Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights of the Unborn
“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 VS 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, was offered the Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award. In the
acceptance speech, delivered by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, because Dr. King
didn’t attend the ceremony, Mrs. King points to the benefits of family
planning among Negro families and the “kinship” between the civil rights
movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. This speech did not include
the word abortion. There is much speculation regarding who the real author
of the speech was. During her lifetime, Mrs. King, unlike her husband,
supported abortion and a more liberal view on marriage and human sexuality.
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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?
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Planned
Parenthood (pdf)
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Dr. Alveda C. King, pastoral associate with Priests for Life, is a
mother, grandmother, ordained minister, author and artistic producer.