Congressman Says Abortion More Devastating Than Slavery for Black Americans

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A Republican member of Congress has released a new video showing him talking about the status of abortion in the United States. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona republican, is generating controversy by saying that abortion has been more devastating for the black community than slavery.

Franks, who has sponsored legislation responding to the high rate of abortions in the African-American community, released his comments to liberal blogger Mike Stark.

"In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long," Frank says. Nowadays, he says Americans look back and ask about society for allowing it: "What was the matter with them? You know, I can't believe, you know, four million slaves. It is a crushing mark on America's soul."

"And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted," Franks continues.

"Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?" he adds.

According to a report in The Hill, Stephanie Young, the deputy press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was shocked by the comments.

"To compare the horrors and inhumane treatment of millions of African Americans during slavery as a better way of life for African Americans today is beyond repulsive," she said. "In 2010, during the second year of our first African American President, it is astonishing that a thought such as this would come to mind, let alone be shared."

Statistics from the federal government and the mainstream media appear to back up Franks' point that abortions target black women.

According to figures from the Centers for Disease Control, while black women represent 12.5% of American females they have 38.2% of all abortions, according to the authors.

The rate is so high that ABC News recently focused on it during a news feature.

The news outlet interviewed Catherine Davis of Georgia Right to Life, a black woman who is upset at how abortion adversely affects her community.

"My people are dying. My people are dying, and nobody cares that my people are dying. And I want people to be, to look at this. Is there any truth to what we are saying?" she said.

And ABC News correspondent Steve Osunsami admitted that even black Americans have historically been concerned about the racial component of abortion.

"Among African-Americans, this argument that abortion is bad for the race is an old one, but it’s not usually debated so openly. As far back as the 1940s, many black Americans resisted abortion, quietly fearing that abortion was an attempt at black extermination," he explained.

And in Georgia, a state with a higher percentage of blacks than most, he noted that abortions run high in the black community.

"It is true that, of the 35,000 women in Georgia who received abortions in 2008, nearly 21,000 were black women, more than twice the number of white women. Nationally, while black women are one and a half times more likely than white women to become pregnant, the CDC says black women are three times more likely to get an abortion," he explained.

I can trump both Slavery and Abortion:

Liberalism has been more devastating that both Slavery and Abortion to Black Americans.

Liberalism destroyed the Black Family, and generations have been enslaved on the Liberal Plantation ever since. No jobs, no education, no father, no assets, nothing.

Except the next check from the government.

Utter devastation.

I’ll argue that Liberalism causes all those things, PLUS effective slavery and almost all the black abortions.

During the 1970’s one of the major topics by the Democrats of the day and the Environmental Protection groups, etc was population control. How we needed to stop having more than one child like China. This was pushed hard and often. Many of us didn't buy it then. Just like we do not buy Global warming now.

Funny thing is ... in many ways they really got birth control going. Not outwardly ... for population control; but for convenience, timing, personal preference, etc.,

During the period of prosperity and greed of consumerism of which I was included, the number of children many couples had dropped to one or two. We had three children already. Notice how there was this shift to Roe vs Wade. Now abortions are big business; with the government paying for planned parenthood counseling which is really about abortion and instructions as to how to have sex. SHAME.

Now in America we have this big gap in young people. Which oddly enough made an excuse for immigrants to come in and filled the jobs, younger people usually filled.

They say 50,000,000 babies have been aborted. A high rate of which came from the black community, and many teen age girls, of all colors. Unconscionable.

It almost appears there was a plot and a plan way back then, that has,indeed, been acted upon that accomplished their purpose.

Father, forgive us our self centered ignorance and blindness to the purposes of the deceiver. Have mercy on Your people. We repent of our careless attitude and acceptance of murder of the innocent. I am of a contrite heart and weep for the unborn. Have mercy on our souls. In the name of Jesus, amen.

African-Americans have indeed suffered from three terrible institutions: abortion, slavery, and liberalism. I believe them all to be abominations, but I think that slavery remains supreme. The reason that I make this assertion is because of the reaction of American society to the Abolitionist movement amongst the English speaking countries.

Abolition became very popular in the UK during the early 19th Century, and for good reasons. Slavery was indeed an abomination, and it was particularly easy for Britain to condemn it because, except for the masters of slave vessels, the institution had very little economic impact in Britain. That economic impact was also minimal in the Northern states of the U.S. who could abolish the practice with little economic impact. Not so in the U.S. south and in the West Indies where plantation agriculture depended on slave labor and no one could imagine that it could continue to prosper without it (it could).

The reaction to the Abolitionist movement in the South was unfortunate. in earlier centuries, manumission provided a very slight chance for escape from the bounds of slavery. Select few slaves were, in this earlier era, freed and became successful in various fields, even becoming slave owners themselves. This slight hope was sufficient to have a positive impact on the character of African American culture and those whose lives were bound up in chattel slavery.

But, when attacked by the Abolitionist Movement, the South retrenched. They enacted legislation to prohibit manumission. No longer could a slave owner free his slaves. This removed hope from those held in this condition, not only for themselves, but for their dependents. I content that the effect on their society and culture was devastating in the extreme. Certainly, liberalism and the abortion movement as advocated by Margaret Sanger had an similar effect, but the final decades of slavery destroyed a people and culture for hundreds of years.

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