Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights of the Unborn
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Date: February 26, 2009
“The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his
children for immediate personal comfort and safety.” “Injustice anywhere
is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968
“I say today that we as Christians must press on, in the conviction that we are
‘a colony of heaven,’ called to obey God rather than man. Small in number, we
must remain big in commitment. We must be too God intoxicated to be
‘astronomically intimidated.’ By our effort and example may God use us, as
imperfect vessels that we are, to bring an end to such ancient evils as
infanticide, abortion, racism, and oppression.”
Dr. Alveda C. King, reflections on “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
In 1939, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, outlined her plan to
eliminate the Black community: “The most successful, educational appeal to the
Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want 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 rebellious members.”
Dr. King was among a select group of Negro leaders hand-picked to promote a
seemingly beneficial plan to promote healthy family planning. It was a plan of
wolf in sheep’s clothing and Trojan Horse proportions. Dr. King, a man of love,
peace, non-violence and strong Christian faith would be assassinated before the
truth of the Planned Parenthood map for genocide would be made public after the
passage of Roe v. Wade. The abortion agenda is in direct conflict with the
teachings of Dr. King.
In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr., a non-violent supporter of natural family
planning, received the Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award. In his
acceptance speech, Dr. King pointed to the benefits of family planning among
Negro families and the "kinship" between the civil rights movement and Margaret
Sanger's early efforts. His hopeful speech would not include abortion: "Our sure
beginning in the struggle for equality by non-violent direct action may not have
been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people
like her."
As Dr. King’s niece, I too once accepted the lies of Planned Parenthood until
the truth of the violence of abortion was revealed to me. If Planned Parenthood
had announced that over 50 million babies would be aborted in the onslaught of
their agenda, I would never have aborted a child. Dr. King would never have
agreed with the violent violation of the civil rights of the millions of aborted
babies, and Planned Parenthood’s subsequent blitz of women’s health problems
related to chemical and artificial birth control methods.
This conclusion leads me to remind my readers that I too have a dream. It’s
in my genes. How can the dream survive if we murder the children?
Dr. Alveda C. King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life, is a mother,
grandmother, ordained minister, author and artistic producer.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit
www.priestsforlife.org.
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