Dr. Alveda C. King
Posted on 09/15/2007 8:30:24 AM PDT by wagglebee
LASALLE - Dr. Alveda C. King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said it's not a civil right to kill people, especially unborn infants in their mothers' wombs.
"It's not a civil right to kill a person, even the unborn," she said Friday night at the annual "Focus on Life" dinner benefit for Monroe County Right to Life. She spoke along with Dr. Levon Yuille, national director of the National Black Pro-Life Congress.
"Being pro-life is a civil right," she said.
An author of six books and mother of six children, Dr. King told her story about how she had two abortions when she was young and pro-choice, which left her miserable and scarred emotionally. The abortion industry has destroyed a whole generation of Americans (48.5 million babies, 17 million of whom were black) in the United States since the Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 22, 1973, that legalized abortion on demand. In addition, the nation and millions of post-abortive women and men continue to suffer social, medical and emotional ills because of abortion. Cases of breast cancer, cervical cancer, disease, poverty, violent crimes and school dropout rates have soared since 1973.
"We need to stop the lies of Planned Parenthood" and other organizations and politicians that promote abortion and a "culture of death," a passionate Dr. King, 57, told more than 70 persons at LaRoy's Hall. "I've seen so many kids whose lives were destroyed" by abortion and the sexual revolution in the '60s. "You don't eliminate a problem (caused by) poverty by killing them. Two wrongs don't make a right."
Born on Jan. 22, she said she celebrates her "conception day," not her birthday. She has seen enough trauma and shock in her own life. The daughter of Rev. A.D. King, she said her father was also murdered for what he stood for a year after her uncle in 1968. During the civil rights' movement in the 1950s and '60s, her family home in Birmingham, Ala., was bombed in the heat of the struggle.
She said life is precious, no matter what stage it is in. And the ideals of life, liberty and justice that we profess to protect in the Constitution are rights guaranteed to the unborn and elderly as well as the healthy and active. Citing Scripture, she said "abortion is murder," a grievous, violent act against the most vulnerable.
"Life in the womb is ordained by God," she said. "The womb is a sanctuary, not a tomb."
Drawing parallels to slavery that, like abortion, once was legal in the U.S., she said little children have told her that babies are like slaves in their mother's wombs because "they could be killed if their slavemasters (parents) wanted them dead."
She asked the audience to raise their hands if they were born before or after 1973.
"Then you are a survivor" because your parents made a choice for life, she said.
She encouraged pro-lifers not to be silent or discouraged, but to continue fighting abortion.
"You have to be bold and brave," she advised. "Be encouraged to keep fighting and don't stop giving - you're making a difference."
Three specific things pro-lifers can do is pray, share with their neighbors and friends their family and Christian values and finally, volunteer their time at a crisis pregnancy center or demonstrate peacefully at an abortion clinic.
Dr. Yuille, the national director of the National Black Pro-Life Congress, has traveled with Dr. King to other parts of the country. He also spoke briefly and said abortion was "worse than slavery, worse than World War II." He said Americans, guided by their creator, have a history of standing up for what's right.
"This nation has a knack for standing up for others," Dr. Yuille, 67, a pastor and Ypsilanti resident, said. "We should fight the good fight of faith and not stop until all of America hears the cries of innocent babies no more."
Bronco McKart, master of ceremonies, introduced Barbara Listing, president of Michigan RTL, and Diane Hanson, development director for RTL. Ms. Hanson noted 25,000 abortions were performed in Michigan in 2006. She outlined plans to fight legislative and petition initiatives to legalize human cloning and embryonic stem cell research next year in Michigan. She said pro-lifers are not opposed to stem cell research. Actually, they support adult stem cell research in areas such as umbilical cords and embiontic fluids that have produced 73 successful medical treatments while embryonic cell research has produced zero cures or treatments.
She said killing of embryonic stem cells "is wrong in medical research and wrong in abortion."
Dr. King can be reached online at priestsforlife.org/africanamerican. Dr. King's next book, "How Can the Dream Survive if we Murder the Children" is due out in January.
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“The womb is a sanctuary, not a tomb.”
This bears repeating, far and wide.
Great phrase.
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Abortion is a human rights violation - of the worst kind.
The right to life is in our Declaration.
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Until she can get her brothers and sisters out from under the thumb of the dems, blacks are stuck with the pro-choice status quo. While there is some room in the republican party for the pro-choice, there is no room in the dem party for the pro-life. Them’s the facts.
She's right, of course.
Abortion is a human rights violation - of the worst kind.
The right to life is in our Declaration.
5 posted on 09/15/2007 9:35:17 AM MDT by Regulator
Amen !
Preach it sister, preach it!!
Amen!
And let us not forget that the Declaration DOES NOT GIVE us the right to life, it ACKNOWLEDGES that it is ENDOWED to us by our Creator. Therefore, government has NO LEGITIMATE RIGHT to take it from us.
The question is, will the right recognize this and help to welcome these people to our side?
Dr. Alveda C. King
Thanks for posting this.
I hope so. And I hope the blacks get educated as to who Margaret Sanger is.
Hurray for Alveda! A ttue daughter of her fathers legacy.
Not a cheapo, no morals, power and fame grubbing leech, who uses Dr. Kings fame and then betrays the Dr’s ideals by sucking up to every group of crooks, perverts, and the Dem +Death Culture, for money.
Abortion: The one topic the left likes to keep race out of (because it definitely doesn’t suit their purposes).
Say it loud and often Dr. King! 48,589,993 abortions since 1973 it’s got to stop!
you might be interested to do some research on WHY JJ was there and the despicable things he is purported to've done to capitalize on the publicity surrounding it - ?used it for a springboard ... ,
Here's just one instance: and this claim comes from Andrew Young, who was, as you noted - at King's side.
"Of the myriad of boasts and pronouncements made by Jackson over the course of his public life, perhaps the most controversial is his claim that it was he who was the last to hear King speak as he cradled the fallen civil-rights leader's head. Immediately after King died on April 4, 1968, Jackson headed to Chicago to attend a service at city hall in honor of King. Jackson spoke to those gathered, including Chicago's then-mayor Richard Daley, telling them, "I come here with a l heavy heart because on my chest I is the stain of blood from Dr. King's head." While there is little doubt that Jackson was on the balcony when King was shot, Jackson did not cradle King's head. Civil-rights activists Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young both have maintained with disgust that Jackson placed both of his hands in King's blood and wiped them on his shirt -- the same shirt he wore for the city-hall service and an appearance on the Today show.
GOOGLE it
Why do we let these things slip into the Sargasso Sea of amesiac oblivion?
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