Posted on 02/07/2007 4:29:18 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life advocate in the black community says abortion diminishes the worth and value of African-Americans in the same way slavery and a lack of civil rights did before. Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, hopes Americans will learn more about this travesty during Black History Month.
"Throughout the month of February, we take the time ... one month out of the year to remember the tragedies and celebrate the triumphs of African Americans in history," Gardner explained.
"We celebrate the fact that we are a strong race that survived the many horrors and inhumane treatment when we were an enslaved people -- presumed by many to be less than human," she said in a statement provided to LifeNews.com.
Gardner, a former Miss Delaware and the first black woman to be named a semifinalist in the Miss America pageant, said that black Americans made great strides in the 1960s and afterwards in achieving civil rights and establishing their ability to achieve the American dream.
Since that time, African-American people have been able to rise to the highest ranks in the political and business worlds and achieve tremendous success. But Gardner worries that abortion is taking a heavy toll on her community.
"In our quest for higher education, bigger houses, better jobs and flashier cars are we closing our eyes to the fact that more than a thousand of our children die each day by the horrible practice of abortion?" she asked.
"These children are denied their most basic human right -- which is the right to life; a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for," Gardner added.
Gardner said that 15 million of the 44 million unborn children killed via abortion since 1973 were black.
"Abortion has become the number one killer of black people in this country -- killing more African Americans that accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths combined," she explained.
Gardner says she's bothered that African-American leaders recognize racism in many places but fail to see how abortion has targeted the black community and how a disproportionate number of the abortions done in the United States are on black women and children.
More than 37 percent of all abortions involve black Americans, she says.
Gardner concludes, "We are the underground railroad of our time and it's up to us to make abortion a thing of our historical past. If we stand united against this horrific practice ... we shall overcome this, too."
More than 37 percent of all abortions involve black Americans, she says.
Margaret Sanger was a racist eugenicist and unfortunately her dream seems to be succeeding.
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Nothing to see here, back to your life. /S
That was Margaret Sanger's (and John D. Rockefeller's) plan all along.
The left isn't going to like this emerging trend of black people actually thinking for themselves.
So why continue to blindly support the Democrat Party?
"These children are denied their most basic human right -- which is the right to life
This needs to be repeated constantly not only to blacks, but all who think abortion is okay. The unborn are not to be treated like garbage and killed because they don't fit into their parents plans. Why should a child pay with their life because of their irresponsible parents.
La Shawn Barber: How about a ‘Strengthening Black Families Month’?
Posted by nickcarrawayOn News/Activism 02/01/2007 11:52:50 AM CST · 27 replies · 669+ views
The supreme court answered that more than 30 years ago when they found hidden in the constitution a right to abortions. Those responsible will answer to the Supreme Judge some day.
Because stupidity is a hard habit to break.
The decision to allow abortion has lead to the death of millions of children. What I have always found funny is that the left advocates the killing of innocent unborn children, but are against the death penalty and will fight hard for convicted killers.
Will I am a young black married mother of 2 (under 30) and my parents have always been conservative and vote Republican. The left doesn't represent me and I don't vote Democrat.
Good for you! But he is right about stupidity being hard to break. 90% of the entire black vote that continues to year after year to vote for a party that has brought the Jim Crowe laws, Klu Klux Klan, Segragation, welfare, and abortion is like being a "Jew for Nazi's!"
Uhm, the urban black's problem isn't abortion. It's the anti-education, welfare mentality.
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