Dr. Joe Wilhelm and his wife,
New Life Center Advisory Board Member, Rita Wilhelm, with Dr. Alveda King pictured at a Right to Life Dinner in Lansing where King called abortion, "black genocide."
MLK and Planned Parenthood diametrically opposed As the nation today honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his niece Alveda King says Planned Parenthood does not like her comments that her uncle would continue the pro-life battle against abortion and contraception. The daughter of Rev. A. D. King, a leader in the Civil Right's movement, King sees the pro-life cause as a continuation of the Civil Rights movement in which her uncle was a prominent leader. She called abortion, "the greatest civil rights injustice."
"Planned Parenthood doesn't like me to remind people about what my uncle said about contraception and abortion," Dr. Alveda King told a Lansing crowd on a visit to the state capitol in 2014.
"My uncle was an advocate of natural family planning and opposed to contraception in any form. Planned Parenthood hates when I share that," King said. She also recounted her own choice to procure two abortions, although now she has since become an outspoken pro-life and civil rights advocate.
"I realized I had been involved in the death of three of my children," King said. One doctor aborted her child without her consent, a second she aborted on her own accord, and a third miscarried as a result of injuries King attributes to the abortions.
Dr. Martin Luther King called for compassion, not death
Alveda King called her uncle "a man of great compassion, and a man of non-violence."
"My uncle Martin would agree that we cannot end poverty, hunger, or suffering by killing those who might suffer," she explained. "My uncle said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," Alveda continued.
"Abortion is genocide," King said. "The population that is most impacted by abortion in America is the black community. So I feel that as a civil rights leader I have responsibility to proclaim that black Americans are being exterminated by the genocidal acts of abortion."
King, the director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, will speak in Lansing, with another prominent pro-life leader, Reverend Walter Hoye, on
April 21 at the First Annual
New Life Center Dinner Benefit and on
April 22, at a Detroit rally at Saint Charles Lwanga Church.
She said that her mother Naomi Barber King, is a convert to the pro-life cause and that her commitment to life began when she changed her mind about aborting her own daughter. Alveda King said her grandfather, Naomi King's father-in-law, Martin Luther King Sr., told her mother that he had a vision of "a little black-skinned girl with red hair," and he wanted her to meet the baby girl in his vision.
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