PBS is home to an award-winning investigation journalism and documentary series, FRONTLINE. In a recent episode, the series took a chance to explore a movement in the black community that some may be familiar with: the African American anti-abortion movement in the United States.  

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Yourba Richen, who is a black woman herself, lead the filming of the project. She did extensive filming and travel to cover various Afro-American pro-life ministries. 

So what exactly is this anti-abortion movement about?

It's the argument that black women are coerced into getting abortions at higher rates than white women, and that, as a result, it continues the United States’ long history of medical racism by using abortion as a means to black genocide. 

Rev. Dr. Johnny Hunter, the National Director of LEARN – The Life Education And Resource Network, made it clear to Ms. Richen and the investigation team that he believed Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was racist and that her bigoted views were the root of her diabolical plan to invoke "Black Genocide" in the African American community.

Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., the founder of the Black Genocide website and president of Life Education And Resource Network (LEARN), Northeast, was highly featured in this documentary. 

"The most dangerous place for an African-American child is in the womb," he said in a striking statement.

However, it's not as simple as pro-life vs. pro-choice. According to Childress, this is sociological fact. Childress subscribes to the controversial belief that life begins at conception, and argues that abortion is mass murder because an average of 1,786 black women have abortions each day.

Black women in the U.S. account for 28 percent of reported abortions each year, while making up only 13 percent of the female population. 

“Most of all, it becomes apparent through all the discussions that the anti-abortion activist believe the baby to be a person and not a thing. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. summed it up quite well during the civil rights movement in his speech given in 1960 at the conference of the National Urban League called ‘The Rising Tides Of Racial Consciousness,'” Childress said.

In an interview with HuffPost, Richen gave her thoughts on the issues of black genocide and racism. 

“Genocide is a very potent argument in our community because of the history of racism. That’s why this message is able to catch on,” Richen said. “Medical racism is a huge issue and it’s something that we haven’t really reckoned with in this country.”

Are the anti-abortion activists right? Or are the pro-choice proponents correct? Decide for yourself after checking out the documentary  “Anti-Abortion Crusaders: Inside The African-American Abortion Battle."