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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."
It's true, this was Sanger and Co.'s plan all along.
I'm glad you're here.
Is there a poll that shows what percent of blacks endorse abortion?
I believe that there are 42 black members of the U.S. House, and don't virtually all want abortion, esp. federal funding of abortion? Seems like there may be three or four in the Black Caucus that oppose abortion.
Have you ever been ostracized by other blacks for not being Democrat?
This is the same nonsense as the leftist allegations that blacks are stopped by police too often. Black women, and especially teenage girls, often very young, and 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation welfare addicts are getting pregnant in droves. The abortion rate is high because the careless, unwanted pregnancy rate is high. Do these black leaders really want all these barely literate adolescents having babies and repeating the cycle? No? Well then they'd better start addressing the real problem, instead of whining about high abortion rates that are just the symptom of the problem.
And the Iranians just put on a conference that claimed the WWII era Jew's problem wasn't the concentration camps, it was their anti-egalitarian, elitist mentality.
Hardly. The fundamental driver is the fact that black mothers are being duped into collectively murdering approximately half of their children. The subsequent social wreckage is a direct consequence of the self loathing and death of hope brought on by this eugenicist inspired nightmare.
Blacks have chosen to bring this on themselves. The US is not Dachau.
Abortion causes the social wreckage in the ghetto? I think you have your horses and carts in the wrong place. The ghetto predates legalized abortion by decades, beginning around the time of the War on Poverty, which made dependents of a culture.
I ask the same question of the American Jewish community.
Yep. Death to the innocent, mercy to the guilty. It's the Liberal way.
Abortion causes social wreckage where ever it is perpetrated.
The ghetto predates legalized abortion by decades, beginning around the time of the War on Poverty, which made dependents of a culture.
The culture of family disintegration, the accelerating crime rates, and the explosion of illicit drug use correlates better with the prevalence of abortion.
The Iranians last month said the same about the Jews. Your respective arguments have a great deal in common.
Except mine happens to be true.
Abortion is a symptom of what you decry, not the cause. I thought you had better sense. My bad.
Really?
From Wikipidea
Sanger promoted the idea of "race hygiene" – meaning the human race, not the idea of race as ethnicity – through "negative eugenics," though her writings do not indicate that she believed that any particular (ethnic) race as a whole was more eugenic or dysgenic than any other, and she condemned the anti-Semitic Nazi program as "sad & horrible."[5]
I would take issue with your argument about causation if only there were an argument with which to take issue. You have only repeated a statement without any proof, evidence, or reason. It's really no surprise that you have nothing more to offer given your vapidly liberal position within this debate.
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