(Akiit.com) Antiabortion advocates are claiming that Black women are being specifically targeted for abortions in an effort to keep the Black population down-a conspiracy against the Black population.
This comes after several antiabortion billboards popped up in Atlanta stirring up the race issue.
The billboards feature the face of a Black baby and the words “Black children are an endangered species.”
The billboards direct people to a website called toomanyaborted.com, which says for African-Americans, abortion has become a crisis. Nearly 40% of all Black pregnancies end in induced abortion, the website says, which is more than three times the rate of white women and two times the rate of all other races combined.
Now that you’ve read the fiction, let’s talk about the facts.
Fact-Just like with the Mormons and Proposition 8, Black people are not the architects of this campaign but for the right price you’ll find some of us willing to serve as spokespersons for the campaign. Just don’t believe the hype.
Fact-the biggest conspiracy against the Black population was the exporting and importing of Blacks from Africa to the now United States of America-not abortion. The Middle Passage claimed more Black lives than abortion doctors.
Fact-next to slavery, the second biggest conspiracies working against Black people continue to be the U.S. Justice system and the effects of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
Fact-if abortions were such a conspiracy against Black people in particular, they’d be free and there’d be a clinic next door to every Black church, nail shop, beauty supply, and liquor store in the community.
Fact-I can think of a lot of crises in the Black community–like the fact that more than half of Black people in America are obese, too many of us still willingly refer to ourselves as “niggas” and “bitches,” and now thanks to the Academy Awards, we can expect an influx of roles featuring verbally and physically abusive mothers portrayed by Black women in a theatre near you.
Fact-the real endangered species in America is the Black middle class and a Black person working on a job making a livable wage.
What Black people need to be asking the antiabortion folks is what happens after they have the baby? Because what I’ve found to be true is that the same people against abortions are the same people who don’t want welfare or other social programs for poor people to help them take care of the same children they don’t want aborted.
Like with gay marriage, these antiabortion frenemies are simply trying to use a method that’s proved successful for them in the past. Befriend Black Christians on socially conservative issues.
What we can’t lose sight of is the fact that these are the same people who are traditionally against the social justice issues that most Blacks support. Oh and if that doesn’t move those socially conservative Black Christian evangelists on this issue, maybe this well. Blacks new frenemies the antiabrotion advocates, yeah well they don’t share the same affinity and zeal that most Blacks, including Christian evangelists, possess for President Barack Obama. Nope, they voted for McCain. Case closed.
We know who has our best interests at heart and it ain’t the antiabortion folks-can’t trust it.
Written By Jasmyne A. Cannick
Tags: black abortions, black babies, black baby, Black Kids, black moms, Jasmyne A. CannickThis entry was posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010 at 2:39 pm and is filed under Weekly Columns, African-American News, Life/Health/Family, Sistas Corner. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Hello.
I find the previous comment to this post both very racist and unnecessary. Please keep your racist comments to yourself! Now back to my comment about the post…
I read through your article several times. I am quite appalled by the huge generalizations you made about proabortion advocates. I represent a large fraction of the antiabortion (or “pro-life”) movement in the fact that I am not religious by any means and that and I am both a foster youth and a strong supporter of adoption and foster care. I am the exact opposite of what you describe a proabortion advocate to be, and yet I am quite pro-life. I am also fully pro-life in the fact that I am against capital punishment and war. I also never voted for McCain. I voted for Ron Paul! I find your statements to be extremeny insensitive in general. I think you ought to interview some people who have survived (legal) abortions - especially those who now suffer from severe health complications, as well as those who made miraculous recoveries. You should also interview all the women who now suffer from cervical and breast cancer, have become permanently sterile, and those who now have children with health complications like cerebral palsy. I support adoption, I’m against abortion. I support practicing safe sex and abstinence. Frankly, I (as well as the majority of the United State’s voters) think abortion is irresponsible, unsafe and immoral. It takes the life of a human being and endangers the health of the mother for what? For the sake of educational and financial freedom? Where does the law say women don’t have the right to give their child away for adoption? One last thing, just an FYI; Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded “Planned Parenthood” (the largest provider of abortions to women in the United States) wrote several books, including “Women and the New Race”, in which she made very clear that she intended to use birth control as a method of ‘weeding out’ the ‘unfit’. She made statements in other books and publications about her belief that the ‘unfit’ should be sterilized and have mandatory abortions. She also stated that her goal was to eliminate the ‘negros’. She stated that precautions should be taken to conceal this goal from ‘negros’ “should it occur to their more vigilant members” Look her up on Google, there’s a massive amount of information about her available online, including her books and publications. I think you should dive deep and research issues a bit further before making such rash conclusions about people who you disagree with. I’m aware of those anti-abortion advocates who also support war, and don’t offer support to families in need, and I think those people are hypocrites. There’s pro-abortion advocates who attack nonviolent protesters and march around with signs that say “kill your kids”. There are hypocrites on both sides. You shouldn’t ever generalize.