A SERIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST!

Posted: 01/01/09

Date: Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A Serious Conflict Of Interest!

The silence in the Black American Church regarding the evil of
abortion is killing us. The numbers reflecting the impact of
abortion in the Black American community are horrifying.

From 1882 until 1968, 3,446 Black Americans were lynched here in the
U.S. Today, that number is surpassed in 2.8 days by abortion in the
Black community. [1]

The abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white
women [2]. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of pregnancies among black women
are unintended. [3] Every 1.2 minutes of every single day of the
year in America, a black baby is aborted.

According to the U.S. Census Report of 2006, which is given to the
Senate and the Congress, Black Americans need 2.1 live births to
replace themselves. At this point Black Americans are currently
below the replacement level at 1.9. This means Black Americans are
no longer replacing themselves because there are more deaths than
live births. [4]

It has been reported that the abortion rate for black women is 543
abortions for every 1000 births. In other words a black baby has
less than a fifty percent (50%) chance of being born alive. Yet
Black American leadership continues to support the pro-choice movement.

Why?

Why did ninety-six percent (96%) of Black America vote for our
President-Elect, Barack Obama, a man who supports abortion, the very
action that is killing five percent (5%) of the black population?
This is a very serious conflict of interest.

Is Black American leadership afraid to acknowledge how dangerous the
President-Elect's support of abortion is?

Are Black American leader's too un-informed to be outraged that for
years our President-Elect has been supporting and currently is
supported by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., an
organization that is the leading provider of surgical abortions in
the United States of America?

Is it possible that Black Americans really believe the product of a
human father and a human mother can be anything other than a human
being?

Do Black Americans really believe a man or a woman has the right to
kill their child?

Can it be true that Black Americans really believe it is best to
allow our babies to be physically dismembered and sucked out of their
mother's womb into biohazardous waste bags because the child's
parents income is below the federal poverty level?

Do Black Americans really believe the reason a Black woman kills her
child is because she understands the value of an education, the
benefits of a job and the responsibilities of parenthood and family
life?

Do Black Americans really believe that if a Black woman does not have
the love and support of a man, she should consider terminating the
life of her baby?

Do Black Americans really believe there is a "time and place" to
suspend the constitutional rights of our offspring?

The statistics would say "yes" to all of the above and as a Black
American man of the cloth, I am ashamed of the Black Church's
unwillingness to opening, publicly and forthrightly, address the
morally reprehensible impact of abortion in the Black community.

According to Day Gardner, President of the National Black Pro-Life
Union, abortion is the number one killer of Black Americans.
Abortion kills more black people than heart attacks, stroke, HIV-
AIDS, accidents, cancer, violent crime and all other deaths combined.

According to Star Parker, President of the Coalition on Urban Renewal
& Education (CURE), Abortion is now the number one killer of black
women between 25 and 34.

Yet our pulpits, if not supporting pro-choice leaders, have been
criminally silent on the issue of abortion and negligent in providing
tangible and practical help such as Post Abortion Counseling and
Education (PACE) programs to men, women and families in the pews who
have been deceived by the lies of a pro-death society and horribly
hurt by a rabid abortion industry.

God has ordained the man of God to serve this present age and given
him the power to speak truth in to the hearts of people. In the
Black community no one has more influence than the Pastor and
brothers we have willfully allowed ourselves to be deceived by our
own self-interests.
Abortion is clearly a moral issue and the Word of God requires us to
stand up and speak out against it. [5]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail,"
dated April 16, 1963, wrote:

"Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure
got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being
'disturbers of the peace' and 'outside agitators.' But they
went on with the conviction that they were 'a colony of heaven,'
and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but
big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be
'astronomically intimidated.' They brought an end to such ancient
evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest."

Let us face this new year without fear.

Let us humble ourselves and seek God's face.

Let us repent of our sins and ask God to forgive us.

Let us like the early Christians boldly choose to obey God rather
than man and bring an end to abortion anywhere and everywhere it exists.

Footnotes:

[1] Statistics provided by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute
[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/
lynchingsstate.html], accessed January 1, 2009.

[2] The Alan Guttmacher Institute Policy Review: Summer 2008, Volume
11, Number 3 [http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/
gpr110302.html], accessed January 1, 2009.

[3] The Alan Guttmacher Institute: Facts on Induced Abortion in the
United States [http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/
fb_induced_abortion.html], accessed January 1, 2009.

[4] U.S. Census Report of 2006 and refer to chart 77 [http://
www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/06statab/vitstat.pdf], accessed January
1, 2009

[5] King James Version of the Bible: Leviticus 18:3, 20:21-24; 21;
20:1-5; Deuteronomy 12:29-31; 2 Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 7:31,32 ;
19:4-6; Ezekiel 16:20,21; 23:36,37. This is a partial list of
scripture references.

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