Black Pro-Life Leaders: Martin Luther King, Jr. Would Have Opposed Abortion

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Roe v. Wade celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary on Tuesday, but prominent African-American leaders say the black community isn't ready to party. That's because abortion has affected black Americans in disproportionate numbers as more blacks have abortions and more abortion business are in historically black neighborhoods.

Day Gardner, the head of the National Black Pro-Life Union, tells LifeNews.com that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been a strong pro-life advocate were he alive today.

"I believe if Dr. King were alive today, he would not rest until every unborn child was granted his or her basic right to life," she says.

Gardner laments that the black church is not as involved in the civil rights battle against abortion as it was the civil rights battle for equal treatment under law and in society.

"Today, too many churches and black ministers close their eyes to the 15 million deaths of black children slaughtered by abortion since 1973," Gardner says.

"Many pastors are not only they afraid they will offend congregation members who have had abortions, but are also afraid they may offend many family members--wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters who have traveled down the road to abortion providers," she explains.

"What these ministers fail to preach is that abortion is not the unforgivable sin," Gardner said.

"They need to stand boldly as I believe Dr. King would have--shouting from the mountaintop that we serve a mighty Savior that can forgive every sin and will heal every pain," Gardner explained.

Jackson, Mississippi resident Phillip H. Berkemeier agrees.

"If Dr. King was with us today I firmly believe that he would be fully engaged in the civil-rights issue of our time, the right to life of the unborn," he wrote in a letter to the Jackson Citizen Patriot newspaper.

"African-Americans make up a little more than 12 percent of the total population, but 34 percent of all abortions in this country," he explained.

"I believe that if Dr. King were here, he would speak out boldly against abortion," he said, adding that the "multimillion-dollar abortion industry would not be able to buy him off."

The reluctance of the black community to embrace the problem of abortion is borne out in their voting patters. Though a majority of African-Americans are pro-life, they strongly support pro-abortion candidates.

A September Americas Majority poll of 3,292 African American voters found that 87 percent of black Americans voted for pro-abortion candidate John Kerry for president in 2004 but 70.6 percent of pro-life black voters did as well.

"African Americans are more conservative than their white counterparts on numerous issues, including abortion," Americas Majority press secretary John Altevogt told LifeNews.com in a statement.

"Yet, as our research shows, African Americans who are pro-life ... regularly vote for candidates who share none of these views," he added.

The study involved 10,952 Americans regardless of race and it found that blacks and Hispanics were more likely to oppose abortion than their white counterparts.

There is a reason why they call it Klanned Prenthood

http://www.klannedparenthood.com/History_of_Abortion_Statistics/

In America today, almost as many African-American children
are aborted as are born.

A black baby is three times more likely to be
murdered in the womb than a white baby.

Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent.

Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died from
AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined.

Every three days, more African-Americans are killed by abortion than
have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history.

Planned Parenthood operates the nation’s largest chain of abortion clinics and
almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.

About 13 percent of American women are black, but they
submit to over 35 percent of the abortions.

What the Ku Klux Klan Could Only Dream About
The Abortion Industry is Accomplishing

Day Gardner, the head of the National Black Pro-Life Union, tells LifeNews.com that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been a strong pro-life advocate were he alive today.

"I believe if Dr. King were alive today, he would not rest until every unborn child was granted his or her basic right to life," she says.

I wish it were true, and of course we'll never know, but I doubt this very seriously (kudos to his niece, however).

Gardner laments that the black church is not as involved in the civil rights battle against abortion as it was the civil rights battle for equal treatment under law and in society.

The Black church isn't involved in anything but all the traditional liberal causes--primarily those of race and poverty. It is AWOL on every important moral and religious issue: abortion, homosexuality, Darwinism, you-name-it. I have reluctantly concluded that the Black church, like the Armenian Church, has as a result of oppression become nothing but an expression of ethnoculture. It barely has a theology at all, and it has no eschatology.

"They need to stand boldly as I believe Dr. King would have--shouting from the mountaintop that we serve a mighty Savior that can forgive every sin and will heal every pain," Gardner explained.

Unfortunately, King was not an orthodox chr*stian at all but believed instead in the secular "social gospel." I doubt that he ever preached a genuinely soteriological sermon in his entire career.

American Blacks worship like inbred, buck-toothed, snake-handling West Virginia hillbillies but vote like wealthy northeastern white Unitarian Universalists. Amazing what money can do, even to people who claim to be against capitalism!

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