Glenn Beck Rally Exploits Dr. King's Legacy to Push Anti-Abortion-Rights Message

RH Reality Check: Glenn Beck, Alveda King, and Reproductive Rights, by Marjorie Signer:

Even if you just wanted Glenn Beck and his over-publicized rally to go away, please take a minute to read what African American clergy, and civil rights and women's health leaders have to say. It's important.

This past weekend, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) brought together leaders of the African American community to expose a little-noticed aspect of the Beck event - the attempt to use the legacy of the civil rights movement to undermine African American women's reproductive rights. Alveda King figures prominently in this scheme - with her ludicrous charges of abortion as "black genocide" and her comparison of anti-choice activists to Freedom Riders. . . .