Quote of the Day 2-15-11
In our own collective history, black women know what it feels like when someone else controls our bodies and makes decisions for us….
We’re fighting fiercely for our rights to be seen as adult human beings capable of making decisions for ourselves about these things. We know what happens when you become breeders for somebody else’s cause. Even as strong as our religious feelings are, we don’t play that.
~Loretta Ross, of the SisterSong “reproductive justice” group for women of color, as quoted by The Root, February 14
Feb.15, 2011 7:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I’m trying to understand the poster the woman is holding. “We love them both”, it sure contradicts the one that says “Keep abortion Legal”.
To me it says:
“We love you, but we also would like to be able to kill you whenever we want to”
Loretta Ross, don’t be a fool. You are being controlled by someone else when you kill your child so that the white racists at PP don’t have to be bothered by another black baby coming into the world. And you are fulfilling the dreams of PP’s racist white founder Margaret Sanger every time you sacrifice your child to abortion. No one is asking you to be breeders. We are asking you not to kill any more of your children. Loretta Ross, you must be a KKK member’s dream come true. You are advocating the destruction of your own branch of the human race. Shame on you!
One woman is prolife.
Guess which one. :)
“Reproductive justice” is a dishonest way of saying “prenatal homicide”.
The constant need of opponents of unborn human rights to use awful doublespeak and euphemisms tells me that deep down inside they know they are wrong to support the killing of human beings.
To me reproductive justice should mean the right of the baby to get “reproduced” is upheld. THAT is reproductive justice. Pro-aborts always come up with dumb catch phrases like that. I’m surprised they haven’t used “uterine utopia” yet. DUMB.
I heard a great quote on the radio yesterday:
“Satan’s favorite color is gray.”
When people say that the decision to abort their child is not black and white, they are rationalizing murder and self-destruction. There were some good pro-life quotes in that article too.
Yes, Ryan Bomberger (the man behind the “Endangered Species” billboard – who happens to be African American) had a great quote in there. I almost used it for the QOD instead of this one, but this one was just too crazy to pass up.
“black women know what it feels like when someone else controls our bodies and makes decisions for us…”
Then what about the body of the child growing in the womb? This is a classic case of the oppressed becoming the oppressors. How is this a “right?” Subjugating other humans to the point of death should be illegal, at all ages and stages. Period.
This group, Sistersong, believes there is an “Abortion Conspiracy” that is attacking the human rights of Black women. They have created a five-part series of videos which you can see on their website. Not surprising, there is much misinformation; it’s incredible. Ms. Ross applauds Margaret Sanger for engaging the Black community when others would not, and goes so far as to call her a “martyr”. Yikes!
Lord, please show us how to get the pro-life message to the misinformed!
Carla says:
February 15, 2011 at 8:20 am
One woman is prolife.
Guess which one.
The unborn. The one in the womb.
And the one holding the love them both sign. :)
Reproductive Justice? Nobody stopped them from having sex. Obviously.
What’s next? The term Jihad justice? How is killing the unwanted child not like killing the unwanted heathen.
Then how is Abortion any different than Holocaust… maybe they just needed posters that said genecidal justice….
There will always be someone they can classify as unwanted, apparently they will fight for the right to murder.
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
“We know what happens when you become breeders for somebody else’s cause. Even as strong as our religious feelings are, we don’t play that.”
That quote really does stick in my side like a thorn. Don’t want to become breeders because you think pro-lifers are telling you what to do? But do want to become murderers because that’s what abortionists tell you to do? Huh?
“None are so blind as those who refuse to see.” We have to keep praying and informing people.
Btw, @Jim: I don’t think the three women in that photo are together. I think you see two different protests going on there, two women for abortion and one for life.
“We know what happens when you become breeders for somebody else’s cause. Even as strong as our religious feelings are, we don’t play that
I met Loretta Ross and actually she’s a nice person. Along with a few other women we had attended a black PC conference in DC — undercover, of course. She was cordial to us even after we found out that we were the dreaded antichoice fanatics. But I don’t understand her rhetoric. How are black women being “breeders for somebody else’s cause?” Slavery has been over for more than one hundred years!
Loretta Ross is active in the anti-racism movement, which makes her admiration of Margaret Sanger even more bizarre. I wonder what she would say if she knew that Maggie is considered a heroine among white supremacists. If you don’t believe me, read this article about her in HomeFront, an online magazine for “racially aware” white women:
http://wau14.com/homefront/margaret-sanger/
And as for the “we” stuff — honey, not all black folks think the same and you certainly don’t speak for me!
And she would not speak for my friends Ivy and Yolande!
A couple of years ago, we were at a 40 days vigil at our local PP. And counter-protesters came out – all were beautiful, intelligent black women from the university. All were ‘choice’ supporters – and they were loud and proud.
Not once did they understood that their fight for ‘choice’ was ironic due to their people’s history. Never once did they consider that the injustices done to the slave population is the same rational as the injustices done to the unborn.
And as a small segment of the population, abortion is eliminating their race – and quickly. Instead of having more political power now, they have less as a population. Instead of growing into 20-22-25% of the U.S. population, they now hold only 12-17%. So instead of gaining in stature, power and influence as a voting block – they are declining.
I reminded them that in order to look forward – one must see history in the past and not repeat the mistakes. Also – in order to be civil, we must be civil to all peoples, young, old, schooled and unschooled, rich and poor, churched and unchurched, functional and unfunctional, born or unborn – no matter the race, sex or situation – if you are human you have the right to be safe, have life and be allowed to live.
Help to all humans. no exceptions. I hope that Loretta and others get it one day. And if they are post-abortive – to know that there is healing and forgiveness even after abortion. God wants all of His children to thrive.
Hi Carla,
I guess I’m too cynical today. I interpreted the sign as meaning, “why don’t you pro-lifers respect the pregnant woman in addition to the unborn baby?”. I didn’t look close enough to see that the protestors are not all together, as Disciple commented. I totally see your point!
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Hi phillymiss,
Thanks for your comment. I’m really glad to hear you were treated cordially. Maybe you could send her an email and re-introduce yourself and the “truth” to her??? Just a thought….
The media always portrays one or two pro aborts by someone who is prolife.
Oh the drama!! :)
Right Carla, even if a article is about pro-life, such as a pro-life protest outside a PP clinic, and there are NO anti-life protesters around, they will track one down and get a quote just to “balance” their report. However, the media always tips its hand by using phrases like “anti-choice protest.”
I was reading some articles on the net a while back and one of them had a statistic like 80% of rape survivors carry their babies to term (if they conceived during the rape, which is rare as most rape survivors have not conceived a child).
If that’s true, it means a baby is safer in the womb of a rape survivor, statistically, than in the womb of a mother who had consensual sex in some communities. In New York, a baby is safer in the womb of a rape survivor than he is in the womb of a women who had consensual sex that resides or works in New York City.
Janet, this was about 15 years ago and I don’t know if she would remember me, but perhaps its worth a try.
BTW, please pray for my son’s girlfriend. She has gestational diabetes (she’s now six months).
phillymiss,
I will keep her in my prayers. God bless.
Urg what an aweful site that was phillymiss. The best thing I learned on it was how to make chalk with eggshells!!! add flour hot water and color!
Praying, phillymiss.
I will be praying as well, phillymiss.
Joining my prayers with all the others, phillymiss.
That is just sickening!
The Irish were also slaves – not indentured servants (a lie perpetuated by history books written by Brits and British sympathizers) – as well as “breeders” for the cause of slavery, and we are still pro-life! The Irish, especially Irish Catholics, are also hated by eugenicists, and were also targets of Sanger. I cannot comprehend why anyone would even think of supporting a cause that aims to eliminate their culture! Ick!
Phillymiss, I will definitely keep your son’s girlfriend in my prayers.
praying for your son’s GF and the baby, too.
“You are advocating the destruction of your own branch of the human race. Shame on you!”
So Sydney, do you think you reproductive decision-making is a political act? When you think about childbearing, are you concerned with what those decisions might mean for your culture/ethnicity/nationality/race?
In some ways yes, Megan. I think of producing children and teaching them to love God and read His Word. I am teaching them to be little pro-life warriors. I am passing on my family’s ethnicity yes. That makes me feel good. I am not ashamed of being white. I think of producing more right wing warriors just to irritate the grub out of folks like you. lol.
But whites are not being sought out and systematically destroyed in the womb the way blacks are now are they.
And as a small segment of the population, abortion is eliminating their race – and quickly. Instead of having more political power now, they have less as a population. Instead of growing into 20-22-25% of the U.S. population, they now hold only 12-17%. So instead of gaining in stature, power and influence as a voting block – they are declining.
Joy, now where in the world did that come from? ; )
US Census Bureau:
Black population of the US:
1970: 11.2%
1980: 11.5%
1990: 11.8%
2000: 12.1%
2010: The Census figures are just now being released. From what I’ve seen, the black population as a percentage of the whole in the US will have increased a little more.
For all the outlandish stuff we see on this issue, when a given black woman has an unwanted pregnancy, do you really think the percentages matter to her? For that matter, do you think non-black women base their decisions on them?
The talk of “systematic destruction of a race,” etc., is silly. As a percentage of the whole in the US, the black population has been growing and continues to grow.
Hi again Sydney,
You can raise your kids any way you want (just pray the Planned P. succubi don’t snatch them from their beds at night). But what kind of privileged position are you in to charge that individual women should base their reproductive decisions around concerns about their social group? That’s elitist and, quite frankly, a little racist. You are a white woman telling women of color what to do with their bodies–pretty problematic.
But then again, disparities only matter when abortion is in play. Black women have poorer health outcomes than their white counterparts, and yet “universal healthcare” is a dirty word. Black women consistently give birth to lower birthweight babies, yet in the name of fiscal austerity, legislators like Rand Paul are pushing to cut Medicaid. Oh, and individuals of color are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations, yet I don’t hear anybody in this forum clamoring about how the justice system is stacked against Black men.
Once again, I suspect this whole discourse of racial genocide is just another crafty way of avoiding talking about the real issues, like why some women seek out abortions more than others. But nope, we don’t have to talk about social determinants of health conditions if we can point fingers at women and say, “Shame on you, it’s all your fault!”
Black women consistently give birth to lower birthweight babies, yet in the name of fiscal austerity, legislators like Rand Paul are pushing to cut Medicaid. Oh, and individuals of color are disproportionately represented in incarcerated populations, yet I don’t hear anybody in this forum clamoring about how the justice system is stacked against Black men.
I agree with you, I am not conservative nor Republican. But there is some evidence that many black women having abortions are not poor women, but middle class and college students.