Abortion, by the numbers, is a racist institution. How so? Because abortion kills a far greater percentage of minority children in America than it does white children. The Alan Guttmacher fact sheet, Facts in Brief, reveals that, “Black women are more than 3 times as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2 1/2 times as likely.”

The Centers for Disease Control, which has been tracking the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions since 1969, gives us these numbers. White women, who make up 75% of the female population in the U.S., account for only 55% of all U.S. abortions. Black women, who make up 12.3% of the females in the U.S, account for 35% of all U.S. abortions. “Other races” of women fill out the remaining 12.5% of the female population and account for 10% of all U.S. abortions.1

In terms of actual lives lost, the numbers are staggering. Each year, almost a half a million black babies are lost to abortion (based on 2000’s 1.31 million U.S. abortions). That averages out to well over 1,000 deaths a day, 365 days a year. The Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN ), the largest African-American pro-life group in the country has produced a chart which compares mortality rates in the Black community. It shows that abortion has claimed more than two and a half times more African-American lives since 1973 than the next five leading causes combined. The Centers for Disease Control tell us that 285,826 U.S. blacks died in 2000. That’s about half of the approximately 458,500 blacks who lost their lives to abortion in that same year. To put it bluntly, abortion has thinned the black community in ways the Ku Klux Klan could have only dreamed of. It is a shameful and hidden reality.

The fact that many black leaders and organizations support abortion rights does not change the reality of what is happening. The numbers don’t lie. Population estimates show that blacks will...

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The following comes from a January 24, 2007 blog posted by Loxafamosity Director, Michael Spielman..

This has been a very exciting, encouraging and difficult week for me. I’ll tell you why in a moment, but first I want to share an excerpt from a message John Piper delivered last Friday night at a pro-life conference in Minneapolis:

[The abortion] industry is Satanic to the core. Satan is a murderer and a liar. Those are his two names... liar (accuser), murderer... and the deception that reigns in the abortion industry, and the killing that reigns, must make Satan’s mouth drip. Therefore, when you engage, you are coming up against supernatural power, and don’t take it lightly. Satan will not sit by idly if you try and get near one of those abortion places. If you try to get between anybody moving there, the kind of eyes that you can see, the kind of voices that you can hear, where is that coming from?! And you know where it’s coming from, it’s coming from hell. Satan hates God and he hates every being created in the image of God, which is every human being. And he would destroy God if He could. [Since] he can’t, he will destroy what is in the image of God.

I have felt the Satan-induced hatred and contempt this week to an extent that I haven’t felt in a long time. It’s chilling, a reminder of what Piper warns. If you threaten what Satan loves, you’ll probably feel the heat. And it is driven by an enemy almost infinitely stronger and smarter than I am, which makes the opposition even more daunting (but for the superior power of Christ). As I mentioned in my last email

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