Posted on 03/07/2010 2:12:32 PM PST by wagglebee
Catherine Davis is a woman with a message, and that message is getting harder to ignore. "Black children are an endangered species."
The Director of Minority Outreach for Georgia Right to Life, Davis is taking that message to the public, along with a massive public awareness campaign that has captured national and international attention. Drivers in the metro Atlanta area are seeing billboards that demand attention - and are changing minds.
Her argument is simple and the statistics are irrefutable. She accuses abortion providers in general, and Planned Parenthood in particular, of targeting blacks for abortion. She told The New York Times, "The impact of abortion has become so great that it has begun to impact our fertility rate."
Consider the chilling facts documented in the data. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 57.4% of the abortions performed in Georgia in 2006 were performed on African-American women, but blacks make up only 30% of Georgia's population. Nationwide, the pattern is similarly stacked against black babies - black women have approximately 37% of all abortions each year, while blacks make up only 13% of the national population.
You can see why Catherine Davis' message demands attention. She points also to the fact that, in Georgia, every single abortion clinic is located in areas of black concentration. She argues, quite pointedly, that this amounts to an intentional effort to reduce the black population in the United States.
As she told the Los Angeles Times, "Let me put it this way . . . 18,870,000 black babies have been aborted since Roe v. Wade. If those babies had not been aborted, we would be 59 million strong - over 19% of the population."
She is not only making the argument, however, she is reaching the African-American community with that argument.
As the Los Angeles Times reports, "An increasingly vocal segment of the antiabortion community has embraced the idea that black women are targeted for abortion in an effort to keep the black population down." Similarly, from The New York Times: "Abortion opponents say the number is so high because abortion clinics are deliberately located in black neighborhoods and prey upon black women. The evidence, they say, is everywhere: Planned Parenthood’s response to the anti-abortion ad that aired during the Super Bowl featured two black athletes, they note, and several women’s clinics offered free services - including abortions - to evacuees after Hurricane Katrina."
“The more I dug into it, the more vast I found that the network was,” Catherine Davis told the paper. "And I realized that African-American women just did not know the truth, they did not understand the truth about the abortion industry.”
She also has an argument from history. The founder of what became Planned Parenthood was Margaret Sanger, who no one can deny was a proponent of eugenics - the effort to encourage the improvement of the human population by selective breeding. She advocated the forced sterilization of those deemed less fit to reproduce. As the Los Angeles Times noted, "That was often believed to include blacks." Planned Parenthood was also involved in a recent controversy when some Planned Parenthood employees were taped encouraging donations targeted toward the abortion of black babies.
Catherine Davis is not alone in making the argument, either. The Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr. of New Jersey has described the womb as the most dangerous place for a black child. Another black pastor, Rev. Johnny M. Hunter of Fayetteville, North Carolina said, "What's giving [this argument] momentum is blacks are finally figuring out what's going down. . . . The game changes when blacks get involved. And in the pro-life movement, a lot of the groups that have been ignored for years, they're now getting involved."
The case is also being made with force and candor by Alveda King, a niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "I know for sure that the black community is being targeted by abortionists for the purpose of ethnic cleansing . . . . How can the dream survive if we are willing to sacrifice the futures of our children?"
The scandal of abortion is not limited to abortion, as these facts and patterns make clear. Catherine Davis and her colleagues are making a difference with this message - and mostly within the black community.
What about the rest of the nation? Is America content to be the land where every baby in the womb is endangered, and where black babies are at even greater risk? That question should haunt every single American.
It's impossible to ignore the evidence.
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Where has the black church been all this time? Where have the pastors been?
How many congregations have ever in the past 40 years supported a pro-life candidate?
That evil and oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam and the way of implementing it by Sharia law is already making inroads right here in this country — the good ole USA. We’re about to see a “takeover” of the U.S. by the evil and oppressive idealogy of the government of Islam (that is aiming for world-wide conquest and has stated that the U.S. is *on its list* to take over...)
And for those people who need some additional facts about what the evil and oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam is doing, look at some of the following.
There’s no question about it... the enemy is *Islam* itself and the evil and oppressive and false idealogy that it perpetrates. Some say the problem is “fascism” (instead of the basic oppressive governmental idealogy of Islam, itself). But, that is to engage in “political correctness” and nothing more... and sidetracks people from the *true enemy* in this war.
In one generation we’ll see, right here in the United States that “Islam” is the enemy and not “fascism”...
Muslim Demographics...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
and also, this...
Islam: What the West Needs to Know - FULL LENGTH ENGLISH VERSION
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781
and then, looking at this...
“The Third Jihad” (video - abridged version of film)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271522/posts
This is the allowance of “false gods” to take over this nation because of the ignorance of the people of the land in regards to the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...
And so, we see that we’re going to have the “false god of Islam” ruling over the USA and running the USA in just one generation from now.
What took this woman so long?
There is only One True Church and it has supported an end to this genocide from the start. Sanger chose to use the heretical sects that pandered to the black community for evil, and lacking the Paraclete’s protection, they often fell for her lies.
Yes, and it is also impossible to ignore the promiscuity, single motherhood, and children without their fathers. I am 100% for the abortions to end. Then what? Will Black leaders and clergy also step up and remind people that it was not always this way. The Welfare State beginning in the 60s ruined way more than it ever improved. YOung Whites and Hispanics are heading down the same chute of despair. Listen to people like Starr Parker — a survivor of the System, and not the Race Warlords like Jackson and Sharpton.
It’s a crock. Blacks are not being targeted by racists for abortions. Blacks are having more abortions because they have more out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
The abortion providers are following the demand, not forcing it on anyone.
Black women need to spread their legs less, and marry more. Poor blacks in particular need more families, less sex.
Read “War against the weak” sometime.
If you are a Sioux, the welfare state started long before that. The reservations were very effect at breaking the Indians. Which is what they were designed to do.
Sure, nobody marches black women into abortion clinics at gunpoint, but nevertheless the facts speak for themselves.
Margaret Sanger isn’t the one doing the abortions. Planned Parenthood - an organization I detest - isn’t targeting blacks for elimination. Blacks are effectively volunteering for it.
If more whites wanted to kill babies, PP would LOVE to do the murders!
In 1940, the illegitimacy rate for blacks was 19%. Now it is roughly 70% (that is about 5 years old, couldn’t find the latest figures).
The number is higher for poor blacks. That is driving the abortion rates.
Nope. No one is tricking blacks into abortions, and no one is forcing them. The providers are following the clients.
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/72
Black males are far more likely to be in prison than whites. Is this because cops are racists who target innocent blacks?
So racism is here on FR. How sad.
Needless to say, Wright is pro-abortion. So much for his “outrage” about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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