ATLANTA, GA (Nov 1, 2011) – Over the weekend, presidential candidate Herman Cain referred to Planned Parenthood as “Planned Genocide”. The National Black Prolife Coalition (www.blackandprolife.org) illuminates this horrific truth through their “NUMBERS DON’T LIE” video series. The third installment in this series, created by The Radiance Foundation, has been released today, entitled: “WE’VE BEEN GUTTMACHER’D”. It exposes the pro-abortion distortions of the Guttmacher Institute.

“Planned Parenthood’s Negro Project 2.0 Director lashed out at Cain for using ‘inflammatory and divisive language’. In the real world, we call this language ‘truth’. Guttmacher began as a pseudo-scientific arm of Planned Parenthood and, today, gives legs to the abortion giant’s propaganda,” said Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation.

The Guttmacher Institute was founded by Alan F. Guttmacher, vice president of the American Eugenics Society and the first president of Planned Parenthood (1962-1974). Its current president, Sharon Camp, was caught lying about its present relationship to Planned Parenthood claiming it was “completely unaffiliated” with PPFA since 2004-2005. IRS records show, however, that Guttmacher has received over $2.1 million from the nation’s largest abortion chain since 2004.

“Black America is waking up to the truth. Sharpton, Veazey, Jesse Jackson, Veronica Byrd and other pro-abortion voices are pretending to support civil rights while standing for civil wrong,” said Stephen Broden, pastor of Fair Park Bible Fellowship.

The National Black Prolife Coalition wants to end the epidemic levels of abortion in the black community and abolish the human injustice society-wide. There are life-affirming alternatives as seen in pregnancy care centers, maternity homes and adoption agencies which provide care to thousands of women and babies, every day, in the US.

“Cain has dared to defy the abortion establishment and speak about the atrocities they commit every day. Our communities deserve physicians who heal, not abortionists who butcher our very future,” said Day Gardner of the National Black Prolife Union.

The video (http://www.youtube.com/toomanyaborted) addresses numerous contradictions by Guttmacher. A recent national study confirms that most abortion clinics are located in disproportionately black areas. Guttmacher, itself, declared in January 2011 that “abortion services are concentrated in cities” then issued another advisory contradicting their own claim.

“I have a dream that America will soon wake up from the nightmare of abortion and all the blood, pain and death associated with the decimation of precious human life in our nation,” said Dr. Alveda King, Director of African American Outreach for King for America. “We truly have been Guttmacher’d!”

New York City, the home of Planned Parenthood, aborts nearly 60% of all black pregnancies. Yet abortion activists denounce any effort to address this epidemic of abortion.

“Pro-abortion groups cry racism and misogyny because they know they can’t speak to the facts. They’ve tried to remove our TooManyAborted.com billboards and crush free speech instead of halting over 363,000 innocent lives needlessly crushed in the black community,” said Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation, the organization that created the video series.

“When will our black leaders take an honest look at these numbers, become outraged and do something to stop the abortion deaths of our beautiful black babies?” asked Rev. Arnold M. Culbreath of Protecting Black Life. “The numbers don’t lie. Abortion takes a tremendous toll on our women, our men, our families and our future.”

“The betrayal of many of these self-styled leaders runs deep,” said Catherine Davis of the Black Prolife Coalition. “Many are recipients of the largesse of the abortion industry as they promote the destruction of their own community through abortion.”

Pastor Stephen Broden of Dallas, Texas said: “The effect of abortion in the black community is clear as one examines the numbers. So-called leaders are complicit in the decimation of our children and the very survival of our people.”

With a $1 billion annual budget and $1 billion in assets, Planned Parenthood has historically targeted African-Americans with birth control through population control efforts. Today, the nation’s largest abortion chain kills 332,278 (disproportionately black) in the latest year reported, providing only 7,021 women prenatal care and 977 adoption referrals.

“This campaign should be liberating for the leaders and everyone concerned. After all, the truth sets us all free. If our leaders haven’t sold us out, this is their opportunity to stand up for life,” said Dr. Alveda King, of www.africanamericanoutreach.org.

The powerful video series can be seen at http://www.blackandprolife.org.

The National Black ProLife Coalition is a network of black pro-life and pro-family organizations committed to celebrating Life and Family by cultivating Hope in the black community.

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“July 2, marks the Anniversary of The Civil Rights Act of 1964. This landmark US legislation outlawed major forms of eugenics-based discrimination against blacks and women. It ended discriminatory voter requirements, and enforced the reconstruction amendments that finally ascribed humanity to Black Americans,” said Ryan Bomberger of www.theradiancefoundation.org.

“This monumental anti-discrimination act falls short of protecting America’s weakest and most vulnerable class of human beings, the babies in the womb. Even the ‘Women’s Rights Movement’ should recognize the harm to the rights of the baby girls in the womb. Other monumental events in America’s history also did not foresee the potential harm of failure to protect all innocent unborn babies,” said Dr. Alveda King of www.africanamericanoutreach.org.

July 4, 1776 – Independence Day honors the birthday of the United States of America and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. “Who could have imagined that by 2011 over 50 million American babies, with over 15 million of them being Black American babies, would have been executed by the act of abortion?” asks Arnold M. Culbreath of www.protectingblacklife.org.

January 1, 1863 – President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. “Who would ever dream that by 2011 African American babies would be the most vulnerable people group to be executed by abortion, or that their mothers would be the most targeted market for the abortion industry?” added Alveda King.

January 20, 2009 – America inaugurated Mr. Barack Obama, the first president with brown skin. “Who could have ever envisioned that America would be in a monumental battle for life in the cross-hairs of an abortion controversy during his term of office?” asks Rev. Walter Hoye of www.issues4life.org.

“Abortion was illegal in 1964, but other forms of genocide such as sterilization and chemical manipulation in the execution of population control (although executed undercover) were common,” said Pastor Stephen Broden of Dallas, TX.

“Evidence of the ongoing eugenics and genocidal practices targeting our women and babies is apparent in the cases of Representative Daphne Campbell, (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHB3bCTPKU) a Democratic politician from South Florida who stood up for her pro-life stance and was challenged by other Democrats; and eugenics sterilization victim Elaine Riddick, www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/index.php/eugenics-and-planned-parenthood,” added Dr. Alveda King.

Prolife Advocate Catherine Davis concludes: “We applaud the state of Arizona for passing civil rights legislation that affords the baby protection like the Civil Rights Act provided women and blacks in America. As EPIDEMIC demonstrates the black community is being depopulated by abortion. We are working to make it stop!”

The leaders say that African Americans have been betrayed by those who are supposed to protect its citizens.  More information is available at www.blackprolifecoalition.org.

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The National Black Prolife Coalition is comprised of black prolife leaders across the country. Their mission is to end abortion by restoring a culture of Life and the foundation of Family in the black community. They promote traditional family values, from a Biblical worldview, to produce strong and healthy families where babies (in and out of the womb) are safe and able to reach their full potential in life. Through education and awareness media campaigns, community events, political action, lobbying and coalition building of prolife and pro-family advocacy groups, they strive to restore Life, Family and Hope in the black community.

For more information, contact the National Black Prolife Coalition at 1-888-619-6272 or email us at unite@blackprolifecoalition.org.

From the foundation of the United States of America, our leaders have repeatedly and deliberately failed to understand that personhood is intrinsic to being human. Starting with the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, here is a brief history of decisions, at the highest level of our government, that legalized “wickedness in high places,” ¹ legitimized man’s inhumanity to man and licensed licentious behavior. The Three-Fifths Compromise was a deal between Southern slave states who wanted to preserve slavery and the Northern states who wanted to preserve the union, where three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives. The three-fifths compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the United States of America. Even today, compromise is a legislative model embraced by both the Pro-Abortion and Pro-Life movements.

SEVEN SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

On July 8th, 1776, the Liberty Bell rang out from the tower of Independence Hall summoning the citizens of Philadelphia to hear the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence by Colonel John Nixon. “Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof.” — Leviticus 25:10 is the inscription around the top of the Liberty Bell.

1. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): The United States Supreme Court ruled seven to two against Scott, finding that neither he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States. Both Roe v Wade and Dred Scott were 7-2 United States Supreme Court decisions. The first 7-2 decision determined Dred Scott was a slave and the second 7-2 decision determined children were not persons and could be killed.²

2. Slaughter-House Cases (1873): The United States Supreme Court eviscerated the 14th Amendment only five (5) years after its adoption. While this decision is best known for reading the Privileges or Immunities Clause out of the United States Constitution, it also wrote out the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause. Due process is a legal principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to persons, “endowed by their Creator,” according to the law. ³

3. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): The United States Supreme Court decided that separate “but equal” was fine, and refused to overturn blatantly unconstitutional Jim Crow laws for generations. Once again, the United States Supreme Court denied legal protection to persons they deemed to be inferior human beings.⁴

4. Buck v. Bell (1927): The United States Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally retarded, “for the protection and health of the state.” Justice Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. concluded that: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The sole dissenter in the court, Justice Pierce Butler, declined to write a minority opinion. Here the United States Supreme Court endorsed the practice of negative eugenics which believes the human race could be improved by eliminating “defectives” (i.e., “feeble minded” human beings) from the gene pool.⁵

5. Korematsu v. United States (1944): The United States Supreme Court upheld President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 that allowed the government to lock up thousands of Japanese Americans (i.e., United States citizens with “Foreign Enemy Ancestry“) in concentration camps because of military necessity.^6,7

6. Roe v. Wade (1973): The United States Supreme Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion. Apparently, in the eyes of the United States Supreme Court, the baby boy or girl in the womb of his or her mother is not a person and thus not protected under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.⁸

7. Doe v. Bolton (1973): The United States Supreme Court decided that a woman may obtain an abortion after viability, if necessary to protect her health. The Supreme Court’s decision was released on January 22, 1973, the same day as the decision Roe v. Wade.⁹

As I face the reality of one hundred sixteen (116) years of corrupt United States Supreme Court decisions, over fifty (50) million lives lost to legalized abortion alone and an all too silent Church, I cannot help but ask the question: In America, for whom does the Liberty Bell toll?

PERSONHOOD GETS IT RIGHT

Recognizing personhood as intrinsic to being human in the Constitution of the United States of America, would have averted slavery, concentration camps, the slaughter of Native Americans, the second class citizenship of women, the shedding of innocent blood in the wombs of our mothers and close the door to the euthanization (from the Greek εùθανασíα meaning “good death”) of our elderly. Personhood is the only Pro-Life strategy in our country today that does not embrace exceptions or legislative models of compromise. Personhood understands that from the beginning of our biological development, regardless of whether we were sexually or asexually reproduced,¹¹ every human life has equal moral value simply because we are human. In the end, when the Pro-Life movement stands victorious by the grace, mercy and shed blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, when every life is respected and protected by love and by law, victory will look like Personhood. Personhood gets it right.

THE SACRED VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE

“Despite the formidable obstacles before us, we must not lose heart. This is not the first time our country has been divided by a Supreme Court decision that denied the value of certain human lives. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 was not overturned in a day, or a year, or even a decade. At first, only a minority of Americans recognized and deplored the moral crisis brought about by denying the full humanity of our black brothers and sisters; but that minority persisted in their vision and finally prevailed. They did it by appealing to the hearts and minds of their countrymen, to the truth of human dignity under God. From their example, we know that respect for the sacred value of human life is too deeply engrained in the hearts of our people to remain forever suppressed. But the great majority of the American people have not yet made their voices heard …” — Ronald Reagan [12]

Today, I am “appealing to the hearts and minds of [my brothers].” I believe if we persist in our pursuit of a Christ honoring Culture of Life, we will finally prevail. I believe the “sacred value of human life is too deeply engrained in the hearts of our people to remain forever suppressed” or for us to remain silent on the sidelines. I believe, “the great majority of the American people have not yet [heard our voices] …” Today, “despite the formidable obstacles before us,” brothers we must let the whole world hear our voices.

Brothers, we really need to talk.

REFERENCES:
01. Jon Meacham, “American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the making of a Nation” Random House, Copyright © 2006, pp. 120-121.
02. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) (http://bit.ly/lkQbMw).
03. The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873) (http://bit.ly/jqrblz).
04. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) (http://bit.ly/iMSLMV).
05. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) (http://bit.ly/jV0iB8).
06. Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) (http://bit.ly/kKlayW).
07. “Story of Japanese-American Civil-Rights Pioneer Shared At South San Francisco High Assembly”, Karen Korematsu tells her father Fred Korematu’s story, May 5th, 2011 (http://bit.ly/lNPkg4).
08. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (http://bit.ly/iLnMs3).
09. Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973) (http://bit.ly/mEajNM).
10. Wesley J. Smith, Featured on Starbuck’s take-away coffee cups as part of its “The Way I See It” 2006 Campaign (http://bit.ly/b83dKq)
11. Scientific Reference For Both Sexual and Asexual Reproduction: Irving and Kischer, “Scientific Response to Criticism of the California Human Rights Amendment as ‘Protecting Fertilized Eggs’”, December 9th, 2009 (http://bit.ly/kW3tH5).
12. “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation”, President, Ronald Reagan penned this in an article for The Human Life Review, It ran in the Review’s Spring 1983 (http://bit.ly/lTf36U).

April 11, 2011

(Atlanta, GA) Because of the courage, vigilance and commitment to life of some of our Congressmen and women, America is now able to see the clearly drawn battle lines pro-abortion Democrats. Willing to shut down the entire government, Harry Reid informed America that facilitating corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood is more important than the more than 800,000 government workers and all Americans that would have been impacted had the government shut down.

“This issue is not about a woman’s right to choose, women’s health or reproductive services, but is about ending the government’s involvement in carrying out Planned Parenthood’s foundational mission – to reduce the black birth rate”, said Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation.  “Over 4500 Title X clinics and the CDC’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provide the same reproductive health services that Planned Parenthood claims to provide. The $363.2 million they receive from the federal government is needless and duplicative”, he continued.

“Blacks were betrayed late Friday night”, said Stephen Broden, Senior Pastor of Fairpark Bible Fellowship. ”The largest abortion provider in the nation, with $1 billion in assets, is using taxpayer money to target the community their founder called ‘weeds’ and ‘misfits’. They have been allowed to continue this targeting unabated. Shame on Harry Reid and the Senate Pro-abortion Democrats”, he said.

Alveda King says she has had enough: “It is time for Black members of Congress to stand up for Black people, from conception until natural death.  Planned Parenthood is deadly welfare, and their tax gravy train needs to be cut.”

The Senate and Congressional Black Caucus betrayed black Americans yet again. By refusing to defund Planned Parenthood during the budget battles, you have guaranteed that mass slaughter of the innocents will continue. Under the guise of women’s rights, Planned Parenthood is killing our babies and disrespecting our women. Members of the Coalition understand that most of Planned Parenthood’s business is located in urban areas where blacks and other poor reside, resulting in their largest revenue stream. The location of these clinics proves their agenda is depopulation. New York City is just one example of this attack; for every 1,000 black babies born alive, 1,489 are aborted.  Members of the Black Prolife Coalition believe the ideological divide on abortion is wide between the Coalition and Senate Democrats.

In July 2010, the New York Post ran an op-ed titled Where New York’s not Proud to Lead (http://nyp.st/i7GIub). The opinion piece called attention to New York City’s 2008 abortion rate, a statistic that took my breath away. Black women in New York City are aborting more of their children than are born alive. For every 1,000 black babies born alive, 1,280 died in New York’s abortion dens. I did not hear about this issue in July. It did not make its way into my hands until November and when it did, though stunned, I sent the article to every leader I knew was in the fight for life. But there was no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies would die in abortion dens across the nation that day and every day.

The next bit of news out of New York was more disturbing. The New York City Council had introduced a bill that would have the effect of shutting down pregnancy centers by requiring them to post notices that they do not perform abortions or provide birth control. The bill actually assigns jail time to those found to violate it, up to six months of jail time. The pregnancy centers are a resource to women that decide to have their babies. The centers provide clothing, car seats, and most if not all the tools needed to help the mom with her newborn. Members of New York’s pregnancy center community report that upwards of 80% of those helped by the clinics are African American. The New York City Council, including all of the black elected representatives, have made it clear that they do not want these women to have any assistance to help them keep their babies. They have made it clear that choice only means taking the life of the child. But there was no outcry, no sweeping move across the City to stop the bill in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies would die in abortion dens across the nation that day and every day.

Within days of my hearing about bill number 371, New York released its 2009 abortion statistics. The number of black babies dying in abortion mills had increased! For every 1,000 black babies born alive, 1,489 were dying at the abortionist’s hand. In a flurry of press releases, attention was called to the fact that forty one percent of New York City pregnancies end in abortion. Discussion was had about the teen pregnancy rate in New York City. More discussion was had about abortion’s impact on the Latino community as many of their leaders began to cry foul. But there was no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies would die in abortion dens across the nation that day and every day.

The nation was stunned when news out of Philadelphia revealed a modern day “house of horrors” lead by abortionist Kermit Gosnell. From spreading sexually transmitted diseases, to blood splattered equipment and jars of baby body parts, the story was more gruesome than some of Hollywood’s best horror stories. Every article referenced that he served black and brown women. Despite complaints over more than 15 years, neither the City nor state intervened to stop his butchering of women. The fact that the National Abortion Federation visited the abortion den and did nothing to warn the black and brown women has not been a source of outrage for the black community. There has been no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies would die in abortion dens across the nation that day and every day.

Former Senator Rick Santorum began a debate by criticizing President Barrack Obama for supporting abortion, believing that as a black man and “as a civil rights and constitutional lawyer, [he] should be sensitive to how we define people.” Al Sharpton immediately took the Senator to task in a national debate on the Hannity show. But Mr. Sharpton did not raise a hue and cry about the numbers of blacks dying in abortion mills across the country. Instead he defended the so called right to choose. So there has been no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies would die in abortion dens across the nation that day and every day.

In state after state the number of abortions performed on black women is three or more times higher than their representation in the population. Yet, there are those on both sides of the issue that do not want the light to shine on the darkness that is abortion. Pro-abortion allies cry foul, saying the prolife community is racializing abortion. Black and white pro-lifers are uncomfortable shining the spotlight on the impact that abortion is having on the black community. Some pro-lifers do not want us to talk about the ethnicity of those most harmed by abortion, preferring that we use language inclusive of all babies. Neither side wants us to talk about abortion, eugenics or genocide in the same breath with African American. So there has been no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks because of its discriminatory impact and fifteen hundred black babies will die in abortion dens across the nation today and every day.

On the last day of black history month, February 28, 2011, hundreds of blacks gathered across fourteen states to mourn the loss of black lives to the abortion industry. Women are still dying, not as a result of a coat hanger, but at the hands of butchers called abortionists. Women are being reproductively maimed in the name of choice, as their bowels are perforated and intestines pulled out. Hysterectomies are happening all across the nation, as the real doctors attempt to repair the damage done at the abortionist hands. Yet, we did not hear about the Day of Mourning through the mainstream media, they blacked us out, not willing to risk shining the light on how anti-woman the abortion industry is. And as has been the case for the past 38 years, we do not hear about the discriminatory impact of abortion and the fifteen hundred black babies that die in abortion dens every day.

Blacks are seen going into the abortion clinic every day at a greater rate than any other ethnic group. We see it, but don’t recognize it. And because we don’t recognize it, the visible invisibles abort fifteen hundred black babies every day and there is no outcry, no sweeping move across the country to stop abortion in its tracks.

CONTACT NATIONAL ADOPTION RESOURCES: Bethany.org | AfricanAmericanAdoptionsOnline.com | AdoptUSKids.org | or call The Radiance Foundation at 1.877.51.SHINE (74463)

By Ryan Scott Bomberger, Co-Founder of The Radiance Foundation (Adoptee & Adoptive Father)

Adoption is a powerful and emotionally potent act, for the birth mother and the prospective parents. The act of relinquishing a child to someone else and to take in a child, who is not biologically-related, is an incredible act of love and sacrifice. We need to foster an environment where people pursue adoption more and the public is educated about the beautiful stories that typify the adoption experience.

Often times, however, people are more apt to highlighting the negative stories and generalizing those rare instances as normal. People are also unaware that adoption is not, necessarily, an expensive process. Depending on the race of the child and type of adoption, the costs range from $0 to $40,000. Private adoptions of white infants (and international adoptions) can be quite costly. The variance in cost between African-American babies and other races is quite vast, sometimes costing less by tens of thousands of dollars. There are many black children in foster care that can be adopted through the state at no cost to the parent(s)¹. There are many grants and other financial resources available for adoptive parents. Tax credits are also given to encourage adoption.²

Until recently in Georgia (and still in many other states), one of the five factors listed as “Special Needs” adoptions was: being black³. Black children remain in foster care at higher rates than other races and are disproportionately represented (27% of those entering foster care are black even though black children comprise only 15% of the U.S. child population).⁴

There are a number of factors that influence this, but the main factor is race. We are a nation still so uncomfortable with the hue of our skin that we miss out on the ultimate act of racial reconciliation–loving a child of another race simply because they deserve to be loved. Same-race adoptions are beautiful as well as mixed-race adoptions. For some reason, however, with every diatribe about racial healing and better cultural understanding, battle lines have been drawn around adoption. As long as we are human, the evil of racism will always exist. But that should never stop us from endeavoring to rid it where it harms the most vulnerable among us–the welfare of children. We are all guilty of our own prejudices, our firmly held stereotypes, our lack of proaction to be more culturally competent (understanding others’ cultures), and the inability to admit any of it.

“Transracial adoptees do not lose their racial identities-they do not display negative or indifferent racial attitudes about themselves, and their families have as high a success rate as all other adoptees and their families.”

-Rita Simon, Leading Scholar who conducted 20 year longitudinal study, “The Case for Transracial Adoption”

There is an acute lack of awareness surrounding the act and process of adoption. Sometimes people just need a little education. The Radiance Foundation and countless other life-affirming organizations, through community events, conferences and media campaigns, are trying to raise the level of awareness of the need for adoption and for more to be involved. And although the expectation isn’t that every single parent/married couple should/can adopt, we can all play a role through our financial contributions, by volunteering at pregnancy resource centers, supporting birth mothers, and fighting material and spiritual poverty.

At the same time it seems some are more comfortable interacially adopting foreign children (and we need to be concerned about the plight of orphans globally), there is racial/political resistance to transracial adoption of black children that has been going on for decades, and it needs to be exposed. Groups like The National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) are rooted in black nationalist ideology and declare that “black children should never be placed in white homes for any reason.”⁴ They reinforced their 1972 Position Statement in 1994.⁶

They oppose the provision in the 1996 InterEthnic Placement Act that eliminates using race as a factor in adoption/foster care placement.⁷ Their advocacy of the prevention of out-of-home placement , including transracial adoption, is not in the best interest of children. So, instead of actively seeking qualified and loving prospective parents (of any race), African-American children then languish in foster care for 15 months or longer because there are simply not enough same race (and qualified) homes available for them. A new legislative push from large organizations including NABSW, Child Welfare League and its subsidiary Black Administrators in Child Welfare (which does not advocate any out-of-home placements but Kinship care–placement only with child’s relatives) focuses on more federal funding for guardianship.⁸ This subsidy pays a child’s relative, deemed a guardian by child welfare decision makers, who is not financially capable of providing for the child. Kinship care, according to the Government Accountability Office, in its 2007 report “African American Children in Foster Care”, is one of the major factors causing black children to remain in foster care at rates far higher than any other race.

Transracial adoptions (from foster care) have increased from 17.2% of all adoptions in 1996 to 20.1 percent in 2003,⁹ but the racial disparities in placement outcomes continues. So, is culture then preserved while the child awaits a family? Is ethnic identity more crucial than permanence? Contrary to the claims by groups like NABSW and Child Welfare League, studies show that transracially adopted children are just as well-adjusted as same-race adopted children. Leading Scholar, Rita Simon, has conducted one of the most cited, in-depth longitudinal studies on the issue. And her research shows that over 80% of transracial adoptees disagree with groups like the National Association of Black Social Workers.¹⁰

Too often, adoption and foster care are racialized to the detriment of the child, when they simply need a place to call home and someone to love them.

Footnotes

¹The Costs of Adopting: A FactSheet for Families. http://costs.adoption.com/articles/the-costs-of-adopting-a-factsheet-for-families.html

²Adoption Grants Part Two: http://transracial.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/adoption-grants-part-two

³GA Division of Child and Family Services: Definition of Special Needs. http://www.dfcs.dhr.georgia.gov/portal/site/DHS-DFCS/menuitem.8237042e9dbda3aa50c8798dd03036a0/?vgnextoid=561c1de5f6940010VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=7aba1de5f6940010VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD

⁴U.S. Government Accountability Office, “African American Children in Foster Care”, July 2007

⁵National Association of Black Social Workers: Position Statement on Transracial Adoption, 1972: http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/archive/NabswTRA.htm

⁶A Guide to The Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 As Amended by the Interethnic Adoption Provisions of 1996. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/mepa94/mepachp2.htm

⁷U.S. Government Accountability Office, “African American Children in Foster Care”, July 2007. http://bit.ly/GAO_AA_fostercare

⁸Black Administrators in Child Welfare: Emphasis on Prevention. http://www.blackadministrators.org/about_prevention.cfm

⁹U.S. Government Accountability Office, “African American Children in Foster Care”, July 2007. http://bit.ly/GAO_AA_fostercare

¹⁰“Transracial Adoption Works, Says Leading Scholar.” http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2006_fall/simon.htm

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE, BUT MS. GREENHOUSE, YOU DO.

Ms. Greenhouse proves, in her February 10^th Opinion piece, “What Would Shirley Do” that opinion doesn’t have to be predicated upon facts. The feigned outrage of abortion apologists over the use of “forcible rape” language in HR3 is meaningless compared to the absolute silence from the same when actual rape is covered up by Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry. The wording “forcible rape”, by the way, is the terminology used by the FBI when reporting these horrific crimes.

I am, by the way, one who was born out of rape. My birth mother’s courageous decision to choose Life has literally positively impacted millions, especially those that I’ve committed my life to care for, love and serve through various outreaches. I created the “Endangered Species” / TooManyAborted.com campaign to highlight the destructive impact abortion is having, disproportionately, in the black community.

February is Black History Month, and as a black individual, there is no way for me to see 53.2% of all NYC black pregnancies aborted as any sort of achievement, but a destructive epidemic tragedy. Nowhere in America is our “Black Children Are An Endangered Species” messaging more painfully evident than in NYC. There is nothing to celebrate about MORE black children being killed by abortion than are born alive in NYC. The fatherlessness in the black community, where 70% of children born are out of wedlock is nothing to enshrine. Statewide, 61.7% of all black women having abortions are repeat customers. With all of the evidence www.TooManyAborted.com shows, this is deliberate and by design. Decades of failure to reduce “unintended” pregnancies still see hundreds of millions of Title X taxpayer funding rewarding Planned Parenthood and its allies for abject failure. As an adoptee and an adoptive father, I can’t help but mourn the loss (regardless of race) of beautiful possibility.

Today, 34% of NYC’s 118,381 abortions are on black women, 29% on white and 23% on Hispanics (keeping in mind the racial makeup on NYC is about 45% white, 27% black and 27% Hispanic according to 2000 US Census Bureau Data).

The obscene lies about infant and maternal mortality rates (MMR) need a truth infusion from actual stats from the CDC and the NY State Department of Health. NYC maternal mortality was 30.3 (per 100,000 live births) in 1969, 26.1 in 1970, 18.3 in 1971, and 19.7 in 1972. It was NOT cut in half by the legalization of abortion. Let’s talk actual numbers here. In 1968, there were a total of 66 maternal deaths in NYC, compared to 141,920 live births with 608 legal abortions and 59 illegal. How is it that in 1970, when abortion was legalized in NYC, there were MORE MATERNAL DEATHS…68…(20 from abortions) with 19,349 legal abortions? Abortion does not reduce maternal deaths. It causes them. In 2008, there were 44 maternal deaths in NYC, a rate of 12.1 which is on par with the national MMR, yet NYC’s abortion ratio (677.4 abortions per 1,000 live births) is nearly 3 times higher than the national average. Every death is tragic, but how do 44 maternal deaths justify the willful killing of 118,381 innocent unborn lives? Maternal deaths increased during the 80s and 90s (when abortion hit its peak in the US) and continue to climb, most notably because of women delaying pregnancy. Women ages 35 and older are 7x more at risk of maternal death according to the CDC.

Infant mortality (IMR) was NOT cut in half by abortion. The IMR was 24.1 from 1966-1969, 21.6 in 1970 and 20.9 in1971, according to the NY State Dept of Health. The true historical perspective reveals that infant mortality has been on the decline since the early 1900s. Every year since, just as with maternal mortality, it had declined NOT BECAUSE OF ABORTION but because of medical advances and the “discovery and widespread use of antimicrobial agents (sulfonamide and penicillin)” according to the CDC. In NYC, the 2008 infant mortality rate was 5.1, equating to 620 deaths. So, for the abortion apologists, the answer to 620 tragic untimely infant deaths is 118,381 more deliberate killings?

In the end, the abortion industry doesn’t like to deal in actual numbers. Just as apologists have shown such intense aversion to biological and historical facts pertaining to Life issues, statistics, too, are anathema to them simply for revealing the industry and its advocates for who they are…propagandists.

Ryan Bomberger
Creator of “Endangered Species” / TooManyAborted.com campaign
Chief Creative Officer, The Radiance Foundation

The National Black ProLife Coalition applauds the courageous House of Representatives for voting to protect women and children from an industry that has shown it cares far less about them than ideology and profit.

Unfortunately during this month’s celebration little will be said about 14 million black babies thrown away by the bloody hands of abortionists since 1973. How can we laud our history and at the same time ignore a holocaustal scourge that is decimating the future of our existence? Perhaps a glimpse at the history of Margaret Sanger founder of Planned Parenthood and mother of the abortion industry in America will help us see reasons why. Margaret Sanger years ago implemented a plan called the “Negro Project” designed to control population in the black community. The preponderance of material, written by Sanger, reveal her disdain for poorer blacks in particular. Her voluminous statements reflect her eugenic beliefs in a superior race. In 1970, I. I. Gottesman, a director of the American Eugenics Society, defined the meaning of eugenics in this way:

“The essence of evolution is natural selection; the essence of eugenics is the replacement of ‘natural’ selection by conscious, premeditated, or artificial selection in the hope of speeding up the evolution of ‘desirable’ characteristics andthe elimination of undesirable ones.”

With the help of W.E.B. Dubois and black pastors, Sanger set in motion a eugenic plot of dysgenic genocide in the black community. That plan is still at work today under the rubric of “reproductive health” and a “women’s right to choose.” Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, because of laws and policies supported in all three branches of our government, have had unfettered access to our community to work their plan of depopulation since 1973. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg affirmed this idea in an interview with New York Times Magazine when she said, “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe (1973) was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

The irony of our celebration this month is also seen in the recent revelation of four black abortionists who were exposed on our nation’s public stage for atrocities perpetrated on black women and babies in California, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Maryland. In January of this year an indictment of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell for the murder of seven late term babies and one of his female patients in his Philadelphia clinic dominated internet news. Also, exposed in January were Nicole Riley in Maryland who, through a botched abortion, seriously injured a woman by perforating the wall of her uterus pulling out part of her intestines.  James Pendergraft, who runs an illegal late term abortion facility, and Andrew Rutland were exposed for frightening women into agreeing to unnecessary hysterectomies, botching abortions, lying to patients, falsifying medical records, over-prescribing painkillers and having sex with patients. All four typify the abortionist who work for personal gain.

How can we celebrate our history in the light of this abortion scourge? BET television and other media outlets will present historical facts about how blacks contributed to our nations success in the days ahead, but I will find it difficult to celebrate knowing the ugly facts of abortion’s impact on black babies and black women. Our babies, children and women are exposed and victimized through the mantra and deceptive lie of “a women’s right to choose”.  This mantra has led to an abortion scourge that is a devastating threat to our communities.

Major media will not cover this story nor communicate the horror of abortion in the black community. But one must ask: “Where are black print and electronic media?” Why have they not covered this holocaust? Surely they are aware of the malady of abortion and its impacts! Could it be that they, like Dubois and other community leaders recruited in the twentieth century by Sanger, are complicit in her eugenic plan to control the black population? Where are the voices of our leaders? The Congressional Black Caucus is not to be trusted, they have voted unanimously to support Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to refill their re-election coffers. Community activist like Sharpton, and Jackson have become apologists for abortion rights. Perhaps more disturbing is the silence of the black church and their shepherds to fight for babies and women in our communities.

So, I guess its up to “we the people” to engage in pushing back against the abortionist and eugenists in order to protect our babies, our community, and our future. We must hold our elected officials, churches, and pastors accountable if they are to lead us, or remove them from their positions of leadership. Then, and only then, will we will be able to fully celebrate our history, our nation and our future.