DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Black Pro-life Leaders Petition Alabama Supreme Court for Equal Protection for All Babies

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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LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”