Posted on 10/20/2011 3:40:04 PM PDT by mnehring
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 3/15/11 6:24 PM
During a presentation before a set of conservative bloggers in the nations capital today, likely Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, a pro-life businessman, bashed the Planned Parenthood abortion business which went after him in return.
Cain said he supports revoking the federal taxpayer funding for the abortion business: I support de-funding Planned Parenthood. Tactically how [Congress] does it I cant tell you.
The African-American then went further and talked about the racial overtones behind the founding of the abortion business by Margaret Sanger.
You probably dont hear a lot of people talking about this, Cain said. When Margaret Sanger check my history started Planned Parenthood, the objective was to put these centers in primarily black communities so they could help kill black babies before they came into the world.
Its planned genocide. Its carrying out its original mission, he said. Ive talked to young girls who go in there, and they dont talk about how you plan parenthood. They dont talk about adoption as an option. They dont say, Well, bring your parents in so we can sit down and talk with you, and counsel with you before you make this decision.
In a statement to CNN, Veronica Byrd, Planned Parenthood Federation of Americas director of African-American Media, responded to Cains comments, saying he is using inflammatory and divisive language based on race to achieve extreme political goals.
Herman Cain is clearly out of the mainstream by supporting an extreme proposal that would bar Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving federal funds for any purpose, she said. The care that Planned Parenthood provides benefits all women, especially African-American women who experience higher rates of illness.
But black women also experience higher rates of abortions, according to national and state-level statistics.
A February report the Centers for Disease Control issued showed abortions fell in 2007 to their second lowest level in the last 10 years. But, looking at the women from the 25 areas that reported abortions and cross-classified race/ethnicity data for 2007, black women accounted for 34.4% of all abortions despite being less than 20 percent of the national population of women. The CDC found black women had the highest abortion rates (32.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 1544 years) and ratios (480 abortions per 1,000 live births).
Still, Bryd cited for CNN a study she claims found that fewer than one in 10 abortion clinics are located in predominantly African-American neighborhoods even though new abortion centers Planned Parenthood recently built in Houston, Portland and Chicago are located in the heart of minority communities.
Cain is a businessman who is the first Republican to start an exploratory committee to gauge the potential for running a campaign for the GOP nomination to take on pro-abortion President Barack Obama in 2012. Little known outside of fiscally conservative circles, where he has been a fixture at Tea Party events pushing lower taxes, Cain is a national talk radio show host who resides in Georgia.
In January, Cain also went after Planned Parenthood.
He told American Family Radios Focal Point program that he is pro-life and opposes the agenda of Planned Parenthood, the nations biggest abortion business.
I absolutely would defund Planned Parenthood not because I dont believe in planning parenthood, [but because] Planned Parenthood as an organization is an absolute farce on the American people, he said.
Cain, who is African-American, accused the abortion business of engaging in a racist agenda. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/01/17/on-martin-luther-king-day-blacks-face-racial-challenge-from-abortion/
People who know the history of Margaret Sanger, who started Planned Parenthood, they know that the intention was not to help young women who get pregnant to plan their parenthood. No it was a sham to be able to kill black babies, he added.
Cain also talked about his pro-life views in general and alluded to judicial appointments.
I believe that life begins at conception, period. And that means that I will have to see enough evidence that someone I would appoint shares that same view. I believe that the current Supreme Court is leaning too much to the liberal side, he said. Im a Christian, Ive been a Christian all my life. Ive been a believer in the Bible since I was 10 years old. Im very active in my church, and there is no way I would compromise my religious beliefs about the sanctity of life. And so it starts with, will they have demonstrated in their career, in some of their other rulings, if they come from the federal judge bench, whether or not they also share that.
Because I believe that the principles that our Founding Fathers cherished, when they founded this country, and wrote the Declaration of Independence which inspired the Constitution, they were based upon biblical principles. I want to get back to those principles as president, if I run and get elected not rewrite those documents, he added.
The way Rick Santorum puts it you’d think Cain supported Infanticide.
I am not Black, but this Man is my brother, twice over.
That sums up the whole argument , . . and the bloody butchers at Planned Predators know that too . . . and who doesn't? . . . all this other babble from those mass murderers is just that . . . babble.
Because of a semantic definition of a stage in human development (fetus), we justify this daily slaughter of 3,300 unborn and newly born Americans with much of it subsidized with my/your tax dollars. Absolutely disgusting!
Go, Cain, Go!
Somehow the concept of ‘bearing false witness’ is lost on politicians.
The fact that a presidential candidate is bringing up the Margaret Sanger story....well, it is just extremely amazing. I hope he mentions this during a national debate.
Blacks truly need to know who’s been after them all this time. And do they ever wonder why they are STILL a minority in this country?
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