{"id":6967,"date":"2004-06-27T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/27\/song-encourages-violence-towards-pregnant-women-group-says\/"},"modified":"2004-06-27T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:05:16","slug":"song-encourages-violence-towards-pregnant-women-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/song-encourages-violence-towards-pregnant-women-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Encourages Violence Towards Pregnant Women, Group Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">(CNSNews.com) &#8211; A pro-life group is warning that a popular song advocates<br \/>\nviolence against pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Black Americans for Life, an outreach of the National<br \/>\nRight to Life Committee, said the remixed version of singer Usher&#8217;s song &quot;Confessions,&quot; featuring<br \/>\nrapper Joe Budden, suggests violent action against a mother when she is unwilling<br \/>\nto abort her child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;These lyrics are demeaning and outright violent toward both women and<br \/>\nunborn children,&quot; said Day Gardner, director of Black Americans for Life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;It is appalling to suggest that a man attack a woman to cause the death<br \/>\nof her unborn child. As women and as mothers, we simply cannot allow ourselves<br \/>\nor our unborn children to be treated as objects of such abuse,&quot; Gardner<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">  The song includes lyrics such as:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;&#8230;.Pray that she abort that,<br \/>\nIf she&#8217;s talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout keeping&#8217; it,<br \/>\nOne hit to the stomach,<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s leakin&#8217; it&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Gardner said the lyrics illustrate the need for legislation like the Unborn<br \/>\nVictims of Violence Act, also known as Laci and Connor&#8217;s law, which makes it<br \/>\na federal crime to harm or kill an unborn child when committing an act of violence<br \/>\nagainst the mother.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/news\/1270551.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNSNews.com) &#8211; A pro-life group is warning that a popular song advocates violence against pregnant women. Black Americans for Life, an outreach of the National Right to Life Committee, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}