From Lifenews.com:
Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) — The Georgia chapter of the NAACP has withdrawn its support for a bill advancing in the state legislature that would ban abortions done specifically because the child is African-American. Although the civil rights organization opposes racial discrimination, that apparently doesn’t extend to abortions.
The Georgia NAACP had originally endorsed SB 529, which also targets abortions done because the unborn child is a girl.
The Georgia House Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 on Wednesday to support the bill and send it to the Rules Committee, but it now won’t have the support of the black group.
Edward DuBose, chapter president, issued a statement withdrawing the support, saying, “Earlier this month, the Georgia NAACP submitted a letter to support Senate Bill 529. We now fully understand the intention of this legislation and wish to retract our support for it.”
“At the time, we were of the understanding that this bill would work to benefit the women in our community. However, after many conversations with membership and constituents, we now realize that this is nothing more than using women’s health as a political tool,” he said, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution newspaper. “Women of color in Georgia need more than divisive messages and deserve better access to health care.”
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which also helps stop abortions in cases when women are forced or coerced into having one, has already received backing from Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve never sold out the truth to political correctness, and I’m not about to start here. There has never been a shortage of traitors from within the Black community. It would seem there’s a bumper crop now. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has rendered themselves a vicious, yet buffoonish joke, having given their imprimatur to the continued slaughter of their own babies. While constituting 11% of the American population, Blacks have 37% of all abortions, some 19 million since 1973.
Some advancement.
No doubt the women who had those abortions are all living at least lower middle-class lifestyles, having taken full advantage of the educational and economic opportunities that come to those unencumbered by children. Hardly. The inner city is more bleak and blighted than ever before.
Truth be told, I have some difficulties with the language of the bill not including ALL indiivduals being targeted because of some identifying characteristic. The practical value of this bill is that it could have been used to leverage Planned Parenthood out of the inner city, where they operate 80% of their ‘clinics’. Taken together with the revelations that PP was accepting donations to be earmarked for aborting Black babies, this bill could have damaged these racists terribly.
However, the biggest sell-out Black of all time happens to occupy the Oval Office, and he is the most virulent pro-abortion politician and President in American history. The NAACP isn’t about to leave B.O. twisting in the wind. There are 2 1/2 years left to this Presidency and plenty of careers yet to be enhanced. So the sell-outs will see Black babies pay with their lives.
It’s all over for leftist Black activism after this President exits the stage into what I pray will be a long life of hearing how he managed to end up at the bottom of the barrel of American Presidents. The NAACP couldn’t screw up the courage to decry the presence of Margaret Sanger’s disciples doing her racist and eugenic bidding in their neighborhoods. They (NAACP) are as elitist and parasitic as any plantation owners ever were. If the slave owners couldn’t be forgiven for not recognizing the humanity of Blacks, what shall we say of the NAACP?
Fratricide is a far greater crime than genocide.
A bill like that is kind of silly in general, though. I mean, all a woman has to do is lie and say that she’s aborting for some other reason….just like a lot of women lie and cover it up when their OB/GYN asks if they are a victim of abuse during the standard interview of a first prenatal check-up. The bill just seems like a real waste of time and pretty unenforceable.
I think I read that in China ultrasounds are not legally supposed to be used for sex identification, but all it takes is a nod or a head shake from the technician for the parents to find out. A law is only as good as how well it can and will be enforced.
I agree that what is/has been done to the African-American community is horrendous, and sometimes its own leadership has been unwittingly or even consciously to blame for some of it. But the most important thing, just like in the general population, is the changing of hearts and attitudes…unfortunately, I think that’s going to go a lot farther than changes in the law.
Hi Barboo,
I agree with you that on its face, the law seems silly in that it is easily circumvented and pretty unenforceable. But laws are a statement of who we are, and what we will allow and disallow.
There is great moral significance in such a law, as it can be turned on the racist and eugenic Planned Parenthood who could be held to account under the law for operating 80% of their clinics in Black and hispanic neighborhoods. Once such a law is passed, its language could be expanded to include hispanics.
Though Blacks and Hispanics only account for 25% of the population, they account for 57% of all abortions. This law could be used to squeeze PP.
Back to moral significance. Sex selection is a deadly serious issue on the global stage, having created a gender imbalance in China and India into the hundreds of millions, which is now fueling a booming sex trade with women and young girls being abducted and sold into sex-slavery.
A law like this would be the first legal proclamation from our blood-soaked nation that would say, “Not here!”
I agree that we need to change hearts and minds, and small steps such as this law are reflections of such a change, which build momentum in turn, creating more laws, creating more momentum, etc.
God Bless
It bothers me to no end that poor Blacks seem to have been pushed by the wayside in our society, sometimes by their Black brothers and sisters. I think it’s critical that we pro-lifers reach out to our Black friends and acquaintances from our neighborhoods and churches and address this problem with them to let them know that pro-lifers care and want to see change. In the city of Chicago, (which is plagued with record murders this year), small groups of mothers are rising up and advocating for change in the neighborhoods. Why can’t the same be done regarding unplanned pregnancy and abortion? Let’s start small and start talking and praying for an end to abortion in the Black communities – and see the change that can happen.
[…] Georgia NAACP Withdraws Support for Bill Stopping Abortions Based …on race. Edward Dubose [President/ Georgia NAACP] decided shortly thereafter to mysteriously withdraw the endorsement saying the NAACP didn’t “fully understand” what they were doing. He stated they realized that the endorsement of the bill amounted to “nothing more than using women’s health as a political tool”. As black TownHall columnist Star Parker pointed out, “Taking a pro-life stand would have put the Georgia NAACP out of sync with its national organization.” […]