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The National Black ProLife Coalition is a network of prolife and pro-family organizations committed to restoring a culture that celebrates Life and Family cultivating Hope in the black community.

On the last day of black history month, February 28, 2011, hundreds gathered across fourteen states to mourn the loss of black lives to the abortion industry.

Led by black leaders in cities across the country, we paused to reflect upon the scourge of abortion and the lives it destroys.

Women are still dying, not as a result of a coat hanger, but at the hands of butchers called abortionists.

Women are being reproductively maimed in the name of choice, as their bowels are perforated and intestines pulled out. Hysterectomies are happening all across the nation, as the real doctors attempt to repair the damage done at the abortionist hands.

Yet, we did not hear about the Day of Mourning through the mainstream media, they blacked us out, not willing to risk shining the light on how anti-woman the abortion industry truly is.

And as has been the case for the past 38 years, we do not hear about the discriminatory impact of abortion and the fifteen hundred black babies that die in abortion dens every day.

We are striving for a world that values every human life, from conception until natural death. We will not be silent while abortion ravages, in epidemic proportions, the black community under the perverted guise of “reproductive justice.”

Contact:     1-888-619-NBPC (6272)  or  http://www.blackprolifecoalition.org/

 
Roe v. Wade Was Almost Overturned in 1992 PDF Print E-mail

1  ROE V. WADE  WAS ALMOST OVERTURNED in 1992 The Supreme Court was ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, but Justice Kennedy got cold feet, and the vote went the other way. Kennedy delivered in person to Blackmun the news: a trio of Republican-appointed justices had secretly formed a team to preserve the right to abortion. [NYT: 4Mar04 THE BLACKMUN PAPERS] Internal notes in the papers of late Justice Blackmun provide a glimpse of the secretive dealings that led to the court's ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey [1992]. The files contain memos from Blackmun's law clerks suggesting changes or strategies that might persuade more justices to join his views. Blackmun had written the Roe ruling in 1973, and had guarded it from previous attack by conservative justices. Blackmun's notes show that Chief Justice Rehnquist led a 5-justice majority to overrule Roe. Four other justices voting with Rehnquist were to be White, Scalia, Thomas & Kennedy. Rehnquist himself was to write the majority opinion. [Anne Gearan, AP http://www.newsday.com, 4Mar04] Blackmun’s daughter became pregnant 7 years before Roe. She quit college and married her 20-year-old boyfriend. She lost her child to a miscarriage following the wedding; her marriage collapsed in 1972. Her father asked for her input for Roe. Today, Sally Blackmun is an attorney on the board of Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando and, in May, will become chair of that organization. She led a recent $3 million effort to construct a new PP facility in Central Florida. [ple-news, 365, 5Mar04]

 
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