{"id":1605101,"date":"2022-08-14T07:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605101"},"modified":"2022-08-14T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:23:30","slug":"dr-alveda-king-easy-abortion-access-has-created-a-black-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-alveda-king-easy-abortion-access-has-created-a-black-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alveda King: Easy Abortion Access Has Created a \u201cBlack Apocalypse\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-alveda-king-easy-abortion-access-has-created-a-black-apocalypse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1605101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/09\/us\/abortion-stories-black-women-reaj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN ran a piece<\/a> titled \u201cBlack women say they are invisible in abortion rights fight: \u2018We are still forgotten within all of this.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The piece, which highlights the stories of five black women who had abortions, said the reversal of Roe v. Wade \u201cstripped [many black women] of bodily autonomy\u201d and \u201ccreated another barrier to economic security and choosing the course of their future.\u201d Widespread abortion access, it said, has \u201cespecially benefited black women who continue to fight for an equal place in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But how can abortion access benefit black females when it so starkly impacts black babies \u2013 half of them girls? Indeed, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/article\/2022\/06\/long-term-decline-us-abortions-reverses-showing-rising-need-abortion-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">roughly 930,000 abortions <\/a>performed in the United States each year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/06\/30\/texas-abortion-black-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about 38 percent are performed on black women<\/a>. In other words, there are about 353,000 black babies aborted every year, 968 every day, 40 every hour, and one every minute and a half. Overall, <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/uploads\/factsheets\/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some 24 million black babies have been aborted<\/a> since Roe v. Wade in 1973. <\/p>\n<p>I call this an abortion apocalypse \u2014 each act the taking of an innocent human life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/trump-king.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Alveda King hugging then-President Donald Trump during a visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2017. King came to Trump\u2019s defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mlk-niece-defends-trump-racism-accusations-absolutely-fake-1451717\">when he was accused of racism during his presidency<\/a>. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kevin Dietsch\/CNP\/startraksphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/king-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/king-family.jpg\" alt=\"The King family gathered for a photograph during Thanksgiving 1963. Standing at the far left is Martin Luther King, Jr. alongside wife Coretta Scott King. Alveda is seated center, holding her cousin Isaac Newton Farris, Jr.\" class=\"wp-image-23419640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The King family gathered for a photograph during Thanksgiving 1963. Standing at the far left is Martin Luther King, Jr. alongside wife Coretta Scott King. Alveda is seated center, holding her cousin Isaac Newton Farris, Jr. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Racial prejudice is nothing new to the abortion movement. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/21\/planned-parenthood-removing-margaret-sangers-name-from-nyc-clinic\/\">was one of the most vocal advocates for eugenics in America. <\/a>In fact,<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=bZMeCgAAQBAJ&#038;pg=PA378&#038;lpg=PA378&#038;dq=%E2%80%9Cthe+most+adequate+and+thorough+avenue+to+the+solution+of+racial,+political+and+social+problems.%E2%80%9D&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=QnVExsCm7h&#038;sig=ACfU3U2bCr0RRGss7IUl_fne473J6CVujA&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwiN15Hk6qj5AhUSO1kFHcUmDOcQ6AF6BAgeEAM#v=onepage&#038;q=%E2%80%9Cthe%20most%20adequate%20and%20thorough%20avenue%20to%20the%20solution%20of%20racial%2C%20political%20and%20social%20problems.%E2%80%9D&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> she wrote in 1921 that eugenics was <\/a>\u201cthe most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A century after Sanger\u2019s words, we should ask ourselves how much has changed in the pro-abortion movement.\u00a0 Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/issues4life.org\/pdfs\/racial_targeting_population_control.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a heavily disproportionate number of Planned Parenthood clinics<\/a> are located in or near minority neighborhoods. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-white-house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-white-house.jpg\" alt=\"Alveda King outside the White House in 2019 following a meeting with then-Pres. Donald Trump. King still supports Trump and has been a vocal critic of Vice President Kamala Harris.\" class=\"wp-image-23419653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-white-house.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-white-house.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-white-house.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Alveda King outside the White House in 2019 following a meeting with then-Pres. Donald Trump. King still supports Trump and has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/alveda-king-martin-luther-kings-trump-loving-niece-criticizes-kamala-harris-after-plagiarism-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> a vocal critic of Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ron Sachs \u2013 CNP\/MEGA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg\" alt=\"AD King, brother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (second from left) sits with his family including daughter Alveda (second from right), who is also a reverend and pastor like her iconic uncle.\" class=\"wp-image-23419658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1137 1137w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=758 758w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=379 379w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-family.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>AD King, brother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (second from left) sits with his family including daughter Alveda (second from right), who is also a reverend and pastor like her iconic uncle.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although they make up just 13 percent of the female population,\u00a0black women account for over one-third of all abortions performed in this country each year. In some places, like New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2015\/nov\/25\/cynthia-meyer\/cynthia-meyer-says-more-black-babies-are-aborted-n\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there are actually more black abortions <\/a>in some years than black live births.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a number of reasons for these numbers \u2014 including fatherlessness, poverty, a lack of decent educational options and low marriage rates. Which is why a crucial part of ending this abortion epidemic begins with fixing the black family. At a time when most black children <a href=\"https:\/\/afro.com\/census-bureau-higher-percentage-black-children-live-single-mothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">are being raised by single mothers<\/a>, we need to encourage marriage and prioritize fatherhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/04\/heres-why-all-students-need-agency-rather-than-equity\/\">School choice can help too,<\/a> so that black children stuck in failing inner-city schools can see a way out of failure and into a more successful future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg\" alt=\"King speaking at the the fourth annual Virginia March for Life in April in Richmond, Va. She sees a direct correlation between the high number of abortions by black women and the low African-American marriage rates.\" class=\"wp-image-23419668\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/alveda-king-march-for-life.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>King speaking at the the fourth annual Virginia March for Life in April in Richmond, Va. She sees a direct correlation between the high number of abortions by black women and the low African-American marriage rates.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg\" alt=\"King says Planned Parenthood locates their clinics in urban areas to make it easier for black woman to obtain abortions. Black women have the highest percentage of abortions of any American ethnic group.\" class=\"wp-image-23424190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/planned-parenthood.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>King says Planned Parenthood locates their clinics in urban areas to make it easier for black woman to obtain abortions. Black women have the highest percentage of abortions of any American ethnic group. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If CNN wants to hear more black female voices, they could start with me. In 1950, my mother was considering an abortion when my grandaddy convinced her that I was a human life. I was saved from abortion that day, and I believe God has commissioned me to raise my voice in defense of life.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life movement believes that Civil Rights begin in the womb, and the American Dream is a dream for <em>all<\/em> Americans\u2014 including the unborn. It\u2019s a dream I learned first-hand from my uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr.  Although he died before abortion was legalized, people often wonder how MLK would feel about abortion. I think some insight can be revealed from his own words: \u201cThe Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As a nation, we must stand up to the radical left and their goal of taxpayer-funded abortions all the way up until birth. And we must continue to pray with faith, hope, love and compassion that all Americans come to cherish life for all God\u2019s children, from the womb to the tomb.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/team\/bio\/alvedaking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr. Alveda King<\/a> serves as Chair for the America First Policy Institute\u2019s Center for the American Dream.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, CNN ran a piece titled \u201cBlack women say they are invisible in abortion rights fight: \u2018We are still forgotten within all of this.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 The piece, which highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1605340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}