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Children - - Our Hope for a Better Future.
February is Black History Month, the perfect time for Black Americans for Life (BAL) to drive home the connection between the historic struggle of African Americans for equality and the devastating impact of the ultimate assault on human rights: abortion. In a February 19 press conference held on the steps of the Supreme Court, BAL Director Day Gardner linked the struggles African Americans have faced, from slavery through the fight for civil rights, with abortion. "Through all our pain and suffering," she said, "it has always been our children who were our hope for a better future."
Ms. Gardner and the coalition of women assembled with her believe abortion is jeopardizing that future. "It's a somberness I feel," Ms. Gardner explained, "because after all that we, as Black Americans, have endured and achieved, by the end of this day 1,200 Black babies - - the babies that insure our future - - will be purposefully and yet legally killed without mercy."
Ms. Gardner emphasized the disproportionate impact abortion has had on the Black community. There are two abortions for every three live births, and statistics show that the abortion rate among Black women is three times higher than that of White women.
And this is no accident. "Over 70% of all abortion providers are in minority communities," said Rev. Janine Simpson, another participant at the press conference. Rev. Simpson said that 94% of abortion providers are in metropolitan areas, compared with only 2% of pregnancy resource centers.
The result has been that of the 44 million unborn babies aborted since ...
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