The
Philadelphia Bulletin reports.
Excerpt:
Less than two miles from two main abortion
providers in the city, Planned Parenthood and the Philadelphia Women's Clinic,
The HOPE Center opened Friday to provide pregnancy support.
While 40 percent of state abortions happen
in the city, most crisis pregnancy centers are located in the suburbs. Former
Philadelphia Eagle, Rev. Herb H. Lusk II opened The HOPE Center through his
People for People community outreach organization to counter that statistic and
help expecting couples.
"I've always been pro-life, but I've
been passive about it," Rev. Lusk said. "When I began to consider
that the African-American population alone has declined in the past three years
across the nation, I realized that we're not procreating our own race; and that
is a direct result of abortion in our communities."
According to the Pennsylvania Department of
Health, 50 percent of black pregnancies end in abortion in Philadelphia. And
between 1973 and 1999, there were over 13 million African-American abortions
nationwide.
"It breaks my heart to hear that; it
makes me cry," Rev. Lusk said of the statistics. "We can do better
than that."
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HT:
Tony Perkins, FRC