Posted on 01/18/2005 2:29:15 PM PST by rhema
“The rights and privileges conferred by the Constitution upon citizens do not apply to the Negro race.”
Dred Scott, Plantiff in Error v. John F. A. Sanford (See S. C. 19 How. 393 633)
Is this still true?
In an article entitled “African American Women Are Exploited by Abortion,” Mrs. Akua Furlow writes,
While “pro choice” feminists push abortion as a “woman’s right,” the truth is that women are being exploited by abortion, especially African- American women. The pro abortion feminists . . . have successfully identified abortion as a “civil right.” Some African-Americans, having fought for their civil rights in the 1950’s and 1960’s or learned of this struggle through history books, have somehow been duped into identifying the “pro choice” movement with the fight for civil rights. Medical abortion is the induced death of a developing human baby–the destruction of a child’s fundamental, as well as civil rights.1
Preborn children are the only people group discriminated against based solely on where they live–in a womb. Is such discrimination heightened if it is a black woman’s womb? Consider the following:
*Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Blacks were lynched in the U.S. That number is surpassed in less than 3 days by abortion.2
*“Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.” Erma Clardy Craven (deceased), Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader2
*3 out of 5 pregnant African-American women will abort their children.2
*Since 1973 there have been over 13 million black children killed and their precious mothers victimized by the U.S. abortion industry.2
*With 1/3 of all abortions performed on black women, the abortion industry has received over $4,000,000,000 (billion!) from the black community.2
*Minority women constitute only about 26% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.2
*According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion.2
*On average, 1,452 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.2
*A 1990 study of maternal deaths from legal abortion between 1972 and 1985 found that minority women were three times more likely to die after a legal abortion than a white woman.3
*A 1994 “Post Abortion Research Study of African-American Women” showed that of 126 women who responded to a questionnaire, 81% indicated one or more psychological complaints. Of the complaints identified, 60% felt feelings of guilt, 49% reported that they had feelings of regret and remorse, 55% reported crying and depression, and 35% stated an inability to forgive herself for having an abortion.1
*A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African-American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions.2
*It is no accident that 78% of abortuaries are located in or near predominately minority neighborhoods.4
*“The history of America’s number one abortion ‘provider,’ Planned Parenthood, reeks with the stench of racism and bigotry that adds another level to the insidious attack that has been waged on African- American women throughout the United States. Through programs such as the Negro Project of 1929, Planned Parenthood began to spin a web of deception by baiting the African-American community with the pretense of ‘family planning’ and other ‘health services’ . . . It would be time well spent if African Americans, especially those Planned Parenthood uses for its public ‘service’ campaigns, would spend an afternoon doing first hand research on this federation that has caused the astronomical decline in the African American birth rate . . .”4
Abortion discriminates against children in the womb. It denies them their civil rights. It denies them the basic right to life. Are African-American babies at greater risk of such discrimination? Some of the data would suggest that they are.
One thing is very clear, however. Abortion does not just kill something. Abortion kills someone.
Abortion kills someone created by the hands of God.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14).
Abortion kills someone redeemed by the outstretched hands of God on a cross.
“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to death–even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:6-8).
Abortion kills someone who will never be the person–black or white, red or brown–what God intended him or her to be.
“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11).
Abortion kills someone and wounds that someone’s mother and oftentimes wounds that someone’s father and that someone’s family.
The Good News is that there is hope and help for those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.
The Good News is that there is hope and healing for those who have fallen prey to the lies and made an abortion decision.
The Good News is found in the strength and love and forgiveness of God through the cross of His Son Jesus Christ.
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10).
“He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all–how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).
The Good News is that from the moment of conception we are all God’s children and we can all sing:
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious In His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Footnotes:
1 http://www.learninc.org/articles/exploit.html
2 www.blackgenocide.org; Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN) – Northeast Chapter
3 Hani K. Alrash, MD, et. al. “Legal Abortion in the U.S.: Trends and Mortality.” Contemporary Ob Gyn Feb. 1990, Vol. 35, No. 2:58-69.
4 Juluette Bartlett Pack. “A Historical View of Eugenics and Its Role in Abortion in Black America.” Ibid.
Talk about discrimination: where is the coverage of Norma McCovey's petition that the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade?
Thoughful article, great picture!
Dan
This whole thing hinges on when is a fetus no longer a lump of human tissue, but has become a seperate person? When is the fetus ensouled?
Does my fingernail have civil rights?
No, but an 8 month old fetus is clearly regarded by the state in some cases as a person, as Scott Peterson was convicted of murder of a person in regards to his unborn baby Connor.
We need a clear and *secular* means of defining what makes a human being human.
Is there such a definition?
How about any person with a functioning brain as indicated in brain-wave patterns?
That would leave abortion optional untill the 8th week or so in which most abortions are performed.
Why not?
Abortion denies children basic civil rights
But FIRST it denies them their right to be born!!!!!!!!!!!
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We are most definitely making progress. The only thing that can stop the momentum is a change in government.
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Pro-"choice" liberals really don't care whose rights they are violating or whether abortion is really murder.
"Abortion rights" are little more than the immoral Left trying to make the world safe for bed-hopping and casual sex.
And if plenty of the African-Americans they pretend to care about die, then it's worth it to proctect the sex orgy lifestyle that they are either living now or desperately hope to in the future.
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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.
"There's only one correct answer to your question, and that is one becomes a separate person at conception."
Then we should have a funeral each month that a sexually active woman has a miscarriage or takes the Pill?
We discuss these questions outside of any context and end up with situations bordering on the absurd.
If human life is ensouled at conception then the Pill is a murder weapon.
Do you really believe that? Do you call for the illegalization of the Pill as you do for abortion?
Many women (and men) who suffer from miscarriage have memorial services for the child they lost. Many people attend these services to support the grieving parents. Why? Because a life that was there, growing, is over, and that's a terrible loss to them.
As for the pill, it does not only work the way you seem to think it does. It's purpose is to prevent ovulation. No egg, no conception. It is true that this doesn't always work, but there's a "back up plan" in that the pill also causes the uterine lining to be unable to support implantation of a fertilized egg. That would be the case you're talking about, and I don't know if anyone can tell you what the actual numbers are as far as which of the two happens more often.
Well, we know the heart is beating at 21 days, and actually brain waves can be detected at 6 weeks. New technology is teaching us more about the miracle in the womb all the time, thank God.
" It is true that this doesn't always work, but there's a "back up plan" in that the pill also causes the uterine lining to be unable to support implantation of a fertilized egg. That would be the case you're talking about, and I don't know if anyone can tell you what the actual numbers are as far as which of the two happens more often."
First, thank you for the level-headed response. That seems rarer these days somehow.
Second point; even if the Pill only prevented the implantation of the fertilized egg once in a few cycles, that would still equate to abortion/murder by your definition, no?
If not, where is the difference?
The answer has to be yes if a fertilized egg is prevented from implanting... Since it was not nature that ended it, as in a miscarriage, what other word could be used? Like I said, I don't know what the incidence is of the pill not working as far as preventing ovulation goes. The IUD works in a similar way. It's supposed to prevent ovulation by disrupting how the sperm travels (?), but it also prevents implantation from happening. It all comes down to when life begins, and how you define the end of that life, be it murder, abortion, death, termination, whatever. The words can change, but the story is the same. Thank you for saying my previous answers to you were level-headed, I hope you think this one is as well.
Look, I am pro-life, and would never agree to abortion under any circumstances.
I just dont think I can make that argument well in a *secular* political system, thats all.
As to what to do about people on life support with no brain function, I dont know, to be honest.
I do know that we are approaching a level of medical technology where people can be kept sustained almost indefinately. When is a person truly dead in defiance of medical efforts otherwise? I dont know.
But it would seem to me that lack of brain activity would indicate that a person is no longer present. Even in sleep, one has brain activity at some level.
But there is so much shouting going on on this topic it is hard to seriously consider other view-points and try to get to the core truths that can be proffessed for a secular electorate.
I just dont know, but it is not so clear to me that the evidence is all on one side only.
But even a right to abortion limited to the first 6 weeks is plenty of time. Could you accept that for a basis in law?
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