Celebrating love for the African American family

Gabriela Fierro

By tradition, the Catholic Church dedicates each month of the year to a certain devotion. In February, it is the Holy Family; Mary, her beloved Joseph and Baby Jesus. February is also the celebration of Black History Month and of love, and it is ironic that the greatest attack on the family, especially the Black family is abortion. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood (which was originally called the American Birth Control League), first referred to it as her “Negro Project” which aimed to control and maybe even exterminate, some claim, the African American population. Sanger wrote articles and letters about her goals to “purify” the Human race from “unfit” persons, as she called them. 

Sanger held meetings with other members of Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood at the headquarters of the Eugenics Society to discuss ways in which the Black population could be more easily controlled. The quickest way, they realized, was through sterilization, birth control, and abortion. Today, there is a lot of evidence that would seem to validate this. For example, 78% of the company’s clinics are situated in neighborhoods that are predominantly inhabited by minorities. Cries of outrage from charity organizations were made against Planned Parenthood after Haiti was struck by Hurricane Tomas in 2010, when after killing thousands and leaving many wounded, Planned Parenthood asked America for donations so as to provide Haitians with new abortion clinics and more contraceptives as soon as possible. When a natural disaster destroys the homes and the lives of people’s beloved, it is expected to find that someone would give that person in suffering a hand, but not that they would be given a condom (Blackgenocide.org).

Planned Parenthood also distributes many forms of birth control pills, one of them being the RU-486. The initials RU stand for Roussel Uclaf, a division of a company called Hoechst AG. After WWII, a company known as I.G. Farben was closed and re-born in the form of small, separate companies. I.G. Farben was a German company that had committed serious crimes during the war, one of them being the production of Zyklon B, used in gas chambers in the Concentration Camps in Germany and Occupied territories. The company then split into several smaller ones, one of them being Hoechst A.G, from which Roussel Uclaf derived. In short, the RU-486 is a pill that still carries the name of a company that served the Nazi Party and for many years supported the eugenicist market(Hli.org).

"Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black." (Erma Clardy Craven, Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader). Every day, nearly 3,500 women in America get an abortion, and almost 2,000 of those aborted are African American babies. Shockingly, abortion is the number one cause of death in the African American community ever since Roe v. Wade. As a matter of fact, more African American babies are being aborted yearly than are being born, outnumbered by nearly 130,000, and although they make up less than 13% of the American population, they make up for about 37% of abortions of all Americans. (Bound4life.com). Ever since Roe v. Wade, 30% of the Black population has been wiped out through abortion. In order for a population to maintain itself, that is, to have enough number to “replace” those that have passed away, an average of 2.11 babies per woman must be born. The African American community has a rate that is less than 2.00 (Humanlife.org). The decrease is fatally steep, and what is now called abortion could be plan B of Margaret Sanger’s “Negro Project.”

The question now is, in this month that celebrates Black America, the Holy Family and love, how is society to celebrate?

Picture 1- The table above shows statistics based on race and percentage of abortions each race makes up for. (curtesy of jillstanek.com)

Picture 2- The picture above is a photograph of Margaret Sanger, a eugenicist and founder of Planned Parenthood. (curtesy of 1.bp.blogspot.com)

Picture 3- Above is a photograph of an African American father and his baby, both targets of Margaret Sanger’s conspiracy. (curtesy of cdn.elev8.com)

Children are not alone in the Battle against Oppression

The Women and Literature class at Avila University focused on a book called “The Cancer Journals” by Audre Lorde. The author of the book discusses in her book the ways in which women are still oppressed today. She is a cancer survivor. Before the surgery, representative s from the American Cancer Society quickly flocked to her to try to persuade her to obtain a prosthetic breast, and a nurse in the hospital told her to wear one because it was “bad for the morale of the hospital.” Lorde points out that society objectifies women, even to the point of trying to persuade them to focus on their looks rather than their health even before treatment.  This photo shows an anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C. Protesters stated that women are objectified still today through abortion and birth control, which have shown to cause mental, emotional, and health problems, and even death. Most women who have gotten abortions report that they did it because they felt they had no choice or were coerced. Feminist groups showed up at this rally to make it known that abortion has become a hidden exploitation of the woman.