In a press release promoting a new anti-abortion book by her boss, Frank Pavone, Priests for Life’s Alveda King links the Iraq war, urban violence, school shootings and the massacre at an African-American church in South Carolina to legal abortion, asking, “[W]hat would you expect from societies that allow a mother to kill her own child and call it a personal 'choice?'”
King starts off by comparing Pavone to her uncle, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., writing that just as the civil rights leader “fanned the flames of the civil rights movement, so today Rev. Frank Pavone is doing the same for the movement to end abortion.”
She goes on to blame legal abortion for the fact that “ALL life has been devalued” in America, leading to war, violence and mass shootings:
Life today seems to have less value, at least in the eyes of many. Whether it's Black lives, unborn lives, lives of the disabled, lives of the elderly, ALL life has been devalued. Yet what would you expect from societies that allow a mother to kill her own child and call it a personal 'choice?'
Today death has spread from the abortion facilities to the deserts of Iraq, to the streets of our cities, to the classrooms of our schools, and to the prayer meetings of our churches.
The killing will not end until we begin to defend the most innocent of all, the unborn babies in the womb. When we say that their lives matter, then we can truly say, "All Lives Matter." And yes, we can even put a hashtag in front of it if we like.
King made similar remarks in a Fox News interview shortly after the Charleston shooting, saying, “You kill babies in the womb, kill people in their beds, shoot people on the streets so now you go into the church when people are praying.”
