@EricLDaugh Everyone arrested should be first secured in handcuffs or zip-ties, and then their masks be removed. Not a real perp-walk if they are detained in anonymity. We need to get their faces out in the public so their employers will see them.
Dr. Mildred Jefferson became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
But she is also responsible for helping a future president become pro-life....
Late in 1972, a Boston public television station featured Dr. Jefferson in “The Advocates,” a series that covered abortion.
The program aired nationwide and highlighted Dr. Jefferson as an eloquent pro-life speaker with impeccable logic. Her appearance was so effective, many minds were changed.
One letter she received said:
Yours was the most clear-cut exposition on this problem that I have ever heard. Several years ago I was faced with the issue of whether to sign a California abortion bill.
I must confess to never having given the matter of abortion any serious thought until that time. No other issue since I have been in office has caused me to do so much study and soul-searching. I wish I could have heard your views before our legislation was passed. You made it irrefutably clear that an abortion is the taking of a human life. I’m grateful to you.
The letter was signed, “Ronald Reagan.”
The most prominent pro-life spokesperson in the country, she saw the fight against abortion as a moral imperative.
“An individual never has the private right to choose to kill for whatever reasons, be they whim, convenience or compulsion.”
She also recognized the implications of abortion for the medical profession: “The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life.”
As the world reckoned with the extent of the Nazi program of genocide and euthanasia, Dr. Jefferson recognized abortion and forced sterilization as tools of eugenics.
Responding to Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, she clearly understood the trajectory of abortion:
"I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live."
Dr. Jefferson died in 2010.
But her pro-life contributions will never be forgotten.
@BillArnoldTeach Just finished reading “A Song for Nagasaki” that touched on this persecution. A beautiful read about Takashi Nagai, and his personal account of surviving the A Bomb dropped on Nagasaki. I highly encourage this book.