This is a fetus at 15 weeks. In the United States, babies in utero can be killed after 24 weeks for “serious health reasons” only.
Child killing transcends race. If that sentence was unclear, let me say it another way. I don’t care what color a baby is, as long as he lives.
I read this article, “Blacks’ Abortions Tragically Ignored,” and felt no sympathy for so-called “ignored” black women, but plenty for their dead babies. I try to take Dawson Bell seriously as he writes:
But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a tragedy.It is the shockingly high number of African-American women who have had abortions. In Michigan last year alone, black women had 10,911 abortions. (For the sake of comparison, 1,283 Michiganders of all ages and races died in traffic accidents in 2003).
The numbers are highlighted in a new report produced by Right to Life of Michigan from state Department of Community Health data, which is broken down by race for the first time this year.
The report shows that African-American women of childbearing age were three times as likely to have had an abortion last year as were women of other races. Black women, who comprise less than 16 percent of the female population in Michigan, obtained more than 38 percent of all abortions.
According to the RTLM report, if African Americans in Michigan had abortions at a rate comparable to women of other races, the number of abortions overall in Michigan would be 25 percent lower.
One can argue that the high rate of abortion among African Americans is not an ill unto itself, but a symptom of underlying problems like poverty and family breakdown.
Thus, if young, black, pregnant women had the kind of financial and family support available to women of other races, they would be no more likely to terminate their pregnancies. [I assume this is an op-ed because Dawson is editorializing here.]
That black women are three times more likely to have an abortion isn’t new information, by the way. I don’t like this article because race, and not immorality, is the focus. Race, or more precisely “racism,” is used as the standard excuse for immoral behavior. I recommend you visit a site called Black Genocide (WARNING: Site contains images of aborted babies).
I addressed abortion and race, but from a different angle, in two columns I wrote in January and February 2003, Irreverent Reverend I and II. My indignation was directed toward “men of God” who support (and advocate) child killing. I’d like to re-run these columns, beginning with Part I.
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January 2003
My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret…Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them. — Psalm 139:15 and 16
King David — Israel’s greatest king — wrote these words in awe of how well God knew him, even in his mother’s womb. Written 3,000 years ago, these same words are true for every human being who has ever lived.
Even for those who were never born.
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a woman had a Fourteenth Amendment right to privacy during her pregnancy to legally kill her fetus. On January 22, 2003, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) “celebrated” the 30th anniversary of the landmark decision, and 42 million babies cried out. Although black women make up only 13 percent of the female population, 34 percent of the cries were from black babies.
In attendance were Al Sharpton — a Pentecostal minister who has yet to promote anything remotely Christian — and five other Democratic presidential candidates, who sat on stage like court jesters ready to entertain the radical feminist queens of the NARAL. When told by one of the abortion protestors that real Christians don’t support abortion rights, Sharpton said, “It is time for the Christian Right to meet the right Christians.”
And the show was on.
Jockeying for political position, “Reverend” Sharpton has long since abandoned his call to share the Gospel with all the world, just as his predecessor “Reverend” Jesse Jackson, when he made a presidential run for it back in 1988. Neither Sharpton nor Jackson will ever be president of these United States, but that’s beside the point.
Al Sharpton should be ashamed for supporting the bloody slaughter of innocence babies. Jesse Jackson should be ashamed for doing a flip-flop on his stand against abortion 26 years ago. They now preach to black Americans, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but that it’s acceptable to kill their own babies.
In 1977, Jesse Jackson wrote an article for Right to Life News where he expounded upon what a man of God should believe — that the connection of sperm and egg in fertilization is not accidental, but providential. “It takes three to make a baby: a man, a woman, and the Holy Spirit…Anything growing is living. Therefore human life begins when the sperm and egg join…”
To appeal to a liberal white base, Jackson adopted a pro-choice stance, discarding his obligation as a minister of God and to his own community. Jackson and Sharpton have surrendered to the lure of publicity and power. Protecting black women and children just doesn’t have the same enticement.
The Reverends are probably unaware that black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion.
The Reverends are probably unaware that studies show induced abortions increase the risk of breast cancer; black women have a higher breast cancer mortality rate than white women. Women who’ve had abortions are also at a much greater risk to deliver premature babies because of damage done to the cervix during abortion procedures.
The Reverends are surely unaware that, under the guise of reproductive planning and supported by the Democratic party, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America operates 70 percent of its abortion clinics in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. This abortion factory was founded in 1923 by a genocidal racist named Margaret Sanger and two other known racists. She spoke at a KKK rally, supported eugenics (read: Hitler), considered blacks “socially undesirable people” and once said: “More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control.”
In the late 1930s, Sanger devised a program called the “Negro Project” to use black ministers and doctors to spread her message of contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the black community. Over sixty years later, black “leaders” are still being duped by this genocidal swindle. When 90 percent of voting black Americans cast the ballot for the Democratic Party, they perpetuate a child-killing agenda.
And the slaying continues.
Like King David, Jesse Jackson once feared God. He wrote in 1977: “What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person, and what kind of a society, will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually?”
Tell us, Jesse, what kind of society do you think that would be?
Addendum: Nat Hentoff on Jesse Jackson:
This disdain on the left for anything or anyone pro-life has clearly taken a toll on the political process. Liberal/left politicians who remain true to their philosophy and oppose abortion are virtually impossible to find. Like [Jesse] Jackson, most simply cave in to abortion rights pressure, fearing that no matter how left-leaning they are on other issues, if they come out against abortion they will be branded as right-wing fanatics….I saw Jesse Jackson recently on a train, and we talked for quite a while about George Bush’s awful nomination of Ed Carnes to the federal bench. An assistant attorney general in Alabama, Carnes built his reputation of sending people to “Yellow Mama,” the state’s electric chair. He would replace Frank Johnson, whom Martin Luther King once described as “the man who gave true meaning to the word justice.” (A few weeks later Jackson joined the campaign to defeat the nomination. To no avail. Carnes was eventually confirmed.) I then asked Jackson about another form of execution. I told him that in speeches I often quote what he wrote as a pro-lifer. He looked uncomfortable. I asked him if he still believed what he said then. “I’ll get back to you on that,” he said. He hasn’t yet.
