September 3, 2019: Abolitionists: On the right side of history * Letter to the Editor * OPINION * Del Rio News-Herald
Letter
to the Editor,
Abolitionists:
On the right-side of history
The
book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the true story of a slave
family who endured the horrors of slavery, was the catalyst for effectively
ending slavery in our country. Now there is a book/movie “Unplanned” by Abby
Johnson, the true story of a former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director
who had a dramatic life-changing experience and became a leading pro-life
advocate, which is similarly having the effect of ending abortion in our
country.
The
South desperately sought to preserve the sadistic institution of slavery. Like
now, the radical-left is determined to maintain the repugnant institution of
abortion.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was banned in
the South. Correspondingly “Unplanned” was censured by Planned Parenthood, its
allies in social-media, mainstream media, and Hollywood, by limiting its
advertising, blocking its exposure on various media platforms and labeling it
propaganda, even though abortionists have attested to the accuracy of its portrayal
of abortion procedures.
The
economic effects of the slave plantation were seen as “too big and powerful” to
be acceptable to fail. Likewise now, the so-called seemingly economic and societal
benefits of abortion are seen as “too big and powerful” to be allowed to fail.
It
was thought that plantations needed slaves in order to thrive and flourish. As
well now, it is thought that women need to have the choice of aborting their
babies in order to thrive and flourish as seemingly liberated women, but really
enslaved by the sexual revolution.
It
was thought that states had a right to choose whether to have slaves, that
slavery was a “state’s rights” issue. Now, every woman is thought to have the
right to choose to have an abortion, a “women’s reproductive right”.
The
Supreme Court enshrined slavery in the Dred
Scott decision; it was revoked by the Thirteenth Amendment. Abortion was
legalized by the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision; one day it too will be rescinded.
Presently
there are advocates demanding reparations for slavery; one day there will be supporters
requiring reparations for abortions.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas