The Little Martyrs

King Herod listened to the three wise men of the East following a star directing them to the birthplace of a newly born baby who was to be a savior king for all people.  King Herod directed the men to Bethlehem, asking them to return with information about the baby's whereabouts.  Herod wanted to kill this savior king because of jealousy.  When the wise men did not return, Herod ordered his soldiers to kill all the new born babies of the Bethlehem area.  His parents had fled into Egypt with their savior king, Jesus, before this slaughter of "the holy innocents"; these innocents were the first martyrs of the Christian Church.

Today in America we have a similar slaughter of innocent babies within the womb and without as evidenced by the Gosnell holocaust.  Planned Parenthood is responsible for hundreds of thousands of such killings every year.  Christians have long wondered whether these killings are martyrdoms; that is, they wonder whether the souls of these babies enjoy the happiness of Heaven for all eternity.

To help in arriving at an answer to this vital question let us consider the rationale of the abortion industry in justifying these killings.  Planned Parenthood had its beginnings under various names back in the late 1800's and early 1900's.  Margaret Sanger is considered its founder.  She and many others believed in Eugenics which involves the "purification" of races, societies and populations by weeding out people considered to be mentally inferior or defective.  Various techniques to accomplish this weeding out process were considered and implemented.  Voluntary and forced sterilization; propaganda  in education, using even the churches, to discourage families to limit family size to no more than one or two children or no children at all; abortion.  It was eventually determined that the most "efficient and effective" method was abortion.

What followed was was a bevy of "euphemisms" in propaganda to make abortion sound like something it was not.  The name Planned Parenthood is itself a euphemism used to hide the fact that their main business is abortion in the hundreds of thousands every year.  The saddest thing of all is that negroes were considered by the early eugenicists to be the most defective and undesirable in the population so that they have been the main targets for abortion.  Recent statistics show that 41% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortions while 60% of all African American pregnancies end in abortion.  One of the reasons for this is that most Planned Parenthood clinics are located in economically poor districts of large cities in America.  Gosnell's clinic was in a poor black community in Philadelphia.

The point to be made here is that Eugenics/Abortion, founders/providers had and have no belief in God and see nothing at all evil in trashing His human creations.  Hence abortion is primarily a crime against God in His Goodness and Love by hating His human creations.  In effect, every abortion provider who contributes to an act of abortion contributes to an act of hatred for God, whether that provider realizes it or not.

This concept alone when compared to the act of hatred for God manifested by Herod in the killing of the innocents, whether he realized it or not, makes abortion of a human child ending in its death, an act of martyrdom.  Thus we have some fifty million martyrs to honor since Roe v Wade in January, 1973 and Christians can have confidence in these millions of little martyrs being happy in Heaven with a Merciful God for all eternity.

Another question might arise: whether a woman having an abortion is guilty of such an act of hatred for God.  There are many reasons for stating NO in almost every case.  In my next post I would like to develop this theme.