This report from the CDC will break your heart. Putting it into perspective:
Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.
Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC. During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined. These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year.
What has the black political leaders and black community leaders done to address this atrocity? Is this not a issue critical enough to attract the attention of so-called civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Instead, they swarm around these victims of “hate crimes” or racism (in which cases oftentimes are unsubstantiated) for face time on TV and newspapers. People like that aren’t leaders or activists — they are celebrity wannabes.
Dr. Alveda King puts it best:
Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a pro-life activist. In August 2007 she told a meeting of Priests for Life that abortionists “plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”
“The great irony,” she said, “is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.”
Sad but true.
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