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Featured Article: Reading as a Subversive Act: Libraries as the Guide to Liberation

Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland in the year 1818 (+1895). He wrote three accounts of his life. In each one he described how he learned to read and write. As a boy about the age of eleven, he was sent from one slave-holder on an extensive plantation on the eastern shore of Maryland to another slave holder and his wife in Baltimore. Read Full Story | Print Version

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Silent No More: A Major Crisis in the African-American Community


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Today's medical and scientific knowledge clearly affirms the integral human characteristics of the pre-born much earlier in the pre-natal process than ever thought before. Even in the earliest stages, and keep in mind that most women are not even aware of being pregnant until several weeks after conception when much development has already taken place, but even in the earliest stages a biological process has begun that terminates in humanity. If every person were to trace her origin as a human being back to its roots, that journey would lead her to her mother's womb. I was I on the day I was conceived and I am still I today!

III. Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, and You?

Planned Parenthood. Sadly just about every teenager, and these days even pre-teens, knows all about this organization. That's where you can get condoms and birth control pills-if they don't already distribute these at your local public school. That's also where a girl can go to get an abortion. In some states, this can be done by teens without parental notification. This was the case in September of this year when a teenage girl died after taking the RU-486 abortion pill she received from a Brazos Valley Planned Parenthood clinic. Planned Parenthood espouses a philosophy that encourages young people to have so-called "safe-sex."

The only "irresponsible" behavior from their point of view is un-contracepted sex. Planned Parenthood is where parents (and, in their place-sometimes without their knowledge-school officials) who have failed to teach their children the virtue of chastity take the same children to stock them up with the means necessary to be sexually active with the least amount of immediately detectable consequences. This alone is enough to make one eschew this organization, but that is not all that can be said about this group.

Planned Parenthood not only provides contraceptives such as Norplant and Depo-Provera-by the way, many of these "contraceptives" are abortifacients in their secondary function. If they fail to prevent the fertilization of the egg by the sperm, they then function in such a way as to prevent the conceptum (the earliest stage of human life) from attaching to the uterine wall, hence causing its demise-Planned Parenthood is also the largest single abortion provider. Quite disturbing is the fact that the overwhelming number of its clinics are located in predominantly minority neighborhoods. This is disturbing, but it is not surprising when one examines the life of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. Despite being once headed by an African American, woman, Faye Wattleton, the origins and foundational philosophy of Planned Parenthood are steeped in the worse kind of racism.

 Abortion: Silent No More (Continued)


By Rev. John J. Raphael, SSJ.

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