Opinion

Pro-life? That’s RACIST!

What does racism have to do with being pro-life? Well, for many pro-abortion fanatics, it has everything to do with it. To them, minorities having more children and less abortions is a bad thing and racist. It’s not racist, however, to target them for abortions. Mention that an overwhelming majority of abortion clinics are in urban neighborhoods, or that black women get a disproportionately higher number of abortions, and you’re racist. Show documented examples of racism at Planned Parenthood, and you’re racist.

Say you want to abort black babies because they’re ugly and will grow up to be murderers, however, and there’s not a peep.

In short, anything that hampers abortion is racist. Minorities getting a disproportionate number of abortions, though, is awesome! Only the white people should be having lots of kids, right?

Putting this attitude on display is Brian Fung at The Atlantic, who derides abortion bans as racist, because they would mean that minority women would not be able to have as many abortions. His argument is literally that it is racist for there to be less abortions of minority children.

[W]hatever you make of those topline numbers, one thing seems certain: an abortion ban would disproportionately affect women from non-white and low-income backgrounds.

… Non-white and low-income women aren’t so lucky. For them, an abortion ban would mean either carrying their unplanned pregnancies to term — something the NBER paper predicts could happen to some degree, and which would likely be exacerbated by conservative attempts to limit contraception access at the same time that they crack down on abortion — or resorting to unsafe, illegal abortions.

Go ahead and try to make sense of this argument. Being pro-life, and hoping fewer minority women have abortions – thereby leading to more minority children – is racist. Cheerleading the disproportionate number of abortions that minority women get, and the abortion clinics helpfully planted in minority neighborhoods, however, is not racist. It’s progressive! It’s choice! Fewer minority babies is good for them! And minority women need abortions, because they clearly can’t handle having children under any circumstances, with an exception for those who are absolutely perfect.

Same thing for poor chicks, too. Only rich white women can have babies at any time. Any other type of woman needs to have abortion readily available, because if they get pregnant, they have to have an abortion. Ban abortions, and they’ll resort to the old rusty coat hanger, because clearly a minority woman, or one with a lower income, can’t handle a baby. She couldn’t comprehend the option of adoption, either, clearly, so abortions are absolutely necessary. They’re so necessary in these situations that clinics are helpfully making sure they sprout up right in those neighborhoods, ready and waiting to make sure that minority women can kill their babies as soon as they get pregnant.

To me, that entire argument reeks of racism. Pro-lifers welcome the the thought of more minority children being born. Pro-aborts, however, run screaming from the thought. Now explain to me which side comprises the real racists.

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  • Dan

    Bless you for writing this, Cassy.

  • Richard

    Not sure how the fact that “an abortion ban would disproportionately affect women from non-white and low-income backgrounds” is racist. Clearly not caring about the effect of an action on a marginalized population is the prerogative of the dominant culture, Your Whiteness.

    If you really want to reduce the number of abortions you should support Planned Parenthood’s efforts to provide contraception to these communities. Although you clearly don’t give a crap what goes on in communities of color so long as they don’t exercise their legal right to control their bodies. Guess the Emancipation Proclamation threw a wrench in your plans…

    ” kill their babies as soon as they get pregnant”–I don’t think babies can get pregnant, just saying.

    • SarMos

      Before you go accusing the author of simply being part of the “dominant culture,” note in her bio she is both a woman and the mother of a special needs child. It seems to me she is deeply connected to two marginalized people groups, sir. Actually, like ethnic and racial minorities, girls and those with genetic conditions are prime targets of the abortion industry.

      The thing is (and I know you won’t agree) is that the unborn are among those “bodies” in the “communities of color”– they have every right to live and “exercise their legal right” not just to control their persons, but also their destinies. The Emancipation Proclamation throws no wrench into the works of the pro-life movement. On the contrary, it is the very kind of hope we hold onto for the most marginalized among us.

      • Richard

        WIth respect to poor women of color, the group that would be disproportionately affected by a ban on abortion, the author is indeed a member of the dominant culture (although I apologize if my assumption of Whiteness is false). People in privileged positions shouldn’t pretend to make decisions for the benefit of the marginalized without consulting them, especially if the decision will affect them disproportionately. For example, men shouldn’t be making the choice for women that they must all carry to term when pregnant.

        And I do agree with you that the unborn are completely powerless and need protecting, just not to the point that we subjugate the rights of women to their bodies via compulsory gestation.

  • peach

    Minority and poor women get more abortions than white and rich women do. The factors that lead to minority women seeking abortions more than white women definitely include racism (i.e. racism leads to poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of education etc., and these are things that can lead to more unwanted pregnancies, which in turn lead to more abortions). Dealing with racism would help lower abortion rates among these people. In the meantime, however, not allowing these women access to abortions is not going to help them. It is going to make things worse for them (continuing the cycle of poverty). So really, it is kind of racist to want to force these women to keep their unwanted pregnancies (and please note, I’m saying unwanted pregnancies, not every pregnancy, so stop being facetious saying we run screaming at the idea of minority children). I’m certain Brian Fung doesn’t like seeing black women get more abortions than white women and it’s not his wish for that to continue happening. He just recognizes that an abortion ban is going to affect these women more than others.

    • You fail, your fired!

      Racism? Ok, research Margaret Sanger and eugenics. She was a crazy racist and the founder of Planned Parenthood! Yes, Peach you are finally right but still on the wrong side.

    • http://www.facebook.com/beverly.harlton Beverly Harlton

      Peach, I have no idea how open-minded you are, so I have no way of knowing if you’ll follow my suggestion. I think you should check out the documentary Maafa 21 if you have not already. It’s rather long, but extremely informative. It draws the connection between abortion, birth control, and black genocide in America. I don’t know if it will change your views or not, but at the very least, I think it would help your cause if you understood why pro-life advocates consider abortion to be racist.

      • peach

        I haven’t seen it and I can’t say I’ll watch it because I did look it up and it’s done by white pro-life people and was widely criticized for making false claims and telling outright lies. This is just from wiki but “Loretta J. Ross, author of the scholarly paper “African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History”,[11]
        founder of the National Center for Human Rights Education and
        co-founder of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective,
        wrote that Maafa 21 was a “pseudo-documentary” produced by a white Texan—Crutcher—”who has made a career of attacking Planned Parenthood.”[12]
        Ross wrote that the premise of the film was wrong, that black slave
        women brought to America the knowledge of birth control and abortion,
        arguing that black women worked to reduce their collective birthrate
        after the American Civil War
        as a way to raise themselves up, not as a form of race genocide. Ross
        wrote that black women understood that having fewer children allowed
        parents to give each child a better opportunity.[12]
        Ross wrote that African-American leaders worked with Sanger to
        establish family planning clinics in black neighborhoods as part of a
        “racial uplift strategy”, not racial suicide.”
        It (and the pro-life community at large) doesn’t care about black people at all. You’re just trying to push your own political agenda.

    • Richard

      Agreed. If we really wanted to decrease the high abortion rates amongst the poor and in communities of color we would support education and family planning in those communities. Pretending to “help” someone by taking away their ability to control their bodies and the size of their families is good intentions gone horribly wrong.

  • http://www.facebook.com/anabenderas Ana Isabel Benderas

    I don’t think that’s what he means. To him, abortion is a good thing, so to deny minority women of a good thing is racist. What’s skewed is his view of abortion as a right.