By Luke Nolan
Following a talk by Dr. Marc Lamont Hill earlier this week, Patrick Hauf, freshman journalism major, asked about the vulnerability of unborn children killed in abortions, a question accompanied by rude groans and heckling by the audience.
To someone who is pro-life, the desire to protect the most vulnerable of society would naturally include the unborn, and it would compel them to speak up on that particular issue.
Hauf asked Hill whether he believed that abortion is a war on the vulnerable. Hill answered emphatically, “no.”
Most, if not all attempts to redefine life have always ended terribly. For decades, slaves were not recognized as humans, allowing owners to treat them as if they were less than human.
The redefinition of life, for any reason, is inhumane and a precursor to abhorrent actions, usually on the part of the state. The “justification” for the redefinition of human life is not found in any credible foundational legal document or sacred text. Therefore, the basis for the “redefinition” of life has no moral or legal basis.
Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, is one person who sought to redefine life. Sanger’s intentions were considered by Hill and Hauf. The two discussed a letter from Sanger to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, dated Dec. 10, 1939. The letter describes efforts by Sanger to expand her “Negro Project,” particularly in the south.
“The ministers’ work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach,” said Sanger. “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.”
Abortion has been the number one contributor toward African-American deaths since 1973, at over 15.5 million deaths and climbing every day. Abortion takes more black lives than AIDS, violent crimes, accidents, cancer and heart disease combined, according to CDC data.
If the nearly 16 million black children lost to abortion were not aborted, the black community would be 36 percent larger today, according to journalist Michael Novak.
The abortion rate in the black community is severely disproportionate to the abortion rate in the white community, despite the fact that the black community is significantly smaller. Approximately 36 percent of aborted children are black, even though African Americans make up only around 14 percent of the total population, according to CDC data.
It is difficult then, given these statistics and countless others regarding the concentration of abortion “services” in the black community, to say with a straight face that the words and actions of Margaret Sanger aren’t still carried out today by Planned Parenthood.
While abortion today may not seem like a hindrance to the black community, it was, and still is, the primary means in which to eliminate the black community, courtesy of Margaret Sanger and the organization she founded, Planned Parenthood.
nolanl17@bonaventure.edu
