Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Niece, Dr. Alveda King
If there is one African American woman in the United States who has drunk from the bitter cups of abortion and racism, whose life has been forever changed by both, it is Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King knows what it is like to be lied to by a Planned Parenthood physician. “It’s just a blob of tissue,” she was told before her second abortion.
In 1966, Martin Luther King accepted the Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthod. Hear Alveda King Describe why he did so in this brief interview.
At the time, Sanger’s private communications with Clarence Gamble about the Negro Project had not yet come to light. The issue is detailed here.
The legacy of the project is gruesome for African-Americans. Today, close to eighty percent of Planned Parenthood clinics operate in inner-city neighborhoods. The rationale is that the need is greatest there. Which need? The need to stop these people from proliferating “like weeds,” as Sanger opined, or the need for low-cost, government-funded services for those who occupy the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder?
In the case of the latter, these citizens have broad access to welfare, medicaid, and a great many to social security disability money; financing streams not available to those with more means. So the financial imperative rationale is a lie.
While blacks constitute roughly eleven percent of the population, they have thirty-seven percent of the abortions, some eighteen million since 1973. Accidental? Consider the sting operation from two years ago where PP centers were accepting donations to underwrite the abortions of Black babies. At 1:30 into the following video, Autmn Kersey, PP Director of Fundraising for the State of Idaho says it all with enthusiasm.
The eighteen million were the babies who were killed. How many scores of millions did PP prevent from being conceived? Worse still has been the lesson taught to young men, that young girls’ bodies are mere playthings, that human sex can be had without consequences, that when contraception fails, PP stands ready and willing to murder the child. This has devastated the community. Close to seventy percent of African American births are to unwed mothers, the consequence of teaching teens that human relations are merely “sex play”, as PP does on its web page directed at teens entitled ‘The Truth About Virginity Pledges.”
In this pernicious document, youth are cut off from their elders’ influence by appealing to their natural desire for autonomy: “Choosing to have sex is a very personal decision, and so is choosing to take a virginity pledge.”
As always, the lie is one of omission. True, choosing to have sex is a personal decision, but it is also one with profound consequences for family and community stability, which is why marriage is a legal contract and not a private arrangement.
Then there is the matter of African-American girls having twice the sexually transmitted disease rate of other girls their age. Full forty-eight percent of African-American girls will be diagnosed with at least one STD by age nineteen. Many of these will cause pelvic inflammatory disease and leave these young women sterile, which comports well with Sanger’s vision.
When Sanger began her “Negro Project”, Blacks might have been poor, but they had much more solid families and church communities. Seventy years later, the deplorable state of the Black inner-city is in no mall measure the result of Planned Parenthood’s machinations. The last word goes to these Black Pastors who want PP defunded. Nobody knows more than these good people what PP has done to their community.
“In the case of the latter, these citizens have broad access to welfare, medicaid, and a great many to social security disability money; financing streams not available to those with more means. So the financial imperative rationale is a lie.”
Sure, let’s just leave them to be happy with that. Never mind helping them avoid an unwanted pregnancy (or pregnancies) that would keep them from working their way out of these poor and dangerous neighbourhoods.
“While blacks constitute roughly eleven percent of the population, they have thirty-seven percent of the abortions”
……because they have a similarly high incidence of unintended pregnancy.
yes let’s help them avoid unwanted pregnancies by helping them have less children thus lowering the African American population AND help them to kill their babies too.
smart rationale – that is!
Well, helping them have less babies than they want would be the idea Mary Catherine as well as helping them delay their childbearing years. Why should these women not have the same choice that others have?
Having more children than you have time or resources to care is not good. Similarly having babies before you have a chance to get an education and build a relationship leaving you to raise your children in a poor and dangerous environment is not good.
Facts: Young black women are less likely than young white women to use contraception and more likely to have an unintended preganancy, an abortion, or end up as a single mother.
Gerald, thank you for your blog. I discovered you the other day through Jill Stanek’s site, and now go there everyday.
Even blogged a related post.
Interesting and informative website.
Gorgeous photo, where is it?
Julie
Hi Julie,
The photo is from the demonstration in the last video of this link. It was in front of the RNC Headquarters in Washington DC. I’m glad you blogged a related post. PP has had their day. We need to get the word out, far and wide.
God Bless
I favor defunding charities, period. No government money for Planned Parenthood, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, and no tax deductions for donors. Let charities raise their money from voluntary donations, based on convincing donors that they do good, and without any reference to government policy. Government intervention should be limited to instances of outright fraud: taking money on false pretenses and using it for personal enrichment.
There is enough here, and enough else that I’ve seen from other sources, that I would not donate to Planned Parenthood, although I would donate to an organization which promoted family planning, including contraception, and I might even donate to an organization which funded abortion as an option for women who really needed and wanted one, and did not have the means to pay for it.
Most of my African American friends are definitely opposed to abortion, and often observe that there is far more moral rejection of abortion in African American communities and cultures than among people classified as “white.” Thinking off hand, I know families with two children, three children, one child, four children, five children… So I do wonder whether it is statistically relevant that 37 percent of abortions are obtained by African Americans.
Planned Parenthood seems to be morphing into a business. What I found most relevant in a recent story about a Planned Parenthood staff member who quit is that she had just been instructed to really push abortion because it was the biggest revenue maker. That is probably behind the huge new operation planned in Houston, that Erin Manning has highlighted. And that’s obscene. Doctors deciding what is best for the patient, without consultation, is criminal.
Abortion should be legal. That means, women and doctors should not go to prison for abortion in the first and second trimesters. That says nothing about whether it is the right choice. More often than not, it isn’t. Of course, we have some differences about whether it ever is. But, let us all speak freely, and then, let each individual woman choose.
Check out this film – It exposes Planned Parenthood in a BIG TIME WAY !
Maafa21 : New film exposes Eugenics and Black Genocide from Abortion
Some claim that the abortion issue is about choice, privacy, women’s rights, or reproductive freedom.
But that’s just marketing hype.
In reality, the legalization of abortion was about EUGENICS.
And now, a stunning new movie lays it all out with incredible documentation.
The film is called Maafa 21 and it exposes a plan to create “racial purity” that began 150 years ago and is still being carried out right now.
It’s about the ties between the Nazis, the American eugenics movement and today’s “family planning” cartel.
It’s about elitism, secret agendas, treachery and corruption at the highest levels of political and corporate America.
Maafa 21 will show you things the media has been hiding and politicians don’t want you to know.
So if you’re ready to see the real agenda behind “choice,” fasten your seatbelts
IT’S SHOCK AND AWE TIME!
Maafa21
http://www.maafa21.com
I was listening to Alveda King on Laura Ingraham this morning- she was awesome!
yes let’s help them avoid unwanted pregnancies by helping them have less children thus lowering the African American population AND help them to kill their babies too.
smart rationale – that is!
Mary Catherine, Bingo!
No, legalization of abortion is not about eugenics. Read the legal opinion of the seven justice majority in Roe v. Wade. It has nothing to do with Planned Parenthood. Advocates of eugenics may well be making use of options available, given that abortion is not a crime. There is a simple way to refrain from cooperation with a eugenics agenda: if you think some eugenicist is trying to prevent you from having babies, have one. What can they do about it? It is your choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RZ7968BbMnU&feature=related
“Sure, let’s just leave them to be happy with that. Never mind helping them avoid an unwanted pregnancy (or pregnancies) that would keep them from working their way out of these poor and dangerous neighbourhoods”
No one knows what a “poor dumb Mexican” will grow up and do with his life.
Leave the poor alone, Asittis.
Roy P Benavidez:MOH.
Astran, thank you for that inspiring video and your comments. I could not agree more.
check this out, Siarlys:
http://www.lifenews.com/nat5215.html
Bethany, I will gladly check out anything you recommend, because if I can’t read it, watch it, take it fully into consideration, then my own principles are built on sand. We may not agree, but we shouldn’t hang onto our respective viewpoints by pretending no other opinion exists in the world.
Justice Ginsburg is absolutely correct that her perception of Roe v. Wade is altogether wrong. I have been disappointed by both of Clinton’s appointments to the court. I read the full text of Supreme Court decisions that interest me, and there are cases where Justice Scalia is much more inspiring than Stephen Breyer, or Ginsburg, and a few where I prefer his opinion to John Paul Stevens’s. If she read the legal reasoning, instead of looking for sociological explanations, Justice Ginsburg would know that Justice Blackmun was not seeking a way to control this or that demographic in the population, but simply examining the boundaries of what The State may intervene in, vs. what is reserved to the people, and to individual and family choice.
I must note that this fad of charging racism is hypocritical manipulation on the part of anyone with a consistent pro-life position. You, and Gerard, are not opposed to abortion because it is racist. You are opposed to abortion because you consider it nothing less than murder. While I don’t agree, and I don’t believe that position should be incorporated into the criminal law, I respect that as an honest position. If abortion had a totally race-neutral impact, or if it came to have a totally race-neutral impact, you would not moderate your denunciations one degree, nor should anyone expect you to.
You’re right that we are opposed to abortion because it is murder.
However, there are other aspects to it that we are also opposed to, and the blatant racism is certainly one of those things.
I have a sense that the “blatant racism” is contrived, because it plays better to the crowd and makes for a more effective sound byte. Margaret Sanger is long dead, and whatever she may have advocated, she did not write Roe v. Wade. There is no evidence that those women with a dark complexion who sought abortions did so because the Aryan Nations marched them to the door of Planned Parenthood.
It is perfectly true that helping young women, in any neighborhood, to avoid unwanted pregnancy in the first place is superior to offering abortion services. Stable families would be a good idea, but those can’t be created overnight by offering a program, abstinence is good, but not all women choose or adhere to it, and contraception is therefore part of preventing unwanted pregnancy in the first place, but many “pro-life” people oppose that also. The key is the individual woman, not the demographics.
“We may not agree, but we shouldn’t hang onto our respective viewpoints by pretending no other opinion exists in the world.”
I’m not quite sure WHAT this is suppose to mean.
I most certainly will “hang on to ” my view point that abortion is murder.
I well know that other people in the world have the opinion that it is not – after all there are 1.5 million abortions per year in America!
Even if every single person in America believed that abortion was morally correct, I would not be swayed.
There is no sane, logical, scientific or moral argument to support abortion.
Not only that but I believe that God has put into us the desire and belief that this action is very wrong.
It is going against our God-given nature to murder our own children.
Mary Catherine, you and I must get together and plant a garden someday. I’m sure you would be a remarkable friend. Of course you are going to hang onto what you believe. I’m saying, Planned Parenthood should not bury their head in the sand and pretend only a handful of people like you disagree with their program, AS THE MEANS to justify themselves, and you should not pretend that there are not millions of people in the world who see sane, logical, scientific and moral arguments for the possibility that abortion is sometimes a justifiable choice.
I’m not saying you should agree with me, and I’m certainly not going to give up and agree with you. But I know you exist, you know I exist, and I know that you haven’t refuted my arguments, you have only pooh-poohed them. Ideally, next time there is a pregnant woman considering an abortion, you and I should sit down and have a quiet, respectful heart-to-heart talk with her, then leave her alone to make up her own mind. If she decides to carry the pregnancy to term, I should be the first to welcome the new baby into the world. If she decides to abort, you can invite me to the memorial service I know you will schedule.
“Fad of charging racism is hypocritical manipulation”? Racism was/is one of THE motivations of the eugenics movement. You obviously haven’t been reading Margaret Sanger, Hitler, and Dr. Ernst Rudin. You haven’t been paying attention, or rather the MSM has refused to acknowledge the racism that’s always been endemic to the eugenics/abortion/contracept/mentality.
Mary Catherine, please don’t give me a sense of superiority I never claimed. I am not mocking you. If I say something nice about you, I mean it. I know you are absolutely certain that you are right and I am wrong. I can love you as a child of God anyway, and listen to you without laughing at you, although I may laugh at the persistence of our disagreement. I do find some of your repartees a bit childish at times, and when I do, I say so, but I don’t mistake one sentence for a complete picture of your complex human self.
As I said, the position that abortion is murder would be absolutely unchanged if race were not an issue at all. If the impact were totally race-neutral, neither you, nor Gerard, nor Bethany, nor Mary Catherine, would be one whit less opposed. Accordingly, raising the issue is an appeal to attract allies who might otherwise be unimpressed. That is a natural political tactic, but it doesn’t add anything to the pro-life argument.
Very true SJ