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Black Pro-Lifers March on Birmingham
Focus on the Family ~ Family.org ^ | 9 October 2002 | Steve Jordahl

Posted on 10/10/2002 8:37:30 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture

October 9, 2002

Black Pro-Lifers March on Birmingham

By Steve Jordahl, correspondent

An African-American right-to-life group will march this weekend in Alabama to highlight the horrors of abortion in the black community.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s immortal words fueled the fire of the civil rights movement: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

But Damon Owens, of the Life Education and Resource Network, worries many black children won't be alive to realize the dream.

"African-Americans are particularly affected by abortion," Owens said. "One out of every three abortions is performed on a black woman killing a black child."

Owens calls the fight against abortion in the black community "the new civil rights movement." That's why he chose Birmingham for a march to highlight the horrors of the holocaust abortion has brought to the black community.

"We are just excited about being in that area, because it's such a clear, clear continuity of the message that the rights of all are equal," Owens said.

The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth organized the original March on Birmingham with King in 1963. While he is careful to guard the legacy of King, he points to a higher authority when speaking about the sanctity of life.

"I think we ought to think about what God says about the sacredness of life, even more so than (what) Dr. King or I say, because what God says is what will be the direction for this world," Shuttlesworth said.

And once again Birmingham becomes the center of the struggle for rights — this time, the rights of the unborn.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: abortion; alabama; birmingham; black; civilrights; clergy; damonowens; eugenics; fredshuttlesworth; holocaust; infanticide; margaretsanger; martinlutherking; minister; racism

1 posted on 10/10/2002 8:37:32 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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2 posted on 10/10/2002 8:38:46 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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3 posted on 10/10/2002 8:40:07 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: CounterCounterCulture
God bless these people. Abortion is the untold horror of the black community. In Texas, blacks make up about 11% of the population but account for over 20% of the abortions. It is a terrible thing.

Given Margaret Sanger's views on blacks, I have to wonder if Planned Parenthood was/is deliberately out to thin their ranks. Certainly they are not at all ashamed of Sanger's twisted legacy.

What I find particularly disgusting is black politicians championing abortions.

4 posted on 10/10/2002 8:40:58 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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5 posted on 10/10/2002 8:41:33 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Zack Nguyen
Given Margaret Sanger's views on blacks, I have to wonder if Planned Parenthood was/is deliberately out to thin their ranks. Certainly they are not at all ashamed of Sanger's twisted legacy

No wondering at all. Thats what Sanger was all about. Abortion was the tool to thin the ranks of the "undesirables".

6 posted on 10/10/2002 9:01:01 PM PDT by L`enn
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7 posted on 10/10/2002 9:18:18 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: L`enn
Sanger called brown and yellow people 'human weeds'. My GGrand parents were 'weeds' in her eyes. Sanger can kiss my a@@.
8 posted on 10/10/2002 9:19:56 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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Thanks, I will pass it on. I think there is ONE minister in Newark who marches for the pro-life movement. We need more.

http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro.html

http://blackgenocide.org/planned.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/612636/posts

http://www.cwfa.org/library/life/2001-05_pp_n-project.shtml

I wonder if the Blacks purchace products from Proctor and Gamble, their son, a physician, was involved with blacks and eugenics. When he finished with the blacks he then went on to Puerto Rico.
http://www.pop.org/reports/pathfind.txt
http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/Eugenics.htm
http://www.learninc.org/articles/eugenics.html
http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap12.html
http://www.africa2000.com/ENDX/aenames.htm
http://www.africa2000.com/endx/aememd.htm
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~rauch/no-violence/consistent/star-tribune_eugenics.html
http://www.pregnancycenters.org/batonrouge/abortionafican.html
http://www.abortionfacts.com/learn/history_of_blacks_and_abortion.asp


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9 posted on 10/10/2002 9:26:49 PM PDT by Coleus
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10 posted on 10/10/2002 9:40:38 PM PDT by mhking
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To: Coleus
Yuk. Why is it that the children of wealthy industrialists are all (or mostly) evil? Rockefellers, Fords, Proctor&Gamble, etc etc. They inevitably want to limit OUR population growth but have no qualms about having their own population cap busting families.
11 posted on 10/10/2002 9:45:39 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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What I find particularly disgusting is black politicians championing abortions.

"Disgusting" maybe, but they are filling a legacy. Remember, the black plantation overseers ALWAYS uphold the rule of their massas. In this case, black Dem politicians have to uphold their party's line, else massa don' give 'em no mo' perks.

12 posted on 10/11/2002 4:21:59 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: CounterCounterCulture
How would the media cover a group of whites protesting abortion who only focused on the decimating effects it had on the white community? Sorry but these people seem like racists to me.

"African-Americans are particularly affected by abortion," Owens said. "One out of every three abortions is performed on a black woman killing a black child."

But if it was a white child it wouldnt matter, or if more white children were being killed by abortions, then it wouldn't be a problem? Is this some way to tap into white-hating black racists in order to stop abortion? Well whatever works, but it seems like you're making a deal with the devil.

13 posted on 10/11/2002 4:28:00 AM PDT by Godel
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