Destroying the Black Community

    The notorious murderer, even if he was not personally responsible, Joseph Stalin once said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.” The tragic death of millions of aborted babies is lost in the statistics. How many have been aborted since Roe v. Wade was passed? Millions? Tens of millions? 

    Unfortunately, the percentage of people who care is falling. In a Pew Research Center survey from 2018, sixty percent of blacks, sixty-one percent of whites support abortion in all or most cases. Likely due to the high percentage of Catholics among their demographic, the percentage of Hispanics who support abortion is much lower at 49%. For all the faults of Catholic theology, it does hold the sanctity of life in high regard.

    What also gets lost in the statistics is the destruction of the black community. According to the Center for Disease Control, the abortion rate among black women is 25.1 per 1,000 pregnancies among black women. Among white women, the rate is 6.8 per 1,000. In 2016, in NYC, more babies were aborted than born.

    In 2017, Planned Parenthood sent out a tweet: “If you’re a Black woman in America, it’s statistically safer to have an abortion than to carry a pregnancy to term or give birth.” I’m not sure there’s a country in the world where that statement has any truth to it at all. The truth is, Planned Parenthood makes money off abortions and black women have abortions at a far higher rate than white women.

    Pro-abortion messages among the black community have reached propagandistic levels. An abortion center in Ohio declares: “Because of racial injustice, women of color are more likely to need abortions. …For us, reproductive justice includes racial justice.”

    Saving the black community from destroying itself through abortions has a multifaceted answer. The sanctity of life issue begins with understanding the sanctity of marriage. God’s plan, for every culture, has been one man, one woman, for life. For those who become pregnant outside of marriage, a support network needs to help them get on the right track. It cannot be separated from God’s teachings and it needs to help them understand that they can live a better life. They have to make better choices and have support from Christian friends and the church to make those better choices. The front line for saving the black community is individual Christians encouraging women not to make two bad decisions. The first was sex before marriage. Abortion doesn’t have to be the second.

    We all sin. Some sin, however, carries immediate consequences. Killing an unborn child does not have to be the end of an unwanted pregnancy. Let’s try to help those on the wrong path to get on the right path.

P Holland