As Americans Honor Martin Luther King, Abortion Destroys Black Community

Life News ^ | 01.19.06 | Steven Ertelt

[Coleus]

As Americans Honor Martin Luther King, Abortion Destroys Black Community

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Millions of Americans today will honor the memory of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, but, as they do, pro-life leaders within the African American community are concerned about the toll abortion is taking.

"Far and away the worse toll is taken in the most vulnerable community, the African American community, where black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than their white counterparts," explains Starr Parker, president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education.

African American women make up 13.7 percent of the U.S. population of women of childbearing age, yet the abortion rate among Black women is three times higher than of white women. For every five African American women that get pregnant three will have abortions.

Parker explains that moral principles and freedom are often at odds with each other, as they are in the abortion debate. She says moral principles in opposition to slavery made Americans more free and the same can happen with regard to abortion.

"Americans know today that Roe v. Wade has pushed that envelope," Parker said. "We live daily with wholesale abuse of human life that devalues America and Americans. This loss of value and perspective has weakened us and made us less free."

Nicole Redden understands the devastating effects of abortion firsthand. Her 15-year-old cousin Tamiia Russell was six months pregnant when she died from a legal abortion in Michigan in January 2004.

"This stuff needs to stop," said Redden. "People need to take a first hand look at what happens here."

Redden said that Tamiia used an identification card with another woman's picture to state she was 19, as abortions cannot be performed on minors in Michigan without parental consent.

According to Redden, the woman in the picture ID looked nothing like Russell -- but the abortion was done anyway at the WomanCare of Southfield abortion facility.

"Afro-American women have been victimized by the abortion industry for profit," Rev. Clenard Childress the director of LEARN, a black pro-life organization, explains. "Each day 1,452 Black infants are killed for profit and ... much of our current leadership are silent. Political alliances have caused us to 'sell out' our women and our children."

While black political leaders frequently support abortion, they're not representative of the African American community.

When the NAACP took an official position in favor of abortion in the early part of 2004, which it has since quietly rescinded, a poll conducted by Black Enterprise Magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision.

Meanwhile, in an August poll sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.

Parker explains that traditionally black churches are waking up to the way abortion has denigrated the African American community.

"Black pastors and their congregants are waking up to the fact that the liberal agenda that they have been supporting all these years does not liberate but denigrates, dehumanizes, and enslaves," Parker said.

However, pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers are reaching out to the black community.

Janine Simpson, director of Urban Center Development for CareNet, a network of more than 900 pregnancy resource centers, says abortion businesses target black women and "an estimated 70 percent of abortion providers are in minority neighborhoods."

But groups like CareNet are working to open centers across the country that provide practical help and resources for pregnant women.

Related web sites:

Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education - http://www.urbancure.org 
CareNet - http://www.care-net.org 

[clintonh8r]

They can thank their DemocRAT masters....

[umgud]

Margaret Sanger would rejoice in her grave.

[Pharmboy]

Abortion is the keystone for the destruction of the black family...

[msnimje]

This is the very goal of Planned Parenthood and the fulfills the wishes of its founder.

Any black doctor who performs abortions on black women should be ostracized by his community for participating in this form of genocide.

[goodnesswins]

HILLARY.....Your PLANTATION is calling....

[conservative physics]

socialism, welfare, busing, denigration of success, the democratic party, and out of wedlock births are what destroyed the black community.

[BobS]

"Starr Parker, president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education."

I lost track of her in recent years. She is very good and interesting giving public speaches. I thought for sure she was going for a GOP seat. Maybe this means more to her.

[goodnesswins]

She has a radio ad I've heard too....talking about how 40% of all abortions are with Black women, while they represent only 7% of the population. It's powerful.

[appleharvey]

Margaret Sanger would rejoice in her grave.

And if African Americans knew the truth about Mararet Sanger, they'd piss on her grave.

[madison10]

Abortion is the keystone for the destruction of the black family...

...and cheered on mainly by the very party that calls black families its "constituency."

[rovenstinez]

Isn't it strange that the Civil Rights never cared much for the unborn black kids.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them that they refuse to do for themselves.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Every reply here I read so far ignores reality. From my personal view the Black population in Boston has more than tripled in 40 years. The City population as a whole has remained constant. The white population decreased. Now who is aborting? Blacks or Whites? What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system. It supports unwed mothers. It actually encourages them to have babies so they can become more dependent. This is a militant feminist movement driven agenda. The men hating lesbians are the glue that holds their movement together

The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Every reply here I read so far ignores reality. From my personal view the Black population in Boston has more than tripled in 40 years. The City population as a whole has remained constant. The white population decreased. Now who is aborting? Blacks or Whites? What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system. It supports unwed mothers. It actually encourages them to have babies so they can become more dependent. This is a militant feminist movement driven agenda. The men hating lesbians are the glue that holds their movement together

The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Every reply here I read so far ignores reality. From my personal view the Black population in Boston has more than tripled in 40 years. The City population as a whole has remained constant. The white population decreased. Now who is aborting? Blacks or Whites? What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system. It supports unwed mothers. It actually encourages them to have babies so they can become more dependent. This is a militant feminist movement driven agenda. The men hating lesbians are the glue that holds their movement together

The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them that they refuse to do for themselves.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them that they refuse to do for themselves.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Every reply here I read so far ignores reality. From my personal view the Black population in Boston has more than tripled in 40 years. The City population as a whole has remained constant. The white population decreased. Now who is aborting? Blacks or Whites? What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system. It supports unwed mothers. It actually encourages them to have babies so they can become more dependent. This is a militant feminist movement driven agenda. The men hating lesbians are the glue that holds their movement together

The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them that they refuse to do for themselves.

[moonman]

Two great men are known for saying 2 memorable verses. King said: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they are not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." He was against affirmative action, quotas and anything else that looked at skin color.

Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country".

Although a large majority of both Black and Liberal America claim these two great men as their own, they are truely Conservatives by their words and deeds. Liberals, both Black & White, cannot look past skin color nor can they live without asking government to do for them that they refuse to do for themselves.

[rock_lobsta]

Each day, liberals kill 1307 future possible democrat voters. That comes out to over 7.1 million voters that would have been at least 18 years old.

Always amazed by the liberal hypocrisy. They would have had the votes to win in 2000 and 2004, if only they wouldn't be hell-bent on killing off their voting base.

Of course, this has always been the sad tradition of planned parenthood.

[rock_lobsta]

Each day, liberals kill 1307 future possible democrat voters. That comes out to over 7.1 million voters that would have been at least 18 years old.

Always amazed by the liberal hypocrisy. They would have had the votes to win in 2000 and 2004, if only they wouldn't be hell-bent on killing off their voting base.

Of course, this has always been the sad tradition of planned parenthood.

[ladyjane]

You can say that again.

[rock_lobsta]

Whoops... I think I just did.

-5 points for double-posting!

[TheGeezer]

Your post followed umgood's, which is really sort of spooky. Margaret Sanger was a racist eugenist, who wanted to force members of "inferior" races to be sterilized and to abort all unplanned (e.g., "licensed" or permitted) pregnancies.

Elitists like Kennedy and Kerry want to accomplish the same thing, and their allies (Jesse Jackson and certified malicious liar Al Sharpton) lead their minions into the same abortion mill.

[moonman]

I see you are getting 'errors' trying to post replies also. What the heck is going on? Our posts apparently ARE going through cuz there are several of them. LOL

[cyborg]

Hey maybe that your reality. Not mine. There's plenty of abortion going on where I live. I'd not use Boston or even New York as any standard of what's going on with abortion. Rememver big cities are mostly rat strongholds and all their democrat welfare incentives.

[shield]

I hate this for the black community...

[shield]

I hate this for the black community...

[LWalk18]

What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system.

Good point- the real problem is not that a 15 year old black girl has an abortion, but that she is pregnant at all, or even sexually active. Morality has to be restored-I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality.

I would rather see us with a smaller population free of the pathology of the welfare state than full of people born of single, teenage mothers. Responsibility is the only true solution.

[LWalk18]

What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system.

Good point- the real problem is not that a 15 year old black girl has an abortion, but that she is pregnant at all, or even sexually active. Morality has to be restored-I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality.

I would rather see us with a smaller population free of the pathology of the welfare state than full of people born of single, teenage mothers. Responsibility is the only true solution.

[BobS]

Starr has a good story to tell if anyone doesn't know. She was a welfare mom in either Watts or Compton with what that entails. She worked her way out of it while getting an education and a college degree. She started her own business.

Now I remember. When welfare reform was being debated in the mid 90's, she was on C-Span and mostly ignored elsewhere. She met Gingrich and others that wanted to do something about this issue. She spoke about how welfare workers told women with children that they had to kick their men out if they wanted to keep recieving welfare.

She should be more prominent and outspoken again. She's attractive on TV and speaks with CLARITY about things a Black woman knows about.

[hosepipe]

[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

[BobS]

Starr has a good story to tell if anyone doesn't know. She was a welfare mom in either Watts or Compton with what that entails. She worked her way out of it while getting an education and a college degree. She started her own business.

Now I remember. When welfare reform was being debated in the mid 90's, she was on C-Span and mostly ignored elsewhere. She met Gingrich and others that wanted to do something about this issue. She spoke about how welfare workers told women with children that they had to kick their men out if they wanted to keep recieving welfare.

She should be more prominent and outspoken again. She's attractive on TV and speaks with CLARITY about things a Black woman knows about.

[hosepipe]

[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

[hosepipe]

[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

[topher]

Please keep Alveda King in your prayers. She is under intense pressure. She is trying to get out the message of how abortion is hurting black society.

Last week, in Atlanta, she released a Pro-Life DVD (her song/video).

I was able to give Alveda an advance birthday present this week.

[Joe Boucher]

No, single parent families, rampant drug use, black on black crime, poor education showings, bussing are destroying the black community.
Add to that black leadership is the likes of jessee jackson and wow you have one mess.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

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[backhoe]

You may find LGF's coverage interesting:

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

We Got Mail!

Received tonight from an apparent fan of CODEPINK, somewhere on the Left Coast:"Well, well....can’t stand some real women handling the situation you WHITEGUYS have started and don’t know how to remove your thing from your furthest point of contact, huh."--with the Left, it's always junior high style insults, and childish nastiness; "YOU'RE UGLY, AND YOU'RE STUPID, AND YOU'RE A RACIST, AND YOU'RE WHITE, AND---AND---AND." They're beyond argument, or debating their positions any longer; they just want to snarl and whine and make you submit to their point of view.

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Speaking of Code Pink on the Left Coast:

ROUGH DRAFT OF MY ABORTION RALLY REPORT.

If there was any overall theme to the pro-choice side, it was that the pro-life crowd was part of a right-wing fascist agenda to drag America back to the theocratic Dark Ages.

 
As the march set off, the pro-lifers had to run a gauntlet of verbal abuse from the pro-choice crowd. I walked along the curb and took this hair-raising video of what the experience was like (QuickTime mpeg video, 3.1mb). (Clicking on the link above -- and on all the similar links below -- will open a QuickTime video file in a new window.) Click HERE to continue to Part 2 of the report...

(Click here to return to the main zombietime page.)

#227

zombie  1/23/2006 10:34PM PST

 

I've just added a must-see video to my nascent abortion rally coverage page.

Forget about whatever side of the issue you're on. You've got to see this video.

[wardaddy]

I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality

That is rather odd logic.

The baby is hardly responsible for the mother and father's lack of morality so why should they pay the price for something they had nothing to do with?

I know you don't mean it that way but it sounds like an excuse for culling to get back to a better starting point.

[wardaddy]

I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality

That is rather odd logic.

The baby is hardly responsible for the mother and father's lack of morality so why should they pay the price for something they had nothing to do with?

I know you don't mean it that way but it sounds like an excuse for culling to get back to a better starting point.

[cgk]

Thanks!

Now compare this:

Pictures from this week's rally:
with this:

Picture taken from the current palestinian intifada:

While the left in this country needs to learn their history - the terrorists know theirs: they aligned with the nazis in WWII.

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If only the leftist who carried this sign could read:

Or this one could apply their war on abortion stance to their war on terror:

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And this is absolutely great... a play-by-play of pictures:

Leftists attempt to block the March:

The first attempt was almost comical in its futility. The woman on the right is part of a group trying to stretch a pro-abortion banner across the road. Her smile indicates she has no idea what's about to happen.

The cops told them in no uncertain terms to take it down, and rode their motorcycles straight ahead anyway.

After a momentary retreat, the march-blockers tried once more to stretch the banner across the road. The cops' solution was quite simple: Keep riding. Don't even slow down.

The line of motorcycles plowed right into the banner. It was torn from the protesters' hands and soon was covered in tire tracks.

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And I liked the final report:

When all the dust has settled, there is really only one way to determine which of two competing political ideologies has emerged victorious, and that is: Which side has the best-looking women?

Sounds like that graphic that floats around FR comparing the Women of the Right (Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham...) to the hags of the left (Dowd, Thomas, Ginsburg).

[cgk]

I know you don't mean it that way but it sounds like an excuse for culling to get back to a better starting point.

I certainly hope not. Threads on this subject, abortion being prevalent in the black community, do sometimes bring out the "so what" people, even on FR. IMO, all babies aborted for convenience's sake, which are the majority of all abortions, should be mourned. All life is precious and deserves protection.

[cgk]

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Double-ping to the thread for must-see pics in posts #43 and #46... thanks backhoe!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[LWalk18]

I know you don't mean it that way but it sounds like an excuse for culling to get back to a better starting point.

Sorry I wasn't clearer- I just questioned the article's assertion that abortion has destroyed the black community, when IMO it is a mere side effect of the breakdown of moral values and families, especially among poor blacks. The black community will be better off if every pregnant 15 year old has her baby, it will be better off if those 15 year old abstains until they finish their education and get married.