Black pro-life activist is shouted down by Democrat because she says PP targets blacks for abortions

Fireworks erupted during a Wednesday House subcommittee hearing when a black pro-life activist was shouted down by a Democratic legislator.

Pro-life activist Star Parker was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice on behalf of H.R. 490, which would grant legal protection to babies once a heartbeat is detected, when she ran afoul of Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen.

To set the stage, here’s the Cohen statement that Parker, who is the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), challenged:

If you believe in life you should believe in Medicaid, healthcare, nutrition for people who are here, and preventing the eventuality of backroom abortions and where only the wealthy can afford to go where they may be legal, making poor women even more poor.

And here are Parker’s words before the committee:

When it comes to mixing the abortion issue with the challenges that we face in many of our hard-hit communities, I feel it disingenuous that the issues of Medicaid would come up and other opportunities for us to readdress what has happened and broken down in our most distressed zip codes, the way that Planned Parenthood specifically targets these particular zip codes with abortion.

Abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community today. Since Roe v. Wade was legalized, 20 million humans have been killed inside of the womb of black women and then on Halloween, Planned Parenthood tweets out that black women are safest if they abort their child rather than bring it to term.

To the gentleman from Texas who brought up Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, I think that is important that we put in record that the needs of those that are most vulnerable in society cannot be addressed with abortion. Abortion feeds a narrative that women are victims, that they have no control over their sexual impulses. And the result of this narrative being forced down into our hardest-hit communities – we are seeing now recklessness in sexual activity and marriage has collapsed. In the 50s, 70 percent of black adults were married. Today, that number is 30 percent. This is causing a lot more social pathologies that have to be addressed in different types of legislation – not the Heartbeat Bill. The Heartbeat Bill is to protect the innocent.

After Parker spoke, Cohen got heated, saying as he pounded his finger on the table, “I am not disingenuous about anything I say about Medicaid, Medicare…or SNAP programs and to suggest that I’m disingenuous shows your ignorance or your absolute inability to deal with people the way you should. I believe in those issues and I think that they’re proper and to say I’m disingenuous is wrong and I expect an apology.”

At which point Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert defended Parker by turning the tables and asking for an apology from Cohen.

“I would ask for an apology from the gentleman from Tennessee (for) calling our witness ignorant when it seems to me she has a whole lot more knowledge and wisdom than …” Gohmert said before being interrupted by Cohen.

“She’s ignorant about me,” said Cohen.

Subcommittee chairman Rep. Steve King (R-IA) then proceeded to end the hearing based on a “lack of civility before this committee.”

Watch the exchange below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VB33oV9-8&feature=youtu.be

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