February 2019 – Article 1:    

For the many hours I’d spent researching the arguments against the legalization of abortion, I’d never once considered attending a pro-life march. Being something of an introvert, it wasn’t really my style. However, when I was handed a flyer for the 2019 Georgia March for Life, my eyes immediately drew to the note that read, “NO CANCELLATION due to inclement weather”; apparently, this was going to be a big deal.

And it was…but for not the reason I expected.

The pro-life movement has oft-times been based primarily on religious conviction, one which today’s Social Justice Warriors shun. Yet, why wouldn’t the pro-life movement find its roots in religion? The Author of Life obviously takes seriously the conservation of life. Thus, it was no surprise that the pastor of Perimeter Church Kipper Tabb led the event. Further, I wasn’t completely blown away by the fact that a Christian musical artist, Marci Coleman, took the stage between keynote speakers. (That isn’t to say Marci isn’t a singer that will completely blow you away with her pretty pop and vivacious voice; if Katy Perry and Celine Dion had a love child, she’d be it!)  Pro-life activist Karen Black also spoke to offer an anecdote about how one pro-life protester saved the life of a soon-to-be aborted child through one flimsy poster. (You had to be there; the story was a real-deal tear-jerker.)

But in all honesty, it wasn’t those speakers who convinced me that it was worth being in the freezing weather to attend the Memorial Service and Silent March. It was actually the teenage girl standing a few yards away from me who held a sign that read, “Black Baby Lives Matter Too.”

You see, when I first arrived, I noted that I was one of only a handful of people of color. Mind you, I couldn’t have cared less about being the minority in that sense; after all, people are people and the whole point of being at the march was to celebrate life. Yet, in consideration of the fact that black babies are aborted at a disproportionately greater number than others, it seems to me that it’s time to take a stand to protect these lives.

As I contemplated this, Catherine Davis, founder and president of the Restoration Project, took the stage. She spoke in depth about the eugenic ideology behind making abortion so easily accessible to the poor black community. Few people have any clue about the Negro Project of 1939, a plan proposed by notorious racist and eugenicist Margaret Sanger that would plant Planned Parenthood in black communities to decrease their population. The fact is that there is power in numbers. By murdering black babies, the black population loses its numbers and ultimately its power.

Davis spoke about bringing to justice the promoters of this and other eugenic programs by use of the Proxmire Act, which states that  “whoever, whether in time of peace or in time of war and with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such” will be prosecuted. As citizens of every race, we have a duty to press for legislation that holds up just laws and our vote should reflect as much.

In this way, the Georgia March for Life was not an ordinary pro-life event; it was a radical act on behalf of the least protected in our communities—the pre-born of every race and ethnicity as well as the minority class. It proves again that abortion has never been about choice or rights of individual women. It stretches much farther and wider beyond one woman’s choice. Legalized abortion promotes an agenda that preys on the desperate in order to annihilate the weak. I dare say all Social Justice Warriors of this era should take a stand…for our innocent, vulnerable brothers and sisters!