Race-Targeted Abortions

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has called for an end to more than $300 million in yearly federal funding of Planned Parenthood.

Last year, The Advocate, a student publication at the University of California - Los Angeles, placed phone calls to Planned Parenthood offices around the country offering to make donations specifically to subsidize the abortion of black babies.

The publication then posted videos on YouTube using audio recordings of calls on which Planned Parenthood officials agreed to accept race-targeted donations. Planned Parenthood officials issued an apology, stating it was not their policy to accept race-targeted donations for abortions.

In March, the National Black Pro-Life Union sent letters to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Congressional Black Caucus and Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.).

The letters call on these groups and Fattah to support the termination of federal funding of Planned Parenthood, which currently exceeds $300 million a year.

Reportedly, none of the addressees have responded to the letters. Dr. King says they need to respond and support defunding Planned Parenthood. "It's black genocide," she says.

For what it's worth, Dr. King, I support an end to taxpayer-funded abortions.