MLK’s Niece, Dr. Alveda King, on Abortion & the Lies Told by Abortion Advocates
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 30, 2010
In my recent research on Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I came across this Catholic News post from last January.
Provisions for abortion and Planned Parenthood are hidden in the ObamaCare monstrosity that all American taxpayers will be forced by Team Obama and Congress to fund, so reviewing Dr. King’s stance on the issue and the lies told by liberal abortion advocates are just as pertinent now as they were several months ago.
Planned Parenthood, you lie.
From Catholic News Agency, Planned Parenthood is ‘lying’ about MLK, Alveda King charges:
CNA STAFF, Jan 20, 2010 / 06:36 am (CNA).- Dr. Alveda King, pro-life advocate and niece of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has attacked Planned Parenthood, saying its comments about the civil rights leader amount to “lying.” She charged that the organization misrepresents Rev. King’s reception of the Margaret Sanger Award. “I hate to sound combative, but they do this every year,” she told CNA in a Tuesday phone interview.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released a statement saying the civil rights leader had received the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Margaret Sanger Award in 1966.
The award is given to recognize “individuals’ excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and rights” and is named for the founder of Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood said that Dr. King fought for racial justice, fair wages for workers and “quality health care for all” in its Jan. 18 statement. The organization said that Planned Parenthood works “in the tradition of Dr. King’s call for equity in health care” by erasing “disparities” in the health care system that disproportionately affect “people of color.”
The organization, the nation’s largest abortion provider, claimed that more than 90 percent of the health care provided at its health centers is preventive and includes breast exams, Pap tests and contraception.
PPFA then quoted what it described as the comments Dr. King wrote “in accepting the Sanger Award.”
‘We had confidence that when we awakened the nation to the immorality and evil of inequality, there would be an upsurge of conscience followed by remedial action.’
Speaking to CNA on Tuesday, Alveda King commented: “Dr. King did not attend that ceremony, he did not write that speech.”
Rather, she explained, his wife Coretta Scott King delivered the speech.
Alveda King questioned the authorship of the text at several points because of language she found implausible.
“There’s one page in there that says something about ‘the plight of the male ego.’ No male will say that,” she explained to CNA.
King connected the falsehoods she saw about the Margaret Sanger Award with the “lies” she said are told by abortion advocates.
“They lie, they lied to me. They told me that my baby was a blob of tissue, that its removal would not hurt any more than removing a tooth. But it did hurt much more, and it was much more devastating.”
“Abortion isn’t health care, it is a death warrant for babies,” she stated.
King referred CNA to her pamphlet “An analysis of the PPH MLK Brochure,” available in the African-American Outreach section of the Priests for Life website. She also referred to her comments on her blog at PriestsForLife.org.
There in a Tuesday entry she asked rhetorically whether a man who “warned against the evils of infanticide in his Letter From A Birmingham Jail,” whose father was “staunchly pro-life,” and who saw injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, could support “abortion and killer chemicals called ‘safe’ birth control.”
“They lied to my uncle, Dr. King. How can the dream survive if we murder our children?” she asked.
UPDATE, October 26, 2010… Democrats Release Disgusting Anti-Catholic Ad For Final Election Push, reported by Gateway Pundit.
Related reading:
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Sen. Sessions on Kagan’s Alarming Record on Guns, Military, Partial-Birth Abortion, & Illegal Immigration (video) and Move ‘Em In, Move ‘Em Out… Obscene Abortion Profits: Texas Planned Parenthood Director Quits after Viewing Abortion Ultrasound (video)
Gateway Pundit: Bus Tour Opposing Abortion in Obamacare Raises Ire of So-Called “Pro-Life” Democrats and Kagan Gets the Nod With 5 Republicans Voting Yes and Obama Accused of Illegally Funding Pro-Abortion Referendum in Kenya and Obama Again Violates No Abortion Funding Pledge and Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Abortion Ultrasound (Video) and House Dems Outraged That Stupak Amendment Would Ban Abortion That Obama Said Was Not Covered In Health Care Bill
VotingFemale: Jilted Obama messenger Al Sharpton; only the lonely knows how he now feels… (plus Al Jeezera spin video)
Six Meat Buffet: Texas Planned Parenthood Branch: We Need More Abortions!
The Curt Jester: Goodbye Planned Parenthood, hello pro-life movement
Pundit & Pundette: “The money was in abortion” and Holdren: If you play your cards right, your baby might develop into a human being
Sister Toldjah: Cynthia Nixon: The latest Hollywood nitwit to get involved in the abortion debate and Planned Parenthood veteran resigns after seeing abortion ultrasound
True Discernment: Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Abortion Ultrasound
KBTX: Planned Parenthood Says Former Director Breached Confidentiality Agreement
Dirty Democrats: Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Abortion Ultrasound (Video)
Be John Galt: In Defense of Life: Window To The Womb
Priests for Life, African-American Outreach: Planned Parenthood’s New Smoke Screen
Publius, Big Government: Exclusive Poll of Likely Voters: Strong Opposition to Health Reform Plans
Minnesota Family Counsel: Planned Parenthood reaps huge profits from abortion business
Pursuing Holiness: The Truth Will Set You Free
The Western Experience: Technology reveals gruesome details of abortion and changes minds in the process
The American Catholic: Planned Parenthood Director Resigns After Viewing Ultrasound Abortion
Verum Serum: Planned Parenthood Director Has Epiphany: Abortion is the Taking of Human Life
Dakota Voice: Planned Parenthood Director Turns Pro-Life
Junior Ganymede: Why Quit Your Job at Planned Parenthood?
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