Thank you RT for this interview. The female interviewer is one the most thoughtful people RT has in the U.S. The issue of “targeting black women’s reproductive capacity” and not for abortion by Planned Parenthood has long and painful history in the United States. It started in the times of Slavery when white slave holders deliberately bred black babies for the slave market. Anybody who read Tony Morrison’s novel Beloved could understand this tragic historical context. That context, Planned Parenthood targeting of black’s women’s reproductive capacity for abortion is part of the process of racialization of reproductive rights in the United States. The good pastor is has a point but he is also off the mark when he insisted that the only option he will allow is that of “abstinence”; that he will force woman to carry a fetus to a full term even in cases of incest and rape. He said nothing about the fact that sexual abuse is a major problem within the African American community. There is no easy answer to the politics of abortion. It is however clear that in the age of receding welfare state, African American women have been encouraged to undergo abortions, long terms and often invasive birth control programs including sterilization. I do agree with the Pastor that President Obama does not seem to be deeply concerned with the suffering and the well being of black Americans. I felt this to be case based on his record as an Illinois Senator and his poor response to the current economic crisis which hit the poor including African Americans the hardest.

Pastor Childress is a dynamic speaker.

The "white man" doesn't force African-American women to have unprotected sex; they make that decision on their own. Abortion is not a decision to be made lightly and if African-American women are not intelligent enough to know what could happen after unprotected sex, then parents, educators and EVEN THOSE IN CLERGY should help to educate the community {whether it be abstinence or safe sex practices}. The "white man" isn't watching every African-American female having sex just to make sure she gets pregnant. Everyone makes their own decision. It's time to start accepting responsibility for the actions we make.

Jeremiah For centuries “white men’ forced African American women to have unprotected sex’ with them and with other slaves for the sake of breeding children as a commodity to be sold in the slave market. The white men who participated in this practice included Thomas Jefferson.

@Katrina Yes, that is true, but that was well over 200 years ago. I'm talking about right now, in this day and age. African-American women are smart enough to know that they don't have to have sex with anyone; they are smart enough to know what a pregnancy or abortion can do to them {mentally and physically}.

Paster Clenard lies here: in the interview, he says that 52% of black women who are pregnant have an abortion. The guttmacher institute says that black and hispanic women make up 52% of the women having abortions, maybe the pastor got his facts mixed up here?Black women have 50 abortions per 1000, hispanic women have 28 per 1000, and the rate for white women is significantly lower at 14 per 1000. The pastor is right in saying that the rates for black women are much higher, and it is a very serious accusation he makes when he says that black women are targeted: in a country where the medical industry is entirely profit based, I would certainly find it credible that such companies would aggresively target specific demographics that would be more likely to have an abortion, and these issues should certainly be addresed. However, I feel that the pastor uses these statstics to suit his own religous views, he appears to be a christian fundamentalist, using race as a means to put forward his personal views.

jsmith I think you know that this website is part of the worldwide web and it can be easily substantiated that invasive reproductive control including massive scale sterilization, inter-muscular instated long term low releasing and highly toxic birth control methods have been targeted in the United States to black women. I am sure many American whites would also like to forget the famous case of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment on black men who were used as ‘animal expert’ to see the ravage of the sexually transmitted disease on untreated human being. Do you deny that the Tuskegee Syphilis case which took place less then 50 years ago?

Stop abortion... Soendoro Soetanto