Black pro-life conservatives confront Sharpton pro-abort liberals at Beck rally
Backdrop to a truly inspiring video clip that made me hoot and holler in my quiet little home office here:
The Runaway Slave movie crews were at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor Rally” and at Al Sharpton’s “Reclaiming the Dream March” on Aug 28. As the 2 ideologies clashed in DC, our movie crews were on the scene.
In this raw footage, shot near the future MLK memorial site, Black conservatives leaving the “Restoring Honor” rally encounter Sharpton’s protestors who were holding signs claiming “Tea Party Racism.” This is just 1 of debates that we captured after the rally had ended.?
What an amazing spokeswoman! I love how she shocked the other side by not letting them get away with fallback clichés:
Black kool-aid drinker: How many black babies have you adopted?
Our heroine: How many have you adopted? What’s your point?
Black kool-aid drinker: I don’t want them to come out and be in poverty, but you do!
Our heroine: You don’t want them to come out and be in poverty, so kill them?
They didn’t know what to do after that, so they walked away. Gateway Pundit wrote this was her “best line”:
In 1960 over 80% of black babies were born in 2-parent households. After welfare, I work in the inner city, I work with kids that look like me. After LBJ’s welfare policies in the 60?s in the inner city over 90% of kids are born without fathers. Because the liberal establishment wants to break apart the nuclear family. Because they want kids controlled by the state. That’s what Karl Marx said. So let’s talk about that!
I agree. I also love how our heroine called out supposedly “pro-choice” liberals for opposing school choice for poor black kids in the inner city.
[HT: Sean at Religio-Political Talk]

I’ve adopted three. Does that mean I suddenly get credibility in this argument? That’d be great. I’m up for it if they are!
I got chills watching this. What a heroine indeed!!!! I LOVE THIS WOMAN! I have also worked with underprivileged minorities and she is 1000% right!
“Our Heroine” is correct!
If I was not a married man I would kiss that woman!
In fact, I am not so sure my wife would even mind (assuming our Heroine would not mind)!!
Informed and articulate and passionate people is precisely what is needed, and boy is this woman exactly what the Doctor ordered. Thanks for sharing.
I know many people “feel” this way inside, but it sure does my heart good to know that such women (or men) are out there, willing to say it loud and say it proud. MORE people on the “other side” would walk away if they were challenged, realizing their arguments and cliche’s are so meaningless.
Thanks again, Jill, for posting this.
Peace.
Good night! She is epic and awesome. :)
Preach it, sister!!!
Someone needs to drop Maafa dvd’s out of planes over
America’s inner cities.
I sense a great awakening coming!
That low rent Sharpton, who along with Jesse Jackson is a race huskster who couldn’t find any other way to make a living if not for inflaming racial tension.
How wonderful to see black Americans are finally moving off the liberal plantation, however slowly. I’m sure its a shock to liberal Democrats that black people do not all think and act like, you know like “real blacks” are supposed to, at least according to a liberal news magazine I once read.
The Democrat Party has devastated the black community in ways the Democrat Party’s terrorist arm, the KKK, could only dream of.
Woo Hoo! Go Prolifers. This woman was awesome and so articulate. Thank God for the her responses to their lame excuses for calling conservatives “racists” and for aborting babies while the policies of the liberal, Democratic machine have devastated the AA community. The statistics she quoted are true in the 1960s most AA children were in 2 parent families then Uncle Sam’s Plantation came along and bought Black peoples votes with welfare and Black fathers left. Read Star Parker’s “Uncle Sam’s Plantation” and “White Ghetto” about how government welfare enslaves the inner-city poor, promotes promiscuity, abortion, irresponsible behavior and fatherlessness. The number one risk factor for poverty is unwed single motherhood. Children born to single mothers are 9 times more likely to live in poverty, the average income of single mothers is less than half of the average married couples income. Married couples black, white or brown are healthier, wealthier and happier (less chronic disease, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, alcoholism, drug abuse, smoking, poverty, depression, mental illness, domestic abuse, STDs, prematurity, early infant death, child abuse, criminal behavior, violence, educational crisis for their children-suspensions, truency, etc., less teen pregnancies, and any other risky behavior you can think of.) Read Why Marriage Matters by Glenn T. Stanton, America’s Youth: Measuring the Risk by the Institute for Youth Devolpment 2002 (143 pages of research documented charts about America’s youth) and The Case for Marriage: Why Married people Are Happier Healthier and Better Off Financially by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher. Stop the killing of innocent unborn babies and the promoting of irresponsible, risky, unhealthy behavior by all no matter the race. No marriage does not solve all of life’s problems and create heaven on earth but the destruction of marriage has caused hell on earth for many more. Abortion has not brought people out poverty, eliminated child abuse, assured that “every baby is a wanted baby”, increased educational levels and leveled the playing field for poor women. ”Lies, lies don’t believe the lies”. like the Radiance Foundation ad says. PP lies to you!
Can she come live near me and be my new best friend? Please?
So is anyone finding out our heroine’s name and where she lives? Put her on the pro-life speaking circuit! She can come to Nebraska any time!
Read the “Big Black Lie: How I discovered the truth about the Democrat Party” by Kevin Jackson. He says in his book how he grew up to be a conservative when he realized that the Democrats were out to destroy black men like him. He says a lot of what this smart young woman said. She was fierce and I loved it!!!!!! More and more blacks are waking up and realizing that the left has failed them and waged war on their youngest members and that abortion IS genocide.
Whoooooooooooooooooooo Hoooooooooooooooooo!!
Go Girl! I could listen to The Truth from you all day!!
Hi Sydney M
The history of the Democrat Party, from the time of slavery, has been to deny black Americans their rights. It is a legacy of slavery, segregation, violence, terror, and filibustering of civil rights. I was surprised to learn the civil rights “icons” John Kennedy(who did squat for civil rights) objected to President Eisenhower deploying the 82nd airoborne to desegregate Arkansas schools and Lyndon Johnson, in addition to also objecting to this deployment took any enforcement measures out of the civil rights bill passed by President Eisenhower. Yes you read that right, President Eisenhower, a gasp, Republican. How ironic that in 1964 and 1965 Johnson would need help from the Republicans to pass the Civil and Voting Rights Acts.
I remain at a loss to understand the blind loyalty most black Americans give the Democrat Party.
Mary September 3rd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
“I remain at a loss to understand the blind loyalty most black Americans give the Democrat Party.”
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Mary,
Clue to finding the answer to your question.
‘Follow the money.’
We’ve adopted two ‘abortion vulnerable’ kids so…..BAM!
You are right Ken. I think prolifer Star Parker says in her book “Uncle Sam’s Plantation” that they have “sold” their own people into slavery. The Black Caucas and so-called “civil rights leaders” have “Blood Money” on their hands with campaign contributions and paybacks made off of the mutilation and murder of unborn babies committing Black genocide with AA women comprising only 12% of the US population but having 40% of the abortions. PP builds over 80% of their abortuaries in minority neighborhoods. For those who don’t know a certain “civil rights leader” was prolife before he ran for President as a Democrat, then Black babies became disposable on the altar of “a woman’s right to choose” and “reproductive freedom”. God help all of those who have turned their backs on innocent unborn babies and sacrificed them on the altar of convenience and political correctness.
Wait…so I am supposed to believe that the Republican party is the more sympathetic party when it comes to race relations??? HAHAHAHA….oh man, that is precious. Thank you so much for the laugh. That is brilliant.
And to Yor Bro ken…yes, African Americans must follow Democrats because they follow the money…ie, the take the handouts and the welfare. That is what you are saying right??? I mean, they can’t support themselves so they must follow the Democrats. Yes, the Republicans are more supportive of African Americans….pathetic.
Jake,
Do your research.
-The Democrat Party supported slavery, the Republicans opposed it
-The Democrat Party founded the KKK as its terrorist arm. Over the years, one had to be a Democrat to be a klansman.
-The Democrat Party instituted segregation in the south
-Democrat Party icon Franklin Roosevelt, along with other Democrats, would not give his moral backing to anti lynching legislation. Republicans supported it. Also FDR refused to desegregate the armed forces though Republicans urged him to do so.
-A civil rights bill was passed by Republican president Eisenhower in 1960 after a 125 hour filibuster by Democrats.
-Democrat attorney general Robert Kennedy wiretapped Martin Luther king Jr.
-The 1964 and 1965 Civil and Voting Rights Acts passed despite a Democrat filibuster, thanks to the fact that Democrat Lyndon Johnson could turn to Republicans for help in passing the bills.
Oh, then there are such Democrat notables as George “segregation forever” Wallace, “Bull” Connor who turned fire hoses and attack dogs on black civil rights demonstrators, and the recently deceased Senator Robert Byrd, ex-klansman and klan recruiter who filibustered the previously mentioned civil and voting rights acts.
The Democrat Party never saw any need to attempt to expel him. But wait, the good senator did have an epipheny. After losing his son in the mid 1980s, Byrd came to the conclusion that black people might love their children. Might. Now that’s a changed man!
BTW Jake, ever notice how cities such as Detroit and New Orleans that have been run by liberal Democrats aren’t exactly bastions of love and racial tolerance? More likely black people are the victims of wanton crime, high unemployment, and poor schools. Liberal Democrats oppose school choice, Repulicans support it.
Still laughing Jake??
Oh and Jake,
Certainly you heard about Democrat senator Harry Reid and his “light skinned Negro” and “no Negro dialect” comment. Let’s not forget Democrat Bill Clinton telling the late Ted Kennedy that Obama would have been serving them (he and Hillary) their coffee a year earlier. Mmm. a suggestion of black servitude here?
That’s right up there with South Carolina Democrat Senator(1966-2005) Ernest “Fritz”Hollings ”joking” about African leaders being cannibals. As Democrat governor of South Carolina Hollings ordered the Confederate flag flown to protest civil rights. Far be in from me to suggest his “joke” had any racial motivation.
You must be doubled over in hysterical laughter by now Jake.
To quote Mary,
“I remain at a loss to understand the blind loyalty most black Americans give the Democrat Party.”
It must be because they are too ignorant to follow the Republican party, right Mary? I mean they can’t think for themselves right Mary? Why would an intelligent black person follow the Democrats??? It makes no sense unless they, as a race, are too ignorant to understand what is in their best interest. That’s what you are saying.
Oh, and Mary, do you really want me to pull quotes from racist Republicans through the years? I would be happy to do it. Trent Lott comes to mind, I would be happy to find others for you.
One more thing….let’s take a look at current events. How about the proposed Mosque in New York City. Why oh why would Republicans be against the Mosque construction? Couldn’t be because of racial and religious intolerance could it?
Of course Jake can’t debunk the truths Mary posted so he tries to bait her with his usual snarky nonsense. Whatever Jake! The truth hurts! Black people are not stupid. But they are waking up to the lies fed to them by white racist Democrats and their black leaders who sold them out for money in their pockets. Again, I suggest reading Kevin Jackson’s book. Or Star Parker’s books. The black population in this country has had enough of the modern plantations of the welfare system. They are smart, they are capable and they are tired of liberals like you acting like being black is a disease that they need your assistance to “overcome”. You’re condescending Jake.
Jake,
Now you’re making me laugh. Honestly I am very sympathetic. I agree that facts can be very annoying and inconvenient. Problem is Jake I’ve only scratched the surface. If you want more examples I’ll be happy to produce them.
Given the history of the Democrat Party, yes I am at a total loss to understand the loyal of Black Americans to the Democrats. Now come on Jake, if this was the history of the Republican Party, wouldn’t you fully understand why black Americans reject them?
Trent Lott. Oh yes that. My goodness it brings to mind Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, remember him the ex-klansman, using the n word on national TV. Interesting how that generated little outrage. I understand the congressional black caucus was not happy with this but being Byrd was a powerful Democrat it was best to keep silent. I’m sure Senator Byrd appreciated black people remembering their “place”. I mean he had only recently figured out they MIGHT actually love their children.
Bring on the quotes Jake, I’m only getting started.
Concerning the mosque, again do a little research. More than two thirds of New Yorkers want it moved away. NYC has never been a bastion of Republicanism, I believe it 8 to 1 Democrat, correct me if I’m wrong.
Jake, good grief… for a few moments, there in the past, you were starting to sound cogent and stable; but now, you’re back to spouting troll-esque, bumper-sticker-like sound-bytes which have more fallacies per sentence than ever!
Remember what I taught you? “LOL, *snark snark*, [flame flame]” is not the height of rhetorical eloquence, nor does it further your position in the eyes of onlookers (who will probably be moved either to exasperation or pity for you). Try to aim a wee bit higher than that, eh?
Case in point… you replied, to Mary:
It must be because they are too ignorant to follow the Republican party, right Mary?
(*sigh*) Jake, I realize that you’re utterly devoted to abortion, but think, for a moment. Whatever the Republican party’s shortcomings (and there are plenty of them, to be sure), they include “anti-abortion” as one of their planks. The Democratic Party enshrines “abortion rights” as one of their planks. (You knew that, right?) Given that a disproportionate number of black children die by abortion each year, anyone with sense would see that as a “black issue”; and anyone with sense would see that “abortion rights” translate into a diminishment of the black population, which would concern anyone who’s truly interested in racial equality. It seems that you, Jake, are far more concerned with protecting the “right” to kill unborn children, and (in your mind) racial genocide must take a back-seat to that.
Any chance you could change again, from “troll” to “regular commenter”, so that we can have a reasonable discussion (rather than your normal drive-by flames)?
WOW! This woman is amazing! She knows her history, something which is completely lacking in most of the liberal movement today. I am proud to say I stand with her!
Paladin..Paladin..where do you rooo-am?
I just couldn’t resist. Always good to see you Paladin.
If anyone would like a greater understanding of why more and more blacks are choosing to be conservatives as they learn the truth about who was and is racist in this country a great website is http://www.black-and-right.com by Bob Parks. It is one of my favorites and Bob is a phenomenal human being and a great teacher. He has links on his sites to full documentary series about precisely how the black community got sold a bill of goods and why so many of them don’t know the simply historical facts that this woman clearly understands.
Um they are walking away because she is a screaming lunatic who won’t let anyone answer her questions… Notice she is a lone black woman screaming by herself. Notice ALL the other black people just walked away from her right-wing Kool-Aid spewing.
Black Genocide in America is a 100% myth! I have heard all their arguments and honestly the cherry picked facts and framed statistics are quite obvious.
The reason black abortions are so high has nothing to do with welfare and everything to do with games played by the Republican Party. The changing of districts to keep blacks voters spread out and marginalized. The deregulation of insurance companies limiting healthcare and contraception to low income Americans. The breakdown of nuclear families in low income areas is due to nothing other than poverty which was also promoted and exploited by the republican party.
The closest thing to black genocide that has happened in this country was what the republican white house and congress did to all those black people during Katrina. 1800 black AMERICANS dead while the republican president sat on his hands for two weeks… If that had happened to Connecticut I bet the helicopters could have got there in time…
The reason why the adoption question keeps coming up is simple. You guys advocate adoption but very few of you practice it. You guys offer up adoption as an alternative to abortion but then little regard is given to what happens to that baby next. While yes it is true that fetuses do not choose abortion they also do not choose adoption… Pro-choice people do not push a woman in any one direction, it is THEIR choice. We just make sure all their choices are protected. We do not make moral judgments on other people decisions because we believe in freedom.
I find it funny all you white people cheer her on while all her fellow black people walk away from her…
On a separate note… WTF was Beck’s speech all about? I listened to the whole thing and I couldn’t get what he was driving at. Seemed like a bunch of beating around the bush with god evoked every few minutes??? I still have no idea what that rally was for other than Glen’s ego…
Oh please Biggz,
Explain to us why cities that have been run by liberal Democrats, including Detroit and New Orleans, are going down the crapper. Certainly these should be beacons of racial tolerance and economic progress.
Even liberal Democrat and apologist Bob Beckel acknowledged on Hannity that the liberal Democrat anti poverty programs, however well intended, have been catastrophic to the black family and community. The Democrat Party, long determined to keep black Americans in their “place” finally succeeded. Check out the history of black Americans post slavery Biggz and you will see people with strong family and community ties, who established their own schools, colleges, businesses, farms, middle and professional class neighborhoods. You will see a people who made contributions to science, medicine, art, education, entertainment, and sports. They also voted Republican.
Hi Elisabeth,
We can only hope black Americans will finally learn their true legacy, and it is not one of a people beaten down by racism, but a people who overcame the most overwhelming of obstacles in order to excel. We can also hope they have learned the true history of the Democrat Party and realize their goal of subjugating black Americans has finally been realized, however long it took.
THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN ABOUT!! SHE STOOD HER GROUND AND THEY COULDN’T SAY NOTHING AFTER THAT!!!!
AND THE SCORE IS….
PRO-LIFE-1
PRO-ABORT LIBERALS 0-ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH!!!
God bless you sister for being so brave!
Mary,
:) Y’know, if you’d told me, back when we were having our “joust”, that catching sight of you would put a big grin on my face, I’d have said you were crazy! But lo, and behold! :D Good to see you, too!
Biggz wrote:
Um they are walking away because she is a screaming lunatic
:) Paladin, be nice… be nice… bite your tongue… be nice! Don’t say it… don’t say it… no matter how bitter the irony, here, stay strong…!
who won’t let anyone answer her questions…
Are you joking? She was answered dozens of times, albeit with nonsensical answers. There *is* a difference between not hearing answers (and she certainly heard the answers, because she responded to them), and not settling for dumb answers…
Notice she is a lone black woman screaming by herself.
Biggz, let’s practice some Winnie-the-Pooh philosophy, here: THINK, THINK, THINK!
First: the woman is black, and she was confronting people who were repeating the lie about “Tea Party Racism” (you did read that in Jill’s original post, didn’t you? You were aware of the fact that such signs instigated this debate on video?). She’s in an excellent position to comment on it, I think.
Second: she was talking loudly, sure; I’m not sure why you’d expect library-level voices at a rally in the open, with people in her “range” spread out over hundreds of feet. Did you also write off the Al Sharpton devotees when they were “screaming” at her, or does your bias only allow you to dismiss conservatives (with the “screaming being a mere rhetorical flail on your part)?
Notice ALL the other black people just walked away from her right-wing Kool-Aid spewing.
…after being trounced with arguments they couldn’t refute, yes. There really wasn’t much for them to say. What would they do, otherwise: call her a “tea party racist?”
Black Genocide in America is a 100% myth!
You’ve now established your raw opinion; very good. The tricky part, however, will be to support that claim with sane reason and facts. I’ll wait.
I have heard all their arguments and honestly the cherry picked facts and framed statistics are quite obvious.
Still waiting…
The reason black abortions are so high has nothing to do with welfare and everything to do with games played by the Republican Party.
That sound you heard was me, letting my forehead fall against the keyboard. I’m really starting to suspect that you’re a conservative comedian, sneaking onto this forum to play mind-games with us and to practice your “troll persona”! You certainly can’t be serious. Wouldn’t one of the key reasons for “high black abortions” be the existence of abortion itself (which the Democratic party fights to keep legal at all costs)?
Listen, for a moment: no one is suggesting that every last abortion supporter is consciously trying to eradicate black people. All right, so far? But consider two things: (1) abortion, given the current demographic/socio-economic climate, is having the EFFECT of wiping black people out–in America, and (thanks to “abortion exports”) now in Africa… which should concern anyone of sanity (above and beyond the little detail of the procedure ripping a defenseless child to death–details, details!); and (2) the history of Planned Parenthood is saturated with racism–from its origins under arch-racist Margaret Sanger, to its current workers who are glad to accept donations in order to “abort a black baby, specifically”–to the extent that, out of seven PP clinics called, NOT ONE refused the explicitly racist donation (see http://liveaction.org/projects/racism for the excellent efforts of Lila Rose, et al.).
The changing of districts to keep blacks voters spread out and marginalized.
Er… if blacks were more spread out and marginalized (to the point that transportation costs were burdensome), wouldn’t that make it *harder* to abort them, requiring the building of even more clinics for them to reach?
The deregulation of insurance companies limiting healthcare and contraception to low income Americans.
Even if we accept your absurd premise that “free condoms prevent abortions” (which is laughable: condoms promote more promiscuous sex with the illusory promise of “no consequences”, which force those with condom (etc.) failure to use abortion as a “fall-back” plan), are you unaware of the fact that condoms are relatively cheap? They can be found for less than $.50 each, when bought in quantities of 32 (according to a quick–though nauseating–Google search); the price of one carton of generic cigarettes could buy 2 cases!
The breakdown of nuclear families in low income areas is due to nothing other than poverty which was also promoted and exploited by the republican party.
Aside from the raw political cheerleading of your last phrase, this is arguably the most ignorant thing you’ve said, to date. You seriously equate poverty (and “none other”, to boot) with the breakdown of the nuclear family? Well, then! I’ll be happy to view any data you have that shows the following:
1) rampant divorce and neglect of marriage in the years of the Great Depression (c. 1929-1939-ish)
2) decades of rampant divorce and neglect of marriage in the countries with the most crushing poverty (e.g. Sudan, India, Somalia, Ethiopia, etc.)
3) robust condition of (and popularity of) the nuclear family in rich suburban and urban areas, and especially in the homes of those who are millionaires, billionaires, etc. (e.g. movie stars, politicians, etc.), and the near-nonexistent divorce rate of those areas
Sorry, friend, but you’re spouting pure horse droppings, here.
The closest thing to black genocide that has happened in this country was what the republican white house and congress did to all those black people during Katrina. 1800 black AMERICANS dead
Hm. The statistics list 1836 fatalities of Hurricane Katrina; are you suggesting that only 36 of them were white or Asian or what-have-you? Fascinating. Care to share the source of your information?
while the republican president sat on his hands for two weeks…
Really? Katrina first formed (as a tropical depression) on August 23, 2005; it made landfall on August 29 (not counting the first landfall over Florida); President Bush, on the advice of his advisors, declared a state of emergency in portions of three different states on August 27 (two days prior), he personally urged the Governor of Louisiana (on August 28) to evacuate the city of New Orleans, and he authorized federal disaster relief on the same day. “Sat on his hands for two weeks”, indeed! Rubbish…! What did you expect President Bush to do: wave his hands and teleport the storm away?
The reason why the adoption question keeps coming up is simple. You guys advocate adoption but very few of you practice it.
Oy, vey. Is this really “trot out the oldest pro-abortion canards” day? Let’s stay simple, here: you’re suggesting that, so long as pro-lifers don’t adopt children at a rate pleasing to you, we kill all the other children. Do I understand you correctly? (I’m also wondering if you’re in favour of killing all the current orphans in orphanages and foster-care, since they’re apparently not being adopted quickly enough?)
You guys offer up adoption as an alternative to abortion
We also offer up the quaint idea of sexual abstinence/restraint… but I digress.
but then little regard is given to what happens to that baby next.
I see. And you know this… how? (And perhaps you might start complaining to those on “your side” of the issue who are trying their best to shut down Pregnancy Care Centers? See http://www.lifenews.com/nat6388.html, for a taste.)
While yes it is true that fetuses do not choose abortion they also do not choose adoption…
Okay, seriously: you’ve just given yourself away as a conservative comedian, trying to make abortion-tolerant people look crazy. No real pro-abortion person would say something THAT nutty! Who are you, really? Steven Crowder? Andrew Klavan? ‘Fess up!
Pro-choice people do not push a woman in any one direction, it is THEIR choice. We just make sure all their choices are protected.
…including the choice to kill their children. Got it. We understand. I do wonder why you’re not as consistent as Dr. Peter Singer; at least he admits that infanticide is justifiable under similar reasoning…
We do not make moral judgments on other people decisions because we believe in freedom.
Ah. Got it. Rapists need fear no moral judgments from you, out of deference to their freedom! Likewise for mass-murderers, mobsters, and the like. After all: their decisions are the important thing!
I find it funny all you white people cheer her on while all her fellow black people walk away from her…
And you don’t think that the location (i.e. “Al Sharpton Central”) had anything to do with that? You think that the black people at Glenn Beck’s rally would have walked away, too? You DID say “ALL her fellow black people”, yes?
Steven, seriously… I love your videos, but enough is enough; ‘fess up!
Paladin, as usual, awesome post. But I have to jump in here and say I first read this:
What did you expect President Bush to do: wave his hands and teleport the storm away?
As “TelePROMPT the storm away…” and I had to laugh because, of course, that is our current President’s reaction to everything. :D
:) It’s a shame that hurricane teleprompting technology hadn’t yet advanced to that point, in 2005…
I think the best answer to the “how many babies have you adopted” response is best answered with, first, and answer – then a quick counter question asking:
“How many of the countless kids born preterm with cerebral palsy for a lifetime due to their mothers previous abortions have you adopted?”
http://uvalies.org/birthdefects.html
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