NFL star Benjamin Watson, who plays the tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, has accused abortion service provider Planned Parenthood of exterminating the black race.
"I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and [its founder Margaret] Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks, and it's kind of ironic that it's working," Watson tells Turning Point Friends.
Watson says the minorities have a responsibility to fight the abortion agenda that suggested that black and Hispanic pregnant teens should get abortions instead of keeping their babies.
"We are buying it hook, line, and sinker, like it's a great thing," he says. "It's just amazing to me and abortion saddens me, period. But it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do. In public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy."
Watson says it's unfair how pregnant black girls are encouraged to get abortions, somewhat like a "reinforced culture," but pregnant white girls are given proper support to keep their babies. "It's like when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show," he says.
The Christian athlete hopes his statements won't be taken out of context, because he does not want to appear as an uncaring individual who refuses to acknowledge the plights of women with unplanned pregnancies.
"Honestly, I am sympathetic, I am. Because I know it's a hard decision," Watson says. "I don't know exactly what it's like to be pregnant and to be a single mom, or even to be a married mom and not want the child. I would never assume people are having abortions flippantly. I know people have them for convenience, but that doesn't mean it's not a tough choice for the mothers to make, so I always want to be sympathetic to that."
