The Greatest Civil Rights Assault of Our Time

Human sex trafficking, sometimes called “white slavery’ is a severe form of trafficking in persons and it is a travesty. The lifestyle is so horrific, that many survivors suffer for years with all kinds of issues, mental, emotional, and physical.

Worse though, at lest to me, is depriving the right to life for a group or or class of people. This is so disturbing that the founders of our country put it in writing that all men are created equal with certain unalienable rights, among these the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Further, in 1964, the Fourteenth Amendment clarified again that no person born or naturalized should be denied the same and that no state government could supersede it.

The problem is that, when people can be deprived of their life, determined by an arbitrary set of criteria, there’s no telling when or of what changes might be made to include others considered undesirable. For now, it is by age. Anyone under the age of birth might be legally deprived of their right to life by abortion. In some states, it is illegal later in pregnancy, but if a woman would travel, she can get it done elsewhere.

Trafficking victims are deprived of their liberty illegally. The law should deter some, but it cannot control a population. Legal measures are in place to punish law breakers, or so we hope. There will always be law breakers. We live in a broken world. Thankfully, there are people working against trafficking and rescuing the victims, helping them become survivors.

This illegal trade in human flesh is a horrifying trend, often killing it’s victims within about seven years. The most frequently targeted for child sex trafficking are between the ages of eleven and fourteen. This is creating so many broken adults. It is a close second to abortion as the greatest human rights issue of our day. Trafficking is closely tied to abortion because it is often used to keep girls subservient and traumatized, protecting traffickers.

Abortion wreaks havoc in a super-un-natural way. It has been said to be a private issue, but it is not and can never be again. Technology is clearly showing the humanity of these children from very early ages. It is only age that determines their lack of equal protection under the law. Legally killing the tiniest and most vulnerable of society sends a strong message. “It is acceptable for stronger, more equipped people to ignore the Constitution and deprive their smaller, weaker counterparts of their life, liberty or pursuit of happiness.” is that message.

It shows up in every day news. It is evident in everyone’s lives. It sets the bar so low, that all kinds of abuses are every day occurrences. If people are expendable, then they can be replaced, but worse than that is the lack of bonding. Superficial relationships abound. People used to care enough about other people that they would go to great lengths to help each other. Of course, there are some who practice this, but over all in society, there is a lack of true compassion.

We can look at the news to find child abuse any day of the week. Each of us knows someone who has been hurt in domestic violence, school bullying, or random violent crime. This ought not be so.

There is one thing that could help turn the tide and it is so simple. Make killing people illegal. All people, regardless of age, ability, size, gender, chromosomal make-up, ethnicity, poverty level or social status, stage of development, or the circumstances of their conception.

Then, those people who are already helping with crisis situations would be able to help more people. Those few law breakers would be undeterred, but the unwitting couldn’t be so easily lead into the trap of abortion vendors. The coerced would be lead to empowering, life-affirming assistance programs. The poor would find hope in the many pregnancy help centers all over the country. Those with poor in-utero diagnosis or with difficult disabilities would receive education, support, or adoption services.

Children conceived from violence, from trafficking, or from incest would be valued and their moms could receive healing; triumphing over their circumstances and gaining the victory by protecting their child, the second victim of the crime, instead of suffering additional trauma.

It’s not complicated. If a mother and child are medically compromised, the physician has two patients and should do the best for each. That might mean early delivery, but it should never mean going inside of the mother and chopping a baby up in pieces to take him out and dispose of him, like so much trash.

My thoughts this morning are of Kind David, who stayed home during the season when he should have been out defending his people from the slaughter. It is the legislative season in the US. We need to be out there, in the fight for the right to life for all human beings.