Abortion threatens the future of black Americans, activist says

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
9/24/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

'We're not even allowing our children and grandchildren to be born,' Rep. Allen West says

On Capitol Hill last week, Rep. Allen West gathered a group of pro-life activists together to get out the message that abortion threatens the future of the black Americans. "Today, we're talking about the future," West said. "It's not just the $16 trillion in debt that we're about to put on our children and grandchildren. It's the fact that we're not even allowing our children and grandchildren to be born."

Rep. Allen Davis said that according to the Centers for Disease Control, statistics prove that while blacks represent about 13 percent of the U.S. population, 35 percent of abortions are performed on black women.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Adding to the argument that abortion threatens one sector of American society over others, Catherine Davis, president of The Restoration Project pointed out to the great racial disparity of women currently getting abortions.

Davis said that according to the Centers for Disease Control, statistics prove that while blacks represent about 13 percent of the U.S. population, 35 percent of abortions are performed on black women.

"There is one organization whose mission is one of population control that greatly influences this disproportionate rate - that's Planned Parenthood," Davis said. Davis, along with other panelists, called for Congress to stop funding the organization. "They are the largest abortion provider, performing more than 329,000 abortions a year."

Rep. West is an ardent critic of taxpayer funding for the nation's largest provider and promoter of abortion, Planned Parenthood. West, one of two African American Republicans currently serving in Congress, has called attention to the disproportionately high abortion rate in the African American community. "It is absolutely offensive to me that Planned Parenthood is located in so many of our black communities," West previously stated at a town hall meeting.

Other speakers at the event included Ryan Bomberger, founder of the Radiance Foundation. Bomberger's mother was raped but carried her pregnancy to later give Bomberger up for adoption.

Bomberger's biography states that, "His life defies the myth of the 'unwanted' child as he was adopted, loved and has flourished."

West says that while cutting the federal debt and deficit, limited government, and a strong defense are vital to a strong America, the social pillars are also important.

"We cannot forget our traditional cultural values: the strength of marriage, the strength of family, the protection of the unborn," West said.

Day Gardner, president of the Black Pro-life Union along with Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece also spoke at the event.

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Keywords: Rep Allen West, pro-life, Planned Parenthood, African-Americans

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JoAnn
7 months ago
DLL: You speak the truth and then some. Minorities, poor, and middle class, listen up. You are voting for your demise if you continue to vote Democrat. Research Margaret Sanger. She is the founder of Planned Parenthood. People who know what she was about, called her a female Hitler" only worse. She not only wanted to eliminate Jews, she wanted to bestow upon this world another hollocaust to eliminate all blacks, crippled, mentally challenged, anyone with any kind of defect in order to produce a super human race. Teddy Roosevelt was one of her biggest fans. WAKE UP people. God bless.
vance
7 months ago
Allen West is a hero of the Black community. Margaret Sanger created Planned Parenthood Federation with the sole purpose of eliminating the Black population ( The Weeds ). It is so amazing to me to see to many Black Democrat Party politicians in the back pocket of Planned Parenthood which continues its quest to eliminate Blacks via eugenics.
Kasoy
7 months ago
Abortion programs have only one ultimate goal: extermination of "inferior" people from the world - the poor and genetically impaired. Even populous Asian and African nations are receiving massive financial support from USAID and UN to implement contraception and abortion. Major proponents of these programs strongly believe that the world's resources are meant only for the use and enjoyment of "superior" productive people. God is our only hope. Pray to God for mercy and His help.
Helen Hawkins
7 months ago
What kind of philosophy is it that tells us we are helping the poor by killing their young?

Why can't people - even good people understand the horror of this mentality?
DLL
7 months ago
Talk about holding a "RACE CARD"! Abortion is a Race Card. It is Eugenics against the poor and our Black Americans. These are the undesirables that the true White and even now the Black Supremisists,do not want as individuals,to have children. The call of the age,in the not to distant past,was one where one who was born Black,was one who should be proud. Funding Planned Parenthood is not an issue of CIVIL RIGHTS or of Black pride. Tax supported funding is the idea of the Eugenics Supremisists! Funding of abortions is a war to convince Blacks that abortion is their right,but in fact,it is a gun for the control of the number of them that are to be born. They are given this gun,as some sort of a protected Human Right,so they can blow their own heads off. This goes for the poor as well. Abortion is the ultimate form of crucifixion these days. The poor are the chosen victims that our society tries to make the very willing victims of abortion as well. Abortion is not a CIVIL RIGHT. Abortion is a curse on all people,especially on the poor,Blacks,and it is an appeal to the ignorant Masses of people who want sex without responsibility,to abort. It is pure and simply a form of Eugenics,supported by the intellectual snobs who seek to keep it all legally acceptable. This is my opinion on a basic level without a Religious reference. I agree with the teachings of our Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church howevever,as far as it being a religious matter is concerned. The right to life is a basic Civil Right. If the right to life is not protected than no one has any Civil Rights at all. The Culture of Death is what it is,it is an affront to all basic Civil Rights. Planned Parenthood is supported and paid for by wealthy supremacists and they desire to force taxes on those that are poor as well,so that Planned Parenthood can get support,because they are the establishment,that approves of all funding of Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood is blatantly racial. All Blacks and all poor people should know this when they vote in November. As far as abortion as a Right for all women is concerned,it is not. It is the damnation of Everywoman by a society of Supremisists who want to control your mind and body,so that woman will like the idea as some sort of a protected human right,even as a Civil Right. Do not be prey to such manipulation. Do not believe this,as this is the greatest deception of all time.

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