Posted on 07/18/2008 7:30:20 AM PDT by rhema
If someone wiped out the entire African-American population in Oakland, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., the number still wouldn't equal the number of black babies lost to abortion in one year: 683,294. According to the Allan Guttmacher Institute, African-American women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion.
These are facts, say pro-life blacks, that the NAACP can't afford to ignore. On July 14, the pro-lifers—including Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King Jr.) and Clenard Childress of Life Education and Research Network—picketed the NAACP's 99th Annual Convention to address what Childress calls "black genocide." King said of Planned Parenthood, "It has led the way in eliminating African-Americans to the point where one quarter of the black population is now missing because of abortion. Planned Parenthood is anti-life and we are here to say enough is enough!"
Childress said the group was protesting the censorship of a pro-life resolution from the NAACP chapter in Macon, Ga. In February 2004, the NAACP made a statement endorsing the pro-abortion March Against Fear. In 2004 and 2007, the Macon chapter proposed a pro-life resolution calling on the NAACP to abandon its pro-abortion language and start educating the black community on the issue.
The NAACP now says it has no official policy on abortion, but the national resolution committee has rejected the resolution so the NAACP has never read it on the convention floor or discussed it. Childress said pro-lifers only want to discuss the resolution and present the facts: "It would be gross negligence not to address the issue."
At the NAACP picket, which took place the same day Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama addressed the gathering in Cincinnati, about 100 people passed out over 10,000 pieces of literature as documentary makers shot film footage. "We had women who were hurt, harmed by abortion—African-American women—there handing out pamphlets," said Childress. The pamphlets gave information on the statistics of abortion in the black community, the alleged racism of Planned Parenthood, and research on the possible link between abortion and breast cancer.
Childress said almost all the NAACP delegates took the information: "Most of them were very shocked at the information, surprised, especially when we invited them to please investigate what we said: 'Don't take our word for it.'"
Walter B. Hoye II, founder and president of Issues4Life, said he has talked to other African-American leaders who respond in the same way when they hear statistics like these: Black women account for 6 percent of the population, but 56 percent of abortions. "First there's denial," said Hoye. "Then there's stunned silence."
Hoye noted that of the five abortion clinics in Alameda, Calif., four are in the heart of Oakland's African-American neighborhoods. He estimated that blacks and Hispanics together account for 88 percent of abortions, and he said this is an opportunity for the NAACP to work with other minorities on reducing abortions.
The NAACP could help first by acknowledging that black abortion is a problem, argued Hoye. Then it could incorporate pro-life principles into the anti-poverty and education programs it already runs. Childress suggested a health forum highlighting the physical and psychological toll abortion takes.
Poverty and lack of education can't be the only cause of black abortion, Hoye pointed out, because blacks have always faced difficult times and have pulled their families together and taken care of their children. He blames a silence in the pulpit: "They're pregnant, they have a problem, and there's absolutely no one to talk to about it."
Hoye said when he does sidewalk counseling at abortion clinics, a woman ignores him on the way into the clinic but comes out crying afterwards: "She's not experiencing the freedom she thought she would." Childress said, "It's up to moral and religious people to go to the streets and to the public square and let the cause and purpose be known in that fashion—peacefully—which is what we did."
Abortion has attacked ALL RACES just some more than others.
I guess that would make Obama the “Pro Genocide” candidate.
Yet blacks will vote 90%+ for ANY liberal and pro-abortion dem candidate...because democrats are their friends and supporters...
Were it not for the abortion genocide carried out by the liberals against Blacks there would be at least 1/3 more Blacks. That’s 1/3 more democrat voters and they would still be THE minority instead of the Hispanics. The rat has aborted his own voters.
How Planned Parenthood Duped America
At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the "black" and "yellow" peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger's American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.
Sanger's other colleagues included avowed and sophisticated racists. One, Lothrop Stoddard, was a Harvard graduate and the author of The Rising Tide of Color against White Supremacy. Stoddard was something of a Nazi enthusiast who described the eugenic practices of the Third Reich as "scientific" and "humanitarian." And Dr. Harry Laughlin, another Sanger associate and board member for her group, spoke of purifying America's human "breeding stock" and purging America's "bad strains." These "strains" included the "shiftless, ignorant, and worthless class of antisocial whites of the South."
Not to be outdone by her followers, Margaret Sanger spoke of sterilizing those she designated as "unfit," a plan she said would be the "salvation of American civilization.: And she also spoke of those who were "irresponsible and reckless," among whom she included those " whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers." She further contended that "there is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped." That many Americans of African origin constituted a segment of Sanger considered "unfit" cannot be easily refuted.
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion”.
My God, what a horrible statistic !
How can Obama, Jackson, Sharpton,and the rest of the Black Liberals not be appaled by this and change their tune?
This has to rank up there among the worst acts of willful blindness to evil for personal gain in the history of this country.
When you've tirelessly promoted yourself as a "spokesman-leader" of your people, what are a few hundred thousand unborn victims, anyway?
Only in the next to LAST paragraph do you come to the heart of the problem. “Blacks have always faced hard time, but have pulled their FAMILIES through...”
Do you get that word? Family...a mother and a FATHER. Our liberal welfare programs have destroyed the black family to the point where this “BLACK self-genocide” is the only defense left for pregnant and abandoned young women.
On FATHER’S day, what horribly low percentage of black youngsters can name their father? How many received the loving discipline of a father? How many receive that lesson giving “swat on the butt”?
How often must we watch the tears of a unmarried black mother as she buries her “out of control” child, murdered in the streets of every major city? Where is Dad?
Yes, occasionally Dad is their, pathetic in his grief, but how often?
The true villan in this tragedy are the authors of the “War on Poverty” who declared war on poverty and then saw to it that Poverty WON.
These liberal policies thoroughly destroyed that which was the cement of the Black People....the FAMILY!!
“African-American women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion.”
With the amazingly high level of illegitimate births in the Black community, what would the level be if there were no abortions?
“I honestly won’t lose any sleep over the fact that there are fewer to collect benefits from or prey on society. “
What a disgusting thing to say...
You flip, flopped on you statement. You do support it.
There is evidence that making abortion illegal and unavailable would actually decrease illegitmacy, as women would have to be more careful about preventing pregnancy.
we have been aiding them for decades and it has only gotten worse. IMHO, these abortions have saved thousdands from a different painful death a few years down the line or at the very least a miserable existence of poverty, crime, etc...
i'm sorry, i am basically pro-life but let's get real about africa.
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