On inauguration day, amid
the applause of thousands and the protest or skepticism of others, our new
President Trump proclaimed, "The forgotten men and women of our country
will be forgotten no longer."
He was referring to
"mothers and children trapped in poverty", to a bad economic system,
to a failing education system, and to the crime, gangs and drugs "that
have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much...potential."
Promising that
government would be for the people and by the people again, he stated,
"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
He believes the American Dream will live again under his administration.
Time will demonstrate
the truth of these statements, but a scene in Montgomery, Alabama gives a new
angle to his words.
On Sunday, January 22,
nearly a hundred Alabamians gathered at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery to
remember "forgotten" children. There, under an oak tree, lie
the remains of eighteen babies. They are babies who never had a first
breath, or first step, or first grade, or first date, or first child.
They were found in a
dumpster behind Montgomery Mall in 1986 -- the result of an American carnage
that has taken not only the dreams, but the lives of 60 million babies across
the United States since 1973.
On January 22, while
rain fell and a full rainbow filled the sky, Protestants and Catholics who
represented multiple churches and prolife organizations united to memorialize
the lives of these babies. Children who attended the annual memorial
service placed roses on a tombstone that read: "In loving memory of the
unborn children. Here lie the remains of 18 unborn children whose lives
were destroyed by abortion October 12, 1986. They are known only by God."
The tombstone is
monument to the eighteen babies who were found dead that day. And it's a
mute witness to the fact that sixteen more are killed each new day in
Alabama.
"Whether a child
is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the wind-swept plains of Nebraska,
they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams,
and they are infused with the breath of life by the same Almighty
Creator," President Trump stated in his inaugural address. "So
to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to
mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be
ignored again."
But what about the
babies in the womb? The kids who are never born, who never look up at the
night sky, who never have a dream, and who never see the light of day?
Will America remember them? Quit
ignoring them?
The president, all
people in power, and all citizens must realize that abortion is the real
American carnage. Aborted babies are the real forgotten Americans.
President Trump
announced Friday that “we will no longer accept politicians who are all talk
and no action, constantly complaining, but never doing anything about
it." His move to defund Planned Parenthood International was
step one. But it’s going to take more
than that, from him and from all of us, to really end the carnage.
It’s going to take
individuals who care enough to help the mamas who find themselves in tough
pregnancies. It’s going to take churches
preaching that children are a gift from God.
It’s going to take lawmakers, judges and elected officials who care as
much about ending the prenatal carnage as they do about improving the quality
of life for those children who are already alive.
Until Alabama’s unborn
are given equal protection under the law and abortion is outlawed for what it
is -- murder -- America can never be great again.
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