NFL player speaks out against Planned Parenthood’s targeting of minorities

Planned Parenthood should be strongly called out at every chance to expose it for the murderous organization that it is. And there’s nothing better when an influential voice does it, like New Orleans Saints player Benjamin Watson.

Watson held nothing back when he was interviewed by the Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center blog. He rightly pointed to the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and reminded who it was she had in mind when she started the organization:

“I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks, and it’s kind of ironic that it’s working. We [as minorities] support candidates, and overwhelmingly support the idea of having Planned Parenthood and the like, and yet, that is why she created it.”

It’s not lost on Watson, a committed Christian, who says he’s saddened by abortion, that PP actively targets minorities and even encourages them to consider the procedure.

“We are buying it hook, line, and sinker, like it’s a great thing,” he said. “But it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do.”

As for pregnant teens, this NFL tight end believes they have it worse because of how they’re viewed in society across the racial divide.

“It’s like when black girls are pregnant, it’s like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show,” he said.

Although Watson views abortion as a women’s issue, he believes men should share in the responsibility:

“[A] lot of the women wouldn’t be having abortions if the men would step up and be a part of what they are already biologically a part of. Raising children and having children, even though the women birthed the child, is designed for two people to do it. And there is so much undue stress and pressure on the woman if the other one isn’t there.

“Any idea that a man doesn’t have a role in it is not true, and is simply more about politics and making a man’s life easier. If you are going to say, ‘It’s your choice’ and she decides on an abortion, then at least be man enough to go with her through the entire process. You should have to sit with her through the entire procedure (and recovery) if you are going to go that route.”

In his book, Under Our Skin, Watson explored how the culture reinforces one political view over another, especially  in the black community:

“We sit here and talk about advancing the black agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what’s important to us — like having political power and advancement and all those things — and then we are turning around and we are killing our children. And we are buying the lie that it’s our personal decision to make.”

“Honestly, I am sympathetic, I am. Because I know it’s a hard decision,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what it’s like to be pregnant and to be a single mom, or even to be a married mom and not want the child. I would never assume people are having abortions flippantly. I know people have them for convenience, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a tough choice for the mothers to make, so I always want to be sympathetic to that.”

As I’ve written before, I know that fear of being pregnant and not knowing what to do.  Abortion is NOT the answer.

Read more of his interview at Christian Post.