Just one innocent
Posted on 09/15/2007 8:30:24 AM PDT by wagglebee
LASALLE - Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said it's not a civil right to kill people, especially unborn infants in their mothers' wombs.
"It's not a civil right to kill a person, even the unborn," she said Friday night at the annual "Focus on Life" dinner benefit for Monroe County Right to Life. She spoke along with Dr. Levon Yuille, national director of the National Black Pro-Life Congress.
"Being pro-life is a civil right," she said.
An author of six books and mother of six children, Dr. King told her story about how she had two abortions when she was young and pro-choice, which left her miserable and scarred emotionally. The abortion industry has destroyed a whole generation of Americans (48.5 million babies, 17 million of whom were black) in the United States since the Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 22, 1973, that legalized abortion on demand. In addition, the nation and millions of post-abortive women and men continue to suffer social, medical and emotional ills because of abortion. Cases of breast cancer, cervical cancer, disease, poverty, violent crimes and school dropout rates have soared since 1973.
"We need to stop the lies of Planned Parenthood" and other organizations and politicians that promote abortion and a "culture of death," a passionate Dr. King, 57, told more than 70 persons at LaRoy's Hall. "I've seen so many kids whose lives were destroyed" by abortion and the sexual revolution in the '60s. "You don't eliminate a problem (caused by) poverty by killing them. Two wrongs don't make a right."
Born on Jan. 22, she said she celebrates her "conception day," not her birthday. She has seen enough trauma and shock in her own life. The daughter of Rev. A.D. King, she said her father was also murdered for what he stood for a year after her uncle in 1968. During the civil rights' movement in the 1950s and '60s, her family home in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed in the heat of the struggle.
She said life is precious, no matter what stage it is in. And the ideals of life, liberty and justice that we profess to protect in the Constitution are rights guaranteed to the unborn and elderly as well as the healthy and active. Citing Scripture, she said "abortion is murder," a grievous, violent act against the most vulnerable.
"Life in the womb is ordained by God," she said. "The womb is a sanctuary, not a tomb."
Drawing parallels to slavery that, like abortion, once was legal in the U.S., she said little children have told her that babies are like slaves in their mother's wombs because "they could be killed if their slavemasters (parents) wanted them dead."
She asked the audience to raise their hands if they were born before or after 1973.
"Then you are a survivor" because your parents made a choice for life, she said.
She encouraged pro-lifers not to be silent or discouraged, but to continue fighting abortion.
"You have to be bold and brave," she advised. "Be encouraged to keep fighting and don't stop giving - you're making a difference."
Three specific things pro-lifers can do is pray, share with their neighbors and friends their family and Christian values and finally, volunteer their time at a crisis pregnancy center or demonstrate peacefully at an abortion clinic.
Dr. Yuille, the national director of the National Black Pro-Life Congress, has traveled with Dr. King to other parts of the country. He also spoke briefly and said abortion was "worse than slavery, worse than World War II." He said Americans, guided by their creator, have a history of standing up for what's right.
"This nation has a knack for standing up for others," Dr. Yuille, 67, a pastor and Ypsilanti resident, said. "We should fight the good fight of faith and not stop until all of America hears the cries of innocent babies no more."
Bronco McKart, master of ceremonies, introduced Barbara Listing, president of Michigan RTL, and Diane Hanson, development director for RTL. Ms. Hanson noted 25,000 abortions were performed in Michigan in 2006. She outlined plans to fight legislative and petition initiatives to legalize human cloning and embryonic stem cell research next year in Michigan. She said pro-lifers are not opposed to stem cell research. Actually, they support adult stem cell research in areas such as umbilical cords and embiontic fluids that have produced 73 successful medical treatments while embryonic cell research has produced zero cures or treatments.
She said killing of embryonic stem cells "is wrong in medical research and wrong in abortion."
Dr. King can be reached online at priestsforlife.org/africanamerican. Dr. King's next book, "How Can the Dream Survive if we Murder the Children" is due out in January.
God bless Dr. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/
is an excellent link, well worth visiting.
They always cast abortion in a light only seen by the errant mother: that she has some sort of right to control her body, conveniently ignoring that it's someone else's body that is of concern...her child. And the one thing they get rabid about is rights, since infantile desires to do anything is their strongest motivating factor.
So they always rant about Human Rights.
But if the Right to Life is in fact a Human Right, endowed by the Creator, then to violate that right is a real human rights violation, not a fake one, like denying Mommy Dearest the "right" to off her kids.
To point that out will destroy the arguments they make. And tear down the house of cards that the courts created to make abortion legal. If the Left has their own arguments turned on them with their own rhetoric, their hypocrisy will be apparent. Will that be enough to stop the American Holocaust? Probably not, but it can go a long way towards neutralizing the arguments which have propped it up for these last 34 years.
Amen !3000 murdered babies this past week.
What they don’t understand about this:it’s a state matter,
not a federal matter.
The Supreme Court made it a federal matter back in 1973.
God Bless Her!
The federal government exists to protect our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These rights should not vary from state to state.
Based on what? Certainly nothing in the Constitution.
Unfortunately, the number is more like 25,000 per week.
Are you unaware that the Supreme Court effectively made abortion a federal matter with Roe v. Wade?
Unfortunately, the number is more like 25,000 per week.
35 posted on 09/16/2007 10:20:43 AM MDT by wagglebee
The Democrat Party lead by Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi and anyone who votes for Democrats : Murder 3000 innocent babies a DAY My Error ; sorry.
Yep, the abortion industry has kills more people EVERY SINGLE DAY than died on 9/11/01 and they’ve been doing it for 34 years.
Just one innocent
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