Dayspring Church

...where the nations worship

 I preached the sermon, yesterday, on the subject of “Sanctity of Human Life” In that sermon I decried the fact that the African American community has been strongly hurt by the legalism of abortion in America. 

It is important to discover the reason WHY is this so.  Please let me submit to you a quote that helps to put it into perspective: 

"Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are they being targeted? Isn't that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant. Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? The founder of Planned Parenthood said, "Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated." Is her vision being fulfilled today?" quoted from blackgenocide.org.

I would urge anyone alarmed by this issue to go to the previously mentioned web site.  Pastor Clenard H. Childress, Jr. is a passionate proponent of the Pro-Life Movement.  He champions the unborn child. 

The fact is that there has been a targeted drive to make abortions easily available, affordable, socially encouraged, and politically supported towards the African American community.  The white community is responsible for this and it is time that we repent of this.  I, for one, as a white American am troubled and sorrowful that this is a problem today.

The reality of life is that the legalization of abortion is problem in the white community as well as any minority group.  Every day in America, an average of 3,315 human beings lose their lives to abortion.  729 of those babies are Hispanic, 1,127 are white, and 1,227 are black.  This has got to stop!

In closing, I would like you to read a very insightful letter from Yolanda Wess.  I truly appreciate her willingness to share her thought with me.  I’ve asked her permission to share this with you.

God bless you,

Dear Church Family,

An Addendum to the Sermon

Pastor Tim

LINKS:

http://www.abort73.com/index.php?/abortion/abortion_and_race

 

blackgenocide.org.

 

http://www.nbccongress.org/features/abortion_silent_no_more_01.asp

From Yolanda Wess:

I am African American. I am pro-life. While I have chosen not to be a part of pro-life rallies because they are not welcoming and are about one issue, I have chosen to be involved with groups such as pregnancy care. I have been captain of Dayspring's walk for life team for two years, but involved with the agency for over 15. Over the past two years over 50 percent of those donating and walking from our church have been African American. Statistics show that while AA don't attend pro-life groups they are pro-life and value the life of all.  Many are involved in ways beyond pro-life rallies.
 
 This point is noted on the Blacks for life website and the lifenews website....

 "She points out that black women represent 12 percent of the female population in the country but have one-third of all abortions. For every five African American women that get pregnant three will have abortions.

 But the Rev. John Ensor, who heads up the minority outreach for Heartbeat told the St. Louis paper that other reasons are a factor.

 "For many African-Americans, the pro-life movement is perceived as a white, Republican, conservative movement," he said. "And that group is on the wrong side of the civil rights movement."

 Polls certainly show that African Americans are pro-life -- more so than their Caucasian counterparts.

 In an August poll sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.

 Lillie Epps, a black pro-life leader affiliated with CareNet, told the Post-Dispatch that black Americans are pro-life, but it is one of many political concerns they have.

 "One piece of the pie is anti-abortion," she said. "But there are nine other pieces of that pie, and the other pieces speak more directly to their situation."

 The biggest reason for the lack of involvement, according to Brad Mattes, director of Life Issues Institute, is the lack of effort by pro-life groups to attract black members.

 "The pro-life movement has been well-intended but has not communicated effectively with the African-American community," he told the St. Louis newspaper.

 Mattes said his group would be working to hire someone to conduct African-American outreach and would begin to have a presence at the NAACP meetings and in historically black churches."

 Many AA don't know that the pro-choice movement has its roots in eugenics. Local leaders in Cincinnati where instrumental in this movement. So whites have been encouraging blacks and other minorities to get abortions for reasons that go well beyond what the unsuspecting woman might have thought. 

  I have been and will continue to be fighting for the life of all. I did sign a petition again the Freedom of Choice Act and have encouraged others to do so.