International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is particularily timely in view of the reported 300% increase in Anti-Semitism globally in the past two weeks, and in view of the ongoing genocides in Darfur, Sudan and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We should remember and honor the over 6 million victims of the Holocaust, as well as educate ourselves about and take a stand against these 21st-century genocides.
We must take a strong stand on all sanctity of life and life-promoting issues, whether it be "against" abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, "mercy" killing, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or forced starvation, or "for" adoption, biblical marriage, a clean-water and safe-food supply for those in poverty, making life-saving antimicrobials and other medicines available for victims of epidemic diseases, etc.
Abortion has been equivalent to a huge, long-term genocide, which has killed 1.5 million yearly, a total of 52.5 million babies, in the U.S., since the Rowe vs. Wade decision of 1973. This killer has devastated the African American community in the U.S., in particular. It is the number one killer of African Americans in the U.S. African Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population but account for 36% of the abortions in the U.S.
Luke Robinson, of Frederick, Maryland, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, has, this week, challenged President Obama on this abortion issue and called for an end to this Holocaust of African American babies.
You may want to write President Obama, respectfully, about this important issue.

Scriptures on which to reflect and meditate:

Genesis 1:26-28
Job 10:8-9
Psalm 100:3
Psalm 139:13-16
Luke 1:39-45