Franks: MLK, Jr. Day Perfect Time to Discuss Last Great Civil Rights Frontier

Franks: MLK, Jr. Day Perfect Time to Discuss Last Great Civil Rights Frontier

Cites Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) as Solution to Abortion Industry's Targeting of Minorities

January 18, 2010 - Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) today released the following statement commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and calling on Americans to work toward ending the abortion industry's disproportionate targeting of minorities:

"Today, we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. for
dedicating his life to the fulfillment of a truth outlined in the Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal, regardless of their skin color. While we have come a long way in the 40+ years since his death, another major hurdle in the Civil Rights Movement still looms before us: the disturbing targeting of minority populations by the abortion industry.

"The abortion industry's biggest secret is that their entire movement was largely founded by eugenicists like Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who infamously said, 'We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.'

"That appalling outlook has continued to influence Planned Parenthood and the rest of the abortion industry. Consider, for example, that a minority baby is five times more likely to be aborted than a white child. An astonishing 50% of African-American babies are killed by abortion. And nearly 80% of abortion clinics are deliberately located in or near predominantly minority neighborhoods. "I introduced the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PreNDA), specifically to stop this horrible trend of slaughtering unborn children on the basis of their race."

H.R. 1822, the Prenatal Non-Discrimination Act (PreNDA), prohibits subjecting an unborn child to an abortion on the basis of baby's sex or race. It will make it illegal to knowingly perform, solicit, or accept funding for either race- or sex-selection abortions.


Congressman Franks is serving his fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, and is a member of the Committee on Armed Services, Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee, Military Readiness Subcommittee, Committee on the Judiciary, Constitution Subcommittee, and is Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.