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BAL Honors Three Black Pro-Life Leaders At June 2 U.S. Capitol Luncheon.(Black Americans for Life )
On June 2, the occasion of First Annual Pro-Life Achievement Luncheon, Black Americans for Life (BAL) honored Kay Coles James, Rev. Dr. Johnny Hunter, and Dr. Mildred Jefferson. BAL is an outreach of the National Right to Life Committee and the luncheon was hosted by Day Gardner, national director of BAL.
The keynote speaker for the event, Claude A. Allen, assistant to President Bush for domestic policy, issued a stern challenge: "We cannot continue to allow our children to be torn from the womb, our women to be hurting, our communities to be torn apart." He spoke of the dangerous emphasis on expecting perfection in unborn children before allowing them to be born.
Mr. Allen gave tribute to President Bush for his steadfast commitment to the sanctity of human life, listing the pro-life legislation the President has supported, pointing in particular to his opposition to current legislation that would require taxpayers to support embryo-killing research. Citing the President's support for adult stem cell research, he declared, "Strong science and good ethics can coexist."
Dr. Alveda King, daughter of slain civil rights activist Rev. A. D. King and niece of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the gathering in prayer and song, which gave a moving and rousing tone to the event. During the years of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Alveda King's family home was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. In recalling this past, she reflected that, "Our home is a protective place, and when it is bombed, we feel violated. It must be like this for the child in the womb when undergoing abortion."
"Today, [because of legalized abortion] unborn children are treated like slaves in the womb," Dr. King remarked. Honoree Kay Coles James, head of the Office of Personnel Management under President ...
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