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Posted by Robert
Rap News Network
7/1/2004 11:34:10 AM
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Care Net, an organization that supports a network of 750 crisis pregnancy centers, launched a grass roots campaign Thursday calling on Island/Def Jam records and radio stations to pull their support of a song that advocates abortion and violence against pregnant women. The song in question is a remix by hardcore rapper Joe Budden of Usher's "Confessions, Part II," which has topped the Billboard's pop charts for weeks. Budden adds lyrics that advocate beating a pregnant woman in the stomach if she is unwilling to abort her baby:
"Pray that she abort that, If she's talkin' 'bout keepin' it / One hit to the stomach, She's leakin' it," Budden raps in his version of "Confessions, Part II."
Neither Island/Def Jam Records, Budden's label, nor LaFace/Zomba, Usher's label, have said anything in response to media calls about the violent lyrics of Budden's song.
Star Parker, a member of Care Net's board of directors, was outraged at the song. "What do these record companies have to say about what their song advocates and its impact, particularly on young African American men and women? 'No comment.'" Parker said. "Are they concerned that one in three African American pregnancies end in abortion, that over 1,200 black children die every day, and an estimated 70 percent of abortion providers are in minority neighborhoods? Abortion in the black community has become a form of genocide.
"The urban woman facing these kinds of pressures deserves a new song -- a song of hope," said Parker. "And it's nothing these record companies will ever be able to offer her. Care Net's new urban initiative offers her what she deserves -- a safe-haven in the city where she can obtain help and find out there are more choices than abortion."
Care Net's Urban Initiative targets underserved urban areas across the country to educate communities about the abortion problem and to assist individuals plant or strengthen pregnancy resource centers in their community. A pregnancy center offers free services, including pregnancy tests and counseling, material assistance, abstinence education, post-abortion counseling and, in many areas, medical care, such as ultrasound services and STD testing. Janine Simpson, Care Net's director of urban center development will be speaking on Friday at the National Right to Life Convention in Washington, D.C., about Care Net's initiative to make access to abortion alternatives a real choice for African American women. Care Net has committed to plant 20 new urban pregnancy centers in the next five years. Currently, it is involved in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Orlando.
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