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Pro-Life Works: Protecting African-American Families May 27, 2010 Protecting the African-American Unborn and Their Families Emily Carney Development Associate A bill in Georgia that would outlaw racially motivated abortions is stirring up controversy in the African American community. Georgia Senate Bill 529, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, would make it illegal for a doctor to perform an abortion if the abortion was taking place because of the child’s race or gender. Georgia SB 529’s sponsor, State Senator Chip Pearson, explains that the bill seeks to apply “the same standards of nondiscrimination” that the government already applies in the areas of employment, education, government, and housing. Nondiscrimination regulation, Pearson argued, should also apply to the unborn. The Georgia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) rescinded its support for the legislation after initially speaking favorably of the bill. However, Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., partnered with the Georgia Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and over one hundred black pastors in support of this key piece of Pro-Life legislation. Catholic Online reports that “abortion kills more African-Americans, per year, than heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease, accidents, homicides, suicide, cancer combined.” Since 1973, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) cites that over thirteen million African-American babies have been killed. According to the United States Census 2008 Data, there are currently thirty-eight million African-Americans in the United States. African-Americans, have in short, aborted one-third of their people.
These staggering numbers have prompted Georgia Right to Life to partner with the Radiance Foundation to create the “Endangered Species Project.” Catherine Davis, Director of Minority Outreach for Georgia Right to Life, cites that in Georgia, although thirty percent of the population is African-American, sixty percent of abortions are performed on African-American women. A “black genocide,” sadly, is underway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG94YKnzSdI Although the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act passed the Georgia Senate with a vote of thirty-three to fourteen in March, the Georgia House did not vote on the bill before the 151st session of the Georgia General Assembly ended in late April. If Pro-Lifers want to pass an anti-discrimination bill, they will have to wait until next year to try. In the meantime, Georgia Right to Life urges its citizens to focus on the midterm elections and to vote Pro-Life. Standing up for Pro-Life leaders, the organization says, is the best way to save the unborn. For more information, please visit: Georgia Right to Life http://www.grtl.org/ Too Many Aborted http://www.toomanyaborted.com |
