their mother’s wombs with a powerful suction machine”–former abortionist McArthur Hill

 ”Nobody wants to perform abortions after ten weeks, because by then you see the features of the baby, hands, feet. It’s really barbaric.” –abortionist quoted in M.D. Doctors Talk About Themselves by John Pekkanen p 93

 The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. Isaiah 49:1

 What are you doing to prevent abortion? Are you sitting back in your easy chair watching a football game or filling your mind with garbage from the world today? Get out of your “comfort zone” and show your support for LIFE! Life doesn’t begin at birth but at conception. Open your eyes to what the government is allowing in our country but don’t blame it all on them. You elected them, America. So don’t just sit down and think that nothing can be done about it! You can make a difference in America. As far as I know we are still the land of the free and the home of the brave…and unless you don’t think so then go head, stay on your couch. But I’m standing up! Standing up for what’s right and standing up for God’s Word.

Bibliography:

1. Roe v. Wade. 09 Oct 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_vs._Wade
2. Abortion No. 09 Oct 1. http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
3. CP for Life. 09 Oct 1. http://www.cpforlife.org/truth_about_abortion.htm
4. Voice of Revolution. 09 Oct 1. http://voiceofrevolution.askdrbrown.org/2009/01/18/abortion-statistics/