Abortion denies children basic civil rights
“The rights and privileges conferred by the Constitution upon citizens do not apply to the Negro race.” Dred Scott, Plantiff in Error v. John F. A. Sanford (See S. C. 19 How. 393 633)
Is this still true?
In an article entitled “African American Women Are Exploited by Abortion,” Mrs. Akua Furlow writes,
While “pro choice” feminists push abortion as a “woman’s right,” the truth is that women are being exploited by abortion, especially African- American women. The pro abortion feminists . . . have successfully identified abortion as a “civil right.” Some African-Americans, having fought for their civil rights in the 1950’s and 1960’s or learned of this struggle through history books, have somehow been duped into identifying the “pro choice” movement with the fight for civil rights. Medical abortion is the induced death of a developing human baby–the destruction of a child’s fundamental, as well as civil rights. (1)
Preborn children are the only people group discriminated against based solely on where they live–in a womb. Is such discrimination heightened if it is a black woman’s womb? Consider the following:
- Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Blacks were lynched in the U.S. That number is surpassed in less than 3 days by abortion. (2)
- “Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.” Erma Clardy Craven (deceased), Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader (2)
- 3 out of 5 pregnant African-American women will abort their children. (2)
- Since 1973 there have been over 13 million black children killed and their precious mothers victimized by the U.S. abortion industry. (2)
- With 1/3 of all abortions performed on black women, the abortion industry has received over $4,000,000,000 (billion!) from the black community. (2)
- Minority women constitute only about 26% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions. (2)
- According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than three times as likely as white women to have an abortion. (2)
- On average, 1,452 black babies are aborted every day in the United States. (2)
- A 1990 study of maternal deaths from legal abortion between 1972 and 1985 found that minority women were three times more likely to die after a legal abortion than a white woman. (3)
- A 1994 “Post Abortion Research Study of African-American Women” showed that of 126 women who responded to a questionnaire, 81% indicated one or more psychological complaints. Of the complaints identified, 60% felt feelings of guilt, 49% reported that they had feelings of regret and remorse, 55% reported crying and depression, and 35% stated an inability to forgive herself for having an abortion. (1)
- A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African-American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions. (2)
- It is no accident that 78% of abortuaries are located in or near predominately minority neighborhoods. (4)
- “The history of America’s number one abortion ‘provider,’ Planned Parenthood, reeks with the stench of racism and bigotry that adds another level to the insidious attack that has been waged on African- American women throughout the United States. Through programs such as the Negro Project of 1929, Planned Parenthood began to spin a web of deception by baiting the African-American community with the pretense of ‘family planning’ and other ‘health services’ . . . It would be time well spent if African Americans, especially those Planned Parenthood uses for its public ‘service’ campaigns, would spend an afternoon doing first hand research on this federation that has caused the astronomical decline in the African American birth rate . . .” (4)
Abortion discriminates against children in the womb. It denies them their civil rights. It denies them the basic right to life. Are African-American babies at greater risk of such discrimination? Some of the data would suggest that they are.
One thing is very clear, however. Abortion does not just kill something. Abortion kills someone.
Abortion kills someone created by the hands of God.
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Psalm 139:13-14).
Abortion kills someone redeemed by the outstretched hands of God on a cross.
“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to death–even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:6-8).
Abortion kills someone who will never be the person–black or white, red or brown–what God intended him or her to be.
“‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11).
Abortion kills someone and wounds that someone’s mother and oftentimes wounds that someone’s father and that someone’s family.
The Good News is that there is hope and help for those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.
The Good News is that there is hope and healing for those who have fallen prey to the lies and made an abortion decision.
The Good News is found in the strength and love and forgiveness of God through the cross of His Son Jesus Christ.
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:10).
“He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all–how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32).
The Good News is that from the moment of conception we are all God’s children and we can all sing:
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious In His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
Footnotes:
- http://www.learninc.org/articles/exploit.html
- www.blackgenocide.org; Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN) – Northeast Chapter
- Hani K. Alrash, MD, et. al. “Legal Abortion in the U.S.: Trends and Mortality.” Contemporary Ob Gyn Feb. 1990, Vol. 35, No. 2:58-69.
- Juluette Bartlett Pack. “A Historical View of Eugenics and Its Role in Abortion in Black America.” Ibid.