Mixed messages: Al Sharpton on abortion

Al Sharpton on Abortion

Q: How do you feel about abortion?
A: I think women should have the right to choose what happens to their own life, body and choices.

My religion says that abortion is wrong. And while I may believe that life begins when the sperm meets the egg, and that only God should decide whether to take a life, I will not stand in the way of a woman's right to choose. If women do not have a right to choose, then it's a civil rights violation.

On the verdict of the Sean Bell trial

What we saw in court today was not a miscarriage of justice. Justice didn’t miscarry. This was an abortion of justice. Abortions are intended. Miscarriage could be you couldn’t hold the baby justice, you couldn’t take care of the baby, or it was an accident.

It was no accident. When a judge sits on a bench and says he considered the criminal background of some of the victims, that is an abortion and it is illegal. Because even people with criminal backgrounds have civil rights. You do not lose your rights to go to a club and walk to your car just because you may have a background that the police didn’t know you had.


Comment: Whether one approves of the verdict of the Sean Bell case, the point on Al Sharpton is this: He considers the verdict "an abortion and illegal". But aborting the unborn should be legal.