{"id":26258,"date":"2013-01-27T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=26258"},"modified":"2013-01-28T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T14:13:00","slug":"mehcad-brooks-can-we-talk-open-letter-to-the-40th-anniversary-baby-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mehcad-brooks-can-we-talk-open-letter-to-the-40th-anniversary-baby-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehcad Brooks, can we talk? &#8211; Open letter to the \u201c40th anniversary baby&#8221; actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div id=\"attachment_26039\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEMnyiDKUJI\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26039\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26039\" alt=\"mehcad-brooks\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mehcad-brooks-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mehcad-brooks-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mehcad-brooks.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mehcad Brooks drinks to forty years of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> in a Center for Reproductive Rights ad.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hey Mehcad,<\/p>\n<p>I saw the \u201cHappy 4o<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Baby\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEMnyiDKUJI\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> you starred in. After watching, I felt burdened to write you a letter sharing my thoughts on it.<\/p>\n<p>Children are dying in America. Their bodies hold bullets from gun fights on Chicago streets. Their souls are crushed in schools where they\u2019re \u201cpassing\u201d classes without reading comprehension skills. Their hearts faint from fear in tragic crimes like the Newtown shootings. All these deaths are worthy of attention. Some are openly mourned by the masses, while others are remembered by few. The highest number of children&#8217;s deaths comes as a result of abortion. It\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all.org\/nav\/index\/heading\/OQ\/cat\/MzQ\/id\/NjA3OQ\/\">estimated<\/a> that over 3,200 a day die, and over 54 million have been murdered since 1973.<\/p>\n<p>You believe that abortion is a right worth fighting for. I ask you to dig deeper and think beyond what\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0heard. Have you ever met a woman who\u2019s suffered from post-abortion syndrome? If not, find a lady, and listen to her story. To make it easier, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationoutcry.com\/?Page=personal\">here<\/a> and read these women\u2019s tales. Have you ever seen a picture of an aborted fetus? Do you know that babies are aborted at 6 months? Have you seen the instruments they use to terminate a pregnancy? If not, take a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortioninstruments.com\/abortion_photos.html\">look<\/a>. Did you know there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenbreaks.com\/abortion\/abortionsurvivors.cfm\">people<\/a> who\u2019ve survived abortions and live with medical complications?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re a black man. What a great gift that is. It\u2019s important for you to know the struggles of your ancestors. Have you ever heard of the phrase \u201cBlack Genocide\u201d? Find out what Jesse Jackson had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/253146\/jesse-jacksons-evolving-standards-genocide-daniel-foster\">say<\/a> about it before his presidential run. Research the history of Planned Parenthood. Look for the words &#8220;eugenics&#8221; and &#8220;population control,&#8221; and search for the \u201cNegro Project.\u201d Make sure it\u2019s a broad search with multiple sources. Some will honor Planned Parenthood\u2019s tainted past, so keep searching to hear both sides.<\/p>\n<p>If you get weary of the ugly, look at the beautiful. Find crisis pregnancy centers, adoption agencies, churches, and families who take in kids, give desperate women homes, and care for broken people.<\/p>\n<p>Why should you invest time in this? When you acted in that video, you became a spokesperson. You are now a face promoting a billion-dollar industry that defends an evil law. You&#8217;re aware that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> had a 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary, but do you truly understand what you\u2019re celebrating? If you hear the truth, will you still chuckle? If you know the suffering, is a toast still in order?<\/p>\n<p>In the ad, you\u2019re holding a rose with seductive music in the background. It\u2019s such a lovely setting to romanticize this law. Truth is, abortion isn\u2019t romantic. Women abort on hospital tables with their legs in stirrups and hearts beating wildly in their chests. Afterwards, they go in a recovery room, but for many, recovery still hasn\u2019t come. Even the most confident are rarely casual with their decision. Some will brush it off, saying it was a means to an end &#8211; that it made them a \u201cbetter\u201d parent to their other kids, helped them pursue goals.<\/p>\n<p>Those who\u2019ve gone in for their sixth, seventh, or eighth\u00a0abortion won\u2019t say as much. They\u2019re busy contemplating hard choices and permanent decisions. They hear the sounds of their consciences questioning if they made the right choice. If they&#8217;re awake, they may hear the sound of the vacuum sucking out fetal remains from a child whose face they\u2019ll never see. Later some will hear the voices of laughing children who are the same age their kids <i>would<\/i> have been.<\/p>\n<p>As for the red roses, they aren\u2019t often held in the hands of charming men. Roses may come before or after the abortion, if they come at all. Friends reassure them they made the right choice; husbands get them a gift to make them feel better. Some women will have flowers laid on coffins and in funeral homes because they died from botched abortions.<\/p>\n<p>The 40<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is a time not to laugh, but to mourn. It\u2019s doesn\u2019t call for creepy congratulatory videos; it calls for change. I\u2019ve stood outside many abortion clinics watching black man after black man, bringing in his lady to abort their baby. If you want to promote a message, I have a great one for you. It\u2019s called responsibility. But before you promote it, you have to own it. It starts with wiping the creepy grin off your face and learning what our generation is lacking. Young men need to know that relationships\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0about wining and dining, but rather about commitment and honor. Young girls must know they&#8217;re beautiful, and they don\u2019t have to give their bodies away to find love.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know you, Mehcad, but I believe you&#8217;re better than this video. If you aren\u2019t now, you can be one day. I know that the Center for Reproductive Rights needed a face, and you said yes. But our race, this young generation, and our nation need more than funny faces. We need men with courage. We desperately need black men with integrity. It will cost you something to have it. You\u2019ll lose popularity and promotion, but you\u2019ll gain respect and have a voice that truly makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Above everything, abortion is wrong ultimately because it destroys children who are the dream of God\u2019s heart. Mehcad, you are one of His dreams come to life. You\u2019re uniquely made, wanted, and loved by God. \u00a0Discover that truth, and let it lead you away from all the lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to discover the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":26039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mehcad Brooks, can we talk? - Open letter to the \u201c40th anniversary baby&quot; actor - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/mehcad-brooks-can-we-talk-open-letter-to-the-40th-anniversary-baby-actor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mehcad Brooks, can we talk? 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