Posted on 07/01/2008 8:53:24 PM PDT by Coleus
The dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. was more than desegregation. It was prosperity, life and liberty -- Constitutional metrics for success -- for every person of every color in every stage of life. Kings niece, Dr. Alveda King, now leads a movement pitted against Planned Parenthood for targeting the black community for abortion. On Thursday, King joined other African-American leaders and pastors in a march at the Republican and Democratic National committee headquarters to urge legislators to reject the $10 million in funding PP has pledged to donate to influence the election.
Students for Life of America and the National Black Pro-Life Union have campaigned heavily against the federal funding of Planned Parenthood, who received $350 million in taxpayer funds last year alone. We are uniting civil rights and moral rights to fulfill the dream of what my uncle called the beloved community, said King. We start where life begins, with the babies, and we will march on until abortion, racism and all societys ills bow to the truth that we are all one race. Last year, after a group of college students posed as phone donors specifying that their money be used to abort a black child, the racist undertones of Planned Parenthoods founder Margaret Sanger blazed forth. The fake donors were told their money would be marked for such delivery even after one caller said, "the less blacks out there, the better" and another noted that "there are definitely too many black people in Ohio."
Planned Parenthoods across the nation are strategically placed in low-income, highly African-American populated areas -- where poor women are more likely to have access. In fact, 62.5% of PP clinics are located in these communities and when you include Hispanic neighborhoods, the number increases to 70%. These same community leaders stood outside of a Washington, DC Planned Parenthood clinic in April, protesting the targeted placement. Aside from aiming at African-Americans, PPs activities across America are scandal-laced. In Kansas, a clinic is under criminal investigation for falsifying documents and performing illegal, late-term abortions. A California PP is accused of defrauding taxpayers up to $180 million and an employee of a Los Angeles PP was caught on video tape encouraging a minor girl to lie about her age in order to receive an abortion.
Pro-life activists fear that the $10 million PP has pledged to spend this election season will yield unfair influence over legislators to continue voting for federal funding of the organization. Taxpayers have no choice in what aspect of Planned Parenthood their dollars are channeled so individuals against abortion are forced to fund them. While we have a historic presidential election, with the first African-American candidate now the [Democratic] nominee, this racist agenda buy such a large organization cannot be ignored, said Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union.
Sen. Barack Obama, though, possesses one of the most anti-life records in the Senate, having voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, a bill that would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions.
Obama recently said he hoped his daughters wouldnt be punished with a baby if they decided to have sex at an inappropriate age. Planned Parenthoods deliberate moves to situate themselves among a vulnerable population and use tactics -- morals aside -- to increase the groups income deserves national attention and Congressional investigation. Gardner noted that donations received from PP are nothing more than seed money. Its one hand watching the others money; its you watch my back -- Ill watch your back money, she said, adding that the pro-life agenda is not only a Republican platform item.
It doesnt matter if your claim to fame is as a Democrat or a Republican abortion is a plague among Americans -- and an epidemic in the black community. The racist and anti-Semitic legacy of PP is rooted in the beliefs of its founder, Margaret Sanger, who often said that we must exterminate the Negro population. Now, more than 14 million black babies have been aborted by PP, in addition to 30 million babies of other races. According to Ricardo Davis of Georgians for Life, Sanger even created a plan to stop the growth of the black community in response to request by southern state public health officials. Her magazine, Birth Control Review, published an article praising a book entitled, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy.
Pastor Stephen Broden of the Fair Park Bible Fellowship Church pinpointed the PP donations to the RNC and the DNC as a conflict of interest and called on both organizations to return such contributions. "Planned Parenthood has since its inception targeted the black community to fulfill its eugenic philosophy of ridding society of the poor, unfit and uneducated, he said. It is outrageous that our government provides a sizeable percentage of our tax dollars to Planned Parenthoods budget to exercise its philosophy of dysgenics among black Americans.
Ah, Planned Parenthood can’t quite escape their eugenic roots, now can they?
You know... no matter how many times people post this stuff about Sanger, it’s never going to matter. Never. Women wanting abortions just do not care that the program was founded by a racist and you are never going to make them care.
We should all be against abortion, regardless.
I guess it’s out of the question to use planned abstenence.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Not at all. But do you really think the most compelling argument for abstinence is that the head of Planned Parenthood was a racist? "No Darling, we can't have sex tonight. Margaret Sanger hated blacks."
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