Posted on 03/16/2006 8:52:13 AM PST by Ligeia
Black churches are not doing enough to stop abortion, speakers at a conference said yesterday, some comparing the number of black babies aborted annually to genocide.
"We are no longer the largest minority in this country. That is due, in fact, to abortion," said Day Gardner, national director of Black Americans for Life, an arm of the National Right to Life Committee.
"We have allowed abortion to become a kind of birth control for many of us. . . . Many pastors are afraid they will offend women if they talk about it."
Gardner was among more than two dozen speakers at the 2006 Pro-Life Conference held at Mount Gilead Full Gospel Church in Chesterfield County Friday night and yesterday.
The event drew a multiracial audience of 400 or more people over the two days. Greene Hollowell, a retired contractor and member of Bon Air Baptist Church, organized the event. Hollowell said he and other members of his church minister to women going into abortion clinics and try to get them to change their minds.
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Democrats are very concerned. Their abortion mills need the dough for campaign contributions to the DNC.
Is that a Photoshop?
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