Black Holocaust?
The Black Victims of Abortion
By: Paul Strand,

Washington, October 12, 1999 -- The nation's capitol is used to civil rights marchers, but this week it saw a civil rights march of a different kind: it was for the black victims of abortion.

Dozens of African-Americans took part in a three-day march that started in Newark, New Jersey and ended Monday on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. There they piled up 1,452 roses, one for each of the black children aborted everyday in America.

March organizer Rev. Johnny Hunter, director of the largest black pro-life ministry in the United States, the Life Education and Resource Network, says blacks make up just 12 percent of the population, but account for 33 percent of the abortions. "Someone has to take a stand and say, 'Enough is too much; it's too much.' And that's what we're saying."

In many black communities, for every child actually born, three others are aborted -- more than double the rate among whites.

These marchers point out that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted to use abortion and sterilization to keep the black population down because she believed many of its members to be "unfit" or "defective."

As Star Parker, head of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education put it at the end of the march, "There is a holocaust going on in this land today." Parker says she marched to the Supreme Court to oppose Planned Parenthood's assault on unborn African-Americans. "[We are here] to stand on behalf of those children and to declare a boycott on Planned Parenthood. We're saying, 'No more. You must leave our communities. In the name of health care, you're stealing our children.'"

These marchers point out 3,446 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968, but in just the last 25 years, 12 million blacks were aborted.