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Minority Outreach
LIFENET is reaching
out to African-Americans
and Hispanics to bring
the pro-life and pro-
abstinence message to
their communities.
The black and Hispanic communities have been especially hard hit
by
the
fallout from the sexual revolution. Almost half of all African- American babies conceived will lose their lives through abortion. The numbers are also grim for Hispanics:
26% choose abortion. (Source: Henshaw, Stanley K. Unintended Pregnancy in the U.S.
Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 30, No.1, January/February 1998).
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In the Northeast region,
according to year 2000
statistics from the
Centers
for Disease Control, African
Americans are almost 25
times
more
likely to be
HIV-positive, and Hispanics
are almost 15 times as
likely
as whites
to be HIV-positive.
LIFENET believes that reaching out to minorities is essential to the
pro-life effort anywhere, but especially in New Jersey, where cultural
diversity thrives.
Working with pastors and congregations, LIFENET staff is reaching out to
communities with pro-life presentations, True Love Waits abstinence
programs, and information on post-abortion healing.
Links:
www.learninc.org -
African-American site with info on abortion and abstinence from a black
perspective
www.blackgenocide.org -
African-American site of the New Jersey chapter of LEARN (see website above)
www.vidahumana.org - Pro-life site, en
Espanol
If you would like to receive information on having a LIFENET speaker come to
your church or school, or would like to be trained to reach out to minority
populations, fill out the following form, or e-mail us at
MinorityOutreach@lifenetnj.org, or call (201) 804-8331 or (973)
509-8123.
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