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Showing you can be liberal in a lot of things and yet remain committed to the intrinsic, God-given value of each human life:

The Democrats for Life town hall meeting on Wednesday in Denver, in addition to policy proposals and cultural analysis, examined the consequences of abortion, naming the abortion-related risks of domestic violence, infertility, and cancer as reasons to advocate abortion reduction programs.

Colorado State Senator Debbie Stafford, a former Republican with a background in religious ministry and domestic violence counseling, discussed the relation of domestic violence to abortion while Rev. Clenard Childress, pastor of the New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey and president of the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), discussed abortion’s devastating effects in the African-American community.

“No woman will abort unless she has a sense of abandonment and rejection,” Stafford said. Domestic violence doesn’t “just happen,” and pregnant women are 25 to 50 percent more likely to be abused than a non-pregnant woman, she explained.

Stafford added that sometimes a woman undergoes an abortion just to please her partner.

“When a pregnant woman involved in an abusive or destructive relationship finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy, one of the ways that she believes she can maintain what we call the ‘traumatic-emotional bond’ with her abuser is to allow her baby to be aborted.”

Further, she has discovered that “men hurt too,” and can come “literally unglued” because their pregnant partner used the possible abortion of the baby as a “wedge” between them or as a way to punish the man.

“It took two people to create that child,” she said, noting that both men and women in abusive relationships need support.

Rev. Childress discussed the negative consequences of abortion especially as related to the African-American community, claiming abortion affects African-Americans “more than any other ethnic group in the country.” He cited CDC statistics showing that one in two pregnant African-American women choose to abort.

The African-American birth rate, he said, is at 1.97 children per women, less than the 2.1 replacement rate. African-American women now lead the country in miscarriages due to “using abortion as a contraceptive,” which weakens the uterine lining.

“When they want to have a child, they cannot,” Rev. Childress explained with sadness.

Margaret Sanger – the racist, eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood – woud be pleased; her plan is working to perfection; black people are breeding less, thanks to abortion. What still staggers the mind is that black Americans have a strong belief that GOPers are racist and that liberal Democrats are on their side…when what liberals are really doing is destroying the black family, and butchering unborn black children. We won’t break this in 2008 – with a completely understandable sense of pride that one of their own has risen to the top, black Americans will go nearly universally Democrat in November…but, win or lose, the opportunity is there for both the GOP to gain black adherents in later years, as well as for black Democrats to force their party away from their hateful, despairing – and functionally racist – attachment to abortion on demand.

Future generations of Americans will look back at our time and stand aghast that we, once upon a time, allowed tens of millions of our fellow Americans to be murdered before they were born. As today we puzzle over how some Americans once upon a time considered it good to enslave other Americans so, too, will our grandchildren puzzle over our tolerance of a practice which is never necessay and always harmful to two human beings – the murdered child, and the violated mother. And I pray that what will really start the ball rolling towards an end to legal abortion is the recoil of honest liberals away from the pro-abortion position…a growing understanding even on the left that each human life is precious in and of itself.