This year, the 50th year since the now-reversed Roe v Wade decision, Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone and Dr. Alveda King will release a jointly authored book called “Abortion in Black and White.”
This project began some years ago, and is more relevant now than ever. The book will emphasize that the battle lines over abortion are, indeed, a black and white matter. There is no middle ground, the authors assert, between life and death, between justice and injustice, between violence and non-violence, between equality and discrimination.
Abortion is the most unjust form of discrimination, and there is no room for neutrality, either by the State or the Church, when it comes to protecting human life.
The title of the book also has another significance. As was the case in the civil rights movement of the 1960’s, advocating for the civil rights of the unborn is a task which brings people of every ethnicity together, rooted in the conviction that there is but one single human race (see Acts 17:26).
Dr. King serves on the Board of Directors of Priests for Life and has worked closely with Frank Pavone for some 18 years, serving for 16 years as a fulltime Pastoral Associate. They first met in 1999 when both were speakers at a New York State Right to Life Convention.