NEWS PROVIDED BY
Life Legal Defense Foundation
Sept. 22, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 22, 2020 /Christian Newswire/
-- Black prolife leaders, including Walter Hoye and Alveda King, are
gathering in Montgomery, Alabama today in support of Life Legal's
petition to protect black children from abortion. Life Legal filed the petition with the Alabama Supreme Court this morning, arguing that black children deserve equal protection under the law.
Today,
September 22, marks the anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation, which challenged the legal status of slaves and committed
the resources of the U.S. government to "recognize and maintain" the
freedom of blacks in America.
Alabama's Constitutional Amendment
930 recognizes and supports the sanctity of life and the rights of
unborn children, including the right to life, and ensures "the
protection of the rights of the unborn child." Amendment 930 passed by
an overwhelming margin—nearly 60% of voters agreed that preborn babies'
lives matter.
But state officials have failed to enforce
Amendment 930. As a result, more than 15,000 unborn children perished by
abortion in the two years since the Amendment was passed. Most of those
are black babies. Over 60% of abortions in the state are committed on
black children—yet blacks make up just under 27% of the total population
of Alabama. Black children are over three times more likely to be
aborted than children of other races.
This is not an accident.
The
abortion industry is rooted in racism and eugenics. Planned Parenthood
founder Margaret Sanger launched her "Negro Project" to suppress the
birth rate among those she deemed "unfit," including Black Americans.
Planned Parenthood claims it no longer adheres to the eugenic practices
of its founders. Why then does PP continue to target black children by
placing most of its abortion mills in black communities? Why did it
choose Birmingham, Alabama as the site of its latest "mega-clinic"—a
city whose population is over 70% black?
Planned Parenthood is
founded on the idea that only "planned" or "wanted" children are
deserving of legal protection. But this grossly disparate treatment of
"planned" and "unplanned" or "wanted" and "unwanted" children violates
equal protection laws. This injustice is further compounded by the
reality that black children are more likely to be deemed "unwanted" in a
system that has historically discriminated against them.
To
understand the racial component in this discriminatory treatment, one
need only look to comments by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
who, in a 2009 interview, acknowledged the link between Roe v. Wade and
population growth, "particularly growth in populations that we don't
want to have too many of."
"Life Legal is asking the Court to
prohibit discrimination against preborn black children and to enforce
Alabama's Constitution," said Life Legal CEO Alexandra Snyder.
"Amendment 930 clearly affords equal protection to all children in
Alabama—born and unborn—regardless of race."
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About Life Legal Defense Foundation
Life
Legal Defense Foundation was established in 1989, and is a nonprofit
organization composed of attorneys and other concerned citizens
committed to giving helpless and innocent human beings of any age, and
their advocates, a trained and committed voice in the courtrooms of our
nation. For more information about the Life Legal Defense Foundation,
visit www.lldf.org.
SOURCE Life Legal Defense Foundation
CONTACT: Alexandra Snyder, 202-717-7371
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