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ATLANTA, Oct. 24, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Dr. Alveda King:
Recently I joined members of my family to view the new movie "12 Years a Slave" directed by Steve McQueen and starring Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o, and an overall stunningly talented cast.
Warning: "12 Years a Slave" is grippingly graphic; and an essential finale to the movies "Lincoln" and "Django."
Together they totally obliterate the cushion of romanticism that movies like "Gone with the Wind" have used to soft sell what is hardcore cruelty of one group of human beings towards another.
Families are torn apart by racism, reproductive genocide, and sexual perversion a three headed monster. All three agents, glaringly portrayed in these films, have been at work in America for many years.
In my prolife vocation, showing graphic images of abortion victims are part of what I do. Every time I see a woman on a gurney after a botched abortion, I shudder. Every time I see a picture of an aborted baby, my heart thumps and I feel sick.
It was all rather eerie in a way, as I experienced these same sensations as I sat glued to my theater seat watching "12 Years a Slave."
I was so relieved to experience what was in the hearts of the abolitionists in these films. If not for that, I would have left each movie feeling angry and hopeless. In these films human compassion arose victorious. God's truth and grace will always win.
Soon America will observe the 50th Anniversary of the events that led to 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 50th anniversaries of the "I Have a Dream Speech," "The March on Washington," and the 150th anniversary of "The Emancipation Proclamation" are now recent history. And yet the babies/mothers aren't free.
We're lost in the cloudy veil of deceptive "women's rights" and "human rights" campaigns while the weakest of all human beings are being desecrated on the altars of harmful chemical and surgical "birth control" agents and abortions.
What whips and nooses didn't do to desecrate the sanctity of human life during slavery and segregation the abortion mills are doing today. Lynching a person on a tree or in the womb brings about the same results, inhumanity towards our brothers and sisters.
These films are being produced against the odds in some cases because God desires to stir the hearts of men and women. It is time to listen.
