Siding with Sanger: NAACP opposes bill that would make race-based abortion illegal
On March 14, 1875, in her famous speech “Social Purity,” [Susan B.] Anthony listed, among other things, “abortions and infanticides” as part of a “monster evil of society.”
[Democratic Rep. John] Conyers scoffed that “I’ve never heard or read about [abolitionist Frederick Douglass] saying anything about prenatal nondiscrimination,” but Douglass said on October 22, 1883: “Only base men and oppressors can rejoice in a triumph of injustice over the weak and defenceless, for weakness ought itself to protect from assaults of pride, prejudice and power.”
For what its worth, the NAACP’s affection for defeating policies that would protect the life of colored people seems to be consistent….
It is a sign of moral bankruptcy and political expediency when the NAACP, America’s oldest civil rights group, finds itself on the same side of the abortion debate as the infamous eugenicist Margaret Sanger….
Does the NAACP really think that it is to the “advancement” of “colored people” to oppose a bill that would make racially motivated abortions illegal?
~Project 21 spokesman Jerome Hudson, commenting on the NAACP’s opposition of the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban sex-selection or race-based abortions, as quoted by ConservativeBlog.org, December 21
[Photo of Anthony and Douglass tea party sculpture via marycartledgehayes.blogspot.com]
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 glad you are bringing attention to this Jill. I have had issues with Parents Magazine in the past, but a short article in their December issue of this year is very disturbing. On the botton of page 80 under their Your Life/Health section highlighted in green it states: “IS IT A BOY OR A GIRL? If you have a family history of gender-linked disease (like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or congenital adrenal hyperplasia), you may be glad to learn that nonivasive blood tests have been proven effective in determining your baby’s sex as early as seven weeks into pregnancy. But before you purchase an at-home kid, know that DNA analysis needs to be performed by a ceritfied laboratory-it’s the only way to ensure accuracy. Your best bet: ask your doctor if she can perform the test instead.”
I’m outraged, just what do you think they are suggesting here? I’m pretty sure they are not encouraging sex selection abortion! This article is also very misleading in suggesting that the two diseases mentioned only affect one gender or another, which isn’t true. On top of that, determining the sex of your baby is NOT the same as determining a possible genetic disease. Then when you turn the page, literally, there is an article titled “It’s Okay to Stare” featuring a mother born with a rare condition called ectrodactyly, and her two sons whom she passed the condition on to. This story details the family’s hardships or “uncomfortable moments” of being “different” and how they deal.
It seems to me that these two articles were stratigically placed together to scare people. Here on one page we offer you information on how to determine the sex of your baby very early into your pregnancy if you are at risk of passing a “gender linked disease” onto your child. Then on the next page, we’ve layed it out for you what life could be like for you and your “freakshow” kids.
Maybe I’m totally off my rocker here. I saw the article on the woman and her children first, but once I noticed the quip about determining your baby’s sex for gender linked disease purposes…It gave me a whole different understanding of her story. What do you think, am I just reading into this too much?!?
Ugh, sorry for typos! *kit, not kid. *They ARE encouraging sex selection abortion. That sentance had another point in it originally that I deleted, but apprently forgot to delete the word not.
J.D, I agree, but I wonder if this bill, supposedly to protect “minorities” would protect male babies being aborted just because they are male. Or white/mix babies just because they are white/mix raced babies. Btw, I seem to remember a Parent’s magazine a few years ago that had a questionable pairing as well. One page they were talking about early detection of genetic disorders through quad screens and how accurate the tests were becoming, and then they had an article about a profoundly disabled down sydrome child. The article was very upbeat, and the parents expressed a great deal of love in it, but after the little blurb about prenatal testing it just rang more as ‘look what could happen if you don’t test!’ as opposed to a true human interest piece. I’m not sure it was Parent’s though, I read several parenting/baby/pregnancy magazines while at prenatals and peds appointments.
J.D. says:
December 22, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Ugh, sorry for typos! *kit, not kid. *They ARE encouraging sex selection abortion. That sentance had another point in it originally that I deleted, but apprently forgot to delete the word not.
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That’s ok, J.D., we got the “jist” of it ;)
And no, I don’t think you’re off your rocker. I agree with your assessment of the article.
Maybe this could possibly be a wake up call to at least some of the people in the NAACP. If some of them could somehow see that aborting a baby on the basis of race or sex is wrong maybe, just maybe, they can eventually see that aborting for any arbitrary reason is wrong.
This is a dumb argument. Nobody in the USA has an abortion because of race or gender… However if they did this law would do nothing to stop it. They would just make the decision by themselves and just not give a reason for their abortion. This is a giant waste of government time.
You’re totally wrong Biggz. Infact there was an article by an abortionist himself recently about a patient of his whom he has aborted 4 baby girls for. She lives in America, but is from India. Her mother and father in law don’t aprove of her having any girls. Sex based abortions are real, and yes they happen in America.
Also I have a cousin who was forced to have an abortion by her mother when she was 15, because the father was black. Her mom told her she wouldn’t make her do it if the father was white! Open your eyes dude.
“Only base men and oppressors can rejoice in a triumph of injustice over the weak and defenceless, for weakness ought itself to protect from assaults of pride, prejudice and power.”
Given the almost non-existent public profile and level of debate on abortion in those times I very much doubt that any thought regarding abortion was in his head or in his intent when he spoke those words.
Biggz is right, the legislation is pointless.
There was little to no debate about abortion because pretty much everyone acknowledged it as evil and wrong and it was illegal throughout the U.S. during that time. But surely there is no one more defenseless and weak than a babe in the womb.
But I agree the legislation is nearly entirely pointless. Not because the point isn’t worth making, or because it fails to do so, but because it will almost assuredly completely unenforceable.
It was also considered evil, wrong and illegal for women to vote, for blacks to marry whites and numerous other things which are a normal part of society today. Thankfully we are more enlightened.
But that wasn’t my point anyway.
God never intended for any human life to be pointless Reality.
Does the NAACP really think that it is to the “advancement” of “colored people” to oppose a bill that would make racially motivated abortions illegal?
What “racially motivated” abortions is the NAACP aware of? For that matter, what such abortions are anybody aware of?
J.D. I have a cousin who was forced to have an abortion by her mother when she was 15, because the father was black.
Is this actually legal, now? I would think not. If the pregnant girl is unwilling to have the abortion, is the law going to stand behind the mother forcing her to? Hard for me to believe.
Doug, Doug, Doug…you really think I’m blowing smoke up your a** to get a point across? Come on guy. However, you have just lit a fire under mine! What 15 year old do you know completely understands the law, and knows exactly what their rights are? Her mom told her that it wasn’t up to her. That it was her mother’s choice, because she was a minor and it was the parent’s responsibility, not the child’s. OK? She believed her mom, she was young, and scared, and YOU will never find yourself in a situation of BEING pregnant whether it was planned/unplanned/wanted or unwanted! You have no idea what it’s like, and you never will so stop acting like you do.
I was also coerced into an abortion as a teenager by my boyfriend and his mother. I was purposely lied to, not given any other options, made to feel that I had some “mistake” in me that would ruin everyone’s life if I didn’t go get it taken care of immediately! At the clinic, only the same. I was lied to, misinformed, not given all my rights, and thanks to New Jersey’s No perental consent lay, my parents didn’t eve know I was there! Can you please tell me why it is legal for child to have surgery without their parent’s consent?!? I even saw an older couple come in, and the woman took one look at that crowded waiting room and tried to turn around and leave. Her “man” stood in her way, blocking the door as she pleaded, “Do I have to do this?” “YES” he stated as he pushed her back towards the front desk with his chest. Not ONE person interviened on her behalf.
I don’t even know who the doctor was, he was some masked man who came in just as I was going under. I wook up screaming in pain, with blood running down my legs and unto the floor. I was told, “Be quiet, you’ll scare the other patients!” I was taken to a “recovery” room full of beds with women in them who had just aborted their babies. I laid there and closed my eyes as I curled up into a ball trying to wrap my head around what the hell just happend to me. I felt like I was raped, that something was taken away from me that I would never get back. I was in excruciating pain, and there was no one there to console me. I opened my eyes again to see a “nurse” with a bed pan go from bed to bed and use the same gloved had to pull a tampon out of each woman. When she got to me I asked her, what are you “doing?” She told me we all had a tampon full of iodine inserted in us after our procedure to prevent infection, and she needed to remove mine. We were only suppose to be in recovery for 30 mins, but I was in so much pain I just couldn’t get up. Finally after 45 mins, they were like “you gotta go, we need your bed.” They hurried me outta there so they could go on to the next one.
Where do you think they get the term “abortion mill” Doug? Until you have experienced the hell of it, which you never will, maybe you should shut your mouth and open your eyes and ears to those of us who have been there. It’s taken me nearly 14 years to actually process the entire event.
Yah, I just found out this year actually that what was done to me was illegal. Thanks. Much too late though..
*parental consent law
So I posted on Parents Magazine FB page the article on page 80 about sex determination tests regarding gender linked disease, and asked them if they were suggesting sex selection abortions. In less than an hour it was deleted…what do you think? Does no one else feel they should be called out on this? Personally, as a consumer, I want an explanation. Is that impossible? Or not even worth it? Think of the millions of other mothers they are misleading here!
Whatever your feelings on abortion, this bill is unenforceable and, therefore, entirely pointless.
It isn’t as though armed gangs of white men are combing through city streets, corralling pregnant black women, and indiscriminately forcing them to abort because “we don’t need no new stinkin’ black babies.”
Yes, black women are more likely to have abortions. If you have a problem with that statistic, spend time doing things that would actually address the conditions that lead women want to have abortions rather than waste your time and resources enacting pointless legislation.
A bill like this contributes to raising awareness about sex and race based abortions.
Seems like discussing the idea of such a bill sheds light on a sad reality, one that we’d hope would be changed with the ‘advancement’ of women and minorities. Abortion hasn’t lived up to it’s claims, again.
And people can ask questions about why we need to have this violent practice anymore.
JD, I’m truly sorry for what you went through with abortion, and for the child you lost. It’s strong
women telling their stories that speak most to the gruesome reality of abortion. I pray for your continued healing, and for peace.
J.D., your abortion experience is just heartbreaking. I’m so sorry you went through that horror. God bless you for speaking out against abortion and supporting life!
If I had a subscription to Parents I would cancel it and tell them why too.
Children should not be killed for the color of their skin, their gender OR their abilities (race based, sex selection and eugenics based)
I have a dream that one day, all the children conceived in one year will be allowed to live/be born and be loved instead of tossed away as medical waste.
J.D., that’s terrible what happened to you. I’m so sorry. I’m sure this has happened to soooo many girls/women. I pray you and others have found healing. Merry and Blessed Christmas to you and to all.
Thank you everyone for your support, prayers and encouragment. I deceded to bring the reality of abortion to my church this year, and gave my testimony there for the first time ever. I was encouraged by seeing other men and women give their testimonies at a Silent No More event. America needs to stop turning a bling eye. People just don’t realize how many post-abortive women there are in our country, it’s nearly 1 in 4, which means nearly 1 in 4 men are post-abortive as well.
I have 4 living children now, and every single one of my pregnancies and deliveries was affected by my traumatic abortion experience. Giving my testimony and joining the pro-life movement has been very difficult and painful. It’s a secret that is as big and heavy as this world that you are chained to. You can’t get away from it, and it haunts you everywhere you go. I have had to relive the experience all over again with this new knowledge I have of exactly what happend to me and my unborn baby. Facts like it wasn’t just “pregnancy tissue” like they called it. That an ultra sound machine was next to the bed, only I had no idea what it was at that time. So they took an ultra sound of my baby just before they took her life. They saw her alive, beating heart and all, and then just stuck blunt instruments in my cervice to open it and gain access to she where was safely tucked away in my womb. Then they sucked her away as if she was nothing, like I would just forget about her, as if she never existed. So now I face the grisly truth that she was ripped apart and killed, and then just thrown away like trash. It is a heavy burden, and I will always have a hole in my heart for the baby I lost.
I know that Jesus has died for all my sins, even my abortion. It was so hard to except forgiveness, and the devil he wanted to keep me in this state of grief and utter dispair. Then I had a friend pray for me, that I wouln’t suffer from false guilt. I thought false guilt, what does that mean? My guilt is not false, I am guilty of this sin, I deserve this pain, it is my punishment for what I have done. I later realized the truth, that Jesus died on the cross and He has set me free. I don’t deserve it, but He paid for it. I have repented, and if I don’t accept His forgiveness it’s like saying that His blood doesn’t cover me, and it does. He loves me and He doesn’t want me to go on living in pain and with false guilt. Now that I am set free from this burden, I feel the responsibility of bringing awareness to the truth about abortion, and helping others to heal from it. If Jesus loved us so much that He gave his very life so that we could go on living, what could we sacrifice so that an unborn baby can go on living? Please visit Silentnomore.org for more information about abortion recovery.
LOL I really need spell check on this comment box! Bling eye hahahaha. Oh well :0)
Yeah, I would never make it as an editor. I did read over this before I posted it, I swear! In my mind I read what I thought I typed, and not what I actually typed LOL. The website is silentnomoreawareness.org BTW. I thought I typed that, I really did! LOL http://silentnomoreawareness.org/
Merry Christmas to us all! Our Saviour was born! What an amazing story of life, and receiving God’s will on earth for all of humanity. My good friend just made this awesome qoute on her FB page: “He came to save us. I always thought that just meant from Hell, the place. I don’t think I really realized until this moment. He came to save us from the hell we create everyday.”
If I’m reading this correctly—how would it be enforced? The intentions are certainly good, but a proposal based on a subjective, rather than an objective, standard is a bad proposal, even if well-intentioned. Instead of legislation, the focus should be on education, because enforcing this law would be way too messy.
@Jespren – it would cover gender-based abortions too.
First, they make racemixing and mongrelization not only legal, but actually propagate it.
Now, most likely, they want deny even raped white women to abort a nigger baby.
This country goes down the tubes for sure.