Take the River Road

By: American Decency Staff

 

For an elective leadership course that I took in college, I was required to watch the movie, “Hotel Rwanda.”

This 2004 movie, of course, tells the story of a group of Tutsi refugees in a luxury hotel during the Rwandan genocide in which the Hutu attempted to wipe out the Tutsis.

Honestly, I remember little of the plotline for the film, but one scene I will never forget, and if you’ve seen the movie, you know exactly what I’m talking about.

The scene begins with Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of the hotel and the protagonist of the film, travelling to a Hutu friend of his who was the leader of a local Tutsi-killing militia to purchase supplies for the hotel.  Paul’s friend gives him the supplies and sends him on his way, telling him to take the road by the river.

As Paul and his driver drive through the heavy fog on the river road, they start going over some bumps – so much so that Paul tells his driver to stop because he’s afraid they’ve gone off road and will drive into the river.

When he gets out of the van, however, he immediately trips over something. That’s when Paul literally comes face to face with the atrocity that his people are committing. When he sees what he tripped over, he realizes they have been driving over the dead bodies of slaughtered Tutsis, strewn across the road.

Paul retches, and I think I did too, the first time I saw it.

That was 8 years ago, and I should watch it again so that I can recount the story better, but I just watched a similar video, and I’m not sure I can take that much senseless killing in one day.

In the video I just watched, however, the characters just slam their doors and keep driving over the bodies.

Of course, that would be the eighth video released by the aptly named Center for Medical Progress.

The first seven videos have focused on Planned Parenthood’s grisly side business of parting out the babies they abort. We’ve seen their executives talk about how “crunchy” abortions can be, how lucrative selling an infant’s organs can be, we’ve seen PP employees spooning through a bowl of baby, pulling out limbs, and exclaiming, “It’s a boy!” We’ve heard from a former Stem Express employee who was asked to access a baby’s brains by cutting through his (or her) face. For science! or something.

This eighth video focuses on Stem Express itself, the company that buys baby “specimens” (they need like 50 more baby livers a week if they’re going to meet the demand).

The defining moment in this video comes when the Stem Express CEO, Kate Dyer, shakes her head at the silly “researchers” who order “specimens” from her company.

Here’s a partial transcript from the video:

“It’s almost like they don’t want to know where it comes from… Where they’re like, “We need limbs, but no hands and feet need to be attached.” And you’re like, ? Or they want long bones, and they want you to take it all off, like, make it so that we don’t know what it is.”

She continues, “But we know what it is. I mean, (laughter) but their lab… techs freak out, and have meltdowns, and so it’s just like, yeah…”

So, what is it, Kate Dyer? What has hands and feet that need to be taken off the long bones? What has a face that must be cut through with scissors to access the brains?

What has the parts that would make a calloused Planned Parenthood employee exclaim, “It’s a boy!” on finding them lying in a pile of flesh chunks in a Petri dish?

We do know what it is.

It’s a child.

Here, in the United States, we kill and cut up babies – not necessarily in that order – for medical research. Why? Well, maybe if we can get enough livers from the baby farms, we’ll be able to save a few valuable adults along the way.

There. Now we can’t pretend we don’t know about it.

These videos are as close to a “take the river road” moment as we’re going to get, unless, of course, the wrong box falls off a UPS truck, because, by the way, Stem Express likes to ship whole baby heads to researchers.

There have been predictions – and I pray they’re right – that this will be the generation to end abortion. Whether it’s this one or not, I am confident that someday our descendants will look at our selfish slaughter of over one million of the most innocent among us every year in the same way we look at the Incans or the Mayans or the worshippers of Molech. How could they be so barbaric?

But when that first generation in a world with illegal abortion asks their parents what they did to end the evil, it is my guess that very few will be able to say, “I did enough. I did everything I could to save those people. My conscience is clean.”

May God give us the passion, wisdom, and energy to topple this hellish institution.

Pastor John Piper recently prayed at an abortion rally and the end of his prayer is a fitting end to this writing:

“And so, Lord, when you do these mighty works, may your name be honored and may Christ be exalted, may the gospel advance in our land.   Amen.”

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