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CDC Abortion Report Reveals Shocking Statistic
By Michele Samuelson | 10/25/09 | 04:37 PM EDT | 0 Comments
I don't often comment on social issues on this blog, largely because I feel like the people reading it don't need persuasion on them. There are a great many places on the internet and in the conservative community that will be happy to give you long diatribes about those issues, and precious few that tackle some of the state fiscal issues I try to take on.
But I read something this morning that left me so deeply disturbed, and reminded of the work that still has to be done to stop abortion in this country. Asian Conservatives, a fantastic blog y'all must read, has a post up today that will absolutely chill your bones.
The Centers for Disease Control has an Abortion Surveillance report out that shows a disproportionate number of abortions happening in the black American community. From the CNS News story, emphasis mine:
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.
Y'all, I can't even fathom this.
More than heart disease.
More than cancer.
More than accidents.
The systematic murder of over 200,000 children, all of one race, in 2005 alone.
The pro-life movement has to take a different approach. Picketing Planned Parenthood isn't going to do it. Holding up pictures of aborted fetuses is not going to do it. All the billboards and other public advertisements are not going to do it. I'll venture to say, even if we are one day able to outlaw abortion, we will simply be tackling the symptom, and not the problem itself. We have to go into these communities and care for the women who are left with so few options. We need our churches to open their doors, and the people there to open their arms. I know we have the resources - we just need the willpower.
One local organization that does a fantastic job with these things, and more, is Austin LifeCare.
Y'all, think about it. Over 200,000 black children murdered.
As Dr. Alveda King put it, abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of. Let's please stop debating the necessity of caring for pregnant women, and do it. Society has failed not just women in this regard, but an entire generation and more of children, who were supposedly conceived in a free nation that would gladly welcome them. I feel like there can be nothing good, nothing "free," about a society that allows, and seems to encourage, this kind of genocide.
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