Clergy members joined the 2007 Walk for Life event. Walks will be held Jan. 18 in Oakland and Jan. 19 in San Francisco.
Posted on 01/07/2008 7:49:26 AM PST by SmithL
Saying they are faced with a civil rights crisis that demands immediate attention, African American anti-abortion advocates will hold three events in the Bay Area later this month in an aggressive push to combat the high number of abortions among black women.
"The abortion issue is huge. It is the Darfur of America," and it's time to educate the public about it, said Walter Hoye, a Berkeley preacher who founded the Issues4Life Foundation, a recently formed Union City-based organization intent on drafting more African Americans into the fight against abortion.
Issues4Life has organized the events to coincide with the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 18 and Black History Month in February. All three events will feature Alveda King, the niece of the slain civil rights leader.
A two-mile Walk for Life will be held in Oakland and a conference will be hosted at a Berkeley church Jan. 18. The following day, a walk similar to the one in Oakland will take place in San Francisco.
But Hoye has bigger plans, hoping to eventually open chapters of Issues4Life across the country as a way to create a "one-stop shopping place" where black leaders, particularly pastors, will be able to get the information they need to teach others about the problem.
"We want to create opportunities to dialogue on issues concerning life, and abortion is the leading cause of death in the African American community," Hoye said. "It is a moral issue as far as the church is concerned, and we want to strengthen the African American leadership.
"We have always taught abstinence. That is Christianity 101. But when people decide to have sex outside of marriage, we want to do other things like post-abortion counseling, anger management, day care and recovery programs."
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Clergy members joined the 2007 Walk for Life event. Walks will be held Jan. 18 in Oakland and Jan. 19 in San Francisco.
Margaret Sanger would be deeply disturbed.
Good for this preacher.
I have never understood why black Christians have defended abortion.
The blacks in South Carolina should have lynched Margaret Sanger....
Blacks in the US must be feeling less relevant these days. With so many hispanic illegal aliens and few politicians willing to do anything about it, blacks are losing out on political power, jobs, etc.... Add abortion to the mix and it gets worse...
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