{"id":239631,"date":"2021-02-10T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=239631"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T23:41:14","slug":"time-black-community-not-ignore-injustice-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/time-black-community-not-ignore-injustice-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"The time is now: The Black community must not ignore the injustice of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author and are not necessarily reflective of Live Action or Live Action News.<\/i><\/p>\n

Black History Month is a time to elevate African Americans who have made an impact on American society despite the odds stacked against them. Names such as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, and Martin Luther King, Jr. are familiar names that come to mind. But it is important to reach beyond the popular names to appreciate others who have made monumental contributions to our history as well \u2014 names like Dr. Dolores Grier<\/a>, a pro-life advocate\u00a0<\/span>who spoke boldly about the genocide facing the Black community. She said,\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe\u2019ve been asking for the right to decent housing, the right to education, in fact, the right to healthcare. All we\u2019ve been given free of charge is the right to kill our unborn child\u2026 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 my arms and sold it into slavery. Today, you cut it out of the womb and throw it in the garbage.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Years later, this is the very same message I am speaking about the Black community today. <\/span><\/p>\n

We have seen little, if any, movement on the genocide that we have been convinced to enact on ourselves through abortion. Somehow, the Black community continues to downplay abortion in favor of more popular social justice issues. I was recently told that the pro-life work I do is meaningless because I do not have foster children or adopted children in my home. <\/span>Personally, I am tired of the argument that as a pro-life advocate, I need to fix all the other cares of the world<\/em> before I can defend and protect the lives of the thousands of vulnerable human beings who are killed every day through abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n