Abortion Discriminates Part 2.
Published: 2017
'Abortion Discriminates' is a four part series that addresses the often
overlooked reality that abortion at its core is a discriminatory action. At the
most basic level abortion discriminates against the pre-born child and its right
to life, robbing it of dignity and recognised value. That said, there are other
ways in which abortion wilfully and intentionally discriminates on the basis of
disability, race, and sex. It is hoped that these 4 articles will provide a
useful framework for understanding abortion's discriminatory nature and for
facilitating informed dialogue with others, whether pro-life or
pro-abortion.
Black lives matter
News of racial tensions in the United States have often featured the
phrase 'Black lives matter'. Whether people choose to align themselves with the
activist group of the same name or not, only the most racially discriminatory
person would disagree with the statement itself. Of course black lives matter.
Black lives matter and should be treated as though they matter just as much as
the lives of any other human being made in God's image. To be pro-life is to be
anti-racism and is to acknowledge that every life is important regardless of
ability, ethnicity, or sex.
Recently
Benjamin Watson, a black player in the NFL, caused a small stir through an
interview in which he highlighted the American abortion provider, Planned
Parenthood's racist roots. Watson said:
"I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the
abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood
and Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks, and it's kind of ironic that
it's working. We (as minorities) support candidates, and overwhelmingly support
the idea of having Planned Parenthood and the like, and yet, that is why she
created it. We are buying it hook, line, and sinker, like it's a great thing.
It's just amazing to me and abortion saddens me period, but itseems to be
something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities
especially as something that they should do. In the public, it seems to be
painted that when minorities get pregnant they need to get abortions, especially
when it comes to teen pregnancy… We sit here and talk about advancing the black
agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what's important
to us – like having political power and advancement and all those things – and
then we are turning around and we are killing our children. And we are buying
the lie that it's our personal decision to
make…"
In
condemning recent race riots in the USA and commending President Trump's call
for an end to the violence, Alveda King, niece of the assassinated Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr, alsosaid:
"As one of God's microphones, I'm often required to say what people don't
want to hear. Abortion is racism, in that abortion takes away the civil rights
and lives of our weakest and most vulnerable members of the human race, unborn
babies."
"The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of
his children for comfort and safety." How can the 'Dream' survive if we murder
the children? Every aborted baby is like a slave in the womb of his or her
mother. The mother decides his or her fate."
A recent study highlighted that
in the USA, abortion is the leading cause of death in African-American and
Hispanic populations (though there has been refusal to report this reality by
scientists), this being coupled with the reality that the majority of abortion
clinics are located in our near minority communities. This should come as no
real surprise. Abortion rights pioneer, Margaret Sanger rooted her activism in
racist eugenics and
explicitly stated her desire to see the extermination of the Black
population.
Stepping across the Atlantic to our own context in the UK, British
Nigerian Obianuju Ekeocha has accused Western
governments of cultural supremacy in trying to impose abortion on African
nations. Saying that abortion "is
against the will of the people", and
that "polls
show overwhelmingly that Africans hate abortion, abhor abortion", Ekeocha
said of Western governments, particularly the UK, "By
ignoring the will of the people, this is spitting in the face of the very type
of democracy we are supposed to have in African countries." She
was similarly outspoken in recently challenging a
BBC reporter who implied that access to abortifacient and provenly dangerous
forms of contraception were a human right important for Africa's
prospering.
Cultural
supremacy through promoting abortion abroad is only one charge that can be
substantively levied against many in British government and pro-abortion
advocates. True, abortion in Britain does not appear to have the same
racism-rooted eugenics background as the abortion movement in the USA. That
said, statistics paint a bleak picture of racial disparity in abortion
provisions across the UK. Miriam Animashaun notes:
"...racial disparity is largely missing from the debate. The uptake of
abortions occur disproportionately within the black British community within the
UK. In fact, according to 2013 figures from the department of health, black
woman account for 9% of abortions – despite only being 3.3% of the female
population. This is shockingly three times the rate of white women who account
for 86% of women but only account for 76% of those who perform abortions. 49% of
the women who have had two or more abortions are black compared to 36% of white
woman. This should be cause not just for concern, but an active effort to
reverse this trend, which will result in purposely attempting to bring down the
abortion rate. The discrepancy in the participation of abortions between
different races is reflective of the broader inequities black people face in
every arena. If white privilege is a real thing, then it is having an effect on
abortions."
It is inarguable that abortion is racially discriminative. In modern
western society, abortion is promoted to ethnic minorities as a poverty-relief
mechanism; if you are not well off and pregnant abortion is something you should
consider, lest the child be a burden on you and you on society. In developing
countries, western governments seek to impose their humanistic morality by
introducing abortion and abortifacient contraceptives as human rights that will
also help reduce a nation's dependence on Western aid and relief. The West's
condescension and presumption as to what the developing world most needs is bad
enough, but to attempt to impose abortion as the mode of aid - at times
illegally - is the height of depravity.
It is truly inconsistent to speak up against racism in other spheres of
life, seeing it as a systemic problem, without recognising abortion as the
biggest proof of systemic racism in Western society.
Yes.
Black lives matter. That means that equal to other pre-born
infants, pre-born
black lives matter.
It's time that we wake up and be honest with ourselves and with society that
abortion is evil and is a primary indicator of a subtle and systemic racism that
must be destroyed.
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