Congressman Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, has introduced a bill which would make the pro-life feminist icon, Susan B. Anthony, and the black American hero, Frederick Douglass, very proud. The Franks bill, when signed into law, will prohibit the practice of, or solicitation or acceptance of funds for, race-or sex-selection abortion. Appropriately enough, the congressman has named his bill, H.R. 1822, the "Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2009."

In Monday's "The Washington Times," Congressman Franks points out that in America, according to a recent U.S. census, abortion clinics are "engaged in an insidious form of racial and sex-based discrimination." A Harvard University economist has estimated that more than 100 million women were "demographically missing" from the world because of widespread and underreported practices of prenatal sex selection.

This practice of aborting girls, including in America, is flourishing even though an astounding 86% of the American people support legislation which will prohibit abortion based on sex selection.

Congressman Franks, in his "Washington Times" column, condemns as equally repulsive, the widespread practice of aborting black babies in America. Indeed, an astounding 50% of black babies are killed before they have a chance of entering this world. One of out every two black babies are aborted in America today! Unborn black babies are five times more likely to be killed than unborn white babies.

The congressman is appealing to the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and the other members of the Democratic leadership, to end "this insidious form of discrimination" -- of aborting unwanted girls and black babies -- by enacting his legislation. As Congressman Franks said in his column: "If we cannot find common ground on such a bedrock American principle, regardless of our differing perspectives on abortion, what hope remains?"