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Posted on 04/04/2008 5:38:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
Memphis, TN (LifeNews.com) -- As Americans honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the fortieth anniversary of his assassination, his niece says abortion has become the civil rights cause of today. Dr. Alveda King , who has suffered from multiple abortions, says the destruction of human life is on par with the lack of civil rights of her uncle's generation.
In a speech at a church in downtown Memphis, King noted how her uncle was killed on this day in 1968.
But a short five years later the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited abortions in the Roe v. Wade decision -- one that King says has decimated the nation and the black community in particular.
"There are people dying in this country, everyday," she said, focusing on a the plight of a different set of powerless people. "They are unborn children."
"The fight against abortion is a new frontier in the civil rights movement," she said, according to an article in the Mississippi Daily Journal.
"My uncle often said that we don't follow through," King added. "He said that we admonish black women not to abort their babies but we don't show them how to care for them, don't give them options for life."
King bemoaned the number of black leaders today who embrace abortion.
The newspaper said King told the audience that African-American political leaders sold out their pro-life views for support from abortion advocates and other political groups for promoting civil rights.
"We didn't understand how dramatically abortion was affecting our community," she said. "The tradeoff between concentrating too much on other social issues and ignoring abortion has been a deadly tradeoff."
Ultimately, the newspaper said King wants African-Americans to have a new dream about how life can be for America.
"If we're not speaking for the voiceless, not being strong for those who are weak, we're not living Martin's dream," she said.
Since Wednesday evening, more Americans have died in abortuaries than have died in the war on terror (including the deaths of 9/11/01).
Woman one - Has abortion, suffers emotionally from the abortion, rejects abortion, I have compassion.
Woman two - Has abortion, suffers emotionally from the abortion, continues to support abortion, I have no compassion.
I wonder if she’s supporting Barack Obama?
Re your post that 6,505,748 American children have died from abortion since the start of the Iraq war....
this is very poignant and should be widely publicized. Can you please share the source for this number.
Thank you.
She seems to have repented. God knows.
The other night I was reading some stuff on FR, and noticed that a writer had mistakenly said that he used to be pro life but now he was against abortion. But that malapropism got me thinking about the shocking difference in the terms pro life and pro choice. The former is born of love and compassion and empathy for one’s fellows. The other is stained with pathological selfishness. I may not have changed any minds, but I have never lost an argument about abortion, whether couched in religious, social, biological or moral terms.
Its obscenity is palpable.
I can see gray areas on most issues; not on abortion, except for real health concerns of the mother (or dad, God please send Jesus quickly); I mean like she’s gonna die, not just have to deal with a depressing “problem.”
I could not condone abortion for either rape or incest though I know I am in the minority on that.
I hope that historians view abortion in the 1975 to 200? period as the holocaust it is. If they do, my kids and grandkids will be in a better culture that our righteous unwavering objection to infanticide made possible.
It is odd that the only individual right leftists assert freely is the supposed right to kill a person for one’s own convenience to avoid a “problem.” Otherwise, leftists are totally collectivists.
But back to Rev. King briefly: Forty years ago. I remember it clearly, but was too young to fathom the tragedy. But more than youthfulness kept me from realizing what we lost as a nation. I was and in many ways still am segregated socially from blacks. Not by my choice or by government sanction, but for cultural reasons enforced more by blacks than whites.
It has taken me a long time to miss Dr. King. But, I miss his voice of reason and progress now.
Obama wanted to start a discussion on race relations but he soiled the punch bowl by not condemning the rants of wright.
Obviously, blacks have reason to be pissed off at whites. But they should not ignore the progress that has been made in fifty years. That’s a long time for an individual maybe, but not long at all given the eons of abuse governments, i.e., those possessed of legal force, have visited upon vulnerable people of all hues.
Now, given recent events, white people’s eyes have been opened; to some extent we have glimpsed into an unknown world and seen where that too common black victim paranoid distrust whites cause aids BS is nourished each week. Dr. King would have walked out on J. Wright.
In the future I will be less critical of Dr. King.
I guess jeremiah wright and I both rant
I’m sure she’s suffered greatly from the knowledge that she murdered her own babies. She seems to have repented of that and perhaps made her own peace with God. At least I hope so. He’s the healer of hearts and hurts and our stupid mistakes.
That was Margaret Sanger’s agenda when she began Planned Parenthood, to get rid of the ‘minorities.’
Amen, Wagglbee.
Yes. She knows what she did was wrong and wants to prevent this from happening to others.
Even though McCain has not been heroic on the abortion issue, he has been pretty consistent. Please don’t let any crazies vote third party because McCain comes short on some issues. (Which he does.) He is a zillion times better than Obama. Get the word out!
This source is Life Magazine. Of course, they are going to be sympathetic to Dr. King, who is such an effective advocate.
The statement also happens to be true. For a woman of any common sense at all, an abortion does cause suffering to her.
That's not to make light or minimize the death of the child... but the woman DOES suffer, especially after realizing her mistake.
How many of us suffer from remorse at our past sins?
MLK’s niece recalls two abortions, Lord’s forgiveness
By Dan McWilliams
East Tennessee Catholic
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Dr. Alveda King has six living children but shared with a Knoxville audience last month the story of two babies she lost to abortion.
A niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a civil rights activist herself, Dr. King was the keynote speaker Oct. 19 at the annual benefit banquet sponsored by the Knoxville chapter of Tennessee Right to Life (TRL).
The evening also brought recognition for a local Catholic couple and a high school student. Bishop Joseph E. Kurtz led the benediction.
“People would say, ‘Aren’t you ashamed to say you had abortions?’ You know, I’d be ashamed if I couldn’t tell it to see people heal and be set free,” said Dr. King. “In 1983 I became born again, and I understood in my repentance that the Lord forgave me and that I will see my babies.”
Dr. King is a daughter of the Rev. A. D. King, who was found dead in his swimming pool in Atlanta a year after his older brother was assassinated. The younger sibling, 38, a champion swimmer in college, was a partner with his brother in the civil rights movement.
They worked together. They marched together,” said Dr. Alveda King. “Dr. King was assassinated in 1968, and in 1969, one week after he walked me down the aisle when I got married, my dad was found in a swimming pool with no water in his lungs and a bruise on his head.”
The banquet keynoter is an author and a former Georgia state representative and college professor. She founded the King for America faith-based organization and currently serves as director of African American Outreach for Gospel of Life, headed by Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life.
“I’m nondenominational now,” said Dr. King. “I made my promises for the ministry Missionaries for the Gospel of Life, working for Father Frank Pavone, who can preach better than any preacher you’ve heard. That man can really preach.”
Dr. King, speaking to a banquet crowd of about 400, said those in the pro-life cause are “living in an exciting time.”
“There were days when those of us in the pro-life movement felt alone. Maybe at your first meeting you probably had fewer people than you have now. Is that true? I would think so.
“Tonight is a living testimony to what God has been showing to all of us.”
Dr. King acknowledged the upcoming Nov. 7 elections at the banquet.
“You’ve got a political race going. You’ve got to vote for life, period. You can pray for and meet with every candidate. You can help every candidate. If you have a candidate who sometimes will vote for and sometimes vote against life—that candidate probably wants to be pro-life and just needs to be encouraged.”
She added that people should not leave their political party over life issues.
“Go to your party and say to the people, ‘We’re not going to support killing our babies.’ You don’t have to leave a party to say that.”
The death of her father was part of a whirlwind of events in her life at that time, Dr. King said.
“He is dead, and he is in the swimming pool, and in a few days the doctor tells me that I’m pregnant. I got pregnant on my honeymoon. In the midst of the tragedy of losing both [her father and uncle], a new life was giving us hope, and that was good in our family.”
Not long after the child’s birth, Dr. King became pregnant again.
“The doctor says, ‘You don’t need another baby.’ That’s all he said. This was in 1971. He did an involuntary D and C [abortion by dilation and curettage] and didn’t tell me what was going on. That was my second baby, and that baby was aborted without my permission. . . . I immediately became a breast-cancer candidate just from that abortion because if you take a healthy baby and a healthy mama, and you remove the baby, the [hormone] system goes crazy.”
Dr. King said she blamed her second abortion in 1973 on “my personality change in ’71 after the first one.” Having divorced about the time of the later abortion, she was dating a man a few years afterward and became pregnant. At that time, she said she was “one of the biggest pro-choice women’s libbers you know: elected to office, acting, singing, writing, and still quiet about those two babies who were gone.”
She considered a third abortion—until she talked to the father of the baby and to “Daddy King,” a.k.a. the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
“[The baby’s father] looked at me and—get what this black man says: ‘nobody’s going to kill a baby of mine.’ I go to Daddy King, who from [her infancy] had given me everything I ever wanted, and said, ‘Granddad, abortion is legal. It’s a not a baby, it’s a lump of tissue.’
“I’m just talking, yakking. . . . Daddy King said, ‘Nobody’s going to kill a baby of mine.’ So I had two black men who helped me break that vicious cycle of death.
“That baby will be 30 years old in a few days.”
Dr. King said she was once questioned at a meeting about a Planned Parenthood award presented to Dr. Martin Luther King in 1966. She told that gathering that “when Planned Parenthood gave that award, they were at that time trying to strengthen all families, especially the Negro families.’
“They did not come and say, ‘We want to kill about a third of you.’ Now, if they had said that to Dr. King, I doubt he would have accepted the award.”
African American Outreach
2006 Clippings
http://www.priestsforlife.org/clippings/2006/06-11-12-alveda-king.htm
These statistics only go through 2004, but they certainly confirm that there have been 6.5 MILLION abortions in the United States in the last five years.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.html
Thank you, I’m so sorry for her.
Thanks for the PING! God bless Dr Alveda King and her work!
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