Improving neighborhoods by aborting children? Really?

From The Oregonian, news that although the construction company originally slated to build a Planned Parenthood clinic in Northeast Portland (Oregon) has "pulled out of the project because of pressure from anti-abortion protesters," the "project" will go on: "the developer, Beech Street Partners, has assembled a team of builders and will act as its own general contractor, saving money on the $12 million, 40,000-square-foot building, a company representative said."

How about this quote? 

James Adamson, one of the associates in Beech Street, said that, however uncomfortable, he respects that protesters have the right to voice their opinion. "And we also have fair protection under the law," he said. "It's basically a big exercise of free speech."

The building's designer, Kip Richardson of Ankrom Moisan Architects, said he's stayed with the project despite the protests because Adamson is a long-term client who's developing an area where the city has had trouble attracting investment.

"He's really trying to do the right thing and improve that neighborhood," Richardson said.

Yep, that's right: Planned Barrenhood is all about helping kids, families, and neighborhoods, especially predominately black neighborhoods such as North Portland. Sure it is. Of course, while blacks make up 12% of the U.S. population, they have nearly a third (32%) of the nation’s abortions. And with thinking like this, it's no wonder:

Charles Wilhoite, the Portland Development Commission's only African American member and one of four to approve the sale of the land, said Planned Parenthood provides much needed reproductive education to the African American community.

"There is an objectionable part of it from the abortion aspect, but from my perspective I see too many kids having kids," Wilhoite said. "Education is the answer. Abstinence programs, from what I'm reading, aren't working. Things are getting worse."

And encouraging or allowing kids to kill their kids is going to make it better? Amazing. Yes, things do seem to be getting worse...

Comments

[Sharon]

Wilhoite said, "Abstinence programs, from what I'm reading, aren't working. Things are getting worse."

Maybe he's reading from the wrong sources.

Sharon

[Deacon Harold]

As a people, African Americans do a great job raising awareness around important issues such as poverty, racism, and civil rights but if we continue to kill ourselves through this egregious abuse of our freedom, there will not be enough of us around for anyone to notice. When we allow abortion, we actually assist in and encourage the elimination of our race, something that hate groups could not accomplish for decades in this country. For black Catholics, and indeed for the entire African American community, abortion is not about opinion or choice: it's a matter of life and death.

Maybe Mr. Wilhoite should consider this statement from PP founder Margaret Sanger regarding her "Negro Project":

"Sanger knew blacks were a religious people—and how useful ministers would be to her project. She wrote: 'The minister's work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation [PP] as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.'"

Read the full article here:

http://www.cwfa.org/printerfriendly.asp?id=1466&department=cwa&categoryid=life

Those of us who are fighting PP tooth and nail in NE Portland are facing this same issue with many Protestant congregations . . . while the Muslims stand side-by-side with us.

[Dan Deeny]

Many thanks for this article. As for as I know, only one member of the Black Caucus has opposed the abortion business. His name was Mickey Leland, he was a Representative from Texas, and he died in a plane crash in Ethiopia. A few years ago CSPANN broadcast a women's appreciation dinner and I happened to hear Julian Bond, at the time the president of the NAACP, say a few words. He said that it was very important to keep legal a women's right to choose because black women made a greater use of this right,as a percentage, than they represented in the population. I thought that was a very strange thing for the head of the NAACP to say. You'd think he'd want to get it stopped: It was killing off possible members! Well, we know what the figures are. Lucifer himself must have thought of this program: Imagine getting the public leaders of a targeted population to participate in their destruction. Could the Klan with its white sheets, burning crosses, Kleagles, and Klaverns have thought of something like this? Probably not. Of course, many Catholics have helped this program along. Let's pray for our country and our Catholic Church.