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Martin Luther King, Jr's Niece Reflects on Abortion at Birmingham Event
Life News ^ | 8/23/07 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 08/23/2007 2:05:59 PM PDT by wagglebee

Birmingham, AL (LifeNews.com) -- Dr. Alveda King, the niece of legendary civil rights advocate Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the unveiling of historic markers Sunday at the church and parsonage of her late father, the Rev. A. D. Williams King. She said later the event caused her to reflect on King's life and the status of abortion in America.

The Birmingham, Alabama, church was an integral part of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, having been the site of several mass meetings.

"My father was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Ensley from 1961 to 1965, when he and my uncle fought in the struggle to make equality of opportunity real for all Americans," Alveda King said.

"Even after my family's home at the parsonage was bombed, Daddy was unswerving in his dedication to God and to the cause of justice," King added. "While the ceremonies Sunday marked a historic period from our past, it reminded me of another kind of struggle for survival African Americans face today."

As King explained, that struggle has to do with abortion and how black Americans are becoming victims of abortion at higher rates than their white counterparts.

"In the last forty-plus years, 15 million black people have been denied their most basic civil right, the right to life," King noticed.

"Roughly one quarter of the black population is now missing," she reflected. "This hasn't happened because of lynch mobs, but because of abortionists who plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope."

King said abortion is a "great irony" because it has decimated the African-American population in ways the Klu Klux Klan never could.

"It's time that we remember the sacrifices of men like my father and my uncle who worked and died so that our children could live," King concluded. "It's time to stop killing the future and keep their dream alive."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; alvedaking; blackgenocide; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thats frightening,really.In New Orleans,I was working with the most impovershed group of blacks in the city and back then they were almost unanimously oposed to abortion.
So what hs happened since then?Did the moral barometer completely drop to the bottom?When I left the city in 1977,murders were around 100 per year.Ten years later,the figure was between 300-400 per year.
Maybe its all symptomatic of the same disease,hatred of life.Abortion is murder and I guess when you can do it at a Planned Parenthodd clinic,you feel you can also do it on a housing project courtyard.


21 posted on 08/24/2007 9:03:11 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: paltz

22 posted on 08/24/2007 9:07:54 AM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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To: Riverman94610
I wish I understood this heart-sickening phenomenon of the sudden, calamitous plunge in the value of life and love and all things human.

I think of Quebec, which in about 10 years (I say this from memory: maybe 1965 - 1975?) went from having the most child-rich culture in the Western Hemisphere to the polar opposite, absolutely killing off their kids all the while bitching about the dwindling of French language and culture and influence in the polity of Canada. Duh.

Spain. Once Christ's Spain. Now, where did I just read it, the highest abortion rate in Europe? Italy. The city of Bologna: sunny, prosperous, lots of flowers, lots of food, wonderful food: the lowest non-plague, non-wartime birthrate in the history of the human race. For every child under the age of 5 in Bologna there are 25 people over the age of 50.

Poland. Poland. Total fertility rate 1.26. What the hell is happening? Matka Boska Częstochowska!

Excuse my ranting. I guess I'm in a mood.

23 posted on 08/24/2007 9:58:41 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (God bless the child who's got his own.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I share your bewilderment.Its way beyond my simple mind.
May God have mercy on us as a human species.


24 posted on 08/24/2007 12:29:24 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: r9etb
born out of wedlock, into conditions and a culture

So what?

This is a civil rights thread -- specifically, the right to life. It isn't a sociology thread.

25 posted on 08/24/2007 12:50:44 PM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: Romulus
This is a civil rights thread -- specifically, the right to life. It isn't a sociology thread.

Well, golly. I did preface my comment with "As an aside."

I can only speak for myself, of course, but I find it's often helpful to try to gain a bigger-picture view of problems, as a means of understanding things like abortion.

For example, it not like there's no "sociological" (i.e., cultural) aspect to the high abortion rate among black women ... what I wonder is, are the two -- abortions and illegitimacy -- culturally connected in some way?

Just to ask the question is enough to suggest that there's a common thread between the two phenomena.

But perhaps your view from the high heights of your saddle prevented you from seeing the possible tie-in.

26 posted on 08/24/2007 1:01:26 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Riverman94610
A social worker I know tells me that “black girls don’t get abortions”, but I’ve done some research that explains why this may merely seem to be the case. Statistically, unmarried black women have more pregnancies (per woman) than unmarried white woman do (per woman). In addition, speaking very generally, black people disapprove of abortion more than white people do. So, an unmarried black woman is less likely to abort than an unmarried white woman...HOWEVER, because an unmarried black women may have several more pregnancies than a white woman, she may choose abortion once for, say, every three babies she carries to term; whereas an unmarried white woman may have just one out of wedlock pregnancy, which she aborts.
27 posted on 08/24/2007 1:02:55 PM PDT by utahagen
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To: r9etb
It's not at all meant as a knock on this story, nor on her. I just think it would be interesting to know if this lady is also trying to address that problem as well.

That's like criticizing AA because they don't do anything about smoking.

28 posted on 08/24/2007 1:04:58 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Romulus; r9etb
Well, like any thread, it's a conversation and therefore it's what you make of it.

I personally think the out-of-wedlock question is relevant and important, as probably Ms. King would agree, because what we're seeing is a dramatic devaluation of the sacredness of life and of the sources of life. If we devalue life, we permit the killing of babies. If we devalue the sources of life, we cheapen and trivialize sex and take it out of the honorable setting of marriage.

This also devalues the babies who are born under such insecure and deprived conditions, born to parents who didn't even value the baby, or each other, enough to get married.

29 posted on 08/24/2007 1:09:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (God bless the child who's got his own.)
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To: HIDEK6

Sometimes wondering is just wondering ... and that’s really all I was doing. The thought popped into my head. And on further reflection (see above), I think they’re probably related issues.


30 posted on 08/24/2007 1:10:15 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I don't know if I'm remembering correctly, but I seem to recall that black women who have abortions tend to be better educated than average; and the single mothers less so.

I wonder if the same cultural factors with respect to sexuality, family, marriage, etc., are at play in both groups -- and that it's just the end result that differs.

31 posted on 08/24/2007 1:17:12 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
It could be that the woman who aborts tends more to be a woman who has firm plans in terms of educational advancement, job advancement, and she's afraid having a baby will knock her off of her planned career trajectory. Whereas the woman who has out-of-wedlock babies has no further definite or pressing ambitions.

Just a generalization, and like all generalizations, it explains trends but doesn't predict or explain individual cases.

32 posted on 08/24/2007 1:38:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Or did I miss something?)
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To: utahagen

I think your explanation seems the most logical one so far.


33 posted on 08/24/2007 1:55:18 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: Tribune7

Is that picture genuine? If so, can you tell me where you found it?


34 posted on 08/24/2007 1:56:48 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: Corin Stormhands
The website is here.

I can't confirm with certainty that the pix is genuine but Wiki confirms she spoke to the KKK in Silver Lake, N.J.

35 posted on 08/24/2007 2:40:42 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Something else that may be of interest was her friendship with Lothrop Stoddard , the author of The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, whom she mentions favorably in her autobiography.
36 posted on 08/24/2007 2:43:16 PM PDT by Tribune7 (Michael Moore bought Haliburton)
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To: Tribune7

Thanks


37 posted on 08/24/2007 3:01:54 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I drink coffee for your protection.)
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To: wagglebee
" prey upon women who think they have no hope"
And that is PP, who puports they 'care' about womens health!

Dr Alveda King is a jewel in Christ's crown. A treasure!! May God bless her and her work.

38 posted on 08/24/2007 8:58:08 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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