FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Margaret, 888-735-3448, ext. 251
Date: August 17, 2009
Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and
niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will join fellow civil rights leaders
Tuesday for a Capitol Hill press conference on the need to exclude genocide
from health care reform.
“The unborn and elderly should be included in health insurance reform as
recipients of care, not victims of genocide,” said Dr. King. “Abortion, also
called a ‘woman’s reproductive health service’ and ‘population control,’ is
genocide; so is euthanasia. We support procreative reproductive health care.
Abortion is not health care and should be specifically excluded from any
pending reform legislation. And we say yes to facilitating the care, not the
demise, of the elderly and infirm.”
In addition to the press conference, Dr. King will join Day Gardner of the
National Black Pro-Life Union, Kristen Day of Democrats for Life, Donna J.
Harrison, M.D., of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition,
and Pastor Dean Nelson of the Network of Politically Active Christians to
discuss with Congressional staff why abortion must not be increased by
including it as a part of health care legislation.
“As a post-abortive mother and victim of the harsh aftereffects of abortion,
I know firsthand the pain and grief of this form of genocide. Millions of
babies, including my own, are dead from this population control campaign,”
noted Dr. King. “I was deeply moved by the statement of Representative
Joseph Cao of Louisiana who said he would rather lose his seat in Congress
than vote for a bill that funded abortion. His elevation of others’ lives
over his own personal interests is not only the mark of a true statesman,
but of a humble member of the Beloved Community of which Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. often spoke.”
“Uncle Martin’s dream includes everyone,” added Dr. King. “Now is the time
for Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to join together in a ‘dream
choir’ to proclaim that health care reform should also include everyone,
young and old, born and unborn.”
Click here for time and place
and a list participants
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.
