HAPPY 54TH BIRTHDAY, ALVEDA KING [PRO LIFE QUOTE]

Alveda King

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Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

- Alveda King

AUTHOR: Dr. Alveda C. King works toward her purpose in life, to glorify God.

Dr. King currently serves as a Pastoral Associate and Director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries. She is also a voice for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, sharing her testimony of two abortions, God’s forgiveness, and healing.

The daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King and his wife Naomi Barber King, Alveda grew up in the civil rights movement led by her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her family home in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed, as was her father’s church office in Louisville, Kentucky. Alveda was jailed during the open housing movement. She sees the prolife movement as a continuation of the civil rights struggle.

Dr. King is a former college professor and served in the Georgia State House of Representatives.  She is a recipient of the Life Prize Award (2011), the Cardinal John O’Connor Pro-Life Hall of Fame Award (2011) from the Legatus organization and the Civil Rights Award from Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (2011). She is a bestselling author; among her books are King Rules: Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and Our Nation to Prosper, How Can the Dream Survive if we Murder the Children? and I Don’t Want Your Man, I Want My Own. She is an accomplished actress and songwriter. The Founder of Alveda King Ministries, Alveda is also the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Saint Anselm College.   She has served on several boards, including Heartbeat International, Georgia Right to Life, MLK Center, Bible Curriculum in Public Schools and Abortion Recovery International (ARIN). She is also a member of the National Black Prolife Coalition (NBPC) and is a Senior Fellow with the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society. Alveda is a regular columnist for Newsmax.com “Insiders” section.

Dr. King lives in Atlanta, where she is the grateful mother of six and a doting grandmother.

http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/

Alveda King Protest against Planned Parenthood

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DEATH PENALTY BACKS STELLA FOSTER [ARTICLE ON THE DEATH PENALTY OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY 2013 TO SATURDAY 2013]

NOTICE: The following article is written by the author itself and not by me, I am not trying to violate their copyright. I will give some information on them.

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ARTICLE TITLE: Death Penalty  

DATE: Monday January 17, 2011

AUTHOR: Stella Foster

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Stella Foster is a retired Sun Times Chicago Columnist.

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Death penalty

Stella’s column WITH STELLA FOSTER sfoster@suntimes.com January 17, 2011 10:42PM

Updated: September 24, 2012 6:25AM

STELLA’S SPOTLIGHT

T HE DEATH PENALTY IS MAKING prominent headlines in the news, especially in Illinois. So I decided to reprint an article I wrote about the death penalty that first ran in the May 1995 issue of Sister 2 Sister mag, and was reprinted in the Sun-Times’ “Personal View” letters to the editor section on May 18, 1995, when I was then an assistant to Irv “Kup” Kupcinet. The article raised a lot of eyebrows and garnered many responses from folks who agreed . . . and disagreed.

Given the senseless mass shootings that have been shocking this country in the past few years and the latest massacre in Arizona allegedly committed by Jared Lee Loughner, who could be called the poster child for crazy, I feel the same today as I did 15 years ago. I know that this is a sensitive subject, but the beauty of living in the land of the free, you are free to agree or disagree. Here it is:

“News reports about the death penalty usually include someone saying that executing a person for a violent crime such as murder is not a deterrent to crime. I don’t understand this. Common sense tells me that if a perpetrator of a heinous crime is tried and found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and is then executed and put in the ground, if nothing else, that person has certainly been deterred.

“In the case of the blatant and vicious taking of another person’s life during a robbery, rape, etc., I believe in an eye for an eye. Sentencing a vicious killer to life in prison is too costly to us taxpayers. A person can get used to any type of lifestyle. . . . even prison. Prisoners get free room and board, free medical care and schooling, recreation time and, in some states, conjugal visits.

“On the other hand, the victim is still six feet under, no longer enjoying any of life’s pleasures, and will never, ever be paroled from the grave — not even 40 years later.

“The death penalty may not sit well with some people who claim it is cruel and unusual punishment. I say what is cruel is letting the murderer languish on Death Row for 10 to 15 years while his lawyer files appeal after appeal tying up the courts with mountains of paperwork and wasting everyone’s time. If the person is guilty BEYOND a shadow of a doubt, get it over with.

“And, by the way, the death penalty is not fair to all. Given all the senseless murders of blacks committed by blacks, it seems to me there should be even more blacks on Death Row for the killing of other blacks. About 40 percent of Death Row inmates are black, but 84 percent of all prisoners executed were convicted of killing whites, according to Amnesty International. Why isn’t the life of an African American just as precious as any other? If your beloved relative is shot down in the street like a dog and the perpetrator is arrested and found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, shouldn’t that victim’s family have an opportunity to see justice done? I think so.

“I feel that our court system subliminally sends out the message: Feel free to kill one another, black folks, but if you kill one of us, you will never see daylight. If black criminals knew that the penalty would be death for killing another black, maybe they would think twice.”

ACCORDING to the Death Penalty Information Center website: Since 1976, 82% of the studies [reviewed], race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty, i.e., those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.” — (U.S. General Accounting Office, Death Penalty Sentencing, February 1990) And in another report: “Blacks who kill non-blacks are more likely to receive the death penalty than blacks who kill blacks.” Hey, this tells me that an African-American victim’s life is not valued no matter who does the killing.

The death penalty is harsh and in a few cases flawed, but tell that to the doctor in Connecticut who survived an attack in his home by two thugs who tortured, raped and set afire his beloved wife and two daughters. And even if the death penalty is forever abolished in Illinois by Gov. Quinn, mass murderers should be the exception. Some human beings are just plain EVIL. Also, lifers in jail have nothing to lose, so they still can kill guards and other prisoners. And I applaud Mayor Daley for being a staunch advocate of the death penalty.