Why in the world do Black women’s groups see abortion as the answer to violence?
In The American Prospect, Cherisse Scott, founder of SisterReach, an African-American “reproductive justice” group centered in Memphis, laments the passage in Tennessee of Amendment 1 this past month.
Amendment 1 undoes a 2000 Tennessee Supreme Court decision that blocked any pro-life laws from being passed in the state. Scott writes:
The results will be particularly devastating for poor families. As it is, these families struggle to have their voices heard by state lawmakers, who stigmatize and shame them for facing very hard choices….
Now, more than ever, we must be intentional about fighting the policies that fail those women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, rape, incest, age-discordant relationships….
SisterReach staff and members spent day after day calling attention to the unique concerns of black and poor communities…. Though the outcome of the vote on Amendment 1 wasn’t what we worked for, I congratulate those voters and advocates in Tennessee who engaged with us and began to believe, for the first time, that their votes and voices are important.
I don’t understand this misplaced fixation on abortion as the solution for violence imposed on women and girls of color. Why doesn’t SisterReach expend its energy stopping the source of woes – violence? Abortion is just another form of it.
As an abortion advocate, SisterReach is actually helping silence black voices through extermination. New abortion statistics released by the CDC only last week reveal the annihilation. Reported The Daily Caller:
The race of the victims is disproportionately skewed as well. Non-Hispanic black women had the highest rate of abortion — for every 1,000 black women between the ages of 15 and 44 years, 29.7 had abortions in 2011. Non-Hispanic black women accounted for 36.2% of all abortions that year; non-Hispanic white women accounted for 37.2%.
That’s a serious skew - the 2013, the Census Bureau reported that in the U.S. at large, 62.6% of people in the country were non-Hispanic white alone, while 13.2% were black or African American alone.
It gets worse, at least in New York City. Reported CNSNews.com:
In New York City, 77.56% of the abortions in 2011 were performed on Black and Hispanic babies, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Abortion is destroying the black race, rendering its population stagnant for decades. Blacks comprised 12.1% of the U.S. population in 1990, 12.3.% in 2000 and 13.2% in 2013.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic population jumped from 9% in 1990 to 12.5% in 2000 to 17.1% in 2013.
Abortion is such a tragedy, and I haven’t even discussed the high incidence of breast cancer and preterm births among black women, just to name two disproportionally high health consequences of abortion in their community.
African-American women are needlessly walking right into the eugenic trap. When will they wake up?
Pro-abortion groups are acting like this new Tennessee bill has suddenly made abortion illegal, when all it has really done is restored the constitutional rights of the people of that state. Now these groups have to maintain the passion and momentum to oppose every single pro-life bill that hits the state congress. Welcome to the real battle ladies! I hope you learn something in the process and maybe even begin to open your eyes to the truth of what you’ve been supporting!
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The politics of poverty, racism and sexism is couched in the language of violence. Those who benefit from and exploit these problems like to say that the rich are oppressing the poor, the whites are oppressing the blacks, and the men are oppressing the women — and so they need a violent response, and they should express their anger by voting for Democrats.
Sometimes, this violent language gets away from the elitists… and real violence happens, as in Ferguson.
Simple truth is this: The most common cause of death among pregnant women is murder. The killer is most often the boyfriend/husband. The cause is most often her refusal to get rid of the child by abortion.
Legal abortion increases the danger to women who are most at risk of violence.
http://www.lifenews.com/2014/12/02/20-year-old-man-convicted-of-killing-setting-on-fire-14-year-old-who-refused-abortion/
Meanwhile, the abortion industry targets and exploits the Black race more than any other…. locating in Black neighborhoods and offering to kill as many children as possible — for a price.
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I guess, because of domestic violence and rape, they think black women feel “powerless”. So I suppose -in their minds at least –
having an abortion is akin to taking back your “power” –
Except it’s not power over YOUR OWN life, but power over someone else’s – your unborn child.
Murder is NOT “empowerment” !
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Given our country’s history of eugenics and forced sterilization, which served as an inspiration to the German elite and the Nazis, these ladies should be very careful what they wish for.
When the gods want to punish mortals, they answer their prayers.
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When the gods want to punish mortals, they answer their prayers. – yet another benefit of being atheist :-)
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Reality,
Just an old saying, have no idea who said it. Maybe Shakespeare or Aristotle? I think “be careful what you wish for” is a variation of it. Anyway I read it once and thought it truly does apply to the human condition. People think they want something so desperately, and when they get what they thought they wanted, it only brings them misery and/or destruction.
It does seem the gods punish mortals by giving them what they ask for.
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It is an interesting question Mary, yet difficult to have much more than a rhetorical philosophical chat about given I don’t credit there being any gods.
The other side of the coin is people accepting ‘less’ in various ways because they believe a ‘better life’ awaits.
I find it incongruous that people pray madly for a parking space while children in Africa starve to death.
I guess it’s really just about what people do to themselves.
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Hi Reality,
Indeed, it is all too often about what people do to themselves.
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My observation is that people claim their god/s is/are omnipotent then make all sorts of excuses depending on the outcome. Which kinda indicates only one person really has the responsibility (that would be ourselves).
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Reality,
As someone who just loved Greek and Roman mythology, I recall the gods and goddesses liked to play with humans and interfere in human events. So I picture a bunch of them standing on some cloud over Mt. Olympus laughing at the stupidity of humans who think they really know best,
For laughs, or for punishment, the gods let these humans have exactly they ask for, then sit back and enjoy the disaster that unfolds.
That’s why I think this expession well points out that indeed, as you say, it is about what people do to themselves.
When using this expression, I’ve actually had people ask me if I’m pagan. Good grief!
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Who funds black women’s groups?
Answer that question, and you will know why the group supports abortion.
Hint: Black women’s groups are not funded by black women. In fact I would bet money that the bulk of their funding comes from white men from the Margaret Sanger school of “helping” families.
Warren Buffet is just one man and look how much he has given for abortion:
http://www.mrc.org/articles/warren-buffett-billion-dollar-king-abortion
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