{"id":179808,"date":"2018-03-01T13:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T18:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=179808"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:07:30","slug":"grier-pro-life-black-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/grier-pro-life-black-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dr. Dolores Grier, pro-life activist who decried abortion as Black genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Catholic and pro-life communities are mourning the death of Dr. Dolores Bernadette Grier, an advocate for life and a gracious Black leader in the New York archdiocese, who passed away\u00a0on February 22, 2018 — her birthday. As a\u00a0Black pro-life activist, Dr. Grier founded the Association of Black Catholics Against Abortion<\/a> and served on the board of the African American Society Against Abortion. She was outspoken about abortion<\/a>\u2019s impact on the Black community.<\/p>\n

Dr. Grier’s voice in defense of life will be missed, but we in the pro-life community are grateful for the legacy she has left behind.\u00a0A\u00a0Funeral Mass will be offered at Dr. Grier’s parish church, St. Charles Borromeo in Harlem, on Wednesday, March 7 at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n

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In 1989, Dr. Grier joined a group<\/a> of pro-life women, including, Dr. Mildred Jefferson<\/a>, the first Black woman to\u00a0graduate<\/a>\u00a0from Harvard Medical School and\u00a0the first woman employed as a general surgeon at Boston University Medical Center, for a press conference picked up by C-SPAN.\u00a0Dr. Grier began her speech<\/a> by calling abortion racism:<\/p>\n

We do believe that more than anything else, abortion is racism. It is a way of pruning, if you will, the Black population…. In 1973, shortly after civil rights struggles – when there were more benefits for the Black people, all of a sudden we were given this free, free thing from the society of America: abortion. 78 percent of your free abortion clinics were placed in Black and Urban areas, for the purpose of [inaudible] free of charge from a racist society. To put it in words of one pro-abortionist, “We don’t need so many Negroes anymore – there’s no more cotton to pick.”<\/p>\n

…\u00a0Black women, let it be stated, Black women never demonstrated, demanded or even requested the right to an abortion. We’ve been asking for the right to decent housing, the right to education, in fact, the right to health car, and all we’ve been given free of charge is the right to kill our unborn child…<\/p>\n

It is demeaning to the Black woman, because, when you wanted us (in other words) when we were on the plantation, you snatched the newborn baby from our arms and sold it into slavery. Today, you cut it out of the womb and throw it in the garbage or use it for human experimentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n