FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jerry Horn
Date: July 6, 2007
Dr. Alveda King Calls on NAACP Leadership to Address
the “Inconvenient Truth” of Abortion’s
Impact on African Americans
Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King,
Pastoral Associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
today called for the national convention of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People to adopt a resolution passed by the group’s Macon,
Georgia, chapter addressing the impact abortion has had on the African American
community. The NAACP opens its 98th Annual Convention this
weekend in Detroit.
“The NAACP has always been about
justice,” said Dr. King. “Today, there is no greater injustice facing
black people than abortion. Over 13 million African Americans are not here
because they died by legal abortion. It’s as if a plague swept through our
cities and towns and took one of every four blacks. Talk about
inconvenient truths – the national leadership of the NAACP needs to address what
abortion has done to the African American community and our nation as a whole,
even if it means making some people in high positions uncomfortable.”
The Macon Chapter of the NAACP
this year adopted a resolution urging the national NAACP to undertake efforts to
reduce the high abortion and infant mortality rates in the black community and
to reduce the disproportionately high black inmate population, which the group
says has a dramatic impact on the black family. A similar resolution was
submitted to the national NAACP convention by the Macon Chapter in 2004, but was
not considered due to an alleged technicality.
“In my travels across the
country, I have met countless fellow NAACP members who are praying and marching
for justice for all, including justice for unborn babies,” said Dr. King.
“The National Board of the NAACP needs to know that its membership loves our
children and wants what is right for them, and what is right is for them to be
allowed to live.”
Priests for Life is the
nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and
euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
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