Jasmine Crockett Disparages Alveda King During June 9 Hearing
jasmine crockett clashed with Dr. Alveda King on June 9 during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center. Crockett said the committee invited King to testify to merely "parade someone who has the name, Dr. King."
King answered as Crockett left the room, saying, "You have suggested that I am a bastard to the King family legacy … but I love God, and I love you." The hearing put a longtime pro-life witness in direct conflict with a Texas lawmaker during a proceeding that drew testimony about the SPLC and abortion politics.
House Judiciary Committee
The committee met on June 9 to investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center, and SPLC Interim CEO Bryan Fair was in attendance. Rep. Brandon Gill said the SPLC considers "attacks on reproductive rights" to be a "tool" of "white supremacy," and he said 40% of abortions in the United States kill black babies despite black Americans making up 13% of the population.
King answered Gill by saying, "Pro-lifers cannot be white supremacists. Pro-lifers fight for every baby in the womb regardless of skin color. We have been aborted as blacks in America disproportionately. The White Supremacists are Planned Parenthood." Her remarks tied the hearing back to a broader argument over whether anti-abortion advocacy can be separated from racial history.
Alveda King and Planned Parenthood
King’s testimony drew on the history of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The facts cited in the hearing say Sanger attended and keynoted a Women's Klu Klux Klan rally in 1926, and that her American Birth Control League kicked off its "Negro Project" in 1939.
Those references helped frame why King was in the room at all: she was there as a witness arguing that abortion politics and racial justice cannot be separated. After Crockett’s remark, King answered directly before the hearing moved on, leaving the dispute attached to the record of the Judiciary Committee session rather than to a side exchange.
June 9 exchange
The immediate issue for readers was not a later vote or deadline, but the public record created at the hearing. Crockett’s comment and King’s reply now stand as the sharpest exchange from the June 9 session, with the testimony on the SPLC and the quoted statistics on abortion and race providing the context that surrounded it.
