Posted on 01/21/2014 7:31:59 AM PST by Morgana
New York’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo, just announced that “right-to-life” advocates have “no place in the state of New York.” The Radiance Foundation and its civil rights allies defy Governor Cuomo’s intolerance and have launched the “DREAM IS DEAD” ad campaign (www.toomanyaborted.com/ny) in New York on Martin Luther King Day.
ryanbomberger26The bold ad campaign declares: “The Dream Is Dead For 56 Million: TooManyAborted.com” reminding the public of Dr. Martin Luther King’s fight to ensure justice for all. Bus transit ads will be seen throughout the state’s capital, Albany, as well as Troy and Schenectady. In 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. shared his Dream with the nation, he never envisioned an America where ‘reproductive justice’ would end more than 56 million innocent human lives. His dream never pictured a nation where black boys and black girls would never be able to join hands with white boys and white girls, as sisters and brothers, because ‘freedom of choice’ determined some humans are simply not equal.
New York has the second highest abortion rate in America and the second highest total number of abortions, exceeding 100,000 annually. There is obviously no lack of access. Yet, liberal legislators in the state want to decriminalize all abortions allowing the violent procedure through the entire 9 months of pregnancy. Planned Parenthood and a coalition of other pro-abortion groups have joined Governor Cuomo’s quest to enact the “Reproductive Health Act”, part of his “Women’s Equality Act”. This dangerous pro-Gosnell bill will only endanger even more women and their unborn children.
Planned Parenthood continually touts that they gave Martin Luther King their first Margaret Sanger Award in 1966. What they fail to tell the public is that abortion wasn’t legal in ’66. Dr. King wrongly believed birth control would reduce poverty. He also wrongly believed Planned Parenthood was interested in elevating poorer blacks. Their abortion numbers tell a completely different story.
According to the NY State Department of Health, for every 1,000 black babies born alive, 1,223 are aborted. No other racial/ethnic demographic aborts more of their children than are born alive. Yet groups like the NAACP have endorsed this radical bill that will clearly disproportionately impact the black community. The TooManyAborted.com New York campaign will continue to educate the public about this civil rights issue throughout Black History Month.
She certainly was a racial eugenicist, which is bad enough; there is nothing to be gained by exaggerating the facts.
I was watching the tv show THE FIRST 48. A young black man had been shot. He left behind a child. The young black woman’s family referred to the dead young man as “the Baby Father”. The parents of the dead young man referred to the young woman as “The Baby Mother”. Not husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend. Interesting.
Truly unsure.
I say this because as late as 1962, PP was marketing contraception as being "not abortion," because "abortion takes the life of a baby" --- while they were simultaneously lobbying for decriminalization of abortion, which they called "abortion reform."
As early as 1920, Sanger was simultaneously calling abortion "vicious and dangerous," AND defending it as women's ultimate weapon against unwanted childbearing:
“The only weapon that women have and the most uncivilized weapon that they have to use if they will not submit to having children every year or every year and a half, the weapon they use is abortion. . . . What does this mean? It means it is a very bad sign if women have to indulge in it, and it means they are absolutely determined that they cannot continue bringing children into the world that they cannot clothe, feed, and shelter. It is woman’s instinct, and she knows herself when she should and should not give birth to children, and it is just as natural to trust that instinct and to let her be the one to say and much more natural than it is to leave it to some unknown God for her to judge her by.”(MS, “Debate On Birth Control: First Speech,” Dec. 12, 1920 [MSM S76:0923 ].)
Then there's this, 1923:
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publishing Co., 1923)
It's probably more accurate to say she was "inconsistent" or "ambivalent."
Sanger died in 1966.
You are wrong!
In her own words, Sanger advocated the right of a woman to abort for ANY reason!
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