The abortion industry has infiltrated the African American community by cloaking the procedure as a woman’s civil right and embedding the issue into politics, African American pro-life advocate Arnold Culbreath told Baptist Press.
“The abortion industry shamelessly slithered into the black American community on the heels of the ‘free love’ movement, soon after Woodstock, and at the outset of the civil rights movement,” said Culbreath, urban outreach director for Protecting Black Life, an affiliate of the Life Issues Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, working to end abortion through education.
The abortion industry “duped black women into believing that abortion was their civil right,” Culbreath said. “Not only was this misguided ideology deeply imbedded into the fabric of our community then, but we are still working to dispel the deception of this deadly dogma today.”
The industry’s tactic is one reason abortion is the leading cause of death among African Americans, Culbreath told Baptist Press.
“Unbeknown to many, abortion remains the leading cause of death among black Americans, higher than all other causes of death combined,” Culbreath said. “In 2008, the most recent statistics released in 2011 reveal there were 289,072 black deaths from all causes excluding abortion. But in that same year there were 360,000 surgical black abortions.
“Nearly 1,000 black babies die by abortion every day,” Culbreath said. “My passion stems from a God-given burden to see this genocide ended.”
The assistant pastor of the nondenominational Heirs Covenant Church of Cincinnati has focused much of his ministry within the Southern Baptist community to accomplish his goal, speaking to audiences of various ethnicities at churches, colleges and special events.
“The Lord just put on my heart the Southern Baptist Convention,” Culbreath told Baptist Press. “I just started moving forward and pushing on doors, and the Lord has opened those doors tremendously. We’re trying to share some information that I think will change the landscape of our community.”
Margaret Sanger targeted the African American community with the Negro Project of 1939, enlisting African American leaders to promote birth control among blacks as family planning. In reality, Culbreath said, she was promoting eugenics and selective reproduction. Sanger founded in 1921 The American Birth Control League, which became Planned Parenthood.
“Every time I speak I bring up Margaret Sanger. The white audiences, they get it. And many of them have known for years and cried out in protest to the genocide that’s going on,” Culbreath said. “It’s so sad that when folks get offended about hearing the truth about Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, I rarely if ever get offense from the white audiences; it’s the black audiences, the very ones that she and Planned Parenthood are working to obliterate. And I find that very sad and quite ironic.”
Planned Parenthood, the largest birth control provider in the United States, has located 62.5 percent of its clinics within a two-mile radius of neighborhoods where African Americans and Hispanics make up the majority of residents, according to Life Issues research.
Planned Parenthood denies the charge, citing statistics updated in June from the Guttmacher Institute. The group contends 60 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in majority white neighborhoods.
“The Guttmacher Institute is a leading, independent, nationally recognized reproductive health research and policy organization and we appreciate its unbiased findings that debunk the claim that a majority of abortion providers are located in Black neighborhoods,” Vanessa Cullins, Planned Parenthood Federation of America vice president of external medical affairs, said in an email to Baptist Press.
Undisputed are statistics showing that African Americans account for a disproportionate percentage of abortions. In 2011, African American women accounted for 30 percent of abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute, when blacks numbered only 12.5 percent of the population, U.S. Census figures show.
Abortion is also fueled by politics, Culbreath said.
“I often say, and I hate to give the devil any credit, but I often say one of his most masterful strategies regarding the issue of abortion, was to politicize it,” Culbreath said, “because most people, black, white, brown or yellow, have difficulty talking about, thinking about, dealing with this issue beyond political construct.”
“There is a political side to abortion, because it was passed by a 7-2 decision by our Supreme Court. It does have a political side, but in reality, it’s much, much more broad than that,” Culbreath said. “It has health implications, it has a negative impact … on women, it has financial implications. It is a multi-billion dollar industry. And one friend of mine often says that if abortion was not lucrative, it would not be legal.”
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SOURCE: Baptist Press
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