Black America and “All God’s Children”

Earlier this month, I had a conversation on radio with Rev. Walter Hoye of ‘Issues4Life’, a non-profit foundation that works directly with Black American leaders nationwide to build up and strengthen their stand against abortion on demand.

In his soft voice and gently persuasive manner, he stated with clarity and certainty that abortion is the number one cause of death in Black America. “You can put together the other 13 leading causes and the numbers don’t reach the numbers of lives ended by the genocide of abortion in Black America.”

That probably comes as a surprise and a huge one to most people who hear or read this. But it’s not for lack of effort on Rev. Hoye’s part to spread awareness and engage active participation in the movement to end that genocide.

His mission statement explains: “The final chapter of the civil rights movement is about persons — not one ‘race’ of people — but humanity itself. Why? Because without life nothing matters. This is why the right to life is based on the fact that we are human beings. Both the born and the pre-born are created in the image of God.”

The original civil rights movement sought, as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said so eloquently, “that day when all of God’s children” will be able to join together and celebrate God’s freedom. All of God’s children.

Black lives matter, and indeed all human life matters. Life is sacred and deserves recognition of the inherent dignity of ‘All God’s children.’