{"id":162451,"date":"2017-02-16T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=162451"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T19:00:10","slug":"african-american-rape-victim-abortion-is-the-new-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/african-american-rape-victim-abortion-is-the-new-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"African-American rape victim believes abortion is the new slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ordained minister Onawu Pickett has been through her share of rough times as a person, a woman, and an African-American. In a recent interview with Kevin Burke of Priests for Life<\/a>, Pickett shares her story, including her journey to healing from abortion and her passion to help her fellow African-American women escape what she views as a new form of slavery: abortion culture.<\/p>\n

Pickett grew up the daughter of migrant farm workers, who met at a cotton work camp in California. Her father was extremely abusive to her mother, she says, her grandfather was murdered, and she was sexually abused at age four by an older\u00a0neighbor boy.<\/p>\n

When she was a senior in high school, Pickett was raped by\u00a0an ex-boyfriend and became pregnant. Although her father\u00a0pressured her to abort, she chose to keep the baby. Her son is currently in the\u00a0army, and has served two tours in Iraq.<\/p>\n

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