By Dave Andrusko

Inch by inch, foot by foot the walls are closing in on pro-abortionists. If the support system of disinformation and misinformation that they've counted on for so long is vanishing, it's no wonder they are so determined to use health care restructuring to foist the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.

Let's touch on just a few examples:

The Pro-Life Movement is using the latest technologies as part of a vigorous outreach that is breaking through media myths. Even the Establishment Media is recognizing that it has to at least take notice, largely for the purpose of attempting to debunk what is being revealed.

Last week, for example, the New York Times ran a piece with an absurdly biased headline, "To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case." But buried in the purple prose and excuse-mongering is a very unnerving truth for the Abortion Establishment.

The reporter argues that "at heart," it is "old news" that "black women get almost 40 percent of the country's abortions, even though blacks make up only 13 percent of the population," according to the CDC, and that "Nearly 40 percent of black pregnancies end in induced abortion, a rate far higher than for white or Hispanic women."

But, according to the Times' Shaila Dewan, because of the "Internet, slick repackaging, high production values and money," these numbers have been given "exaggerated new life."

This quality work is admirable when pro-abortionists are the producers. But when pro-lifers use them to produce attention-grabbing billboards around Atlanta which proclaim "Black Children Are an Endangered Species," for instance, suddenly the message is "exaggerated." And of course whatever money pro-lifers have is a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of millions of federal dollars that flow into the coffers of Planned Parenthood.

The point is not that it is "new news" that African American women have a hugely disproportionate number of abortion. Rather the significance is that because of an all-out effort to educate the African American community, the truth is getting out: blacks are targeted by the abortion industry. Someday the full story behind Margaret Sanger, PPFA's founder, may even become widely known.

(At the very least, she was a eugenicist. As author Angela Franks has written, "In her 1920 book, Woman and the New Race, Sanger explicitly called her work 'nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or those who will become defectives.'")

Just two others:

First, a bill is working its way through Nebraska's unicameral (one branch) legislature. Legislative Bill 1103--the Abortion Pain Prevention Act--prevents the killing of unborn babies capable of feeling pain absent a medical emergence. Last Thursday Nebraska Educational Television Network aired a hearing on LB1103. It must represent the first opportunity Americans in number have ever had to be educated to the grim reality that unborn babies at 20 weeks can experience pain.

So, (1) the Black community is becoming educated to the truth that the Abortion Industry has painted a bulls-eye on the backs of African-American women; and (2) the American people are ever-so-gradually learning that unborn babies at 20 weeks can experience unbelievable pain as they are killed.

I could mention a number of other "walls" closing in, such as the increasingly large body of evidence that following an abortion women and their subsequent children can and do pay a high physical and/or psychological price. When this information becomes more widely known, it will put an end to the myth that women "benefit" from abortion.

Or the undercover investigations of abortion clinics which show their hard-heartedness. Dewan wrote about one pro-lifer who called "trying to make donations to Planned Parenthood clinics to pay for black women's abortions."

In one instance," Dewan writes, "he said, 'You know, we just think, the less black kids out there, the better,' to which the Planned Parenthood employee replies, 'Understandable, understandable.'" (Planned Parenthood "has apologized for the employees' statements and says they do not reflect the organization's values or policies," according to Dewan.)

So, if abortion is not good for women; if at 20 weeks and beyond unborn babies of suffer excruciating pain when killed; if abortion clinics disproportionately "serve" African-American women who have abortions way out of proportion to their numbers, it shouldn't surprise us that as these walls close in on pro-abortionists, the "foundation" is crumbling: support among young people.

As we wrote recently, young people are more pro-life than ever. They simply do not buy into either the mythology that unborn children are "blobs of tissue" or the fatalism that women are powerless.
(See www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Feb10/nv021210.html.)

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