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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:
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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
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“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 Leader2
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3 out of 5 pregnant African-American women
will abort their children.2
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Since 1973 there have been over 13 million
black children killed and their precious mothers victimized by
the U.S. abortion industry.2
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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
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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
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According to the Alan Guttmacher
Institute, black women are more than 3 times as likely as white
women to have an abortion.2
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On average, 1,452 black babies are aborted
every day in the United States.2
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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
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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
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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
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It is no accident that 78% of abortuaries
are located in or near predominately minority neighborhoods.4
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“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
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Discrimination
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