Black abortionist: 'I love black women and black babies'

Willie Parker, the Christ-professing abortionist, is back in the news. As you read this quote from a recent interview with In These Times, imagine that Parker has just killed an unborn baby:

“My work is emotionally satisfying because compassion is my passion. I am fortunate to do what most people are not able to: expend my energies on behalf of what I think is a noble cause. It answers for me the question of why we are here, what this is all about. For me it’s about actualizing my own humanity by serving my fellow human beings. Compassion operates for me when I am faced by the reality that women have unplanned, unwanted pregnancies.”

Unplanned. Unwanted. Not to save the mother’s life, but for convenience. This man, who claims to have accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior, wields instruments of death against defenseless human beings. Parker said he tries to see Christian pro-lifers with “compassion,” which, in the context of this interview, sounds like phony they-know-not-what-they-do moralism.

According to Parker, he’s never received “real” threats from abortion opponents but said this about those who might become violent: “If your religious understanding allows you to harm others or diminish the humanity of people, it has to be questioned and rejected.”

First, no pro-life believer should touch or threaten the women or the people who work at abortion centers, or destroy property. Doing so undermines the cause and corrupts our testimony. It’s also illegal. Second, does Parker not see the irony of this statement, considering what he does for a living?

And with astounding hubris, he actually compares his dealings with Christian pro-lifers to Jesus throwing the money changers out of His Father’s house, where they were defiling a holy place, turning it into a “den of thieves.” Parker can’t really believe he’s like Christ when he stands in defiance of pro-life protesters and goes about his deadly business. But he doesn’t stop there. Parker encourages the religious to be open about supporting abortion, which he believes will help break down the stigma and shame of a woman killing her own children.

Black women kill their unborn babies at a disproportionate rate. “As a person of color, I know how health disparities work,” Parker said. “I do this work precisely because the women who are in a position to consider abortion are disproportionately poor and women of color. … I do what I do because I love black women and black babies.”

It’s dreadful reading, but Christians need to know people like this are leading the flock astray. Abortion, though immoral, is legal, and Parker will have to answer for his actions.

“Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him,” the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.”