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African-American Women Are Exploited by Abortion
by Mrs. Akua Furlow
In Deuteronomy 30:19, God tells us to "Choose life so
that you and your children will live..."
Everyday in America thousands of women and teenagers seek
medically-induced abortions. Often the women and teenagers who seek to have an abortion
have been deceived to believe that their pregnancy is little more than a mass of tissue, a
non-living blood clot. Most of them would recoil in horror if they realized that an
abortion always stops the beating heart of a baby.
While "pro-choice" feminists push abortion as a
"woman's right," the truth is that women are being exploited by abortion,
especially African-American women. The pro-abortion feminists (or, as they like to call
themselves, "pro-choice" advocates) have successfully identified abortion as a
"civil right." Some African-Americans, having fought for their civil rights in
the 1950's and 1960's or learned of this struggle through history books, have somehow been
duped into identifying the "pro-choice" movement with the fight for civil
rights. The civil rights movement was a battle for equality and human rights. Medical
abortion is the induced death of a developing human baby--the destruction of a child's
fundamental, as well as civil, rights.
Dr. Noreen Johnson, an Obstetrician/ Gynecologist and
Infertility Specialist states that, "The first system to develop at about three weeks
of embryologic life is the circulatory system. In fact, the heart is formed and
functioning at four (4) weeks post-conception. By the end of the 7th week, the beginnings
of all essential external and internal structures are present and the embryo is now called
a fetus. The rest of the fetal period is characterized by growth and elaboration of these
structures. At ten (10) weeks the face has the human profile and the fetus is about the
size of a thumb" [1].
A 1994 "Post Abortion Research Study of African-American
Women" showed that of 126 women who responded to a questionnaire, 81% indicated one
or more psychological complaints. Of the complaints identified, 60% felt feelings of
guilt, 49% reported that they had feelings of regret and remorse, 55% reported crying and
depression and 35% stated an inability to forgive herself for having an abortion. Other
complaints noted were low self-esteem, feelings of despair and helplessness, anger, rage
and suicidal tendencies. Thirty percent of the respondents also complained about physical
complications that included hemorrhage, infection, incomplete abortion and perforated
uterus and intense pain. Only 1% of the respondents stated that they would recommend
abortion for others [2].
In another recent study conducted September 1989 and December
1993 of African-American women, the Howard University Cancer Center concluded that
"significant increase in risk of breast cancer are found to be conferred by
experiencing induced abortions. The risk associated with abortion agrees with a
retrospective study using hospital-controls [3].
Dr. Karen Stevenson, an African-American psychiatrist had
this to say about the devastation that abortion brings: "I have encountered tortured
women who were struggling with depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, and drug and
alcohol abuse who have had encounters with this thing called 'the women's right to
choose.' I've seen women touched by the horror of abortion, yet during my training, this
issue was never discussed by my professor as a possible contributor to the person's
present state of emotional turmoil. Men and children are also impacted by the implications
of abortion" [4].
According to a 1992 U.S. Census report, the number of
minority pregnancies that ended by abortion from 1973 (when abortion was legalized
throughout America as a result of Roe vs. Wade) to 1991 corresponded to approximately 21
percent of the total minority population in 1991. This same source reveals that in 1990
minority women constituted 26% of the female population (age 15-44) yet they underwent
approximately 36% of the abortions [5].
The history of America's number 1 abortion
"provider," Planned Parenthood, reeks with the stench of racism and bigotry that
adds another level to the insidious attack that has been waged on African-American women
throughout the United States. African-American women are not only exploited by abortion
but have been targeted by radical population control groups like the International
Federation of Planned Parenthood who want to control the birth rate of the Africa-American
community and people of color throughout the world. Through programs such as the Negro
Project of 1929, Planned Parenthood began to spin a web of deception by baiting the
African-American community with the pretense of "family planning" and other
"health services."
Archives at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and
at Smith College Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, both of which hold writings by
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, will clearly reveal the true intent of
this abortion-promoting birth control federation. Sanger's suggestions to end the
"negro problem" was to "secure a representative of colored birth control
committee of leading negroes", "a Steering committee adapt[ed] to the negro
psychology".
In a letter dated December 10, 1939 Sanger wrote to Dr.
Clarence Gamble of a plan to "exterminate" the Negro population. Planned
Parenthood apologists deny the intent of this statement referring to a genocidal plot, yet
rebuff the fact that the world's most notorious Nazis and racists made up the bulk of the
contributors to Sanger's monthly publication, the Birth Control Review. It would be time
well spent if African-Americans, especially those Planned Parenthood uses for its public
"service" campaigns, would spend an afternoon doing first-hand research on this
federation that has caused the astronomical decline in the African-American birth rate and
has fostered the forced abortion and sterilization policies in China. Many believe the
China policy of one child per family is a pilot project that will target other
underdeveloped nations and eventually here in the U.S.
African-American women have been lied to, injured and left
susceptible to cancer and other health problems as a result of abortion. Organizations
that monitor abortion injury and deaths show a higher rate of injury and deaths among
African-Americans as a result of "safe" legal abortion.
One of the most devastating results of abortion is how
abortion affects one's life spiritually. A significant number of women and teens who
choose abortion come from Christian families. Yet because of their lack of knowledge of
fetal development and all the fears of having an unplanned baby, women and teens see
abortion as a reasonable alternative. Many choose to not consider adoption because they
believe the living child will be a constant reminder of failure. What most do not realize
is that abortion always causes the death of their baby by methods that are painful to the
baby and often to the mother.
Abortion is no new phenomenon. History reveals that various
"civilizations" have tolerated infanticide in one form or another. Throughout
Bible history, child sacrifice was a common practice among the pagan nations. Today,
thousands of unborn babies are sacrificed on the alters of convenience. While rape and
incest are the ideological "golden calf" of abortion proponents, these two
categories make up less than one percent of the reasons reported for having obtained an
abortion.
We must stand up for the human rights of the smallest and
most innocent member of the human family, the unborn child. There is always a life
affirming alternative to abortion. We all must do whatever we can do to help women and
their children.
Let's choose LIFE.
Mrs. Akua Furlow is the Executive Director of LEARN. She
was adopted, and her adopted mother was conceived in rape.
[1]. Dr. Noreen Johnson, "Fetal
Development and Fetal Tissue Research" (L.E.A.R.N. Resource Book, 1994).
[2]. Akron Pregnancy Services, Akron, Ohio,
1994.
[3]. "Reproductive and lifestyle risk
factor for breast cancer in African-American women." (Abstracts From the Third Annual
Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society, Paris France, June 1-2, 1994).
[4]. Dr. Karen Stevenson, "Innocent
Blood" (L.E.A.R.N. Resource Book, 1994).
[5]. December 18, 1992, "Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report," U.S. Census Bureau.
Dr. Karen Stevenson is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Phone: 800-509-4793
Fax: 412-362-2221
Email Dr. Karen Stevenson
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