As if the anti-choice slackwits aren’t doing enough damage to American lives–
Georgia Right to Life is playing the race card (and the eugenics card and the “rich whitey is out to get you” card, and other false despicabilities) to push their political agenda.
Some misleading “facts” that these skeevy jerks promote:
- 40% of black pregnancies end in abortion.
Misleading. 40% of all (not just black) pregnancies in the U.S. end in abortion. I don’t see anyone proclaiming the end of the white race because of this rate.
- Birth control Margaret Sanger formed the “Negro Project” to rid America of “the unfit”.
Lie. Sanger’s project has nothing to do with any current actions and was thorough repudiated by Planned Parenthood decades ago. Margaret Sanger promoted birth control and family planning, but opposed abortion.
- The American eugenics movement was aimed square at blacks.
Nonsense. The original passive eugenics program was aimed at those with chronic mental illness and repeated criminal activities. It was thoroughly repudiated decades ago and has nothing to do with current abortion rights campaigns. The only groups that promote the use of eugenics in black populations are racist in nature and use “science” to justify their lies. (Here is a Wikipedia entry that uses the term “mud races”.)
A group called the Radiance Foundation, a mover-and-shaker for this pack of detestable lies, uses New Age-y “meet your potential” gibberish and enthusiastic material that exhorts women to “keep their babies”, but actually promotes an anti-choice stance aimed here specifically at black women.
As so many such groups do, they are urging black women to either keep their children (when many black mothers are single and unable to financially support a child) or give them up for adoption (when 3 out of 5 black babies and children in the adoption process never get adopted, something that any adoption agency will tell you).
