Black Abortion: is it genocide?
African-American women are disproportionately more likely to have an abortion than any other racial group. While abortion among white women constitutes around 10 in 1000 cases, with black women it’s around 50 in 1000.
With centres like Planned Parenthood moving into urban areas and focusing more on African-Americans, some have claimed that this is a form of ethnic cleansing or genocide and that abortion is being touted as just another service for black people, just like going to the corner store. The National Pro Black Life Union believes that abortion is a form of racism.
I find that argument somewhat disingenous and can’t agree. Since there is often a higher rate of unplanned pregnancy among low-income and less well educated women it would seem wrong if groups like Planned Pregnancy avoided going into inner city, urban areas.
I’m also not sure that bringing lots more unwanted black children into the world is a good thing. There are already many floating in and out of foster care and waiting to be adopted.
Again, I see education and information (which then hopefully lead to financial empowerment, since poverty is also a key indicator of abortion rates) as the keys to preventing abortion. Maybe there needs to be a great deal more of this targetted at black women.
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It is genocide.
Why not use finances to nurture and inform these babies, their mothers and families and communities, instead of using the finances to build and run Planned Parenthood centres which are the number one killer of Afrkan Americans at OVER ONE THOUSAND PER DAY !
They are doing the same in Afrika. They are bringing their genocidal, eugenics, Planned Parenthood rubbish into Afrikca also. If the arguement is that these babies are being born into undesireable envionments, i.e. poverty, then isn’t that the problem ? Afrikans have for a long time lived in dire conditions. It is these conditions and the infrastructure of the countries that need to change. Foreign aid is being disguised as Planned Parenthood to kill black babies by the thousands. Why can’t the money put forward for these Planned Parenthood centres be used to build water systems, houses, to provide shelter, food, ORGANIC SELF-SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC STRCUTRES AND ACTIVITY ???
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A CONSPIRACY TO CONTROL AND REDUCE THE GLOBAL BLACK POPULATION !!!!!
Please do not forget that mainly under Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood has a documented history of racist eugenics agendas to stop “undesirables” including African-Americans from reproducing.
I have to disagree strongly with the view of this article. I get very annoyed with these unfounded conspirary theory of black genocide. What they are actually doing is bringing further into light the failings of black community.
Family Planning Clinics are a health service and a placed in areas of demand, are they there to wipe out a whole generation of black people i think not. I’m not pro abortion but i am aware that these women having abortions are fully aware that they are not equipped to have children at that given time and for this i can only give them the respect they deserve for acknowledging this.
Also lets not forget that alongside the higher abortion rates are the higher STD and HIV rates. What ever way you look at it sexual responsibility is lapse in the black community and this is not because of the government this is because of poor education and lack of personal respect.
What i would say is it would be better for communities to work alongside the health service and stress the importance of sexual health, instead of seeing it as a tool of genocide.