Posted on 04/28/2008 4:45:31 PM PDT by wagglebee
ATLANTA, April 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today said that a new study released by Students for Life of America reinforces the call of black leaders to eliminate federal subsidies to Planned Parenthood.
"It's time to let freedom ring for the babies," said Dr. King. "The Students for Life report on Planned Parenthood's targeting of African Americans for abortion spells out why taxpayers should not be forced to contribute to that organization. The government should not be subsidizing racism, but that's exactly what it's doing through Planned Parenthood."
The study examines programs and incidents dating from Planned Parenthood's founding through the most recent scandal of seven Planned Parenthood chapters' willingness to accept donations for the exclusive purpose of aborting black babies.
"Defending human life is part of the civil rights struggle and I and my fellow pro-life African American leaders are not going away," added Dr. King. "We are uniting civil rights and moral rights to fulfill the dream of what my uncle called 'the beloved community.' America needs to know that black leaders do support life. We start where life begins, with the babies, and we will march on until abortion, racism, and all society's ills bow to the truth that we are all one race."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
What do you mean by "what happened to pro-choice"? In King's case, she had several abortions (so much for "choice") and then experienced a personal converion and came to deeply regret killing her babies. That's why she became a preacher (she is an ordained Protestant minister) and preaches against abortion. God bless her.
I think the answer is "Yes, she would have."
See mine at #20 and #21.
For that reason, even the (pro-abortion) Guttmacher Institue admits that "In the United States, abortion-related maternal deaths declined sharply following the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s." That'd be 30 years before the general legalization of abortion.
For some eye-opening information on this aspect, read The Myth of Mass Back-Alley Abortion Deaths.
ALL surgery-related deaths started dropping in the 30s and 40s due to antibiotics. EVERYONE knows this, but it’s more effective to talk about “back alley” abortion deaths regardless of the truth (there is a segment of the movie “Dirty Dancing” which promotes this myth).
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