If leftists were truly staunch advocates of
racial equality and harmony, they should be moved to address the fact that the
face of abortion has a color.
“The right doesn’t actually care about black or brown
babies.” I have seen viral variations of this quote on social media
countless times the past couple of weeks, amidst pro-life victories in Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and more.
I listened as Alyssa
Milano claimed that protecting the preborn would be
“catastrophic” for black women. I was deeply disturbed as major news outlets
flooded readers with arguments that black women would be hurt the
most by pro-life laws, even to the point of enslaving them once again. And I
was in utter disbelief when Ohio state Rep. Janine Boyd proposed an amendment
to a bill that would only allow black mothers to have an
abortion.
The left thrives on recklessly leveraging race. They
inflame and foment racial differences until their voters are hysterical over
the idea that slavery is returning to our country at the hands of the pro-life
movement. The left’s frenzied panic and outlandish claims compel me to respond
to the insidious lie that “the right doesn’t actually care about black and
brown babies.”
I am black. I am pro-life. And I do care.
I think I can speak for all pro-lifers when I say we care about all pre-born
babies—babies so early in development that they don’t even have a skin color
yet. Regrettably, it is the left that has a race problem at its core, and this
problem is as old as the institution of slavery.
It is the left, in fact, that worships an organization
that was birthed out of the racist ideas of its founder, Margaret Sanger. She
was a staunch proponent of the contemptible, progressive, eugenics movement—the
discredited philosophical concept that “undesirable” people should be
eliminated from the gene pool of the human race. “Undesirables” like the poor,
illiterate, disabled, and the dark-skinned.
Unfortunately, Sanger’s degenerate
beliefs led her to work very closely and intentionally with
the black community, “assuring” them that her goal was not to “exterminate
the Negro population.” America’s intricate strategy to dovetail racist
policies and eugenics was so effective that it was studied by
one Adolf Hitler, and the horrors of the eugenics movement were fully realized
in the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust.
Fast-forward to today, and Sanger’s early organization,
the American Birth Control League, has become today’s Planned Parenthood, and
the intentional targeting of America’s minorities continues. It appears
that 79
percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion
facilities are within walking distance of black and brown neighborhoods.
Indeed, more than 19
million black babies have been aborted since the Roe
v. Wade ruling in 1973, effectively reducing the size of today’s black
community by 40 to 50 percent!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
reports that 36 percent of all abortions in the United States are performed
on blackwomen, despite the fact that they represent just 13 percent
of the population. Hispanic babies are also aborted at 1.5 times the rate of
white babies, making up 18 percent of all aborted babies. Essentially, more
members of the black community are killed by abortion each
year in the United States than by all other causes combined.
Despite the intentional targeting of poor and minority
communities that has persisted across the decades, Sanger’s strategy to ensure
that blacks remain unaware of their extermination has worked perfectly, with
both pro-choice blacks and their allies insisting on their right to choose.
More than 100 years ago, the “pro-choice” party of today
insisted that the institution of slavery was also a choice to which every state was
entitled. Their platform was that each state should have the right to choose
whether slavery was a morally acceptable option for its own citizens. In
addition, states were not allowed to impose their moral beliefs about slavery
on others because slavery was a constitutionally protected right.
If leftists were truly staunch advocates of racial
equality and harmony, they should be moved to address the fact that the face of
abortion has a color. They should be compelled to address the fact their
pro-choice platform of a century past has resulted in tens of millions of lives
lost, a great many of them black. Pro-lifers understand that a law that is
ruled to be “constitutional” can still be morally reprehensible.
So the next time you hear someone on the left claiming
that the right doesn’t care about brown and black babies, know that it’s a lie
designed to cover up their own shameful past and present. The truth is this:
Regardless of political philosophy, no one is doing more to protect brown and
black babies than the pro-life movement.
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Leftist Governor Says Illinois Is 'A Beacon
Of Hope' For Legalizing Partial-Birth Abortion Under New Law
By Timothy Meads | Townhall.Com
Source:
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Despite leftist commentators routinely insisting that the
Democratic Party does not celebrate abortion, the governor for Illinois bragged this morning that state's new abortion law
supposedly signals that Illinois "is a beacon of hope in the heart of this
nation." The legislation essentially makes abortion-on-demand a reality
and makes partial-birth abortion legal under Illinois law.
Gov. Pritzker signed the legislation today, which will
remove virtually all restrictions on abortions in the state.
"Let the word go forth today from this place that if
you believe in standing up for women's fundamental rights, Illinois is a beacon
of hope in the heart of this nation," Pritzker said while signing the law.
"We trust women," he added.
The Chicago Tribune has more details as
to what exactly the radical bill includes.
Via
Chicago Tribune:
Critics in the state rebut the governor's boast by saying
the bill goes "much further" than the typical pro-life vs. pro-choice
debate.
“In just a few
short years, the Democrat party in Illinois went from advocating ‘safe, legal
and rare’ to abortion-on-demand, at any time, for any reason, and funded by
taxpayers,” Illinois Senate Republican chairman Tim Schneider said in a
statement after the passage of the law.
While partial-birth abortion is now legal at the state
level in Illinois, there is still a federal law in place which bans the
practice. It is unclear to what extent federal authority would enforce the law
in Illinois should a woman seek the procedure.
