Writer Awarded by Planned Parenthood Defends Black Abortions

Life News ^ | 5/2/11 | Ryan Bomberger

[wagglebee]

Cynthia Tucker’s April 13 column, “Abortion is black genocide. Nonsense of course” is itself the nonsense. She writes from sheer hyperbole and outright distortions. But she’s an abortion apologist; it comes with the territory.

Margaret Sanger was an avowed, unapologetic eugenist and incorporated this racist pseudoscience into every effort of her birth control crusade. It’s not some conspiracy; it’s documented history. It’s as verifiable as Planned Parenthood awarding Ms. Tucker the Margaret Sanger Award last year for her journalistic “advocacy of abortion” and defense of the nation’s largest abortion chain.

And yes, abortion is their business, which is why they mandated all of their affiliates to provide abortions by 2013. With $1 billion in assets, they spend millions in every state on preventing any pro-life protections (waiting periods, parental consent/notification, women’s right-to-know, ultrasound, father’s rights, clinic standards) in order to protect their largest revenue stream of over $200 million annually—from abortions.

We have more access and usage of contraception than ever before in our history, yet the unintended pregnancy rate, according to the CDC, has remained at 50 percent for decades. Poverty has only risen since abortion was legalized in 1973; U.S. Census Bureau reports it’s the highest since the War on Poverty in the ‘60s. More contraception has only seen more abortions. Facts matter.

But Ms. Tucker has chosen to ignore the research and resort to something simpler—demonization. In fact, Ms. Tucker’s “Maggie” Award was won, in part, by an article she penned deriding The Radiance Foundation’s “Endangered Species” billboard/web campaign that led the public to TooManyAborted.com. As in the April 13 column, last year’s article could not accept the existence of black pro-lifers nor our focus on dealing with abortion’s devastating impact on the urban community. What about 60 percent of black pregnancies in NYC ending in abortion? This is the “logical solution” to life that is unplanned?

I didn’t realize as a black individual, I had to remain on the ideological plantation. According to Ms. Tucker and other abortion advocates, who regularly spew racial and gender animus, blacks who dare believe in the humanity of the preborn are mere puppets. Pro-life blacks, in their view, are enmeshed in some conspiracy and incapable of thinking for themselves. Now, this is racism.

As much as abortion defenders like mining for it, it’s a shame they are the ones ignoring racism where it historically exists while churning out epithets to avoid dealing with the epidemic of abortion in the black community. Tucker’s baseless accusations reveal how little she knows about Dr. Johnny Hunter or many other pro-life advocates who are engaged in their communities helping those in need, unwilling to wait for the government to ride in on a white, black or brown horse (had to make sure I was inclusive).

As one who was adopted and an adoptive father, I know the beauty of possibility and the passion with which people from all races defend human life in all of its stages. It’s a favorite talking point for abortion apologists, but I know of few people who are single-issue minded. As if having a singular focus on a human injustice is something to be ashamed of, anyway. Abolitionists had a singular focus to abolish the inhumanity of slavery. Perhaps they should have first worried about housing, health care, job opportunities, and equal pay before they embarked on such a narrow-minded mission.

Eugenics has been the three-corded strand (racism, elimination of the “unfit,” overpopulation mythology) that ties slavery, anti-miscegenation laws, Jim Crow laws, birth control and the epidemic of abortion together in an inseparable bind. It is the driving force behind Planned Parenthood’s, NARAL’s and abortion apologists’ relentless campaign to justify abortion no matter the reason, no matter the cost. We saw the disastrous consequence of this pro-abortion radicalism in Philly’s “House of Horrors” where abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s butchery went unabated for decades thanks to NARAL’s silence.

Abortion apologists like Ms. Tucker choose to ignore the voluminous irrefutable evidence of the racism and eugenics that defined Planned Parenthood’s beginnings and unaltered course. She chooses to throw out schools of red herrings and make laughable and completely unfounded accusations. Yet she supports those things that offer temporary assistance but cause perpetual dependence—the very cause of 70 percent fatherlessness and single parent poverty in the black community. Perhaps there’s just a little too much sheen coming off of her new “Maggie” award to keep her from seeing beyond the shiny empty trophy.

LifeNews.com Note: Ryan Scott Bomberger is the chief creative officer and the cofounder (along with his wife, Bethany) of The Radiance Foundation, a life-affirming non-profit organization. He is an Emmy Award-winning creative director who has caused a media frenzy with his pro-life, pro-adoption themed TooManyAborted.com ad campaigns. His own adoption story, as an adoptee and adoptive father, inspires the media initiatives and community outreach of The Radiance Foundation. Ryan speaks to diverse audiences nationwide, sharing the beauty and power of possibility. He resides in metro Atlanta with his amazing wife and four children.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Murder of ALL babies by Planned Parenthood is the issue, and you’re trying to make it into a white vs. black issue which is nonsense.

[trisham]

Perhaps you might consider educating yourself about Margaret Sanger.

[editor-surveyor]

No, you made it white vs. black.

By far, PP aborts more black children than all other races combined, and you want it kept secret?

[ViLaLuz]

http://blackgenocide.org

[trisham]

Good grief you people can be so incredibly nasty when someone disagrees with you.

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That statement would be almost laughable if it didn't so obviously attempt to conceal racism.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Pulling the race card is a leftist tactic.



This "abortion conspiracy" stuff reminds me a lot of Donald Trump. Populist, not conservative, unhelpful, and ill-advised.

But go ahead, just pull your race card again. It Trumps every other card and stops debate entirely, after all.

[trisham]

I didn’t “pull the race card”. You revealed yourself as a racist.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

So yes, you pull it again. Sheesh.

No madam, I did not. It would be a reasonable thing to provide a quote when you make such an outrageous claim.

[trisham]

You appear to believe that those of us here who are pro-life are leftists because we recognize that the largest percentage of abortions by race are with blacks. Instead of decrying that Planned Parenthood was instituted to practice and continues to practice eugenics regarding black americans, you claim that we are racists.

It is not we who are racists.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

"You appear to believe that those of us here who are pro-life are leftists"

That's nothing but a lie. My post #15 shows some of my past pro-life credentials. I want PP defunded, and I want abortion to be illegal, no different from murder.

But I do NOT want a wedge driven between white people and black people (of which I have many friends, thought I positively loathe having to defend myself with that statement) with this tinfoil madness.

Yes tell people what's going on, but STOP implying that it's a freaking conspiracy by some white people.

[Amberdawn]

I agree-abortion is an evil regardless of the color of the babies involved, and to focus exclusively on one race is wrong. It reminds me of the infamous quote about any natural disaster “women and minorities hardest hit”.

[Amberdawn]

Margaret Sanger is dead. While it’s important to point out her history, she is not running things now.

[RobbyS]

Planned Parenthood went into the black churches and convinced many people that smaller families were their key to a better life. They also did this in the white churches, even, in the ‘60s, the Catolic churches. But who in any of the churches foresaw the hedonism that has so changed society? Even Planned Parenthood never guessed that the personal disciple needed to moderate sexual activity would become so rare. That marriage itself would be discarded as an inconvenience? That the state would be regarded as the husband of so many single women, and if the state saw nothing wrong with abortion, what was to stop it?

[RobbyS]

But people who share her worldview remain in charge. I don’t mean the open eugenicism, but the malthusianism that sees in large families a leading cause of poverty and pregnancy as a deadly threat to a woman’s self-fulfillment.

[metmom]

If you don’t think that PP is still racist, what the heck are they doing still handing out the Margaret Sanger Award to writers who criticize billboards that show the truth about the danger black babies face from abortion?

And why do you discredit that blacks are targeted by PP when most of their abortion clinics are in or near predominantly black neighborhoods?

Your argument that they go were there’s the most business doesn’t really wash because you do go on to point out that 60% of the abortions done are to non-black babies. That would preclude building most abortuaries in the vicinity of black neighborhoods, but the fact is, that’s where most of them are.

They aren’t going where the demand is. They’re creating the demand by their marketing.

Where do you hear of black communities clamoring for PP to build abortion clinics in their neighborhoods to provide them with easy access to abortions? So I believe that PP is still in the business of targeting blacks? The evidence sure supports it.

And non-black babies aborted as just fallout.

[Amberdawn]

True enough, but that isn’t the point of the post, is it? I’m all for helping American’s have and support larger families, but to me, that means focusing on ALL abortions, regardless of race.

[wjcsux]

Is this the same Cynthia Tucker (RAT-GA) who was the loony Congresswoman?

[Trailerpark Badass]

no that was Cynthia McKinney.

Tucker is the long-time race-baiting idiot editor of the AJC editorial page.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Awesome post!

[RobbyS]

The ad simply appeals to blacks to consider the consequence of adopting the beliefs of Planned Parenthood regarding right behavior. It has been catastrophic to the black community, especially as it contributes to the abandoment of the tradition family and to the resultant impoverishment of a large segment of that society. But of course, their leadership emotionally rejects the reality, just as they rejected Moynihan’s book on the dangerous situation of the black family already in the ‘60s. They have invested too much and trust in the power of government to make them happy.