Maryland House of Delegates Hopeful to Head Up Black Americans for Life

By Ernest Ohlhoff,
NRLC Director of Outreach

National Right to Life's new Black Americans for Life (BAL) director, Day Gardner, sees education as BAL's primary objective.

"We need to make all African Americans aware of the horrible effect abortion has on the Black community," Ms. Gardner said. "The abortion rate for African American women is THREE times higher than for white women. We must do all in our power to stop this BLACK GENOCIDE."

In 2002, Ms. Gardner ran unsuccessfully for a House of Delegates seat in Prince George's County, Maryland. She believes that Black Americans are being pressured into abortions by society and by Black leaders who offer abortion as the only solution to problem pregnancies. Her dynamic and aggressive political campaign earned endorsements from two major newspapers, the Washington Post and the Gazette.

"It is time that American Black women stand up and say 'no' to abortion," said Ms. Gardner. "We don't need the 'Pro-Choice' movement's false promises that by killing our unborn children we will somehow have a 'better' life. Blacks have always had to struggle in America. First as slaves, and later as second-class citizens under segregation. In many ways we are still fighting for true and honest equality. But through all our pain and suffering, it has always been our children who were our hope for a better future. Now it is the modern-day eugenicists who are trying to engineer solutions to societal problems - - not by eliminating discrimination, but by reducing the number of Black Americans through abortion."

In addition to her work as a political activist, Ms. Gardner is also an experienced business executive, on-air personality, writer, singer, dancer, and actress. A former Miss Delaware, Ms. Gardner made history as the first Black woman to be named as a semi-finalist of the Miss America pageant. She has volunteered considerable time to numerous charitable organizations.

"Day Gardner will bring new energy and leadership to National Right to Life's Black Americans for Life outreach," said NRLC's Director of Outreach, Ernest Ohlhoff. "Our department receives a tremendous number of requests from members of the African American Community. There is definitely a new awareness about abortion within the Black community. We will do everything in our power to provide African Americans with the information and materials they need to educate their community. Black Americans for Life seeks to organize the African American community as part of National Right to Life."