An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
The Color Of Babies
CNN Blog Attacks Black Pro-Lifers, Continues Liberal Trend
While anti-choice activists may condemn the location of family planning clinics, such as Planned Parenthood, in these communities, this condemnation is itself further evidence of their cynicism – and of their indifference to the actual health care needs of low-income women (a disproportionate number of whom are African-American). The majority of health care services provided by Planned Parenthood, for instance, are non-abortion related and include cancer screening, STD testing, and other preventive health services. We may agree to disagree about the morality of abortion but I do hope there is no legitimate disagreement about the need for low-income women to have access to these health resources.
There is yet another element of this campaign that I find particularly unsettling. Implicit in this strategy is the assumption that the womb of an African-American woman is somehow “community property” – and that our family planning and reproductive decisions cannot properly be based upon individual choices and circumstances but must instead take into account the need to “propagate the race.” It seems as if anti-choice strategists are suggesting that African-American women need to be saved from themselves and their own freely made choices – or worse yet, that the African-American community needs to be saved from its women. Forgive me, but the time for that sort of racial paternalism is long since past.
There are real issues of concern affecting African-Americans today – inadequate access to health care, disproportionate incarceration rates, a substandard public education system (which is the only option for many of its children), and numerous others. Cynical attempts to exploit those problems so as to gain advantage in a contentious debate are no substitute for the real attention our community deserves.
You can go read the entire thing, but I wanted to point out the absurdity, that hits me. This isn’t about the color of a baby’s skin. This is about the BABY! Does this woman really believe that Planned Parenthood is such a noble organization? Seriously? When you put such abortion mills in a community, that should speak volumes. But I guess the left, no matter the color, doesn’t seem to understand this.
No one is suggesting that “African-American women need to be saved from themselves”. (There’s that hyphen again.) I, personally, would suggest that ALL American women ‘need to saved’ from the evil that has permeated our society. Convincing a woman that her child is nothing more than an inconvenience, or a mass of tissue, or a tumor, isn’t evil? If this woman wants to do something for her community, then perhaps she should take a step back, and look at the REAL problems facing it, and every other community. This is beyond a color issue. This is a society issue. The “Great Society” gimme mind set. The “I don’t have to work hard to achieve success, cuz YOU OWE ME!” attitude. The “It’s ok if I act like a slut, and get pregnant every other month cuz someone will “fix it”!” mentality.
To quote The Socialist Appeal: We also stand for the right of a woman to dispose of her body as she sees fit. Well, if SHE wants to abort herself, that’s her prerogative I suppose. But this isn’t just about HER, this is about someone else’s life. The life of a child. A separate entity. It’s not her’s to destroy, but to nurture.
Perhaps this is the lefist/progressive/socialist/communist agenda, to ‘kill God”? God CREATED life. Destroy life, destroy God. Not acceptable!
