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As Americans Honor Martin Luther King, Abortion Destroys Black Community
Life News ^ | 01.19.06 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 01/19/2006 5:39:07 PM PST by 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 



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionlist; blackgenocide; mlk; mlkday; starparker; starrparker
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1 posted on 01/19/2006 5:39:08 PM PST by Coleus
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


2 posted on 01/19/2006 5:39:48 PM PST by Coleus (IMHO, The IVF procedure is immoral & kills many embryos/children and should be outlawed)
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To: Coleus

They can thank their DemocRAT masters....


3 posted on 01/19/2006 5:41:17 PM PST by clintonh8r (If you don't support the mission you don't support the troops. Period.)
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To: Coleus

Margaret Sanger would rejoice in her grave.


4 posted on 01/19/2006 5:43:40 PM PST by umgud (uncompassionate conservative)
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To: Coleus

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


5 posted on 01/19/2006 5:45:02 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Coleus
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.
6 posted on 01/19/2006 5:46:22 PM PST by msnimje (Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Fury Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
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To: Coleus
HILLARY.....Your PLANTATION is calling....
7 posted on 01/19/2006 5:47:33 PM PST by goodnesswins (Here in the Seattle area.....It's time to build Arks.)
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To: Coleus

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


8 posted on 01/19/2006 5:51:04 PM PST by conservative physics
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"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.

9 posted on 01/19/2006 5:52:34 PM PST by BobS
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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.


10 posted on 01/19/2006 6:03:23 PM PST by goodnesswins (Here in the Seattle area.....It's time to build Arks.)
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To: umgud
Margaret Sanger would rejoice in her grave.

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

11 posted on 01/19/2006 6:17:28 PM PST by appleharvey
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To: Pharmboy
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."

12 posted on 01/19/2006 6:21:50 PM PST by madison10
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To: conservative physics

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


13 posted on 01/19/2006 6:41:39 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Coleus
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.

14 posted on 01/19/2006 6:59:19 PM PST by moonman
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To: Coleus
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.

15 posted on 01/19/2006 7:01:25 PM PST by moonman
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To: Coleus
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.

16 posted on 01/19/2006 7:02:45 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: Coleus
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.

17 posted on 01/19/2006 7:02:55 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: Coleus
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.

18 posted on 01/19/2006 7:03:27 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: Coleus
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.

19 posted on 01/19/2006 7:03:44 PM PST by moonman
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To: Coleus
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.

20 posted on 01/19/2006 7:03:53 PM PST by moonman
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