Plight of the Powerless

I remember driving to my grandparents house when I was a child. We always passed a little brick church next to a field dotted with white crosses. There were rows and rows of them, beginning at the roadside and stretching all the way back over the crest of the hill as far as my little eyes could see.

"What do all those crosses mean, dad?" I asked one day.

"They represent all the little babies who died from abortion," he told me sadly.

In my childish naivety, I assumed each cross stood for a baby and was shocked at the number of innocent lives lost. When I grew older I discovered the hideous truth: each cross in that churchyard represents 10,000 babies who have perished since Roe v. Wade became a precedent in 1973.

In 2008, the United States will likely pass 50 million post-Roe abortions. Fortunately, the number of abortions per year has dropped considerably and the opinions of the American public are gradually shifting.

According to pollingreport.com, a May 2008 Gallup Poll showed that 54% of Americans believe abortion should only be legal under certain circumstances, though only 17% believe it should be illegal in all circumstances. And a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll from October 2007 revealed that 50% of Americans believe abortion due to unwanted pregnancy should be illegal.

However, while over-all abortions have decreased, there has been a dramatic increase in abortions among the African-American and Hispanic communities. But the African-American community has been ravaged the most.

According to Citizenlink.org, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report saying 13% of American women are black, but they account for more than 35% of all abortions. African-American women are also 4.8 times more likely to abort than non-Hispanic white women and almost one in every two African-American pregnancies is terminated.

Alisa Harris, a reporter for World magazine, wrote in her article Black Genocide, "If someone wiped out the entire African-American population in Oakland, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C., the number still wouldn't equal the number of black babies lost to abortion in one year: 683,294."

Since 1973, 15 million African-American babies - equal to a quarter of the population - have been murdered.

Dyxie Lincoln, on staff in Focus on the Family's Sanctity of Life Department, and Kim Trobee, reporter for Citizenlink.org, assert that Planned Parenthood targets African-American and Hispanic minorities by clustering 95% of its centers in metropolitan and low-income urban areas.

This is not surprising given Planned Parenthood's historical track record. According to Tanya Green of Concerned Women for America, Margaret Sanger, founder of the Birth Control Federation of America which eventually became Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist and some would argue, a white supremacist.

Few Americans are aware of Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project," a program designed to reduce and control - some believe to exterminate - the African-American population under the guise of "family planning" and "better health." These tag lines appealed to the prominent and well-educated blacks of the day, raising their hopes that the Negro Project would bring economic success and respect to their down-trodden race. No benefits were ever recorded.

Sanger named Clarence J. Gamble (of Proctor and Gamble) the southern regional director of the Birth Control Federation of America, and wrote him a letter regarding the use of black ministers to market the Negro Project:

"The minister's work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation, as to our ideas and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (found on cwfa.org)

Sanger, who also considered the poor and the physically disabled to be a detriment to society also wrote this in her book The Pivot of Civilization:

"It [charity] encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which bring with it, as I'm sure the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant."
(Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, (New York: Brentano's, 1922). 108, found on cwfa.org.)

Sanger also advocated sterilization of the "lower classes."

"It now remains for the U.S. government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means. In this way the moron and the diseased would have no posterity to inherit their unhappy condition. The number of the feeble-minded would decrease and a heavy burden would be lifted from the shoulders of the fit." (Margaret Sanger, "The Function of Sterilization," The Birth Control Review, Oct. 1926, 299. Taken from a speech addressed to the Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College on Aug. 5, 1926, found on cwfa.org.)

Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood still retains some of the heinous ideas of its misguided founder. According to Citizenlink.org, Planned Parenthood is currently under investigation by the U.S. House Minority Leader, John Boehner, R-Ohio, for excepting donations specifically to abort minorities.

A group of pro-life students from the University of California in Los Angeles unearthed Planned Parenthood's prejudice. The students hired actors to contact Planned Parenthood locations all over the U.S. on the pretense of donating money to abort African-American children. Nearly all branches accepted the proposed donations.

According to Citizenlink.org, The Columbus Dispatch reported the results of one actor who called an Ohio branch of Planned Parenthood. He wanted his donation to fund a black abortion because there are "way too many black people in Ohio." The receptionist shockingly responded: "Okay."

According to LifeSiteNews.com, Autumn Kersey, vice president of marketing for Planned Parenthood of Idaho, was recorded saying it was "understandable" that the actor wanted "less black kids out there" and she was "excited" at the prospect of such a donation.

Planned Parenthood locations across the nation have also been accused of various crimes including covering up incest and statutory rape. Regardless, they still receive an annual $330 million in tax dollars.

I can't imagine how God must weep as the bodies of the children he formed are suctioned, dismembered and blown apart, nor how he views the nation that promotes and funds such murderous actions.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139: 13-16, NIV