Susan B. Anthony refused to pay a fine for voting because in the 1800s United States law prohibited women from voting. Anthony did the right thing. In 1920 American women secured the right to vote.
Jeremiah 1:11 Amplified Bible says, "Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch or shoot of an almond tree [the emblem of alertness and activity, blossoming in late winter]." Women have gone beyond the right to vote and are now pursuing global equality and freedom. In 1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman president of the United Nations General Assembly. Today Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the eldest of eight children, a mother of four children and an anti-apartheid activist, is the head of the African Union which is focusing on an African renaissance of growth, peace, stability and development.
Being pro-woman is not being anti-man. Galatians 3:27-29 New Living Translation Bible says, "And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you."
God promised Abraham that he would be blessed, be a blessing to others and would have an abundance of descendants. However, some people hate males and females. In China since 1971 336 million unborn girls and unborn boys have lost their lives through abortion and 222 men and women have been sterilized. Many of these abortions and sterilizations are forced. A ChinaAid News March 24, 2013, "With ChinaAid's Help, Two Victims of China's One-Child Policy Granted UNHCR Refugee Status" article reports that in 1995, when Guo Yanling was eight months pregnant, she was forced to have an abortion. In 1999, she was forcibly sterilized. In 2006, she was imprisoned for not being able to pay a fine for having more than one child. The Chinese government also refused to issue household registrations to her and to her husband, Du Yiliang's, three children without which they are unable to attend school or receive government benefits. Guo Yanling's and Du Yiliang's abortion, sterilization, educational and economic terror experience is typical in China. What isn't nearly as typical is that with ChinaAid’s help, Guo Yanling and Du Yiliang have been granted refugee status by the UN High Commission on Refugees and are living in Thailand.
In America unborn baby boys and unborn baby girls had their right to life stolen by the 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.
While America has many Christians and Jews, America has a persistent problem in ensuring the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. The 1927 US Supreme Court decision Buck v. Bell ruled that forced sterilization of people with disabilities was not a violation of their constitutional rights. By the 1970s more than 60,000 disabled people were sterilized without their consent.
We need to fully defeat the idea that only certain people can contribute to society and are entitled to the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Former Mexican President Benito Juarez said, "El respecto ajeno es la paz" (The respect for the rights of others is peace.") Christian Minister and Civil Rights Activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God's universe is made; this is the way it is structured."
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