Abortion, Black Americans, and Planned Parenthood

The following are remarks delivered by Fr. Mickey McGrath on February 22, 2020 at the Stand Out for Life outside of the headquarters of Planned Parenthood of Central and Western NY in Rochester, NY (video below):

This is the month of February and in it our nation remembers the contributions of African Americans to our history and culture; so let us take the time today to highlight how a few of them have contributed to the debate on abortion.

In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness on the part of Black Americans to recognize the devastating effect that abortion is having on their community—and it is a noticeably disproportionate effect as well. So, first of all, we take a look at the statistics to see the impact.

A 2014 study showed that, although only 13% of American women are black, 36% of all abortions are by black women. It was reported by the Center for Disease Control in 2016 that among white women, 10% of pregnancies (excluding spontaneous miscarriages) ended in abortion [1 in 10]. Among black women, 29% ended in abortion [1 in 3] (CDC). That means that Black women were more than 3 times more likely to have an abortion than white women (CDC).

In New York City the disproportion is wildly out of control. There, 60% of all abortions are by black women! 60% of NYC abortions are by a minority! Recently in an interview on television, Pastor Clenard Howard Childress Jr. – founder of the website blackgenocide.org, and who has been in this fight for about two decades – said that 52% of all African American pregnancies end in abortion – a total of 1,786 per day!

Abortion is the number one killer of African Americans – more than diabetes, more than high blood pressure, more than heart disease… In fact, Walter B. Hoye II, who was here with us last year, notes on his website issues4life.org how badly abortion has affected Black America: “Since abortion was legalized in 1973, more Black American babies have been killed by abortion than the total number of Black American deaths from all other causes combined.” Since 1973 the number reaches to at least 16,000,000 black children but some estimates go as high as 20 million. In either case, this has been devastating to the black community.

Taking the so-called low figure of 16 million; that’s more people than the entire populations of Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Oakland, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Detroit and Baltimore, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Boston. Imagine a nuclear bomb falling and hitting each one of those cities and knocking out its population. That has been the effect of abortion in our land, and in particular, in the African-American community. When we reflect on this impact, we can understand why Pastor Childress coined the phrase: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”

Nationally syndicated columnist, Star Parker, stated the following in a congressional hearing in 2017: “Slavery was, as abortion is, a crime against humanity. Like slavery, tension was created in the public square and in law concerning who qualified for natural rights worthy of protection.” She went on to speak of the Dred Scott decision compared to the Roe vs. Wade decision saying that when put side by side, they are saying the same kind of thing, that, what for many people in our society say is a human being—is being declared nothing more than property.

Recently she noted the decline in favor that abortion has in the eyes of the nation. In the latest Gallup polling, 49% of Americans identified as pro-life and 46% as pro-choice. Fifty percent say abortion is “morally wrong,” and 42% say it is “morally acceptable.” She asks the question: “How can we possibly function as a nation when an issue as critical as abortion defies consensus as to its constitutional pedigree as well as its morality?”

Candace Owens – who started the Blexit movement and host of the Candace Owens Show on PragerU.com states it plainly and clearly when she says, “Murder is not healthcare. Murder is not a reproductive right.” She fully believes that our young people are being indoctrinated in the public schools to think that it is natural to think that people should not be born. She understands that this is a deliberate movement of the left in order breakdown the family, so that, when there is nothing left of it, the government can step in and take its place. She has noted that the black population has stagnated and that it is the only race that is not growing.

What Hoye, Parker and Owens all have in common is that they are converts to the pro-life side. All of them have had an awakening to what is going on and they have an understanding as to what’s behind it. They, like Pastor Childress, have all come to the awareness that it is not by accident that they are seeing black America so hard hit by the plague of abortion. They have learned that all of this is the result of the targeted effort of eugenicist and racist, Margaret Sanger, the founder of the American Birth Control League which later became Planned Parenthood.

These patriotic Americans have come to know how racist the roots of Planned Parenthood are. They have become aware of her “Negro Project” and its purpose to ‘root out’, shall we say, blacks whom she called “weeds” that need to be exterminated; she said they “should never have been born.” Regarding the Negro Project she explained in a letter her insidious thoughts about how to reach the Black community and get them to stop reproducing:

“It seems to me from my experience…that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts… We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal… We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Here, we see the full diabolical plan to court Christian pastors to become Judas for their own flocks. Note here that it all started with contraception and has now “blossomed” so to speak into the use of abortion to cull a minority population to fulfill the eugenicist’s disgusting dream.

Sanger, who admitted in her autobiography of giving a speech to the Klu Klux Klan, also expected parents to be as prophets about their own children. “I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world – that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically. Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things just marked when they’re born. That to me is the greatest sin – that people can – can commit.” And for this sad, bigoted but highly influential woman, it is especially a sin to allow black people to be born.

Added to all of this villainy is the fact that abortion greatly increases a woman’s chance for cancer. Research in China has shown that the overall risk of developing breast cancer in women who’ve had an abortion was 44% higher than women who have not had an abortion. They also found that the risk of breast cancer increased as the number of abortions increased. Two abortions increased a woman’s cancer risk by 76%, three by 89%. It concludes, “In summary, the most important implication of this study is that induced abortion (IA) was significantly associated with an increased risk of breast cancer among Chinese females, and the risk of breast cancer increases as the number of IA increases.”

If indeed we are talking about health care, if indeed we are talking about helping and empowering women, then why are there no advertisements on television warning women about this danger like there are advertisements about smoking and about all sorts of drugs that have been recalled? The answer leads us back to racism and genocide. If the abortion industry and certain politicians really cared about women and their health, especially Black women, then things would be very different and no one in their right mind would promote such a dangerous procedure.

So here we stand in the year of our Lord 2020, nearly 100 years after the founding of the American Birth Control League and almost 80 years of Planned Parenthood’s existence and we see the sad dream of Margaret Sanger coming true as the black community in America continues to struggle to make its way forward against an all-out war against it. The prejudice of Sanger has been enshrined in the mission of this organization and the insidiousness of her hatred has alluded so many women of color who have bought the lie that they are helping women and advancing women’s causes, especially those of their own race.

As such, we can all see that to be pro-life is to promote civil rights; to be pro-life is to promote human rights; to be pro-life is to promote the rights of blacks, whites, Hispanics and all Americans. We must speak the truth that, as we have shown, abortion is not meant to bring about a resolution to black women’s problems, but is in fact akin to the Final Solution of Nazi Germany. It is not constructive, but destructive; and it is no way healthcare that is reproductive.

So in this month of February, we honor the work of Mr. Hoye, Ms. Parker and Ms. Owens to wake America up to the reality for which Pastor Childress has so powerfully lobbied and fought – to see that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry is equivalent to Black Genocide. Since racism is such an important and hot button issue today, perhaps by showing the truth behind the scenes, Americans will find even more reasons to see that abortion is a form of bigotry and hate. It is pure evil. Then Americans will understand what it truly means to care for women’s health and well-being and will seek to protect and value all lives—be they Asian or Hispanic, be they White or Black.