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May 29, 2019

Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

Years ago as a Congressional intern, I helped organize a premiere of the documentary MAAFA 21 on Capitol Hill.  One of the statistics I have always remembered is that in the US, over half of the black population is missing due to abortion.

I also learned that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist.  She promoted contraception not as a means of controlling the population, but of directing it.

"Sanger and her coauthors identified blacks as 'the great problem of the South'—'the group with "the greatest economic, health, and social problems"'—and developed a birth-control program geared toward this population.  She later emphasized that black ministers should be involved in the program, noting, 'We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.'"

This quote is from a concurring opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on May 28th—TODAY.  The Supreme Court declined to review an Indiana law prohibiting abortions on the basis of race, sex, or disability.

This brings me hope.  People in positions of power know the truth, and they speak it boldly.

My prayer this week is that all of us will have the courage to do the same. - Meaghen Hale



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