GREAT NEWS FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT

GREAT NEWS FOR THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT 

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - BLOGGER, CINOPS BE GONE, THURS., APRIL 2, 2020

 

Ref. National Review, Apr. 6, 2020 - "The Pro-Life Movement - You've Never Heard Of" by Alexandra DeSanctis. -  Selected Paragraphs

In November, 2019, the Church of God in Christ unveiled its "Resolution on the Sanctity of Human Life." It is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the U.S.A., with more than 4 million members, overwhelmingly African-American and Democratic.

 

"Abortion is genocide. Abortion must end to protect the life of the unborn.. The church of God in Christ opposes elective abortions," the resolution reads. "This issue of personhood has haunted America since the Dread Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson and Roe v. Wade decisions. Just as slavery was overturned in America, Jim Crow was defeated, and Nazi Germany was overthrown, it is our prayer that the heinous industry abortion become morally reprehensible worldwide."

 

Reverend Dean Nelson, executive director of the pro=life Human Coalition, tells me that the resolution is "historic and phenomenal." Nelson is one of a number of African-American leaders who work with the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, a network of groups seeking to "restore life, family and hop in the Black Community," according to its website.... The Church of God in Christ is one of the largest and most influential, so I think it was good for us to start there."...

 

Roland Warren is another African-American activist. He became pro-life after his college girlfriend became pregnant and was encouraged by a nurse to abort. Instead, she and Warren got married, she went on to become a doctor, and their first child graduated from Harvard. Today Warren leads Care-net, a network of pregnancy-resource centers. ... "The black community doesn't have another 46 years to suffer at the hands of Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers, because 20 million black lives have already been lost to abortion since 1973," Davis says, "That's more than the entire black population in 1960s America." ...

 

A 2017 Pew Research Center poll found that while 83 percent of white Democrats support legal abortion, only 66 percent of black Americans do. 35% of white Democrats say voters should support only candidates who favor legal abortion; only 7 percent of black Democrats say the same....

 

Reverend Clenard Childless, who the group Black Genocide to publicize the negative effects of widespread abortion in black communities. Ryan Bomberger o the Radiance Foundation has similar concern. "It is mystifying to me with decades of the result of undying devotion toward the Democratic Party, African Americans will give the party of slavery and unequal, the party of unlimited abortion their allegiance," he says...."The Left demonizes people based on whatever group they've shoved them into," Bomberger says, explaining why abortion-rights supporters often to pretend that black pro-lifers don't exist. "They talk about nuances, but they never act as if there are any. To them, all black people think alike. All black people do the same thing." ...

 

Over the last couple of decades, it has become increasingly common to see signs at anti-abortion events with messages such as "I am an atheist, and I am pro-life.... One of the largest groups representing them is Secular Pro-Life, founded in 2009 by Kelsey Hazzard, who says she noticed the need for a non-religious pro-life group during college....

 

Bukovinac says she was in instinctively pro-choice growing up but changed her mind after seeing videos of what happens during an abortion procedure. "You can't justify abortion nay more than you can justify the killing of a born person." she says: "There is no consistent,  objective distinction between an unborn person and a human being...

 

The March for Life organization produced a series of articles highlighting how the earliest feminists in the U.S. - suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul - opposed abortion, calling an exploitation of women....perhaps best synthesized in a line coined by Feminists for Life president Serrin Foster: "Women deserve better than abortion."... George H. Kubeck