I applaud Nick Cannon for having the guts to state the obvious: Planned Parenthood is responsible for “real genocide” in the black community, and is a form of “modern eugenics.” Indeed, more black Americans die from abortion than from anything else. The abortion rate for black women is three times higher than that of white women. Black lives truly matter, and that includes in the womb. And if the Black Lives Matter movement truly believed black lives matter, they would become pro-life because nothing has done more to desecrate the black population than abortion.
December 6, 2016
Nick Cannon calls out Planned Parenthood for “real genocide”
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Thinking to Believe 
December 7, 2016 at 11:55 am
Nick Cannon may call out Planned Parenthood because they provide health care to women but there is more than just calling out the providers of healthcare that also includes abortion. There are many factors that lead women to planned Parenthood, its not like Planned Parenthood is going around looking for proselytes to convert women by coaxing them to have an abortion; that is just a way too simplistic view of the problem. One could call out the Catholic religion and with a lot more rigor, in its stance for promoting abortion by being dogmatically opposed to birth control.
In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, “Human Life”), which reemphasized the Church’s constant teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence.
Contraception is “any action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act [sexual intercourse], or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” (Humanae Vitae 14). This includes sterilization, condoms and other barrier methods, spermicides, coitus interruptus (withdrawal method), the Pill, and all other such methods.
The Historic Christian Teaching
Few realize that up until 1930, all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church’s teaching condemning contraception as sinful. At its 1930 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican church, swayed by growing social pressure, announced that contraception would be allowed in some circumstances. Soon the Anglican church completely caved in, allowing contraception across the board. Since then, all other Protestant denominations have followed suit. Today, the Catholic Church alone proclaims the historic Christian position on contraception.
Evidence that contraception is in conflict with God’s laws comes from a variety of sources.
Nature
Contraception is wrong because it’s a deliberate violation of the design God built into the human race, often referred to as “natural law.” The natural law purpose of sex is procreation. The pleasure that sexual intercourse provides is an additional blessing from God, intended to offer the possibility of new life while strengthening the bond of intimacy, respect, and love between husband and wife. The loving environment this bond creates is the perfect setting for nurturing children.
But sexual pleasure within marriage becomes unnatural, and even harmful to the spouses, when it is used in a way that deliberately excludes the basic purpose of sex, which is procreation. God’s gift of the sex act, along with its pleasure and intimacy, must not be abused by deliberately frustrating its natural end—procreation.
Scripture
Is contraception a modern invention? Hardly! Birth control has been around for millennia. Scrolls found in Egypt, dating to 1900 B.C., describe ancient methods of birth control that were later practiced in the Roman empire during the apostolic age. Wool that absorbed sperm, poisons that fumigated the uterus, potions, and other methods were used to prevent conception. In some centuries, even condoms were used (though made out of animal skin rather than latex).
The Bible mentions at least one form of contraception specifically and condemns it. Coitus interruptus, was used by Onan to avoid fulfilling his duty according to the ancient Jewish law of fathering children for one’s dead brother. “Judah said to Onan, ‘Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.’ But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him also” (Gen. 38:8–10).
The biblical penalty for not giving your brother’s widow children was public humiliation, not death (Deut. 25:7–10). But Onan received death as punishment for his crime. This means his crime was more than simply not fulfilling the duty of a brother-in-law. He lost his life because he violated natural law, as Jewish and Christian commentators have always understood. For this reason, certain forms of contraception have historically been known as “Onanism,” after the man who practiced it, just as homosexuality has historically been known as “Sodomy,” after the men of Sodom, who practiced that vice (cf. Gen. 19).
According to a study co-authored by Upadhyay and Zehlendorf published last year in the American Journal of Public Health believe that the Affordable Care Act will help reduce abortion among women of color by making contraception more affordable. Though national numbers are not yet available, Upadhyay said that her own doctor has seen a huge spike in demand for IUDs since the law went into effect.
Blacks comprise only 13% of the population of America but account for 37% of all abortions. Black women are five times more likely to abort than white women. 69% of pregnancies among Blacks are unintended, while that number is 54% among Hispanics and 40% of pregnancies among Whites.
The median income for black households is less than 60% that of white ones.
Over the past 25 years, the wealth gap between blacks and whites has nearly tripled, according to research by Brandeis University.
Median Household Wealth for whites is $91,405.00; of blacks $6,446.00.
That’s in large part because home ownership among blacks is so much lower. Housing is often Americans’ greatest asset and a major component of their overall wealth.
White home ownership = 72,9%
Black home ownership = 43.5%
Median household income whites =$59,754.00
Median household income blacks =$35,416.00
Unemployment is also a major problem. The jobless rate for blacks is twice that of whites. The gap has been at least that large for years.
Whites unemployment rate = 5.3%
Blacks unemployment rate =11.4%
All of these factors combine to push many blacks into poverty. America’s 15% poverty rate masks the underlying racial differences. More than one in four blacks live in poverty, while fewer than one in 10 whites do.
Poverty rate whites = 9.7%
Poverty rate blacks =27.2%
The economic situation in Ferguson mirrors the national picture, with poverty, unemployment and low income pervasive among its black residents.
Source: August 21, 2014
http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/21/news/economy/black-white-inequality/
An August 2013, Sentencing Project report on Racial Disparities in the United States Criminal Justice System, submitted to the United Nations, found that
1 out of 9 African American men will be in prison – ages 20 and 34.
Black males ages 30 to 34 have the highest crime rate of any race/ethnicity gender and age combination. (According to America Community Survey.)
“In 2014, 6% of all black males ages 30 to 39 were in prison, compared to 2% of Hispanic and 1% of white males in the same age group.”
“The Lifetime chances of going to prison are 32.2% for Black males and 17.2% for Latino males, while only 5.9% for White males.” (Finzen 301)
1 in 3 black males will go to prison in their lifetime. ( Sentencing Project)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_of_incarcerated_African-American_males.
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December 7, 2016 at 10:51 pm
Planned Parenthood was started by Margaret Sanger who was a eugenicist, and she specifically targeted African Americans. 79% of Planned Parenthood centers are located in black and Latino neighborhoods (http://www.protectingblacklife.org/pp_targets/). Coincidence? I think not.
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December 7, 2016 at 11:41 pm
T.R.:
Your commentary about Sanger is completely out of context with the facts.
Planned Parenthood centers are primarily set in poor neighborhoods to give poor people more access to affordable health care and if you said, “would that be mostly Black and Latino communities?” you would be right but not because of her views on eugenics. Out of context, suits biases, but always leaves out the “rest of the story”.
Here is a little more meat on the bare bones of your commentary.
Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term “birth control”, opened the first birth control clinic(please note it was the first birth control clinic not an abortion clinic) in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. As a matter of fact It is worth noting here that Planned Parenthood did not begin providing abortions until 1970, four years after Sanger had already died.
Sanger worked with eminent African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929, James H. Hubert, a black social worker and leader of New York’s Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem. Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930. The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African-American press and in black churches, and it received the approval of W. E. B. Du Bois, co-founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine, The Crisis. Sanger did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects. Sanger’s work with minorities earned praise from Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1966 acceptance speech for the Margaret Sanger award.
In 1916 Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception after an undercover policewoman bought a copy of her pamphlet on family planning. IMAGINE ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR DISTRIBUTING COPIES OF FAMILY PLANNING PAMPHLETS. Her subsequent trial and appeal generated controversy. Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent so-called back-alley abortions, which were common at the time because abortions were usually illegal. She believed that while abortion was sometimes justified it should generally be avoided, and she considered contraception the only practical way to avoid them.
In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In New York City, she organized the first birth control clinic staffed by all-female doctors, as well as a clinic in Harlem with an entirely African-American staff. In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which served as the focal point of her lobbying efforts to legalize contraception in the United States. From 1952 to 1959, Sanger served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She died in 1966, and is widely regarded as a founder of the modern birth control movement.
After World War I, Sanger increasingly appealed to the societal need to limit births by those least able to afford children. The affluent and educated already limited their child-bearing, while the poor and ignorant lacked access to contraception and information about birth-control. Here she found an area of overlap with eugenicists. She believed that they both sought to “assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit.” They differed in that “eugenists imply or insist that a woman’s first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her duty to the state.” Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, which aims to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing the reproduction of those who were considered unfit.
Sanger’s view of eugenics was influenced by Havelock Ellis and other British eugenicists who held that environmentally acquired traits were inherited by one’s progeny. Consequently, she rejected race and ethnicity as determining factors. Instead she stressed limiting the number of births to live within one’s economic ability to raise and support healthy children. This would lead to a betterment of society and the human race. Sanger’s view put her at odds with leading American eugenicists, such as Charles Davenport who took a racist view of inherited traits. She continually rejected their approach.
In “The Morality of Birth Control,” a 1921 speech, she divided society into three groups: the “educated and informed” class that regulated the size of their families, the “intelligent and responsible” who desired to control their families in spite of lacking the means or the knowledge, and the “irresponsible and reckless people” whose religious scruples “prevent their exercising control over their numbers.” Sanger concludes, “There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
Due to her connection with Planned Parenthood, many who are opposed to abortion frequently condemn Sanger by criticizing her views on birth control and eugenics of compulsory segregation or sterilization for the “profoundly retarded” but rejected the Nazi lethal chambers of eugenics which is what T.R. commentary implies. Sanger wrote, “we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding.” In personal correspondence she expressed her sadness about the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program; and donated to the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda
In spite of such controversies, Sanger continues to be regarded as a force in the American reproductive rights movement and woman’s rights movement.
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December 12, 2016 at 9:47 pm
Leo, Sanger was a eugenist and a racist. She did not like black people, and there are quotes from her to that effect. While there may be more to the story than I am aware of, it really doesn’t matter. The real issue isn’t what Sanger’s motives are, or even what the motives are of the modern leaders of PP. The real issue is that these centers are in minority neighborhoods, and they are the ones who are aborting their babies at alarming rates. More black people are killed by abortion than any other means. And for that, the black community should be extremely concerned.
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December 13, 2016 at 11:06 am
The real issue is that these centers are in minority neighborhoods because the minority neighborhoods are among the poorest in America.
Apart from the antiabortionists who want to defund planned parenthood that would gut 97% of all other services provided to poverty stricken communities because of the 3% abortion services.
Dr. Curtis Boyd
COURTESY OF CAROLYN LOBECK
As a young physician before Roe, he provided thousands of safe, illegal abortions in East Texas from 1967 to 1973. He is one of the last living physicians who performed abortions before they were legal.
“I started giving abortions in 1967. Some feminist groups began to do menstrual extractions when abortion was still illegal. [Editor’s note: A menstrual extraction is a process in which a tube attached to a jar is inserted into a woman’s uterus, and then the contents of her uterus are hand-pumped through the tube and into the jar. These extractions were originally used to evacuate a woman’s period and were therefore legal, as long as she was not pregnant.]
We saw a lot of the complications in the hospitals. I was a doctor in training. Women came in bleeding, with fever, with incomplete evacuations, with perforations. Some of them were quite ill and occasionally someone died. We thought a lot of these were spontaneous abortions — we didn’t realize all of them were induced.
“I’m putting pro-life justices on the court,” Trump said about overturning Roe v. Wade. “I will say this. It will go back to the states and the states will then make a determination.” What Trump described was once a reality in the United States. Forty-three years ago, before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in all 50 states, abortion rights were left to state legislatures. In 1970, just three years before Roe, only four states had legalized abortions. Going back to the “Bad Old Days”
ABORTION CLINICS STARTED BY CLERGY:
Howard Moody, who was a Baptist minister from New York, started the Clergy Consultation Service and is probably the reason I ended up in this field of work. I’m an ordained minister. Claude Evans, who was then the university chaplain at Southern Methodist University, started one of those clergy consultation groups in Dallas. When I was in medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern, I joined the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Dallas, and that’s how I came to know Evans.
In the ’60s, there were a lot of young women on campuses like SMU who were asking for help, so I think these clergymen began to see it as their Christian duty to hear their stories. Many university chaplains, like Evans, became sympathetic to the plight of young women who became pregnant when they did not want to be. Evans eventually asked if I would consider providing abortion services.
The referral process in those days was like an underground railroad. Everything went through the ministers — the clergymen in the consultation group. They set up the appointment, the woman came, and then she was not to come back to me. If she had a problem, the ministers took care of it. People don’t realize — these ministers were so fabulous. They did everything they could to make this service available, to work toward getting it legalized, and to take care of me as best they could. They knew that I could go to prison; we broke the law.
“The decades before Roe v. Wade were the bad ol’ days. It was horrible carnage — and every one of those deaths was preventable. These women weren’t dying of exotic diseases. They were dying of simple things like hemorrhage and infection, and any third-year medical student with adequate equipment could’ve easily handled it. But the reason those women were dying is because the country had not yet made the decision that these women’s lives are worth saving. It’s just one of the ugly manifestations of misogyny, and it needs to be understood as such. It was a profound disdain of women and their autonomy.
Back in the ’50s and ’60s, every major metropolitan hospital in the U.S. had a septic abortion ward. The most common reason for admission to gynecological services in America was complication of abortion.
If abortion became illegal, it would get bad — but it would not be as bad as in the pre-Roe days. We have safer techniques today by which women could self-induce, specifically misoprostol. Women are using them already in places like Texas.
But the point is, why should women be driven to those measures when we have competent health-care providers standing by? Anyone who is opposed to abortion and contraception is, by definition, a misogynist. It shows profound disrespect and disdain for women as autonomous, constitutionally protected citizens.
The reason I was moved to provide abortions was to achieve women their rightful place in society — one of respect and equality. When you have a legislature taking over your body when you become pregnant, suddenly you’re relegated to a second-class citizenship.
Whether you think abortion is wrong is irrelevant.
Whether you think the woman may not be making the best decisions is irrelevant.
It’s her life, her body, and she gets to make the decision, not you. That’s the reason I do this work. I’ll retire when I die. When my brain and hands are gone, or when I die — that’s when I’ll retire.
Source:
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a6964440/abortion-before-roe-v-wade/
What is Jason’s solution for this concerning matter, any? apart from relegating abortions to retro-legislate back alley coat hangers, midwives and nurses with limited knowledge of medical procedures for safely providing abortions? Because it will continue unless contraceptives are provided free of charge to the women that men love to seduce and both of whom are driven by Genesis “Life Forces”.
It’s biblical!
The way of a man with a maiden is too amazing. The man’s desire, so sneakily subtle and the woman’s barren womb that will not deny to be satisfied.
Gen 2:24-25 Therefore shall a man (Adam) leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto Eve (the woman) and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and the woman, and were not ashamed. Gen 4:1 And Adam (married) “knew” Eve the woman, his wife; and she conceived.
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