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MONTGOMERY, AL, March 5, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – White pro-life Christians would force their daughters to have an abortion if the father is black, a Democrat said on the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives yesterday.

“Ninety-nine percent of all of the white people in here are going to raise their hand that they are against abortion,” Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, said during a debate over a fetal heartbeat bill, which passed. “On the other hand, 99 percent of the whites who are sitting in here now, if their daughter got pregnant by a black man, they are going to make their daughter have an abortion. They ain't gonna let her have the baby.”

“Ninety-nine percent of you sittin' in here now, if your daughter got pregnant by a black man, you gonna make her have an abortion. You not gonna let her have the baby,” he insisted.

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He continued that he could not envision a scenario in which a woman with two white children are “gonna have a little black baby, gonna be running around there in the living room [and] in the den playing with the rest of them.”

“All this about abortion and this and that, all that's just a con game,” he said. “That's for whites, it ain't for blacks.”

He then related a tale of a pro-life woman who told him her daughter was obtaining an abortion because the father was black. He then asked an unidentified woman what she would do in that situation.

“Let it run around in my living room and enjoy it as my grandchild,” the woman said.

Holmes laughed derisively. “Well, I need to commend you, then,” he said. “It wouldn't be one out of a hundred thousand that'd do that.”

Holmes, who was first elected 40 years ago, intended his comments as a rejoinder to Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, who said her bill was offered in the spirit of the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education decision ending racial segregation in schools.

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His remarks come just days after Wake Forest law professor Gregory S. Parks posted an article on The Huffington Post suggesting that speakers play on the alleged racism of the pro-life movement to increase support for abortion-on-demand.