They Said Slaves Weren’t Persons, They Said Jews Weren’t Persons, Now They Say Unborn Babies Aren’t Persons

by Bryan Kemper

Personhood is a misused word that attempts to redefine what a human is. It is a social construct that gives way to genocide as it falsely divides an individual into two separate stages, human being and human person. If we look back at history, we can see many times this construct was used to create a false right for some to control, enslave and kill others by denying their personhood.

It is especially egregious in today’s social climate that we continue to allow some humans to be discounted and discarded. While many fight to see equality between races, genders and nationalities in one breath, in the next they are willing to strip away the humanity of another group of humans.

Those who worked to abolish slavery understood this great injustice. They knew that dehumanizing people of color was evil. They knew the U.S. Supreme Court was in grave error in its 1857 Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Black people were not citizens of the U.S. and could not expect protection from the federal government.

The idea of personhood – and non-personhood – was used to justify the slave trade and continue to deny human rights to a group of people because of their skin color. Even after the slave trade was abolished there were so many who continued to dehumanize Black people and work towards their eradication from America. Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was among the most vocal.

The Nazis used this false construct to justify their attempt to exterminate the Jews. They systematically stripped human rights away from the Jewish people, treating them like lower class citizens before eventually slaughtering them by the millions in concentration camps. We see the dehumanization of the Jewish people continuing to this day, as we still have to fight this hatred fueled by the construct of personhood.

With all of these lessons from history, we still embrace these deadly lies to strip away the human rights of another group of people, with the 1973 stamp of approval from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Pre-born humans are the most vulnerable people, with abortion advocates having decided they do not achieve personhood until they have made it out of the womb alive.

With the overturning of 1973’s Roe v. Wade decision two years ago, many states have recognized and moved to protect the marginalized pre-born, but so many others have ramped up their efforts to cement the dehumanization of the pre-born.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, we were urged to “trust the science,” but where the pre-born are concerned, science takes a back seat as the right to abortion is redefined as a basic human right and essential for women if they hope to complete educations or have successful careers. Babies in the womb have come to be seen by so many in our nation as nothing but parasites or the proverbial – but entirely false – “clump of cells.”

We have seen the horrors of the personhood construct in history and are seeing it today. Scientifically we know that the lifespan of a human being begins at the moment of conception and continues until the moment we die. From human zygote, embryo, fetus, infant, toddler, teen and to adult, the human being is at the same time an individual human person. There is no separation whatsoever. We are human persons from the very moment we exist.

One day we will look back at legal abortion as the most bloody and deadly time in history. Organizations like Planned Parenthood will finally be seen as they should, as descendants of those who upheld the slave trade and the Third Reich. The truth will be brought to light and the evil darkness of the abortion holocaust will be exposed.

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