Tue
Jan
17
“ For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-4728.htm
For those who would claim that Martin Luther King Jr. would be anti-abortion, here’s his acceptance speech (delivered by Coretta Scott King) of an award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I read that as pro-birth control, not pro-abortion. The man was deeply religious, I can’t see him supporting abortions of any kind.
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