This morning I caught the first of a six part BBC documentary series title Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. The documentary examines the historical facts surrounding WWII’s most horrific and infamous Jewish extermination facility. What was most troubling, and has always bothered me in regards to the Holocaust, is the refusal to acknowledge the atrocity of the situation as it was occurring. Certainly many Germans, and others, who were not directly involved in the extermination of Jews, knew what was going on and did nothing. And while we can try and justify their reasons for turning their heads to the terror – the fact remains that they turned their heads. I cringe at the thought that people knew and did nothing, but how is this any different than those of us who refuse to acknowledge the atrocity of the slaughter of 50 million babies in this country alone since Roe vs. Wade?
In the aftermath of these criminal actions, we are flabbergasted to think of the inhuman execution of Jews by gassing, and wonder why such crimes that were preventable were allowed to occur. Ultimately, the answer lies in ones refusal to acknowledge and accept responsibility. For as long as we ignore what’s happening we don’t feel a sense of responsibility to change it. Whether it’s the execution of 4.1 million Jews at Auschwitz or the abortion of 1.2 million infants in this country every year, we must acknowledge and accept responsibility for this present day genocide if it is ever going to come to an end.
In most instances, it’s in the aftermath that we acknowledge, and therefore, express embarrassment and sense of responsibility for such atrocities. It’s hard to believe that people are capable of treating others the way that German Nazi’s treated Jews during WWII, or white Americans treated blacks before and during the Civil Rights Movement in this country.
Who in the 1950's or 1960's could have dreamed that our government would have made it an undeniable right (Law) that a woman could contract a so-called "doctor" to reach into her uterus with forceps and crush the head of a well-formed thinking and feeling baby, pull apart the baby's limbs with cold steel instruments and burn its small body with saline solution?
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Levin of Brooklyn, New York, a prominent pro-life activist, agrees that abortion is genocide. He says that it can fairly be compared to the Holocaust, lynching’s and every other crime against humanity. The rabbi argues that: “Each form of genocide, whether Holocaust, lynching, abortion, etc., differs from all the others in the motives and methods of its perpetrators. But each form of genocide is identical to all the others in that it involves the systematic slaughter, as state sanctioned "choice," of innocent, defenseless victims -- while denying their "personhood."
So, we can continue to deny and justify the genocide of innocent children in this country, or accept responsibility and begin to demand change. 70 years from now, I wonder if my children’s kids will ask why this generation did nothing to stop the horrific events that happen daily to unborn children in medical facilities around this country, why we turned our heads to the atrocity of abortion?
