Word today from LifeNews.com that the NAACP is opposed to the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011, which criminalizes abortion on the grounds of race or sex.
Incredible.
With Planned Parenthood operating 78% of their “clinics” in inner-city neighborhoods, and African Americans constituting 12% of the nation but having 37% of the abortions, this is not only racial suicide, but fratricide as well. When the NAACP objects to a bill that would not only outlaw sex-selective abortions, but race-based abortions as well, that’s fratricide. One may only speculate as to why.
Perhaps the NAACP believes that culling the excess of unplanned pregnancies among their daughters is the answer to poverty. That’s genuinely understandable (so long as one sets aside the ten commandments, human instinct, and human decency), and as with most evil and mental confusion, it does have its own internal logic. Vacuuming African American wombs frees girls to pursue their education and vocational advancement.
The problem with the argument is that by any measure, 19 million dead African Americans later, African American neighborhoods are more violent, more economically blighted, more beset by illiteracy, unemployment, incarcerations, drug and alcohol addictions, violent crimes and murder than at any time before. It says something when Juan Williams, a liberal black journalist at NPR, authors a book entitled:
The book is a must-read. The problem for Williams, Bill Cosby, and any other black man or woman who dares to cross the NAACP is that they are accused of being sell-outs to whites. It seems that black folk are the only demographic not entitled to a plurality of opinions, political philosophy, and political affiliations. That’s self-imposed by the NAACP membership. It’s a philosophy and leadership that the subtitle to Williams’ book accurately describes.
The Bill in question will make it illegal to target babies for abortion based on gender or race, and admittedly raises a problem for Planned Parenthood. Under the Bill, abortionists can be imprisoned for not determining if the race or gender of the baby was a determinative factor in aborting.
In practical terms, it’s doubtful that at the individual level this would affect many African American abortions, as the mothers aren’t aborting because of their child’s race. It does, however, have implications at the macro-level when an organization such as Planned Parenthood operates 78% of their centers in inner-city neighborhoods.
That said, why would any civil rights organization (and there are 45 others opposed to this Bill, including the National Council of Jewish Women) object to the Bill’s language or intent? Supposedly, the opposition is to the names of the two great leaders on the Bill, and therein resides a hornets nest of gender and racial politics, of political correctness. So, let’s lance the boil.
The towering abolitionists of history do not belong exclusively to those groups whose oppression they fought, and whose rights they championed. They belong to all human beings of good will, of decency and honor. They belong to all of us precisely because they spoke to the universal human nature and human dignity, both of which were denied in the oppression of women and blacks. We have every right to lay claim to their names and legacies, regardless of our race or gender. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that women and blacks are a class apart from the rest of humanity. It is to suggest that Douglas and Anthony fought for something other than equality.
The truth of the matter is that Douglas and Anthony belong to all of us, including those of us who fight in the modern abolitionist movement. How women and blacks could oppose this Bill is galling. They better than anyone know the sting of a stigmatized history, and the acrid taste of its toxic residue. Females are being targeted for death, and the resultant gender imbalances in countries like China and India are fueling a booming sex slavery industry to satisfy the tens of millions of men with no prospects for marriage. But that doesn’t seem to move the elitist radicals who are also committed to population reduction, seemingly at any cost.
That the NAACP could be moved to outrage by the 3,446 black lynchings since the 1800’s, recorded by the Tuskegee Institute, and be so obtuse to the butchering of almost 20 million blacks since 1973 simply beggars the imagination.
During the Civil War, General McClellan wouldn’t take the Grand Army of the Potomac out to fight. An exasperated President Lincoln, relieving McClellan of command wrote to him:
“My dear McClellan: If you don’t want to use the Army I should like to borrow it for a while.”
The failure to lead, as McClellan learned, is ultimately a self-abdication of the leadership position.
NAACP’s opposition to a common-decency Bill such as this indicates that they have broken ranks with the core principles of the giants for whom it is named. Since they have broken faith with the honor those names have come to personify, we shall carry on the names of Douglas and Anthony, and their legacies of championing equal human rights for all persons.
That starts with the right to live one’s entire life unmolested by predatory members of the species.
One would think that women and blacks would retain some collective memory where that is concerned. If not, the abortion stats for blacks are pointing toward endgame.
“The truth of the matter is that Douglas and Anthony belong to all of us, including those of us who fight in the modern abolitionist movement.”
As the mother of a child from another group targeted for abortion; those with Down syndrome, I rejoiced when I heard of this legislation. I thought, ‘if we can protect unborn babies from racial and sexual discrimination, maybe, just maybe we can protect them from genetic discrimination.’
I love all the races and both genders which God created. I love the genetic diversity displayed in the almond eyes of my daughter, no less a gift from His Hand than any other child. We need to see that a love for diversity cannot be artificially begun at birth, it must begins when life begins, at fertilization!
I wonder what the breakdown in the statistic is that shows these black women that obtain abortions are ones that are pursuing an education and/or vocation. I’m almost 100% positive that the vast majority of these black women getting abortions aren’t getting them because they had an “oops” and are in the middle of a four year degree. They’re getting them because they have no other support and no hope of a real future. If abortion supporters say that these black women NEED abortion to succeed or advance in their life, why not pay for schooling for these women? Better yet, pay for the childcare so these women CAN go to school (really go to school, not just say they’re going to go to school). I know way too many women that have admitted to having an abortion because they wanted to “finish school” or “get an education” and NONE of them did it. They were too broken after the abortion.
The conversation that Cosby has started endures because the people who must engage him, and the issues he has raised, are likewise enduring. Thus, what Cosby said reflects on the griefs and hopes and losses and pains of an entire generation of noble men and women who nonetheless, like the rest of us, are human and at times frail and misled. We must learn from each other, listen to each other, correct each other and struggle with each other if the destiny of our people is to be secure. And we must fight for the best that is within our reach, even if that means disagreeing with icons and resisting the myopia of mighty men. What Cosby started is left to us to finish.
Yet, despite its handsome business district and its brand-new brick church, and the rags-to-riches careers of some of its leading citizens, neither Greenwood’s present, nor its future, was by any means secure. By the spring of 1921, trouble — real trouble — had been brewing in Tulsa for some time. When it came to issues of race — not just in Tulsa or in Oklahoma, but all across American — the problems weren’t simply brewing. They had, in fact, already arrived.
Dr. Nadal,
Before posting, it was necessary to read Margaret Sanger’s own words to try and determine what could spawn such a hideous treatment of humanity like abortion–and not just any kind, but targeted abortion.
In Chapter 12, “A Public Nuisance” of Sanger’s book, “My Fight for Birth Control” (apologies for inaccurate denotation…underline, italic and bold are not available options), it is clear by her description of the men, women, and children that, although poor, she thought it her duty to relieve them of the burden of life (ironically so by not allowing the children to be born–and abortion if absolutely necessary). You see, according to her vision, the area in New York where she started her clinic was surely fraught with disadvantaged progeny destined for prison, hospitals, asylums, or prostitution; haggard, sickly women; ignorant, brutal (or even sickly) men. An anecdotal entry railing against those who would bring “charity” was included for effect.
The heartbreak of that chapter is how she describes the response of the people she came to “serve” (described from the first full paragraph on page 153 to the end of the forth full paragraph on page 157)…
The abolitionists believed God…the color of a person’s skin, the texture of their hair, the shape of their facial features did not diminish their humanity, nor lessen the validity of the Blood of Jesus shed on their behalf…and they chose the path of Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Daniel (see Daniel chapters 3 and 6). The challenge now is to pray for an awakening of modern day abolitionists who will believe God, and follow Him in spirit and in truth…
Planned Parenthood doesn’t force anyone to enter its doors and have abortions. Women who want to end their pregnancies seek out Planned Parenthood. If you don’t want to use PP, don’t. But don’t try to take it away from those of us who want it, need it and/or believe in it. I mean, you can try. But isn’t it obvious by now that you’re not going to prevail? Make choices for YOUR body, not mine. Thanks!