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Cynthia Tucker wrote a good article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution countering the Pro-Life campaign that abortion is Black genocide. Here are some excepts.

Perhaps members of the anti-abortion movement are growing a bit desperate. Though they’ve managed to crimp women’s reproductive rights through decades of legislative maneuvering and extra-legal harassment, they still cannot overturn Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision. Nor have they moved public opinion much: A majority of Americans still believe that current law should stand.

Perhaps that’s why some factions in the “pro-life” crusade are professing a newfound concern for the well-being of black children. Perhaps that’s why “racism” has become the battle cry of anti-abortion groups whose members —  overwhelmingly white, conservative and Republican — like to think that racism no longer exists.

Georgia’s largest anti-abortion group, Georgia Right to Life, is presenting itself as the last line of defense against a widespread plot to wipe out black people — a pogram of sorts. The group has mounted billboards throughout black Atlanta neighborhoods, claiming that “Black children are an endangered species” because of abortions.

Well, paranoid theories are usually impervious to facts, but let’s try some facts, anyway. Despite the obstacles many black children face on the road to a successful adulthood — poverty, crime, poor schools — their numbers are not threatened. Black women have a higher birth rate than the national average.

But it is also true that black women use abortion services disproportionately. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit that advocates for reproductive health, the abortion rate for black American women is almost five times that for white women. About one-third of all abortions are obtained by white women and about 37 percent by black women (who account for less than seven percent of the population), according to Susan Cohen of the non-profit Alan Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for reproductive health.

Those numbers are certainly troubling. But are racists persuading black women to have abortions? Is there some group of grim executioners looking to carry out a shadowy genocide?

That’s not only nutty; it’s also insulting. It’s both sexist and racist to suggest that black women don’t have the intellectual and emotional firepower to make their own decisions.

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For an opposing viewpoint check out Oretha Winston’s Piece at Elev8: Abortion Is Killing The Future

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/daup06/ daup06

    @But are racists persuading black women to have abortions? Is there some group of grim executioners looking to carry out a shadowy genocide?
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    Yes and her name was Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger founded Planned parenthood and was a proponent of eugenics, advocating selective breeding, sterilization and euthanasia. Please (goggle)read about and the Negro Project. Ms. Sanger wrote about what is known as the NEGRO PROJECT and that they should recruit “charismatic black ministers” to encourage black women to practice birth control. Question, why have you never heard of a march or protest by any of the major so-called black leaders against abortion?

    Here’s the big lie in the black community. Well,we don’t want these welfare women to have all of these babies that are going to turn into gangbangers and future baby momma’s. A large amount of abortions are by employed educated professional women who’s partners are also educated and employed. The probablity of that child growing up uneducated and into a criminal gangbanger are highly unlikely. A large number of abortions in the black community are merly for convience.

    DEATH FOR THE INNOCENT AND LIFE FOR THE GUILTY. I am sadly amused at these liberal groups and their supporters who are pro abortion and against the death penalty. “Anything growing is living. Therefore human life begins when the sperm and egg join and drop into the fallopian tube and the pulsation of life take place. From that point, life may be described differently (as an egg, embryo, fetus, baby, child, teenager, adult), but the essence is the same. The name has changed but the game remains the same”. When it’s all said and done a woman has the right to abort. Outlawing abortions is impractical and to a certain extent unenforceable. However, it is disingenuous to state that it is not a life. Life begins at conception. A woman has the right to choose if SHE WANTS TO MURDER HER UNBORN CHILD. This is the dirty secret that no one (especially black leaders) want to talk about. Add up the multiple abortions by a lot of single childless black professional women. Who have the nerve to turn their nose up and look down on the single baby mommas. Who, I might add, are also having multiple abortions so that they don’t have additional illegitimate babies by multiple baby daddies. And, its easy see how you get to that percentage. While the so called black leaders (civil rights activist, ministers and politicians) who receive large donations from, Planned Parenthood and multiple liberal/women’s rights organizations, remain silent. Every ones at fault. Abortion causes more death in the black community (1,452 PER DAY) than gang violence, hiv/aids, heart disease, and cancer combined. Silence is acceptance. The choice is yours. Please read about Margaret Sanger and the Negro Project.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/aim2pleez77/ aim2pleez77

    Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger for the sole purpose of controlling our race. To say that abortion clinics target blacks today may be incorrect, but in the beginning Planned Parenthood was created for that purpose.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/daup06/ daup06

    @Casey

    Wow, are there any liberal programs that you are against? Liberal progressive programs that you fill have had a negative impact on the black community?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    if you cant take care of a child and you are not in the position to provide a comfortable lifestyle for that child then you shouldn’t have one. i know plenty of people who would have been better off having an abortion, and i even know some that would have been better off aborted themselves. nobody should tell a woman what to do with her own body.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Emilee917/ Emilee917

    That is the great thing about having CHOICES – you are able to choose what you want to do based on your own beliefs rather than have your choices made for you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Here is what I find odd Casey. You go to great lengths to get Ron Paul on circ**stantial, light evidence, then Margret Sanger writes as boldy and explicitly about her plans for abortion, and you DON’T think that’s a racist plot. My man, you are quite confusing!

    Also Casey, can you tell me why your headlines appear as if this is YOUR opinion, or your words, when that is the actual title of Ms. Tucker’s article?

    @aim2pleez77, look what type of neighborhoods PP sets up shop for the most part. 52% of all black pregnancies end up being aborted. That number is staggering, even if its off by 5%, the number still represents a disproportionate amount. Black women make up 36% of all abortions in this country, while only making up 12% of the population.

    Bottom line, I find it hard to believe that black on black violence, drug trade and the amount of guns in our community, the substandard health and education standards in our communities can be attributed to racism, but abortion can’t? Even though, it’s founder made it CLEAR that was indeed their intent. I guess, Casey and Ms. Tucker would like for us to believe, that racism doesn’t exist anymore!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @daup06. This is what I have been saying. Casey, you are in Lockstep with every single liberal program, but claim to be a free thinker. I’m not sure how you reconcile that! Look, if you’re a left winger, it’s cool, I have no issue with that, just come clean, because your actions most certainly suggest it.

    BHO voted 4 times against the born alive victims act which basically states that if a child is not fully aborted and is born alive, then that baby should be kept alive. The alternative would have been, that baby will be left on a table to die. Is this the thinking and actions of a compassionate person? He voted against that act because he is in the Planned Parenthood pockets, much the same way he is in Wall streets pockets. A damned shame, and that transcends racial lines in my view. Add this to the absurdity, there isn’t one democrat who doesn’t feel, that if you kill a pregnant mother and the child dies, that you should receive TWO charges of murder, while they allow doctors to do so every day. It shouldn’t be hard to tell where I stand on this issue, but I must admit, I have heard so-so arguments from the other side of this issue, I just happen to categorically reject them all.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BrotherJohnOfDallas/ BrotherJohnOfDallas

    I’m a politically independent African American, and simply because some on the right have jumped on the black child abortion bandwagon for political expediency does not de-legitimize the underlying problem with the disproportionate use of abortions among African American women. It’s easy to lump everyone together into one basket to come to a convenient conclusion for an article, but the fact remains that historically, there have been some very sinister non-blacks who have experimented in various, sophisticated ways to control undesirable populations for their own selfish aims. For anyone to completely discredit that idea shows that perhaps one’s education has deliberately blinded one to think within the box instead of outside the box. There’s an old saying, “know your enemy.” If you turn a blind eye, then it is difficult to know your enemy and overcome his tactics and strategy. Margaret Sanger was only one of many, many “practitioners” of population theory, so I would not focus solely on her. I’m not arguing the right to choose or not, I am stating historical patterns of racial suppression.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    black women set the standards when it comes to this meaning all she has to do is be on the pill are say to the man no condom no sex how hard is that to do blacks need to grow up and start acting like adults and enuff with the b.s racist crap.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @blkman6ft6_inla. Do you mean to suggest that racism no longer exists, or that black people shouldn’t talk about it. I personally don’t talk racism too much, but not because I don’t think it exists, but I just don’t think talking about it, is very productive. I think though, when we seek to completely dismiss it, we misdiagnose our problems, and thus remain unhealthy generation after generation.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mr_rightnowww/ mr_rightnowww

    last week kansas city shut down half its schools because there werent enuf children; today detroit announced its shutting down schools because there arent enuf children. i think the evidence is clear, the children are disappearing..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nice_brown_eyez/ nice_brown_eyez

    For ALL uneducated humans.. Go 2 utube & type in “Maafa 21″.. If u still think da God race is not being targeted for genocide, then u need help! Yall betta wake up b4 its too late!

    Peace family!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Mr_rightnowww…I think you need to go re read those stories. Those schools are not shutting down due to a lack of children, but rather, grossly mismanaged funds and the recession.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mr_rightnowww/ mr_rightnowww

    @ _a_ … i’ve read multiple accounts of the stories, not just newsone. population & enrollment declines have been prominently cited in reports on school closures in kansas city & detroit (http://www.startribune.com/nation/88163312.html). budgetary & economic inefficiency is inevitable with declining enrollment, since obviously you cant efficiently use the same infrastructure, personell & payroll to educate half as many students.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Mr_Rightnowww. Why would declining enrollement play a role in budgetary or economic inefficiency? Schools are getting money funneled to them via the Government each year, no? I won’t claim to be an expert, but will gladly entertain your theory or info you have on that. Let me add, in the case of the KC schools, budget shortfalls were the main reason mentioned. They also mentioned that a few years ago, KC board of ed won a 2Bil desegregation case, which has all but dried up. They did mention that one school built an Olympic size swimming pool among other amenities. Often times, these schools will take money to spruce up the facilities. I have no problem with that, but you know how it can go when you’re budgeting with other people’s money, a lot of unnecessary opulence can be factored in. In my home state, many school districts are going through the same issues of having to close schools. Some of these districts are in well to do areas and never is declining enrollment offered as a reason why. I haven’t heard this for a fact, but I have a suspicion that many of these districts have probably invested money in these wall street pension and mutual market funds, and now find themselves insolvent like any other business. To much of a coincidence for me to believe that all these schools are having the same problems around the same time.

    @nice_brown_eyez, thank you for that suggestion. That video is as comprehensive a look, one will ever get about the beginnings of birth control/eugenics with respect to our community, as you will find, in my opinion. I defy ANYONE to watch that doc**entary, and tell me that abortion is not a racist plot. Casey, I would like for you to watch that doc**entary if possible, and write a follow up article, refuting the claims being made. Do you think you can do that? The time is very serious!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkman6ft6_inla/ blkman6ft6_inla

    there is racism but it didnt stop president obama enuff said

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/phazex_female/ phazex_female

    Let’s see. In most urban, inner-city or ghetto arenas, we see what I call “Abortion Mills” aplenty.

    These are the things that make Phazex go hmmm?

    WHY do we see more abortion mills than doctor’s offices for the care of children in the inner cities, especially hispanic and black locales?

    Let’s see…34 million Americans (hey, this is almost equivalent to the number of illegal aliens running around…lmbao!) that lack health-care, yet “over-nite” abortion mills are “strategically” placed in poor, impoverished locations.

    Research Analysts (and the Feds) have always “Big Brothered” the percentage and number of abortions that women of color have had. What about “private” abortions in doctor’s offices? How are these monitored? Do the feds look at these as well? There was (and remains) a time even before Roe vs. Wade was mandated, that “wealthy” women could fly out to say, Acapulco one day and “flush it down the tubes” and return home the next day. WHERE are the stats for scenarios such as this? And what percentage and ethniciy of women fall under THIS stat?

    Moving on, yes Margaret Sanger, as is Ted Turner (yes, THAT Ted Turner) were/are proponents of “ethic cleansing.” Placing abortion mills in poor neighborhoods targeting blacks and other minorities “did not just happen last night.” ANYTHING and EVERYTHING has been done and will continue to be done to “weaken our numbers.” Tuskegee Experiment..incarceration (Oops! Wasn’t Ron Settles of Signal Hill, CA jail found hanging in his cell? And the coroner ruled that this brotha did not die by his own hand?) the Los Angeles Police Department “choke-hold” that resulted in the deaths of many BLACK males…early age mortality rates for black males…high infant mortality rates…drug addiction and so forth.

    “Do the math, it is not rocket-scientist.”

    It is not an illusion. What you see before you is very real.

    Unlearn to RElearn. Stay up, black people.

    Like the guy says in the commercial that walks away shaking his head, “why are you making it hard? Hard to understand

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Wow!! this video is a definite eye opener…I’m strongly urging EVERYBODY to watch it in full. Another nugget I just ran across. Nancy Pelosi last year stated that she wants to earmark stimulus money for Population control programs, proclaiming that decreased births will take loads off state budgets. Do you really think she means ALL BIRTHS or just a select few communities? It’s so funny how no one talks about better management, and less investment in Wall Street rackets resulting in loss of revenue. How much money did California, New York, Ohio etc. lose in the Wall street crash???????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    blkman6ft6_inla

    Do you mean to suggest that because BHO was elected President, which was probably more a referendum against Bush, and Palin than support of BHO, racism has been totally eradicated? Is this your theory?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    I feel that a woman, regardless of race has the right to choose whether she wants to carry a baby or not. NO ONE IS FORCING BLACK WOMEN TO HAVE ABORTIONS THEY CHOOSE TO! And black babies are an endangered species???? i thought we were all the same species HUMAN! I wish people would stop making things a “black issue” if those women didn’t want to have abortions, no one put a gun to their head and made them have them. If toomanyaborted.com have an issue with this, then they should have an issue with people using condoms and birth control, because of all the “beautiful black babies” that we prevented from being born. Technically we should only be having sex if we want to Procreate right?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    All i want from our community is some SELF RESPONSIBILITY. Why are there 50 liquor stores in the ghetto, why did they drop crack/cocaine and other drugs in the hood, why according to some of you are abortion clinics only in the hood [which they aren't all in the ghetto, planned parent hood and other clinics also offer more services than just abortions, a lot more services]. I do think at some point and in some ways there is a ploy to destroy the black community. But at the end of the day WE are the only ones who can allow that to happen. I believe racism exists, I dont think it’s on as grand a scale as it used to be, or at least not overtly so, but we have got to stop w/ the conspiracy theories and stop b***hing and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY FACE. I am prochoice so naturally i dont agree with toomanyaborted.com but you get my sentiment.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @stickUP_kid. I challenge you to watch Maafa21. YOU can youtube it. its about 2 1/2 hours, but trust me, the first 20mins will have you roped in.

    I agree with your points though. It is up to us, but we won’t be able to fight the proper fight, if we can’t correctly identify the enemy, and the propaganda being used on us!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    I watched the trailer and the doc**entary seems interesting. We all know what the racial attitudes were like in the 1920′s, it was a disgusting time, and it remained a disgusting time for awhile. But who is the enemy you speak of? White people? We need to get rid of this us vs them mentality. Planned Parenthood is one clinic that offers abortions, other clinics and some ob gyns offer this “service” and they aren’t in the ghetto. I understand that the founder of Planned Parenthood, and others had ill intentions, but is that their same mentality/agenda today? Times have changed… Just because someone seeks to destroy something doesn’t mean they will be successful. But it is what it is. I think from the high number of young black men going to jail coupled with a myriad of issues will lead to the extinction of the black “species.” Its time we changed our way of thinking…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lovingme4once/ Lovingme4once

    I am personally against abortions (unless its to save the mother’s life) but I am for being smart. I watched the video _A_ was talking about (the entire video) and it has made me look at things differently. I’m just not for abortions in the first place and this is more reason for me not to be for them. Some women have been blinded into thinking abortions are a form of birth control. True it is “our bodies” but come on people, its still killing something that is alive. My son is 4yrs old, should he be killed if I’m not able to take care of him? There are other options out there besides murdering these babies and before yall go there, using a condom is not the same as an abortion. It takes two equal parts of DNA to make a baby. We are not asexual. I will agree that WE need to find a solution to this problem we have. Stop sitting on these message boards talking about problems and start going out in the streets and form some solutions (I am at fault of this too). Better education for inner city youths as well as their parents. We stress for the kids to be taught, but the parents should be taught also. Cause when these children go home, they still need someone to continue their education. Stop looking down at everyone because they are from “the hood” and start educating instead of thinking you are better than everyone because you went to college or have had a better opportunity than the next. STAND TOGETHER OR FALL DIVIDED!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OrbitalFlow/ OrbitalFlow

    Because everything is a plot to put the black man down, please.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    well i did watch more of the video like towards the end, i needed something that tied this into the here and now not just something from the 1920s. And the video is really an attack against Planned Parenthood. So i guess just boycott planned parenthood and any birth control they try and give you… I find it funny that if they truly are trying to limit the number of black people born then why do they give people the cheapest condoms.

    At the end of the day, like i said before they can have these ideologies and agendas but they can’t force it down our throats.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jahz_Lynx1/ Jahz_Lynx1

    Great article. Clearly, finances is the #1 reason pregnacies are terminated. According to the babycenter.com calculator, a child born in 2010 will cost $289,746, btwn ages of 0-19,not including college. DNA matches or multiple choice daddy, it’ll cost some man $635. a month. Lack of money creates stress.In extreme cases, it makes for unhappiness for everybody. Who wants to be born into that? Not me. The sign designer Bomberger [black] was the product of a rape that was adopted to whites and married white. To be the product of rape is haunting; unloved by your mother, devastating. Add the black experience and I’d chose womb #2,3.. The Bombergers are building a business in Atlanta. SOuthern Baptist funded the campaign and historically this group built wealth an black births. Based on under education and arrest rates, I’d suspect filling a need for prison labor. Prison industries products are sold globally; it’s worth billions.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Kashi101/ Kashi101

    abortion is an optional procedure

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Eolufemi/ Eolufemi

    There’s no easy solution beyond using contraception and frowning upon women that use abortion as their first line of birth control. Right now we don’t have any expectations of each other, and encourage folks to mind their own business. As a result there’s very little social pressure to make smart decisions. Whatever happened to social stigmas?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doing_me74/ doing_me74

    Dam black females getting abortions like crazy if that’s true.Alot of black women need to make sure dudes are wearing their condoms an be responsible if they don’t want to get pregnant.But Im not against abortion at all but I heard it has a bad effect on the women memory when she gets one.So I guess their some physiological issues behind this abortion stuff.Black women need to be more protected an take responsibility because the back in the day move having kids to get token care by the system aint working on the smart guys who value their seed an wont give it up too any women that easy.Because we know its alot of females out here f**cking left an right in these days an times every since the sexual revolution an women rights took over females been going wild.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    Nobody should be telling a grown woman they are required to keep a baby if they don’t want to. Each person’s body is sacred and only its owner should make decisions on what to do with it. Its important to note that abortions within all ethnic backgrounds correlate with poverty. One way to decrease the number of abortions would be to decrease the poverty rates.

    As far as the theory on Planned Parenthood targeting blacks goes, this might have been true in the past, but I highly doubt thats the case in modern times. Sean Hannity on FOX actually supported this theory that Planned Parenthood is there to put a limit on the black population and they are racist. Anything you hear from Sean Hannity or FOX news (the most racist news channel in the US) you should question. They have a conservative agenda which they must protect. If you look at the statistics about population growth its clear that all minority population growth (even blacks) have outgained whites and will continue to do so in the future. That is part of the reason that FOX is supporting this idea that Planned Parenthood is racist in order to get more minority votes for the Republican Party which is against abortions. In the past white votes were enough to win elections, but now that has changed and they are coming up with different tactics to get in those minority votes.

    This is my opinion and you can disagree but the statistics make sense if they are examined closely.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @stickUp_kid. This was far deeper than a hit piece on Planned Parenthood. It gets into the mindset that is behind population control. Planned Parenthood via abortions is just one of many Weapons of Mass Destruction used against us. You think it’s a coincidence that drugs, inferior education, inferior healthcare, inferior living conditions etc. is prevalent among us? If you think so, then perhaps you believe there is something inherently wrong with us? Not sure what your position is on that, but would love to hear it, for the sake of discussion. This is real. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are donating millions of dollars to population control. These people give us bogus stats of the world becoming overpopulated? If these people didn’t wish to exploit the masses,people would be taught from an early age, how to grow food, build shelter and make clothing. Those are the essentials, but because of greedy capitalists in the world, they condition the people to be consumers of products they are selling therefore, you’re totally dependent on them. Who is my enemy? The answer is clear!

    @Lovingme4once. I’m in total agreement with your sentiment towards this issue. I have been anti-Abortion for quite some time, but the information provided in that video, has now inspired me to do something about it, whatever it is I can. I’m not in favor of blowing up clinics, or even attacking the Doctors who perform abortions, but rather, spreading this vital message to others.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    well i did watch more of the video like towards the end, i needed something that tied this into the here and now not just something from the 1920s

    Well sister, you need to watch the entire video. No way you can watch the last 20-45mins, and understand the full scope of the problem. It was interesting to see how many so called black leaders, who once agreed that abortion was black genocide, change their tune once Planned Parenthood started funding their organization and/or election campaign. Let me make this official, FCK Jesse Jackson, and FCK the NAACP and any other Tom azz NEGRO’S who have sold their principles for a quick dollar!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nice_brown_eyez/ nice_brown_eyez

    Are yall serious?! I can’t believe wat I’m seeing and from my own ppl. Gods and goddess, these ppl (not only whites) are trying to kill us in EVERY aspect! U think blacks have a choice, but when they go to ANY abortion clinic, they are PERSUADED to go thru with the procedure. I have seen it first hand. They want us to kill our babies. I say they because they are coming in ALL races now. They were breeding us in slavery, but now they have no use for us. So all those billions that were donated in our reproduction is now being funded in our execution! Our men are being caged, kids r dying young; leaving da Goddess alone and confused about her status in life. Now we have D*KES and F*gs evrywhere confused about their self. We are having an identity crisis! If we all turn gay, then they won, because we can’t reproduce with the same sex. Yall better open up! Ur mind, ur eyes, ur life to the truth! Someone is trying to kill u EVERYTIME u wake up! Eddie said it best!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    @ _A_ actually i watched a good hour probably. And most of the quotes and doc**ents they were giving were against planned parenthood. I understand they mean on a broader scale, however they were only pin pointing things in association with planned parenthood. To nice brown eyez.. i have had family members and friends who have had abortions and none were pressured into having them. A lot of times they make sure this is something you really want to do, they ask you if you are suicidal or have had any thoughts of committing suicide and other things. You have to sign a ton of crap also. So again its a woman choice whether she is black or white or whatever. NO ONE CAN FORCE AN ABORTION ON YOU! Just because there is a clinic in your hood doesnt mean you need to go to it. I think at the time when they started these clinics there were a group of elitist who wanted to get rid of the poor and the black. I can’t say that this is every clinics, or every obgyns motive, it seems apparent that this is/was planned parenthoods motive… But planned parenthood isnt everyone… So to each his own… we got about 40 million blacks in the united states, we are no where near endangered…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    and @ _A_ i do think there is something wrong with our communities and our way of thinking. Yea i do believe that they dropped drugs in our communities, and rather than turning away from them, we started selling them. We started destroying each other. A particular group of people have an agenda to destroy us, & we have proven that we are that stupid to let them! EVERYTHING they “they” have done in attempt to annihilate us, we have gone along with.

    Also I hope you are not trying to blame any “inferior” education, or inferior living conditions on some elitist white people. And please don’t reference anything from 80 years ago, I would hope that with all the progression that we have made, that black people can do better for themselves. There is a lot wrong with our school systems and i dont feel that its only a black issue. I know too many black people who are content with how they are living, and those who complain about how they are living are never doing anything to change their circ**stances AND thats the problem. I’ve had many conversations with people, and gang bangers, drug dealers and rappers [who fantasize this lifestyle] are who kids look up to in their opinions. I feel that we don’t stress education enough in our homes, we can blame the school system and we can blame the teachers but why isn’t any one blaming the parents? I looked up to my mother as a child, and she always stressed to me that education was everything to my future. She worked hard and she was a single mother but she made sure I was getting good grades, that i was doing my homework, she would even call my teachers (which i of course hated) Too many people are ignorant in the black community, and living beyond their means. We make up a small portion of the population, yet we spend more than anyone? COME ON! I can type for days and days, i feel like i am writing a paper. I definitely want to do something about the issues that we have rather than just typing/talking about them or pointing them out. But i digress since i have strayed way off topic lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/PRINCE_DEJOUR/ PRINCE_DEJOUR

    I don’t believe any woman makes a decision to have an abortion without some deep soul searching. There is no racist organization forcing women to abort their child for this is that woman’s choice.

    Planned Parenthood is not just about abortion its about preventing unwanted pregnancies and people contracting STD’s/HIV.

    I think if people focus more on using protection or practicing abstinence then the number of abortions would decrease.
    I know a lady who was struggling with five boys. For some insane reason she wanted a girl so she had four more kids. Nine total by the age of 33. This is a problem especially when you can’t support these kids and the fathers are not around.
    I think people just need to be responsible and smarter with the decisions they make.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @StickUp_Kid. I’m not trying to really cast blame on elitist white people, because ultimately, if we allow them to keep us down, then it’s our own fault. However, what I am saying is, the system they have set up for us is indeed inferior. You really can’t refute that. There has never been equity in any aspect of life, of any importance, that I can think of. This is why many blacks spend a lot of their formidable years trying to get as much education as they can, so they can get OUT of their neighborhoods. But I can tell you have the mindset that believes, that our problems are all or our own doing. I walk a fine line when it comes to blame. Yes I blame us, but I don’t advocate going out and demanding/begging whites to change our situation. Again, we have seen many great men try and fail miserably, so called demanding civil/human rights. As far as planned parenthood is concerned, you must also believe, that they have gone through some transformation process, during the last 80 years. There mission statement, as explicitly stated by it’s founder, was to enact population control among black people. Not sure how you think we should interpret that, but to me, it requires no further interpretation. Now, if it’s your contention, that this is no longer the case, the burden of proof would be on you. Until otherwise proven though, it appears that the only thing different is that they are not as bold expressing that mission statement.

    Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Ginsburg said in an interview last year, that she firmly believed that Roe v Wade was “was predicated on the Supreme Court majority’s desire to diminish populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” Agree or disagree, but for a SC Judge to make a statement like that, has to be alarming at best, cause for great concern at worse.

    Lastly, you say that women make the choice to have an abortion. I’m not about making a choice, I’m about making an informed choice. If you gave your child the choice to have McDonalds or healthy food for dinner every night, I’m sure like most children he/she would choose the former. If that is true, ask yourself, what makes children gravitate to McDonalds, Wendy’s etc. the way that they do? It’s the conditioning. They have been programmed to do so. So we can get all excited about the fact that he/she had freedom of choice, but what good is that, if your choice is only based on short term gratification, without factoring in long term risks?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/evamp12/ evamp12

    “Also I hope you are not trying to blame any “inferior” education, or inferior living conditions on some elitist white people.”

    “I’m not trying to really cast blame on elitist white people,”

    (OH no, dont dont blame the elite whites in control;the same ones that
    put other blacks loyal to them, or prove to whites they are not loyal to to the black race in charge…The same ones ALOWING blacks some freedom via civil rights protection laws. The same elite whites that dominate the entire world. The same elite whites that dominate every info and entertaiment outlet;infuencing/telling people how and what to think and value from birth to the grave and backing it up with military. the same elite white that manipulate economies world wide. etc,etc, just blame the fu-king victims and hide behind slogans like personal responsibility and down play whites power over everyone else.)

    Black people are pitiful.No matter where on this planet, were in a last place We have college educated,wealthy **personnally responsible*** Black people who have educated their kids running entire countries/nations and blacks are worse off than they are here In America. If it werent for white people runnin things here, we’d be in the same predicament over here,so shut up with the big talk and blame.keep the mouths shut. We are a self destructive people and are used by whites at will.

    “And please don’t reference anything from 80 years ago”

    (no,cant do that either..Just like the am radio talk show hosts have brain washed people to want.Even though logically,you need past refrences to navigate in the present..Black people are in the condition we are in because we are self destructive, weak minded people;very easy to influence and manipulate. Our qick to be arrogant nature makes it worse.)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/vxxmtt/ vxxmtt

    i’m glad our black figuring this out .

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supersoftball/ supersoftball

    One thing you never see at abortion clinics that is picketed by anti-abortion foes are; the protesters, mainly white men and women, stopping little Black and Hispanic girls from seeking services. I do not think our liberal use of abortion clinics have anything to do the endangerment of our black children! The abortion movement has always been about; white folks and their inability to produce children, for whatever the reasons may be!!! Abortion is not our problem, but I will agree with any girl or woman who seeks to have their pregnancy terminated, the right decision is being made, since they refuse to use contraceptives! They know they have no desire to be a parent, which is a decision quite a few more of our sisters should have made!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @evamp12. I need to reply to the shot you took at me. When I say I don’t blame elitist whites, I mean to say that I don’t blame them for “keeping” us down. They are most certainly to blame for the for the produced conditions we find ourselves in. But in my view, racism is not the problem but rather, our inept response to it. We have had many prophetic like voices come into our community to offer us another way. Noble Drew Ali, Marcus Garvey, and in my opinion the best of them all, The most Hon. Elijah Muhammad. He gave us a blueprint that sets us on the path of self sufficiency that would solve our problems at once, if strictly adhered to. You make interesting points, and I agree with you for the most part.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/StickUP_Kid/ StickUP_Kid

    _a you keep referencing planned parenthood… what about the other clinics or doctors that perform these abortions, you think they have an agenda against black people??? People do make informed decisions especially since they give you reading material and an opportunity to ask questions. If what you mean by informed means eliminating black people then i think you have warped view on what informed is… And you say the long term effects it will have on our community, are you implying that if a black woman has an abortion she wont get pregnant and have children in the future?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Well, this is what I’m talking about when I say informed decisions. You ask if I’m implying that black women won’t be able to get pregnant in the future, well not only have you diminished your chances for that, you have increased your chance for cancer in the uterus. Giving women reading material AT the clinic, is the same as the surgeon general’s warning on cigarettes. You typically don’t see the warning, until you have purchased the pack. When a woman has walked through those doors, they have already come to terms with their decision so i’m not sure how getting material at that point constitutes an informed decision. I single out Planned Parenthood because they are the McDonald’s or Wal Mart of Abortions, but trust me, I mean to and include all doctors, because they are all knowingly or unwittingly following this plan of eugenics, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a vast majority of Dr.s who do perform abortions have had some direct or indirect ties to Planned Parenthood at some point in their career. You seem to be more focused on defending Planned Parenthood, than defending the merits of abortion itself.

    And by INFORMED, I mean a comprehensive look at the cons to abortion. I think black women should be informed about effects abortion has on the community, and her body, both physically and mentally. My view can’t be warped on that, because I have the best interest of that woman at heart. Far more dangers to the process than people realize! You are actually making that point for me.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/momono3/ momono3

    White people think it is a plan to eliminate them, that’s why they are so staunchly against it.

    But if people want abortions to stop, they need to stop vilifying the single mother and her children.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Black_Queen09/ Black_Queen09

    ABORTIONS ARE NOT CHEAP… IN FACT IT IS A BIG MONEY BUSINESS… ALL ABOUT MAKING BIG MONEY… ALOT OF BLACK PEOPLE DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY.. OR QUALIFY FOR INSURANCE… MY IS QUESTION IS… HOW ARE THEY PAYING FOR THESE ABORTIONS??? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THE WHITE PEOPLE… ARE NOT GIVING THEM A PAYMENT PLAN…
    PERSONALLY I SMELL A RAT… SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE USING REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY TO ME…
    TELLING BLACK PEOPLE THAT… THE BLACK CHILD IS AN ENANGERED SPECIES… WHEN THEY REALLY AREN’T… BUT AT THE SAME TIME.. THEY ARE REALLY HOPING.. THAT IT WILL BE AN REALITY SOON…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shippper2009/ shippper2009

    an abortion costs around $500-600 in nyc, and i know this from experience. in the rest of the country its probably a lot cheaper than that. many states also subsadize abortions for certain reasons. at about 1 million abortions per year, im not sure if this would qualify as a big money business.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    No one’s saying anything about the intellectual firepower of black women. Everyone knows the majority of abortions are sought by women in low income jobs or are in fact living in poverty.

    Such women obviously are going to respond to such pressures and find them so overwhelming, they run right over their considerations of right and wrong and their emotions.

    And sure, more successful black women get abortions as well. Although I doubt in such numbers. But here those socio-economic pressures still exist, due to the fact they see themselves as being dragged down back into lower socio-economics stati and again see abortion as the only alternative.

    And if abortions cost 500 dollars and there are 1 million abortions, that’s 500 million dollars. 10 million per state. 1 million for every ten abortion clinics. 100,000 for every 100 abortion clinics. That’s not exactly chump change. It’s a vital part of their revenues.

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/IvanRoss/ IvanRoss

    You want to know what is funny?

    I am black, I have never paid for an abortion, nor had a female that had one.

    I am educated; I am well above the poverty level. I do not have aids, HIV nor herpes. I am not in trouble with the law and never been to jail.

    And I know some of you will put me on blast for me saying all of this or tell me that this is good for me and everyone is not as fortunate as I am.

    But the point of me saying all of this is that I am “NOT FORTUNATE”, I have worked my black ass off, sacrificed and studied hard.

    And I will be damned if I will ever give some white person the credit for what my black mamma, black daddy and my black grandma instilled in me .

    That is the problem with many of our black people.

    When something is bad for us we are quick to cry how bad white people are and how much slavery affects us.

    When something is positive for us, we frantically search for some white person’s social policy for the reason of our so called fortune.

    Planned Parenthood, white abortion doctors and other liberals could care less about our black asses.

    It is just that they get tired of stepping over our pitiful selves when they go places so they help themselves by helping you.

    -helping you abort yourselves
    -helping you with medical care so you don’t demand medical justice
    -helping with low level financial aid so that you don’t demand economic independence
    -helping you in a unjust system so that you don’t become truly educated and enlightened

    In the 1960s whites in America used dogs and police to keep our black asses out of their schools

    Now they have dogs and police to try to keep us in school

    And our dumb asses have the nerve to sit here and say that a white doctor killing a black prince or princess is not a bad thing… go figure

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blaqpoizon-n-cure/ blaqpoizon-n-cure

    @IvanRoss agreed 100%

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