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Martin Luther King's Dream Today - Thoughts by his Niece Dr. Alveda King

“The message I share comes from my heart, from love of life and family, and from an inherited sense of duty to defend the most vulnerable in society.

So much bloodshed and heartache happened because some people in the United States thought that African Americans were not worthy of respect.  We were spat upon. We were clubbed and beaten.  And we were lynched.  We were killed because we were regarded as less than fully human.  So it is with the lives of unborn babies – who are womb-lynched today

Today’s unborn are yesterday’s blacks – best kept out of sight and out of mind lest they remind us of the injustices we commit. 

The problem for abortionists and their supporters, though, is the same problem racists and segregationists faced: reality.  Unborn babies won’t go away.  So the work of the abortion industry has been to deny the humanity of those they exploit and discriminate against.

But what if, like the Texas abortion clinic director who recently quit her job when she saw the ultrasound image of the baby she was helping to abort, we can no longer rationalize away what we’ve been doing all these years? What if the truth becomes so clear and so compelling that society simply can’t go on being indifferent or complicit in the big lie?  Well, that’s when we have to do what is against our nature – we have to humble ourselves, admit our wrongs and change our ways.

And that, in fact, is what my country did because of the civil rights movement.  America changed because Americans were touched in their hearts – hearts that the Bible tells us are inscribed with God’s law.  We can try to deny our consciences, indoctrinate or medicate our minds so that we can’t or won’t think, but a sense of right and wrong has been given to each and every one of us.  It is that very moral awareness that changed America’s culture on racism.

I believe it is that same moral awareness that can change any culture on abortion.”

Dr. Alveda King, on 22 June 2010, at a meeting of the Working Group on Human Dignity, in the European Parliament in Brussels.