Congressional Black Caucus Holds Meeting to Blast Pro-Lifers

LifeNews.com ^ | 5/18/2012 | Jill Stanek

[blueyon]

On May 10 the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus were honorary co-hosts of a wordy briefing entitled, “African Americans’ Attitudes on Abortion, Contraception, and Reproductive, Justice: From Public Opinion to Policymaking,” held at the U.S. Capitol.

On the agenda:

“numerous challenges to accessing quality, affordable reproductive health care… exacerbated by campaigns targeting the African American community” “research on the latest attitudes and concerns of African Americans relating to reproductive justice” “key messaging as a response to attacks and threats to reproductive rights” Organizers were obviously alarmed by the inroads pro-lifers have made into the black community, hence the briefing.

What surprised me was how freely they disseminated their findings and thoughts, apparently not taking into consideration (can’t believe they didn’t care) that pro-lifers might also be interested in they had to say.

[Godwin1]

“REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE.” Orwell lives: killing innocents is justice; violently interrupting the natural reproductive cycle of life is “reproductive.”

[RightOnline]

I was JUST about to post the same thing when I saw your reply.

Exactly.

God save the blacks in this country from their droolingly-stupid “leaders”.

Actually, “stupid” just doesn’t cover it. Moronic, maybe.

[RavenATB]

You’re right about Sanger. But her purpose in starting Planned Parenthood was more to address the population of blacks. So it’s even more ironic that “African American Leaders” would embrace Planned Parenthood.

It’s like envisioning early 20th Century German Jews donating money to build more brick ovens.

[Boogieman]

You might be right, but there is another factor at play here. In the 50’s & 60’s, there were a lot more young black leaders because the movement was just coalescing, with lots of real civil rights battles to fight, so there were a lot of opportunities for leaders to rise to the top by proving themselves. After the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, etc, there weren’t many real battles left to fight, and the young leaders like Jackson were now entrenched with nothing better to do than protect their own gravy train.

So, instead of shepherding new leaders to help them fight for their cause, they would squash the competition or co-opt them if they could be controlled. Jesse Jackson especially is very protective of his position and will do whatever he can to undercut any other black leaders he sees as a threat, hence his private animosity towards Obama.

[Pining_4_TX]

What? You mean some blacks object to liberals wanting to open an abortion clinic on every corner in every minority neighborhood? How ungrateful of them!