Maryland House of Delegates Hopeful to Head Up Black Americans for Life.(Interview)

National Right to Life's new Black Americans for Life (BAL) director, Day Gardner, sees education as BAL's primary objective.

"We need to make all African Americans aware of the horrible effect abortion has on the Black community," Ms. Gardner said. "The abortion rate for African American women is THREE times higher than for white women. We must do all in our power to stop this BLACK GENOCIDE."

In 2002, Ms. Gardner ran unsuccessfully for a House of Delegates seat in Prince George's County, Maryland. She believes that Black Americans are being pressured into abortions by society and by Black leaders who offer abortion as the only solution to problem pregnancies. Her dynamic and aggressive political campaign earned endorsements from two major newspapers, the Washington Post and the Gazette.

"It is time that American Black women stand up and say `no' to abortion," said Ms. Gardner. "We don't need the `Pro-Choice' movement's false promises that by killing our unborn children we will somehow have a `better' life. Blacks have always had to struggle in America. First as slaves, and later as second-class citizens under segregation. In many ways we are still fighting for true and honest equality. But through all our pain and suffering, it ...