From Valerie Baronkin –South Carolina Upstate Pro-Life Co-ordinator:
An interracial couple stopped by the clinic with their baby yesterday to tell us their story from a few years ago.. The girl’s mother brought her to Greenville Women’s Clinic. The girl saw the people outside praying and did not want to have the abortion and refused to get out of the car. She and her boyfriend kept the baby and are now engaged.
I mention they were an interracial couple because often I think we are beyond racism in our current society, but I have seen this many times and with all different angles to the prejudice. It’s the grandparents who insist on abortion -not approving of their daughter’s boyfriend because he is African American, Spanish, or White. And I’ve seen several girls who are often strongly encouraged to abort and not approved of by the man’s family if he is Indian and she is not. Let us pray for an end to this tragic prejudice.
There’s an abortion (rescue) scene from a Taiwanese romantic comedy I’m not sure what to make of. I don’t know whether this will work as a link, but it’s: http [colon] [double slash] show-links [dot] tv [slash] fated_to_love-you [slash] 3 [slash] 3 [slash] (without spaces between each item)
Oh, and it’s subtitled in English
As I understand, this same suggestion to abort based on racism was made with regard to me when I was in utero.Thank God for every choice that is made in the right direction.
The founder of Planned “death”hood, Margaret Sanger was behind the aborting of all those who were not ‘perfect’ like her. Planned “death”hood targets minorities.One may be surprised to know how many grandparents are willing to kill their grandchildren in order to save face.Sad – Praying for the end to abortion.
OK, so the “link” didn’t work: I’ll post a link in my personal blog, “Beyond Brussels” (I won’t try to post a link again: just click on my name and then on the name of the blog). Any comments would be very, very welcome (particularly from priests who know about film!). Perplexed is too strong a word, but intrigued too weak.
Certainly true here in Augusta, GA where we have 2 abortuaries: Planned Parenthood downtown and privately-owned, Charlotte-based Preferred Women’s Health in more upscale West Augusta. Having prayed and counseled at both facilities for many years, we have come to know the racial and interracial back-drops. Abortion is a huge African-American problem (about 80% here at PP) and a burgeoning Latino problem, particularly so in interracial pregnancies. More often than not, these young women are brought in by grandma (sometimes, though not as frequently, grandpa). While the young pregnant woman is often open to dialogue, grandma invariably is not. Since I’m now a grandma, I keep looking for ways to approach other grandmas. Any suggestions?
In a related development:NEW ORLEANS — Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes has denounced a lawmaker’s proposal to pay poor people to undergo sterilization as “an egregious affront to those targeted and blatantly anti-life.””Our lawmakers would do better to focus on policies that promote education and achievement to counteract poverty and the bigotry of low expectations, ” Hughes said in a statement Thursday.Hughes spoke out in response to a proposal by state Rep. John Labruzzo, a Republican from suburban Metairie, to combat poverty by offering poor women and men $1,000 to undergo reproductive sterilization and vasectomies. In addition, the lawmaker said he is considering whether to propose tax incentives for college-educated people to have more children.Here’s the link to the article:http://tinyurl.com/546bzd