-Caveat Lector- http://www.nypostonline.com/commentary/9865.htm THE RACIST ROOTS OF PRO-ABORTIONISTS By ROD DREHER IN a rousing 1977 sermon, a gifted black pastor, a veteran of the civil-rights movement, thundered prophetically against legalized abortion. He declared that elevating the right to privacy over the right to life was the "premise of slavery." "You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private, and therefore outside your right to be concerned," he preached. "That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us and called us niggers." The preacher went on: "What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually?" Now we know: 38 million unborn children murdered since abortion became legal in 1973. As for the kind of person one would become 20 years hence - well, look at the pastor who spoke those words: Jesse Jackson. He chucked his pro-life convictions for worldly success in the Democratic Party. Jesse may have sold out, but a black minister named Johnny Hunter still believes abortion is a civil-rights issue. Yesterday morning, Hunter and other pro-life black pastors, including New Jersey's Rev. Clenard Childress, began a march from Newark to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, hoping to draw attention to the heavy toll abortion is taking on African-Americans. They are admittedly a minority within a minority. "Black pastors who should be embracing children are embracing 'a woman's right to choose,'" Hunter told me prior to the event. "Quite frankly, I don't want pastors like that marching with me. I want a few good pastors who preach the faith. It's like Pastor Childress says, 'The Democratic Party didn't call them, God did. '" What motivates march organizers is the chilling fact that although black women make up only 14 percent of the U.S. childbearing population, they account for 31 percent of all abortions. The march is aimed not at politicians but at the black community, which organizers believe is largely unaware of how thoroughly it has embraced abortion as a quick fix to its problems. The goal of raising black awareness is particularly urgent in light of an unpublished crime study by academics from Stanford Law School and the University of Chicago that made news this summer. The study theorized that the dramatic nationwide drop in crime can be attributed to large numbers of impoverished minority women aborting their babies - children who presumably stood a good chance of growing up to be hoodlums. The implication is vile: if you want to have a peaceful, ordered society, encourage more blacks, Hispanics and poor people to kill their children in utero. This was basically the argument advanced by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and fellow eugenicists in the early part of the century. Here's a typical line from Sanger's magazine, Birth Control Review: "Many of the colored citizens are fine specimens of humanity. A good share of them, however, constitute a large percentage of Kalamazoo's human scrap pile." That ran in 1932. Birth Control Review ceased publication in 1940, as Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and others from humanity's "scrap pile" were being herded into Nazi death camps. March spokesman Damon Owens says the organizers seek to clue in African-Americans on the racist, genocidal roots of Planned Parenthood and the modern abortion-rights movement. "[Sanger's] writings were so unabashedly racist," he said. "There's never been a case so clear of genocide written about and planned in public, and it's gotten such a beautiful whitewash in history." Hunter, director of the Life Education and Resource Network (www.learninc.org), is from Alabama, and marched for civil rights there during the Jim Crow era. He considers working to save unborn black lives a continuation of that work because "civil rights don't mean anything without the right to life." Send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. 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