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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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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.

21 posted on 01/19/2006 7:03:58 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.

22 posted on 01/19/2006 7:04:54 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.

23 posted on 01/19/2006 7:05:47 PM PST by moonman (moonman)
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To: Coleus
Each day, liberals kill 1307 future possible democrat voters. That comes out to over 7.1 million voters that would have been at least 18 years old.

Always amazed by the liberal hypocrisy. They would have had the votes to win in 2000 and 2004, if only they wouldn't be hell-bent on killing off their voting base.

Of course, this has always been the sad tradition of planned parenthood.

24 posted on 01/19/2006 7:06:20 PM PST by rock_lobsta
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To: Coleus
Each day, liberals kill 1307 future possible democrat voters. That comes out to over 7.1 million voters that would have been at least 18 years old.

Always amazed by the liberal hypocrisy. They would have had the votes to win in 2000 and 2004, if only they wouldn't be hell-bent on killing off their voting base.

Of course, this has always been the sad tradition of planned parenthood.

25 posted on 01/19/2006 7:06:44 PM PST by rock_lobsta
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To: moonman; LoneRangerMassachusetts

You can say that again.


26 posted on 01/19/2006 7:06:50 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Whoops... I think I just did.

-5 points for double-posting!


27 posted on 01/19/2006 7:07:48 PM PST by rock_lobsta
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To: Pharmboy
Your post followed umgood's, which is really sort of spooky. Margaret Sanger was a racist eugenist, who wanted to force members of "inferior" races to be sterilized and to abort all unplanned (e.g., "licensed" or permitted) pregnancies.

Elitists like Kennedy and Kerry want to accomplish the same thing, and their allies (Jesse Jackson and certified malicious liar Al Sharpton) lead their minions into the same abortion mill.

28 posted on 01/19/2006 7:08:05 PM PST by TheGeezer
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

I see you are getting 'errors' trying to post replies also. What the heck is going on? Our posts apparently ARE going through cuz there are several of them. LOL


29 posted on 01/19/2006 7:08:10 PM PST by moonman
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Hey maybe that your reality. Not mine. There's plenty of abortion going on where I live. I'd not use Boston or even New York as any standard of what's going on with abortion. Rememver big cities are mostly rat strongholds and all their democrat welfare incentives.


30 posted on 01/19/2006 7:08:38 PM PST by cyborg (I just love that man.)
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To: Coleus

I hate this for the black community...


31 posted on 01/19/2006 7:10:13 PM PST by shield (The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions.Pr 1:7)
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To: Coleus

I hate this for the black community...


32 posted on 01/19/2006 7:10:37 PM PST by shield (The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instructions.Pr 1:7)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system.

Good point- the real problem is not that a 15 year old black girl has an abortion, but that she is pregnant at all, or even sexually active. Morality has to be restored-I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality.

I would rather see us with a smaller population free of the pathology of the welfare state than full of people born of single, teenage mothers. Responsibility is the only true solution.

33 posted on 01/19/2006 7:12:19 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
What I see destroying the black community is the enabling social welfare system.

Good point- the real problem is not that a 15 year old black girl has an abortion, but that she is pregnant at all, or even sexually active. Morality has to be restored-I don't mourn for all those lost babies of abortion because most of them (of all races) shouldn't exist if we as women took care of ourselves and avoided sexual immorality.

I would rather see us with a smaller population free of the pathology of the welfare state than full of people born of single, teenage mothers. Responsibility is the only true solution.

34 posted on 01/19/2006 7:12:46 PM PST by LWalk18
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To: goodnesswins
Starr has a good story to tell if anyone doesn't know. She was a welfare mom in either Watts or Compton with what that entails. She worked her way out of it while getting an education and a college degree. She started her own business.

Now I remember. When welfare reform was being debated in the mid 90's, she was on C-Span and mostly ignored elsewhere. She met Gingrich and others that wanted to do something about this issue. She spoke about how welfare workers told women with children that they had to kick their men out if they wanted to keep recieving welfare.

She should be more prominent and outspoken again. She's attractive on TV and speaks with CLARITY about things a Black woman knows about.

35 posted on 01/19/2006 7:14:05 PM PST by BobS
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

36 posted on 01/19/2006 7:14:13 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: goodnesswins
Starr has a good story to tell if anyone doesn't know. She was a welfare mom in either Watts or Compton with what that entails. She worked her way out of it while getting an education and a college degree. She started her own business.

Now I remember. When welfare reform was being debated in the mid 90's, she was on C-Span and mostly ignored elsewhere. She met Gingrich and others that wanted to do something about this issue. She spoke about how welfare workers told women with children that they had to kick their men out if they wanted to keep recieving welfare.

She should be more prominent and outspoken again. She's attractive on TV and speaks with CLARITY about things a Black woman knows about.

37 posted on 01/19/2006 7:14:22 PM PST by BobS
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

38 posted on 01/19/2006 7:14:25 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
[ The pro-lifers had better get a grip on reality. I can't believe this went unnoticed by the previous posters. ]

Boston is not America its Kennedyville.. bad example.. How bout the rest of Mass.. got any demographics..?

39 posted on 01/19/2006 7:15:09 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Coleus
Please keep Alveda King in your prayers. She is under intense pressure. She is trying to get out the message of how abortion is hurting black society.

Last week, in Atlanta, she released a Pro-Life DVD (her song/video).

I was able to give Alveda an advance birthday present this week.

40 posted on 01/19/2006 9:06:03 PM PST by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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