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"When he signed the bill, there were some other African-Americans in the room," recalled Epps, 52. But when it came time for publicity photographs, some were ushered out, including all of the black leaders.

The implication, of course, is that Bush wanted them out of the photograph because of their skin color.

It's a pretty obnoxious charge without additional information about who was there, who was in the photo and how those in the photo were selected.

Typical.

[Iam1ru1-2]

Reasons abound for pro-life movement’s lack of minorities (abortion)

One of the biggest reasons is because they're being aborted in such great numbers.

[Cicero]

This sounds extremely doubtful. President Bush has always gone out of the way to be friendly to blacks. And there's no racism that I've ever heard of in the pro-life movement. To the contrary, the idea is to protect the rights of all the unborn.

Margaret Sanger, on the other hand, was a racist, as were many in the early eugenics movement that stands behind Planned Parenthood.

There are relatively few blacks in the pro-life movement because of the dereliction of black leaders, especially black clergy. They are the guys who need the way to a PRACTICAL repudiation of abortion and perversion.

In the early days after Roe v. Wade, it was lay Catholics who led the way, with very little help from the priests and bishops. Then the clergy started to get on board, and the Evangelicals joined in.

It's long past time that Black Baptists and others joined the pro-life party. They would be most welcome.

[madprof98]

"I've interviewed over 10,000 African-Americans over 14 years that I've been with the institution on a variety of issues," Bositis said. "And I always start out my surveys by asking them to name three things that they think are the most important problems in the country. In all those years, I've never had an African-American mention abortion."

It's unlikely any of the problems mentioned were "internal" ones--thanks to (a) a legacy of persecution and (b) a leadership determined to keep the persecution-mentality alive as along as possible.

Mention that abortion is more prevalent among blacks than other groups, and you are accused of being one of the racist oppressors. (The folk at Planned Parenthood, in contrast, are perceived as helpful allies.)

[Redbob]

This whole article is a load of fishwash; there aren't more minorities in the pro-life movement because their handlers, the Dimocrats, see it as a GOP issue and won't allow them to go there!

[theBuckwheat]

The newspaper in which this article appeared is notoriously pro-death and leftist. So, why would pro-death leftists seem to care that minorities are underrepresented in pro-life activities, especially those at the White House?

Only because it is another way to make Bush look bad.

My wife is the Director of Client Services for a Crisis Pregnancy Center in a midwest university town. She reports that about 40% of her clients are black. Despite continuous attempts to recruit black volunteers, she has only one black person who works at the center.

Worse, she cannot get any local black churches to support her center. All her help comes from white churches.

I will have to leave it to others who know more about the social dynamics of this situation to offer plausible explanations. I lend a hand at the center as well.

[TBP]

The main purpose for which Planned Parenthood was founded was to "improve the human race" partly by aborting minorities. Of course it's a black issue. But the GOP is too afraid of the mainstream media to allow it to be seen that way.

[tkathy]

Minority women desperately need control over their lives.