Posted on 11/27/2019 12:54:33 PM PST by Morgana
Something remarkable just happened in St. Louis that you probably didn’t hear about. The Church of God in Christ, a seven-million-member black denomination, unanimously passed a historic resolution affirming the value and dignity of every human life and opposing the practice of elective abortion in America.
A key excerpt from the Resolution on the Sanctity of Human Life reads:
COGIC is one of the largest historically black Protestant denominations, which also include the National Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention of America, the Progressive National Convention, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Like these other groups, COGIC does not have a history of institutional involvement with causes typically associated with the Republican Party. Yet given the direction that abortion policy is moving in this country, its leaders felt compelled to act.
COGIC took initial historic steps into anti-abortion action with the inception of its Family Life Campaign, an initiative aimed at rescuing children from abortion, including the children of COGIC members in difficult pregnancy situations. The initiative is supported by the Human Coalition, a national nonprofit working to end abortion by identifying and meeting the needs of women and families targeted by the abortion industry.
The resolution comes at a time when many Democratic politicians, from presidential candidates to state legislators, are proposing and passing pro-abortion legislation that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This year, Virginia Del. Kathy Tran introduced legislation that would allow doctors to kill a baby while its mother is in labor. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act, which not only legalized abortion through the third trimester but also repealed criminal charges for harming wanted babies in the womb. Vermont passed a bill in June that created a “fundamental right” to an abortion at any stage of pregnancy for any reason. The COGIC resolution is one of the first national-level responses from everyday African Americans pushing back on this radical pro-abortion agenda.
Traditionally, black families value children greatly and welcome them regardless of the circumstances of their birth. During slavery and Jim Crow, the best circumstances for many black families would be considered intolerable today. Yet black families grew to such an extent that eugenicists, like today’s white supremacists, feared white birthrates would be overtaken by the births of the black and brown.
Abortion disproportionately kills black children. According to the Wall Street Journal, “in New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted than born alive each year, and the abortion rate among black mothers is more than three times higher than it is for white mothers … between 2012 and 2016 black mothers terminated 136,426 pregnancies and gave birth to 118,127 babies.”
At least some would argue this disproportion is by design. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, locates most of its clinics near black and brown neighborhoods and schools. This includes its brand new megacenter, planned in secret to target the historic Cherry neighborhood outside Charlotte, North Carolina, where ongoing protests from residents have made it clear that the center was and is not wanted. To suggest that abortion clinics are “needed” in black neighborhoods where they are not wanted reinforces an all too familiar subtext — the pro-abortion assumption that black babies are somehow less valuable than white ones.
As many observers have noted, African Americans are becoming the most conservative constituency within the Democratic Party’s coalition. This is especially true regarding the importance of religion and the issue of abortion, where one-third of black Democratic primary voters believe abortion should be illegal, compared with just 3% of white Democratic primary voters.
COGIC has more than 12,000 churches across the United States and is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the U.S. Yet most Americans will never hear about the Resolution on the Sanctity of Human Life, because most media outlets do not consider the opinions of millions of black people who disagree with pro-abortion orthodoxy to be worthy of reporting.
The COGIC resolution is an example of an important segment of the black community raising its voice on this matter. Will the policymakers who purport to serve them listen?
COGIC is a franchise operator like McDonald’s where sometimes questionably ordained persons buy themselves a church and set up a COGIC congregation.
A recurring pattern is where COGIC owner-operators (sometimes called ‘pastors’) set up shop in a poor neighborhood but then refuse to live in that neighborhood instead opting to live in a nicer part of town.
Name-it-and-claim-it prosperity doctrine is common in these churches.
Not to say they’re all bad but too many of them are indeed exploitative of their poor congregants.
I did not know this. Are these pastors pro life?
Thanks. BUMP!
Within the past year, I read a Lifenews article which stated that since the Roe V Wade ruling, ONE THIRD of all African Americans in the U.S. have been aborted. ONE THIRD. That is a jaw-droppingly gruesome statistic.
The nasty white elitist FemiNazis are perfectly serene with this.
If you vote or support any person who supports abortion, you are not a Christian.
I wonder if these folks will vote their beliefs on abortion.
Until I see actual significant movement in the voting booth, I believe that people in the Democrat Party who claim to eschew abortion, yet vote Democrat, are more loyal to the party than their espoused ideals. Obviously in this case we are talking about blacks. But I don not refer to them alone.
If you claim to be against abortion and vote Democrat, you are a liar and a hypocrite. At the very least, self delusional.
I didn't know that gruesome statistic.
I wonder is their abortion rate has anything to do with their marriage rate: is that ONE-THIRD consist of married, single, divorced girls/females?
Maybe economic status is in there.
At any rate it is a GRUESOME STATISTIC.
Amen to that.
In 2014, 36% of abortions performed were on black women. (WSJ, July 10 2018)
Black women are 13% of the U.S. female population.
Self-genocide.
They are almost always Democrats so their commitment to life is usually just window dressing
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