National Association for the Prevention of Abortionist Terminations (NAPAT)

18 March, 2019

I recently finished an excellent book on the history ofblack people in America,The Negro in the Making of America (NewYork, Collier Books, 1964, by Benjamin Quarles).

Ah, how far we are, it would seem, from the post-bellum,pre-civil rights era – those days between the Civil War the first World War. .. Still, untamed barbarians, we are, or have returned to being.

In the post-War south in 1899, on behalf of thestill-not-yet-enfranchised Negro in America,there was founded the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in Atlanta, directed by one Will W.Alexander.  By its “gradualistphilosophy,” the Commission published tracts and pamphlets describing“the Negro’s contributions to American life” (Quarles, p. 199).

There was a long way to go. It was be another 36 years before  Rosa Parks stepped aboard a white’s onlybus.  Back then it was great progress toform The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. (TheASWPL, I quess.)  What forward thinkingwomen!  Stand up for justice!  Publically oppose lynching (whether it is theprivate or public variety).  Be bold andtrue to Truth and Justice!

Light bulb!  We needto start a society for prevent the termination of “abortionproviders” so that they may get the opportunity to repent and save theirsouls.  If a revival comes, and folksdetermine to rescue the innocents and, to do so, they start offing abortionproviders (a.k.a. APs) off left and right, what are we going to do?  (Remember! Abortionists are people, too!  And they deserve protection and due process.)  We need to found NAPAT: the National Associationfor the Prevention of Abortionist Terminations! And I will volunteer to be a founder!

Back to the Commission of 1899.   It “metwith some successes in cities and in colleges and university centers,”writes Quarles.  “But its influencewas small in the rural south.”  (Oldhabits are hard to break, don’t cha know! Just couldn’t get a consensus on that tough lynching question.  Well, when you have slaves that won’t work,what’s to do but apply the lynch!  Scarethe bejeebers out of the others and motivate them to man-up, woman-up, children-upand put out the work!)

So it is has always with humanity.  The members of the race do not generally dothe right thing.  Ours is a selfish,fallen, sinful species – uniquely corrupted and distinguished so from the restof the “animal kingdom.”   The “fall of man” is just that  – a tragedy of those animals – humans – createdin the very image of God, the fall of the very species who had the greatprivilege and duty to uphold and honor the God in whose image they were made.  

Yeah we butcher babies ourselves, our very kin, forconvenience sake.  And if we are notparticipating in the butchering, we are guilty of tolerating it.  There is a sin of neglect, of failure to takeaction, and of “toleration” of evil for which we will give account (cf.Rev. 2:20).