Anti-Abortion Group Targets Black Women

The entire thing sounds so ridicolous (thats my fave word today) 

The US is not going to run out of children any time soon. The country is also not running out of African American women who want to keep a child. They don't know the circumstances of why a woman wants an abortion, so they should stop harassing a woman because of it. This is so low. They are becoming desperate to ensure women don't have abortions, it doesn't matter if they use race lol. 

Eugenics is dead.  But yes, once upon a time people were encouraged/forced to have abortions for possessing various undesirable qualities, mental illness, race, etc...  But that really isn't the case today and fundamentalist have always relied on bombastic fear mongering to gain support.  Certain parts of the U.S. increasingly seem like they're sliding backwards in time and that's kind of scary.  First Prop 8, now this?  

I say let them pass the legislation.  From the sounds of it, the wording seems vague enough that nothing substantial can ever come of it.  For example, what exactly does it mean to "solicit" someone to have an abortion?  Does this refer to a doctor rendering professional advice to a woman to terminate a dangerous pregnancy? Does it refer to a boyfriend or girlfriend expressing their disapproval of the pregnancy? (surely people can't get arrested for that). Or would it refer to the doctors in abortion clinics marching through black neighborhoods and collecting all the pregnant women, shipping them to a clinic and conducting a mass termination...no wait, THAT never actually happens. 

The only thing that came to my mind was 'What the Hell!!', I mean, seriously, who whould come up with this kind[s] of thing[s]? Its like saying that there should be a mass extermination of Gays just because we are Gay?...when will people learn to respect others, as you said, WE are the Human RACE, no 'species' or 'aliens' or whatever the next nut job of a politican deems a certain group to be.

Pfft.

We got to learn to live together as One, like the Prophet Bob Marley said 'One love, One heart lets get together and feel alright...'

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

Let it Rock,Let it roll

Where else will this so-called "pro-life" group get fodder for its war machine?

------------------------------------------------------------ 

Dwell in possibility ~ Emily Dickinson 

did you not know that most planned parenthood clinic which does aid in getting an abortion was founded by Margaret Sanger a well known believer in Eugenics. Dont  know what Eugenics is...........look it up. That might explain why there is a higher abortion rate in black women. 

 

Im just saying the proof is in the pudding 

 

as far as eugenics is concerned it is most definitly not dead as long as there is racism eugenics is close behind

Thanks for opening my eyes about eugenics. Though I definitely agree with Squaircle, b/c I talked to my friend who works at the Capital in Atlanta and who has worked at abortion clincs for years and she said that people are not solicited to have abortions. But I suppose that in the past people were, and who knows, maybe there are racist school counselors out there who would encourage only pregnant African-American teens to have abortions, but not white ones, or something like that, but I am sure that it is very rare and that it is already highly risky, offensive, and probably illegal to try and coerce anyone into getting an abortion.  The reason I don't want the legislation passed is because it distracts from any real problems at hand that Atlanta needs to face.  Anyway, Planned Parenthood is for women's choice of what to do with their bodies, today at least. 

Also the statistics claimed by the organizations in the article are very sketchy and probably untrue. 

But I agree with Squaircle that abortion rates and pregnancy rates are probably high among the impoverished, just like all around the world, for a huge combination of reasons. 

But I'm sure that there are plenty of racist and sexist people out there that would solicit abortions, but i just don't think it happens.  I grew up in a small town in the south, and I've never even heard of such a kind of racism.  Perhaps if members of extremist groups like the KKK were allowed around pregnant women somehow, it just seems like such an extreme, bizarre, and rare scenario!  But maybe I'm just naive..?

This is yet another example of a political movement trying to exploit the paranoia of African Americans. There are plenty of young African American women having children without being encouraged to have an abortion. That's pretty obvious if you live in the state of Georgia, which I do, by the way. This legislation is wholly unnneccesary, and will only make it harder for health care providers to inform pregnant women of all the options available to them. But considering the active extreme-right politics practiced in this state, I wouldn't be surprised if it passed without so much as a peep.

I live in a very poor, mostly African American neighborhood in Atlanta (that also, unfortunately, has the highest HIV positive population in the state) and I decided to go for a drive around the neighborhood earlier today to see if any corner stores were closing down due to the economy.. and bam, I see this giant billboard of a baby and it says, "Black children are an endangered species. toomanyaborted."  Its right across from an Elementary school, so that kids playing outside can look up and read it. Its also on the poorest, saddest looking store wall you have ever seen, where local prostitutes are known to stand around and 'sell it.'  So many things wrong with this..don't know where to begin. I assume that most people just ignore it or agree, or what? I don't know!