June Is Abortion Awareness Month in the Black Community

During the month of June, the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life and Black Americans for Life (BAL) are jointly launching a project to help educate members of the African American community about the horrors of abortion.

Fr. Jim Goode, O.F.M., founder and president of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life, believes it is time for the African American community to realize the enormous threat that abortion poses to the future of all black Americans. More than 13 million unborn black babies have been killed since abortion was legalized nationwide in 1973. Black women have a third of all abortions even though blacks comprise only about 12% of the population of the United States -- a horrible tragedy.

The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life joins hands with NRLC's Black Americans for Life outreach project to spread the good news that we are all God's children and that we need to work together to protect life -- all human life. New brochures and bumper stickers have been created to help pro-life leaders and pastors energize the African American community to save their unborn babies and to become active in the pro-life movement.

Brochures and bumper stickers are available from the National Right to Life Outreach Department. Brochures are $10 per hundred and bumper stickers are $.75 for one, and $7.00 for ten.

To order, please all the NRLC Outreach Department at (202) 626- 8811.

BAL is an outreach to the African American community sponsored by NRLC to encourage black pro-lifers to be involved in the work of NRLC's chapters and affiliates.