A real live Abortion Barbie has been unleashed upon America and she is the figure secular progressives/liberals/leftists want to use to mainstream abortion. She is Democratic Texas state senator, Wendy Davis, who is running for the office of governor of Texas state on her abortion advocacy credentials. She came to national notoriety in 2013 during her solo filibuster to stop the closing of unsafe abortion clinics.
Only a few years ago nobody in America would have boldly staked out such a position for fear of a backlash. But America is going back to the Dark Ages so Davis’ pro-abortion position makes her a rising star in her party and in Texas. If you oppose her pro-abortion platform you are labeled “anti-woman.” That is how low much of the secular media has sunk.
In her memoir and media appearances Davis talks about the two abortions she has had citing her health and fetal disability as reasons.
Davis is trying to whip up sympathy for women who have abortions even though she knows that the majority of women who seek abortion do so for social and economic reasons and not because of mother’s health or fetal health (each of these constitute no more than 2 per cent of the 1.5 million abortions performed yearly in America.)
Back in my grandmother’s era, the Whiteman was a civilising influence in Africa. Yes! British missionaries such as Mary Slessor convinced my people to stop the killing of twins and my grandmother being one of the early converts to Christianity in my village came to recognise the intrinsic value of life present even in those labeled as curses. My village listened and stopped the killing of twins —- an example of positive social change driven by Biblical values. Today, the Liberals and some syrupy sweet Christians would characterise her work as political. They will call her an “extremist,” a “hater” and some federal agency would consider her as much a threat to national security as ISIS.
I am often dismayed by the kind of comments I hear on abortion by Africans in America —- some of them members of my own family. It’s not that women don’t have abortions in Nigeria, it is just that they do not go about promoting abortion as a woman’s right or a societal good. We grew up knowing abortion is not a social good, and those who ended up having one did it with fear and trembling and some recognition that they were committing a sin.
A family discussion I will recount shortly underscores the attitude many Africans in America (many of them Christians) have towards abortion. I was watching an interview of Mark, President Obama’s half-brother, on Fox News’ Hannity show when I announced: Everybody come see Obama’s brother. Oh my goodness, he looks like Obama.
I was almost moved to tears as I marveled at the kind hands of fate that had made them brothers. I added, “ Obama took time off his official schedule to meet with this brother who lives in China when he visited China. Everybody wait, I got to meet with my brother.”
I continued, “ just goes to show we should let all the babies live, you never know what they will become. ”
As I ruminated on the Obama brothers’ story, some of what I had heard before about abortion started bubbling up in my mind and I said out loud: Obama’s mother would probably have aborted him if the kind of liberal abortion laws he champions were in place when she got pregnant.
The rebuttal from another family member took me by surprise. “ How do you know she would have aborted him.” I said I didn’t say that. She said, “ You just said his mother wanted to abort him.” I said under the laws he champions, there would have been abortion clinics at every corner in Hawaii and she would have been more likely to be tempted to have an abortion.”
Next thing that spewed out of her mouth was: Obama-hater ( yeah, you want to use the f word too, to show off how Americanised you have become.) I should have said: baby-hater or Obama lover, kiss, kiss.
Me and Obama ele (we say this with two fingers intertwined). I have more points of connections with him than he has with anybody else I know of and one of these days when we meet we will have a lot to talk about.
ME: Long before anybody heard of Obama I was fighting against abortion.
I hope I will get a chance to recount some of my experience fighting in the frontlines of the culture wars as an African missionary- journalist (a missionalist). It is time for Africans to return a favour —- bring back to the West the civilising message their ancestors brought to us.
