Pro-lifer: Blacks 'exterminating' themselves

Onenewsnow,com ^ | April 14, 2011 | Russ Jones

[Rennes Templar]

A pro-life advocate in Kansas is battling to fight growing epidemic of abortion among blacks.

Reports indicate abortion is the leading cause of death within the African-American community in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), since 1973 -- the year of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade -- 13 million African-American lives have been lost to abortion.

Peggy Elliott Ministries was honored with a $2,500 grant at the recent Servant Awards celebration in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Peggy Elliott, ministry founder and president, says it is time for the genocide to stop.

"Between abortion and black-on-black crime, as a people group we're exterminating ourselves. We're not loving our children in the womb or outside of the womb," she shares. "So I have to do whatever it is that I can do to help save babies' lives and to make an impact on our culture.

"We've become a culture of death -- and I want to be one of those used by God to move us from a culture of death to a culture of life."

Currently in Congress, every member of the Congressional Black Caucus identifies himself or herself as "pro-choice." Elliott laments that fact.

"Less than two percent of the African-American population is involved actively in the pro-life movement," she notes. "So any of the babies who have been saved -- our babies -- have been because there's been people who aren't concerned about the color. So [while] I say thank you to that...I also say it's time for my culture to wake up and to become involved."

We have more babies die from [Sudden Infant Death Syndrome] -- there's something wrong," says the ministry leader. I believe the something that's wrong is we've moved away from our first love, which is Jesus Christ."

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