The Frederick Douglass Foundation, for which I am the Virginia chapter president, strives to advance the pro-life cause through education and community outreach, especially among the black community. In 2014, 65% of abortions ended the lives of unborn black children, whereas only 26% were performed on white children.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, has admitted that structural racism “continues to exist within [the] organization” and that it has caused “historical reproductive harm within communities of color.”