It may come as a surprise to some but it’s worth noting that in the US, nearly 40% of the abortions done are on black women, even though they only make 13% of the population. That is 3x the rate of white women. Since 1973, abortion has killed more African-Americans than anything else.
The New York Times, keying off of ingenious billboards plastered around Georgia that shed light on this disturbing statistic, ran a front-page article over the weekend “To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case.” Newsbusters has a thorough analysis of the overly bias nature of the story including that “blacks have a much higher abortion rate, but somehow this ‘old news’ is getting ‘exaggerated new life’ on the Internet.”
Even though the article was decidedly bias (hey, it’s the New York Times), it did reveal the campaign by Georgia Right to Life to put this issue on the table and make sure that African-Americans know that they are truly targeted by Planned Parenthood. Over 70% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in urban neighborhoods where the majority of African-Americans reside. This isn’t a conspiracy, as the New York Times would like you to believe, but all out crisis in the black community.
The extremely high abortion rates have always been a problem but several prominent African-American pastors started a public campaign against Planned Parenthood when audio was released by Live Action Films in early 2008 that had a student posing as a donor who wanted to give money to specifically abort a black baby. The PP staffers were more than happy to take the money and earmark it for that purpose. One woman was “very excited” by the prospect. See all the tapes here: http://liveaction.org/index.php/projects/racism.
Several black pastors gathered in Washington, D.C. in April outside of a Planned Parenthood to expose the racism and targeting of Planned Parenthood, whose founder Margaret Sanger, was an ardent supporter of eugenics. They sent letters to Congress, to then-candidate Obama, to Hillary Clinton and asked that they defund Planned Parenthood.
The coalition of black pastors even went to the NAACP convention in 2008 to protest and play the tapes but police moved them to the other side of the road to get out of the way.
But they aren’t giving up. They have helped to promote movies like MAAFA21 which equates slavery to abortion and now they are taking to the billboards to make sure their own communities are aware of the grave threat facing them. Leaders like Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak frequently to crisis pregnancy centers on this issue and recount their own abortions.
To learn more, go to http://www.toomanyaborted.com/.
