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The celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s birthday often brings with it attempts to twist and pervert his legacy to score political points.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So begins Imani Gandy, RH Reality Check\u2019s Senior Legal Analyst, in her January 22nd<\/sup> piece<\/a>. True enough, but what follows is not a good-faith call to keep historical figures above the fray; it\u2019s an attempt to scandalize whatever genuine implications Dr. King\u2019s principles may hold for the abortion debate…<\/p>\n

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[T]here are the anti-choice advocates who call upon Alveda King, Dr. King\u2019s wildly intolerant niece, to help spread their regressive agenda and promote lies about Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and abortion in the Black community.<\/p>\n

[T]here are the insinuations that Martin Luther King Jr. would have opposed abortion and therefore so should you, or that the Black Lives Matter movement is ignoring the death of \u201cunborn\u201d Black children, or that abortion is like slavery, or that abortion is Black genocide.<\/p>\n

All of these systematically degrade the dignity of Black women in an effort to control our reproduction and lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh my. Even more degrading to blacks than killing them in the womb<\/a>? How? Let\u2019s find out:<\/p>\n

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In an article purportedly honoring Dr. King, Republican hopeful Ted Cruz misappropriated Dr. King\u2019s words and legacy advocating for human and civil rights in order to advocate for denying those rights to women. According to Cruz, when Dr. King said \u201cNow is the time to make justice a reality to all of God\u2019s children,\u201d apparently the good reverend was talking about embryos and fetuses rather than Black people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nowhere in that article<\/a> does Cruz presume to know King\u2019s view of abortion, or claim to be articulating his thoughts on the subject. Instead, Cruz simply explains that abortion is inherently incompatible with the things King did<\/em> say. But refuting Cruz\u2019s interpretation and arguing that \u201cNow is the time to make justice a reality to all of God\u2019s children\u201d somehow doesn\u2019t include God\u2019s children in the womb would have required Gandy to write a very different and more challenging article, which wouldn\u2019t lend itself to faux indignation quite so easily.<\/p>\n

Instead, Gandy takes issue with Cruz quoting King\u2019s niece, Dr. Alveda King, as saying \u201cAbortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

First of all, what Cruz is advocating demonstrates that he finds no inherent worth in women\u2019s humanity. Abortion is a human right. Every person should have the right to choose whether to become a parent or not. Every person should have the right to choose when to become a parent, if at all. Refusing women the right to make these crucial decisions for themselves is a human rights violation. It is a degradation of human dignity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

None of this explains how the preborn aren\u2019t God\u2019s children (King\u2019s words), or why they deserve no consideration. It\u2019s purely just a list of slogans. Really inspires confidence in the \u201csenior\u201d label at RHRC, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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Moreover, Alveda King gets it exactly wrong when she says that abortion and racism are \u201cevil twins born of the same lie.\u201d In reality, when it comes abortion rates in the Black community, racism isn\u2019t abortion\u2019s evil twin\u2014racism is abortion\u2019s progenitor.<\/p>\n

As Black women were dragged to the United States and forced to work for free, and as they turned to do-it-yourself abortions to control their own reproduction and prevent their offspring from immediately becoming the property of white people and white supremacy, racism was the driving force.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gandy seems not to realize that \u201cracism spawned abortion\u201d falls well short of conveying \u201cabortion is good.\u201d In fact, it seems to actually reinforce Alveda King\u2019s point that abortion is something ugly and born of evil\u2026\u00a0not unlike racism<\/a>. Horrible and unjust circumstances create plenty of other terrible things. That doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t also horrible and unjust.<\/p>\n

Gandy goes on to reiterate the tired old spiel<\/a> about pro-lifers disrespecting black women, not caring about the root causes of abortion, etc. Next comes some lazy complaining about supporting abstinence and crisis pregnancy centers being \u201cludicrous\u201d abortion alternatives from people who aren\u2019t \u201ctruly serious\u201d about solving the problems (wrong, Imani\u2014see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>), then she finally gets to her titular complaint:<\/p>\n

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As for Dr. King, we don\u2019t know whether he would have favored access to legal abortion or not. We know his wife did during her lifetime. We know that he wrote about the importance of publicly funded family planning programs. We know that in 1966, his wife accepted a Margaret Sanger Award on his behalf, bestowed upon him by Planned Parenthood \u201cin recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights.\u201d We know that he served on a sponsoring committee of a Planned Parenthood study on contraception in 1960 and wrote, \u201cI have always been deeply interested in and sympathetic with the total work of the Planned Parenthood.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what else could we possibly claim to know about his views on abortion? Nothing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a step up from blithely assuming King would march in lockstep with Cecile Richards today, but it still leaves out a few things\u2014like the fact that his Planned Parenthood award in 1966<\/a> came just two years after Planned Parenthood was emphatically distancing themselves<\/a> and their birth control business from abortion, bluntly stating that \u201cabortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun,\u201d is \u201cdangerous to your life and health,\u201d and \u201cmay make you sterile so that when you want a child you cannot have it.\u201d The first Planned Parenthood to perform abortions didn\u2019t start doing them until four years after the award<\/a>, and two years after King\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

So even if he never said a word about life or God or killing or human equality, the fact remains that his sympathy toward pre-abortion Planned Parenthood and their pre-abortion work simply is not evidence of pro-abortion sympathies.<\/p>\n

And while Gandy rightly notes that people cannot know the private thoughts of people we\u2019ve never met, she commits the same breach of humility in presuming she knows better on the subject than one of King\u2019s own blood relatives. Alveda King is not merely imprinting her own pro-life biases on her uncle\u2019s public statements; she\u2019s speaking from firsthand knowledge<\/a> of her family\u2019s values\u2014speaking at length about how her grandfather and his grandfather, Martin Luther King Sr., passionately preached against abortion, including urging Alveda\u2019s own mother to let her live.<\/p>\n

To assume that Martin Luther King Jr. would inherit his father\u2019s faith and principles and compassion about everything except<\/em> abortion would be a stretch, to say the least. But it\u2019s a stretch Gandy and her ilk have to make to pretend they\u2019re following the footsteps of history\u2019s heroes rather than its villains. A stretch they have to pad out with churlish ad hominem that pro-lifers \u201cnot only would have undoubtedly virulently opposed Dr. King when he was alive, but I dare say, would have considered him a dangerous radical.\u201d<\/p>\n

So rather than respond in kind, I will merely leave you with one last quotation<\/a> from Dr. King, and ask you who seems to be more closely echoing his words today:<\/p>\n

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[T]he next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God [\u2026] We are all one in Christ Jesus. And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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