First to the Party
| Target Name | Target Organization |
| Republican National Committee | (Republican National Committee) |
| Democratic National Committee | (Democratic National Committee) |
If there were no other reason to stop abortion than the one you're about to read, it would be this one. It is the realization that abortion is the number one cause of death in the Black community (more than heart disease, drugs, gun violence, aids, combined) – 1,000 lives every day (16-17 million since 1973). We represent 12% of the population but account for 36% of all abortions in the country (a rate 3 times out of proportion to our population size). And just to add more fuel to the fire, the “replacement rate”(number of children born per couple) of the Black community is so low (hovers around zero) that we are literally going extinct (in NY city (2012) the number of Black abortions exceeded the number of live births).
The next point to be made on this situation - few if any in the Black community know or want to acknowledge these circumstances.
For these reasons we petition the adoption of the following statement by national party organizations for their platform position:
Abortion's impact on minority communities is devastating. Hispanics represent 12.5% of the US population yet account for 25% of all abortions2. The African American community, where 12% of the US population accounts for ~34% all losses, is literally going extinct1, driven by abortion as the number one cause of death. We therefore call upon our elected representatives, community and civic leaders, and historic agencies within the minority communities to move with all haste to inform their constituents of these tragic situations in order to promote those policies and behaviors that value and protect life.
1Countdown to Extinction, a video produced by Dr. Clenard Childress Jr.
2 Based on Allan Gutmacher Institute statistics from 2008.
See others comments
Ken Blackwell
http://www.washingtontimes.
Kirby Anderson
http://pointofview.net/
Ryan Bomberger
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/
The Petition
Adopt the First to the Party initiative as part of a national platform
When asked what they think is the number 1 cause of death in the Black community few people are aware of, or for that matter, may not really care, what the answer is. It would be easy to assume that it’s one of several deficiencies inherit to the racial line (high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease) or some other dominant social ill (gun violence, drugs, Aids). The truth is, all of these causes combined do not come close to rivaling the ultimate decimator, abortion.
Many of us are unaware of how devastating the acceptance of this "choice" has been, a toll measured not just in lives lost but its self-perpetuating cycle of collateral family destruction/degeneration, delinquency, and poverty. This is so much so in the American Black community that we are literally "going extinct"1. For the first time in history the, the replacement rate, the number of children birthed versus the number of parents birthing them, is less than 2. Sixteen (16) million (an average of over 1,000 every day) since 1973 have been aborted away; 1/3 of all the Blacks who could have been alive in 2012 are gone2.
Although Blacks represent 2.5% and ~12.6% of the Iowa and US populations respectively, they account for better than 1/3 of the abortions in both Iowa and the US overall (the abortion rate is the percentage of births that end in abortion). Yes, abortion affects the Black community everywhere in staggeringly disproportionate numbers compared to the majority and other minority population groups. But let it be said, if these numbers were true of any other group, we would be equally agitated and vocal.3
The Republican Party’s genesis was based on the singled-out, disproportionate treatment of a one ethnic group, namely Black Americans under slavery.
As early as 1975, Jesse Jackson called for a constitutional amendment banning abortion long before he ran for president in 1984. He has since changed his position.
Unlike Jackson, in 1971 June Franklin stood up as the lone Black female Democrat in the Iowa legislature to single-handedly defeat a bill designed to introduce abortions into poor and minority communities in Iowa.
So here is the action I’m asking of you: Be the First to the Party to avert further tradegy. Let's cut this "train wreck" off at the pass and be the first to stand with others in a victorious "life-affirming" celebration. You can get it started by signging and supporting this petition.
1Countdown to Extinction, a video produced by Dr. Clenard Childress Jr.
2abortionfacts.com, blackgenocide.org
3 The Hispanic community is not far behind. They represent 12.5% of the US population yet account for 25% of all abortions based on Allan Gutmacher Institute statistics from 2008.
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