One individual that took fighting for injustice to a whole other level was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King was a civil rights activist and minister. King’s niece, Alveda King, a dedicated pro-life advocate, notes that her uncle was strongly pro-life. Often people wonder what side King would fall on, pro-life or pro-choice. While Alveda King believes that her uncle would adamantly defend life, from conception to natural death. Many also believe he would be pro-choice because of him being a civil rights activist. “The negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety,” said (King, …show more content…
To express King’s views about the pro-life versus the pro-choice situation, his approach would be similar to that of the discriminatory Jim Crows laws protest in Birmingham. King would lead nonviolent protests to bring awareness to the problem. In the book “Letters from a Birmingham Jail,” King responds to the eight white clergymen, “Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better plan? Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension, that a community which constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” (King, M.