Abortion seems to be one of those flies swarming around President Elect Barack Obama. He has championed partial birth abortion and now he is in the position to sign into law bills that could damage both the pro-life and the pro-choice movements.
Abortion seems to be one of those flies swarming around President Elect Barack Obama. He has championed partial birth abortion and attempted to deny basic health care to children that survive abortions all while in the Illinois Senate. Now he is in the position to sign into law bills that could damage both the pro-life and the pro-choice movements.
Saturday the American Sentinel published a thought provoking article about how abortions effect the black community and if anyone has noticed the conflict of interest within the black community by voting in a man who supports the very action that is killing 5% of the black population. It has been reported that 50 abortions happen per 1000 black women. However the numbers are far more alarming when you consider abortions per live births for black women; 543 abortions happen per 1000 births. It truly is a dangerous time to be a black baby when you only have a 50 per cent chance of being born. That is a serious wound on the black inner city culture. Anne Hendershot relates that abortion clinics are as common as dollar stores on the streets.
According to the National Black Pro Life Union, abortion is the number one killer of African Americans.
Some feel it is not only the responsibility of Barack Obama to address this issue, but the responsibility of other black leaders like Al Sharpton, Collin Powell, Condaleeza Rice, Jeremiah Write, and Jesse Jackson.
Barack Obama's views on abortions not only fly in the face of pro-life advocates but also pro-choice and the reach is far beyond the borders of America. Obama supporters are confident the President Elect will support a measure by congress to re-institute funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA). Funding to UNPFA was stopped by the Bush Administration in 2002 citing the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. The Amendments prohibits funds from supporting forced or coercive abortions.
According to Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte UNDFA funds went to enforcing China's one child policy.
"UNFPA provides support for and participates in the management of the Chinese government’s program of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilization.”
Yet the silence is deafening from the pro-choice crowd in the main stream media, Chinese women are being forced into sterilization and abortion and have been deprived of choice.
For those who enjoy looking at data and statistics. Most of the numbers in the above article can be found from links at my blog,
Daughter of America, or from
the Guttmacher Institute.
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