Black Pro-Life Advocates Plan Massive Abortion Protest Outside NAACP Mtg

Life News ^ | June 12, 2008 | Steven Ertelt

[Coleus]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- To draw attention to the way abortion disproportionately affects the African-American community, black pro-life advocates will be protesting outside the upcoming annual meeting of the nation's largest organization representing blacks. The NAACP protest will also reach the Democratic presidential candidate. Rev. Clenard Childress, a New Jersey pastor, told LifeNews.com about the protest and said pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama and former candidate Hillary Clinton will be at the convention.  "Because 2008 is an election year, the presidential candidates will undoubtedly speak at the convention. This gives us a national stage to make our case to the American people, as a whole, as well as the convention delegates," he explained.

He said the protest at the Cincinnati, Ohio convention will highlight the failure of the NAACP to recognize how abortion is destroying the black community by the thousands.  "We will be addressing the failure of the joint board to read the resolution from Macon, Georgia that brings to the attention of the convention the alarming abortion rate and the increasing health risk," he said.  "Historically, the NAACP has failed to address the concerns of many of its delegates about abortion," he added.

The black pastor pointed to a 2004 resolution voicing support for “equal access to abortion” and urging its members to participate in a pro-abortion rally in Washington.  In 2007, the NAACP, for the second time in four years, blocked a proposed resolution expressing opposition to abortion.  He also pointed to black leaders like Jesse Jackson who historically took pro-life positions but compromised on the issue for political gain.  "Sadly, like Jackson, so many of America’s black leaders have sold out to the abortion industry," he says. "But we have an opportunity at the NAACP convention to remind these leaders of our real value system."

But, ultimately, if the African-American community can tackle the abortion issue, Childress says the pro-life movement will win and mothers and unborn children will be protected.  "Whether you are black or white, we know that the black community and its leadership hold the key to turning the abortion debate around. If my fellow black leaders begin to address the issue -- Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered," he concluded.  Childress is sponsoring two buses to bring 100 African-American pro-lifers with him to the event.

[Coleus]

Pastor Childress' website

 

http://www.blackgenocide.org/home.html

[the invisib1e hand]

I've said this before. Something about this black Genocide pitch makes me uncomfortable.

Like abortion isn't as wrong when it targets whites and latinos.

[CondorFlight]

Approximately one-third of the African-American community
would claim to be religious.

But 95% of that same community supports (or at least votes for candidates who support) abortion, gay rights, etc.

Somewhere there has been a disconnect. . .

In 30 years, AFAIK the African-American community has never elected a member of Congress who has been pro-life or pro-marriage.

[MHGinTN]

Just for your consideration, think about whom the black people —with this very high rate of slaughtering their own alive unborn children— support in elections and what those elected officials deliver for the black community to embrace. Slaughtered children are children ... but the community using this evil means are empowering the democrats who bring this evil to the taxpayers responsibility ... we pay for this evil whether you want to admit it or not.

[boycott]

-— Approximately one-third of the African-American community
would claim to be religious. ——

Well, if they attend a church like Obama and his family did, religious wouldn’t mean much.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Eugenics was a big part of Planned Parenthood’s founding

[doc1019]

Rant:

Abortion is wrong, wrong, and again I say … abortion is wrong. Doesn’t matter what race … abortion is just wrong. And any medical professional that chooses to perform abortions should spend eternity in the deepest recesses of hell.

Now, ask me what I think of abortion. ;-(

Rant off.

[rhinohunter]

In 30 years, AFAIK the African-American community has never elected a member of Congress who has been pro-life or pro-marriage.

There was JC Watts, but I guess he wasn't actually elected by the "African-American community" but rather by Conservative white Okies.

[taraytarah]

Thanks for the thread. The black community needs to wake up. God bless Pastor Childress and his efforts. I pray he will have an amazing turnout - one much bigger than they expect.

[nmh]

I’ve said this before. Something about this black Genocide pitch makes me uncomfortable.

Like abortion isn’t as wrong when it targets whites and latinos.

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Understood and agree, however blacks have the most abortions. They tpicall vote for abortion advocates. Ole Obomination can’t even bring himself to draw the line at partial birth abortion.

[TigersEye]

May their efforts bear good fruit.

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Studies Find Abortions Have Long-Term Effects

An Unexpected Correlation: The Legacy of Abortion

Study: Previous Abortions Linked With Pre-Term Birth and Cerebral Palsy

48,589,993

Total Abortions since 1973

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)

[informavoracious]

I applaud the pro-life cause and I hope Pastor Childress draws a crowd. However, if the “solution” is to provide more tax money so that the state can do what fathers and mothers are supposed to be doing but don’t, supporting the children they bring into the world, then I would like to see him work on turning that attitude around as well.

[the invisib1e hand]

Understood and agree, however blacks have the most abortions.

Umm, right. So, black people murder their children at the highest rate.

But the unmistakeable overtones of black victimization that ring in the phrase "Black Genocide" are dissonant with that reality.