Is abortion a racist plot? Of course not
WASHINGTON — Perhaps members of the anti-abortion movement are growing a bit desperate. Though they’ve managed to crimp women’s reproductive rights through decades of legislative maneuvering and extra-legal harassment, they still cannot overturn Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision. Nor have they moved public opinion much: A majority of Americans still believe that current law should stand.
Perhaps that’s why some factions in the “pro-life” crusade are professing a newfound concern for the well-being of black children. Perhaps that’s why “racism” has become the battle cry of anti-abortion groups whose members — overwhelmingly white, conservative and Republican — like to think that racism no longer exists.
Georgia’s largest anti-abortion group, Georgia Right to Life, is presenting itself as the last line of defense against a widespread plot to wipe out black people — a pogram of sorts. The group has mounted billboards throughout black Atlanta neighborhoods, claiming that “Black children are an endangered species” because of abortions.
While anti-abortion activists have long derided Margaret Sanger, considered the mother of modern family planning, for her endorsement of eugenics, they have more recently taken aim at such mainstream organizations as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, claiming it, too, is run by bigots. Two years ago, a faith-based group with ties to black clergy sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus denouncing Planned Parenthood for its “racist and eugenic goals.”
Well, paranoid theories are usually impervious to facts, but let’s try some facts, anyway. Despite the obstacles many black children face on the road to a successful adulthood — poverty, crime, poor schools — their numbers are not threatened. Black women have a higher birth rate than the national average.
But it is also true that black women use abortion services disproportionately. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit that advocates for reproductive health, the abortion rate for black American women is almost five times that for white women. About one-third of all abortions are obtained by white women and about 37 percent by black women (who account for less than seven percent of the population), according to Susan Cohen of the non-profit Alan Guttmacher Institute, which advocates for reproductive health.
Those numbers are certainly troubling. But are racists persuading black women to have abortions? Is there some group of grim executioners looking to carry out a shadowy genocide?
That’s not only nutty; it’s also insulting. It’s both sexist and racist to suggest that black women don’t have the intellectual and emotional firepower to make their own decisions.
(Largely owing to easier-to-use contraceptives, abortion rates have been declining for the last 25 years, black women’s rates falling along with those of other ethnic groups. However, Latinas and black women still terminate pregnancies at higher rates than white women.)
“The truth is that behind virtually every abortion is an unintended pregnancy. . .Because black women as a group want the same number of children as white women, but have so many more unintended pregnancies, they are more likely than white women to terminate an unintended pregnancy by abortion to avoid an unwanted birth,” Cohen wrote in a paper entitled, “Abortion and Women of Color: The Bigger Picture.”
If conservatives are sincere about curbing abortions — among all women, white, black and brown — they should support efforts to broaden women’s health care, which includes reproductive health care. Easy access to contraceptives would encourage their use, thereby reducing unintended pregnancies — and abortions.
“The health disparities for low-income women and women of color are enormous,” noted Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, which provides full-service reproductive health care — including non-controversial procedures such as annual pelvic exams — to women who cannot get it elsewhere.
But social and religious conservatives have been fighting health care reform, which would broaden access to reproductive health care, with the passion they normally reserve for bashing Roe v Wade. That’s why it’s hard to believe they really care about black women — or their children.
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Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:00 am
“early abortion is just another form of birth control.”
I can’t believe people still think like this. Have a one-night stand who cares, I can just abort it later this week. That’s just sad!
TnGelding
March 17th, 2010
10:01 am
Granny Godzilla
March 17th, 2010
9:50 am
You got that right. There’s more than one way to skin a cat!
Rod
March 17th, 2010
10:01 am
Keeping people poor and uneducated by having unwanted and unplanned pregnancies is not the way to go. These billboards are nonsense and need to be taken down. Let’s help those who are here and get people into schools and universites to get an education. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes for children having children.
signed a
A Black man
The Tar and Feathers Party
March 17th, 2010
10:02 am
Bubba, robbing a bank is a crime, a first trimester abortion is not. R U in jail? U seem to have a problem distinguishing between what is legal and what is illegal.
dw
March 17th, 2010
10:02 am
TnGelding: You are working with symantics when you say cells, embryo, fetus, and baby. Just different levels of development of the same live being. Please tell me when it is not a live being. Ok call yourself pro-choice, but millions of times a year, that choice results in death for a live and completely innocent and unprotected being. Sugarcoat it all you want. That is what occurs. Use birth-control you knotheads. Now to CTs main statement: Abortion is not a race deal. I agree with CT for once on something. Did hell just freeze over???
Granny Godzilla
March 17th, 2010
10:03 am
Peadawg
No vague wording.
No funding for abortions in HCR.
from Slate:
the Senate bill explicitly ensures that Americans who receive federal subsidies under the reform plan must pay separately for abortion coverage. Here’s pages 2,074-2,075: “In the case of a plan to which sub paragraph (A) applies, the issuer of the plan shall collect from each enrollee in the plan (without regard to the enrollee’s age, sex, or family status) a separate payment” that “may not estimate such a cost at less than $1 per enrollee, per month.”
Only vague if reading comprehension skills are low.
Oh Brother
March 17th, 2010
10:04 am
Someone, anyone, PLEASE type in “african american abortion statistics” into google and tell me what you get. On PAGE ONE ALONE, there were contradictory statistics. While one “study” posts that “African Americans are three times more likely to get abortions…”, another says that “68% of all abortions in this country are performed on WHITE WOMEN”. All of you have computers. Take a look for yourselves. You can’t trust every piece of junk that’s passed off as a study. Check the CDC stats. How can AA women be leading the number of out of wedlock births in this country but at the same time be most likely to get abortions than anyone else???
But then again, most of you believe that “there are more black men in prison than in college” ANOTHER FALSE statement eaten up by the public as fact.
Anyone who can think for themselves, I urge you to delve further into this.
Granny Godzilla
March 17th, 2010
10:04 am
TNGelding
My Mr. G is currently undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
At our house we’ve got loads of naked cats…..just sayin’.
Right
March 17th, 2010
10:04 am
They don’t care!
The Tar and Feathers Party
March 17th, 2010
10:04 am
From the Economist: ” XINRAN XUE, a Chinese writer, describes visiting a peasant family in the Yimeng area of Shandong province. The wife was giving birth. “We had scarcely sat down in the kitchen”, she writes (see article), “when we heard a moan of pain from the bedroom next door…The cries from the inner room grew louder—and abruptly stopped. There was a low sob, and then a man’s gruff voice said accusingly: ‘Useless thing!’
“Suddenly, I thought I heard a slight movement in the slops pail behind me,” Miss Xinran remembers. “To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail. The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail! I nearly threw myself at it, but the two policemen [who had accompanied me] held my shoulders in a firm grip. ‘Don’t move, you can’t save it, it’s too late.’
“‘But that’s…murder…and you’re the police!’ The little foot was still now. The policemen held on to me for a few more minutes. ‘Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here,’ [an] older woman said comfortingly. ‘That’s a living child,’ I said in a shaking voice, pointing at the slops pail. ‘It’s not a child,’ she corrected me. ‘It’s a girl baby, and we can’t keep it. Around these parts, you can’t get by without a son. Girl babies don’t count.’”
In January 2010 the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) showed what can happen to a country when girl babies don’t count. Within ten years, the academy said, one in five young men would be unable to find a bride because of the dearth of young women—a figure unprecedented in a country at peace.”
Keep up the good fight!
March 17th, 2010
10:05 am
CT, no matter what you do, you’ll always be accused of being a racist, even when you write an opinion that effectively says this is not a race issue. The same forces that want government to stay out of their lives and cry about individual freedoms also cry out to control the individual freedoms of women. They want to cry out about government programs that teach responsibility and taking action to prevent an unwanted pregnancy…and the “anti-abortion” crowd only wants to teach “abstinence” (How is that “hope your daughter wont have sex” thingy working for ya?). And if you point out the financial impact to all of us from forcing a woman to have a child she does not want in the first place and from an anti-abortion action that wants to force a woman raped to have that child or to have a child even if medical testing shows that the life of the mother is endangered, then suddenly cost does not matter. Consistency does not matter. Blame young women for having sex in the first place even when classes to teach then about sex and the consequences of unprotected sex are banned by the same group mentality. Ignorance abounds from misinformation.
Survivor
March 17th, 2010
10:06 am
I have survive a abortion. My mom try to abort me and it did not work an I was born anyway. I am a working member of the soceity now. I own a bar with my friends and busines aint good all the time but we can at least drink our drink. It fun because i only get to do work like clean up and imty the rat trap but they call it Charlie work so it is all good.
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:06 am
Granny, so the reading comprehension of some Democrats are low? Whoda thunk it!!! I’m reading what you put and I don’t see anything about abortions in that paragraph. Maybe I’m just as dumb as members of Congress……
The Tar and Feathers Party
March 17th, 2010
10:06 am
Peadawn: No different than taking a birth control pill.
Scooter (the Original)
March 17th, 2010
10:09 am
Granny, pre ejaculate is the most potent, I know this. Did you notice the operative word “SUCCESSFULLY” implement. I have done it scores of times and never impregnated a woman until I was married and able to care for the product. It probably had nothing to do with self control, I was just lucky.
Right
March 17th, 2010
10:09 am
And….if people did care they would try to have a legitimate conversation about why black women tend to have higher birth rates and supposedly more abortions…lack of education and awareness. By the way, raising standards and performance pay won’t teach kids life skills of which so many desperately need.
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:10 am
Granny, my wife and I use the pull-out method everytime. She’s on bc also. No baby yet. Been married for 2 years.
Bubba
March 17th, 2010
10:11 am
I’ll let you in on a little secret, T&F. I am the boss.
Adolf Hitler
March 17th, 2010
10:11 am
Abortion clinics? Planned Parenthood? Why didn’t I think of that ! Heil, Cynthia Tucker !
Granny Godzilla
March 17th, 2010
10:11 am
Peadawg
Nope. But you’re cute when you obfuscate!
Scooter
Thank heavens you never dated either of my ‘Zillettes. They had the good sense to stay away from gamete gamblers like you.
Bill Hartzell
March 17th, 2010
10:12 am
neo- as someone who is part of the ‘anti-abortion’ crowd, let me say that I am one of those in this ‘crowd’ who very much cares about life. ANYONE who has ever had the nerve to look at pictures of aborted fetuses CAN NOT tell me that they still don’t believe that abortion is the murdering of a child. One day, ‘every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord- and, on that day, they will answer to Almighty God why they never took a stand for those who were unable to defend themselves, ie. the unborn children who were aborted. I hope and pray that He will prevent us from hearing the great ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’- it’s not a sound I want to hear. CT I find it interesting that you haven’t responded to Ryno’s post- any comment?
Philosopher
March 17th, 2010
10:14 am
Bob: Such incredible ignorance…sit in on a 5th grade sex-ed class and refresh, please. No form of birth control except total abstinance (THAT ain’t onna happen!)is 100% effective. My beautiful daughter,tied tubes and all,is testament to that….
Dear Granny: Amen, Amen, Amen! What an asinine statement that was!
bob
March 17th, 2010
10:15 am
WHY MISS SCARLETT TUCKER
I Don’t know nuffin bout burfin babies! Why dont you just quote Gone With The Wind! To you everything is racism. Its called keep your legs closed or buy contraceptives and use them.
I do want to point out how I think you let your racist views toward white women slip out as you refer to black women as American Black women yet just list American White women as plain white women. Hmm why Ms Tucker, do you not have the same respect for American White Women as you do for American Black Women? Lordy, I do declare!
Have a nice day!
Corey
March 17th, 2010
10:15 am
Planned parent hood and the eugenic program is actually the same thing…they just changed there name to Planned Parent Hood years ago, because of the flack they were recieving from the black community. And actually some of the same people that help Hitler with his messed up logical way of thinking were the creaters of the Eugenics program… Hitler studied and like their work so much he had them come and help him…Blacks are sub-human to them then and are still are today. Look it up…Men Lie, Women Lie, Facts Don’t!
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:16 am
Granny, can you explain what the paragraph you posted has to do w/ abortions? I don’t see anything about abortions in it. When I do ‘control F’ in my browser and search for the word abortion, it isn’t in that paragraph. Maybe Internet Explorer is dumb as well?
CMix
March 17th, 2010
10:17 am
Of coarse it is! everyone knows that abortion clinics are set up by the KKK and funded Hitlers Youth! A racist plot, really?!?!? It is a choice that they make! simple as that
Keep up the good fight!
March 17th, 2010
10:18 am
Peabrain…..I have to disagree…you aren’t just a dumb. They are being disingenious for their political gain. You however seem to believe any dumb comment put out by them.
Truly you believe that a woman who is raped should be forced to have a child?
Or a mother who is at medical risk for her own life if she goes through childbirth should be forced to have a child?
Of course, safe sex is never 100% effective, so even those who use protection devices may inadvertently fail.
Your women with low morales who have sex first and often, then dont want to deal with the consequences is just absurd as an extreme posing as the “majority”.
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:21 am
“Truly you believe that a woman who is raped should be forced to have a child?”
Why is it the kid’s fault? Why shouldn’t he have a chance at life because of this?
shellybean
March 17th, 2010
10:24 am
Abortion is something that a person CHOOSES to do. No one FORCES someone to get an abortion (in most cases). Unfortunately the government is wanting to FORCE the American tax payers to pay for the abortions that people choose to get. Killing an innocent person is wrong. Forcing the American people to pay for a procedure that someone CHOOSES to do is wrong. Just because one racial group over another happens to the be recipients of this procedure does not make it RACIST! It just makes it even more heartbreaking.
Keep up the good fight!
March 17th, 2010
10:27 am
Peabrain…since you want a woman who is raped to have the child, I assume you have no problem with a government program to care for the health and well-being of that child and mother. Since you care so much about that child and that life, surely that care does not end at the moment of birth. If the raped mother is only 14, are you going to also provide the food, education and healthcare needed? Are you also going to provide for the child care while the young girl is in school?
Since you support “life” and want to force the birth, do you not have a responsibility to care for the life that you have forced to be born. You want to lecture about responsibility, but you want to ignore your own.
T.C
March 17th, 2010
10:27 am
Kayaker wrote these same billboards could be placed in latino and white neighborhoods,but the fact is there not.We all know that the latino population is growing but considering the present population percentage wise(LATINOS) as to black and whites,is not even a topic of discussion.You probably just wanted your comment to sound like ms tuckers colum did’nt strike a nerve.I have learned that whats in a person’s heart rather its racism,hatred,ect…it will come forth and your oppinion is just what it is a oppinion.
bob
March 17th, 2010
10:29 am
Philosopher, ignorance, not hardly. Is not keeping your legs closed abstinance, and whatever happend to being taught right and wrong at home by ones parents, and why is it the schools place to teach morals and sex eduation to my child or yours, or others. I guess i was raised different by a different kind of parent/s, than what are raising kids today. Let the gov’t raise them, teach them, cuz after all since Hillary said it years ago, It Takes A Village To Raise A Child, and now the values of Village Idiots is coming to frutrition so you reap what you sow.
I am sure your daughter is beautiful and it is nice to see a parent not hesitant to say it. I feel the same way about my son, I just say handsome. Thanks for your point if view!
Bill Hartzell
March 17th, 2010
10:30 am
TAR and FEATHER- Just bcuz something is “legal’ does not make it morally right. For the pro-abortionists saying that a fetus is not ‘alive/a life, if the ’sperm’ is alive and the ‘egg’ is alive, just when in the process does ‘not alive/a life happen?
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:30 am
Is Peabrain the best you got? Cynthia, if you’re moderating, isn’t that considered name-calling? I thought you didn’t allow name-calling on here, Cynthia?
fultonrighty
March 17th, 2010
10:32 am
Peadawg, you may be one of the “lucky” 1/6 of married couples who are infertile. Any contraceptive method will work for them.
Granny Godzilla
March 17th, 2010
10:32 am
Peadawg
see the PDF of the bill
pages 2071 and 2072
it won’t let me copy and paste
i tried to post the link but it put my post into moderation
if you can get to here:
Fact-checking Stupak on abortion
Posted: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:05 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Congress, Democrats
there’s a link to the pdf
At it again
March 17th, 2010
10:33 am
Well Cynthia Tucker, you are back to your old ways using the race card. When is everyone going to wake up and realize that there is good and bad in every race/nationality. There are greedy white people, there are greedy black people. There are criminal white people and there are criminal black people. There are good Republicans and there are good democrats as well as bad ones. We should disapprove of the criminal, the greed, the zealous, etc. that lives in evey race nationality, not the race or nationality itself. I don’t like Pres. Obama. Not because he is black, I could care less about that. I dislike him because of his power-hungry, egotistical, socialist views that are ruining our great country. Maybe those who feel the race card is being played against them should take a look at themselves and see if any blame lies there first. Read the book Son of Hamas and you will understand what I am talking about.
CT, do you realize that when you scream “racism” then you follow that with a negative conotation of “overwhelmy white, conservative, and Republican, that you in fact are being a racist? We must love evryone and hate the sins/actions/manifestos, etc. not the person.
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:33 am
fultonrighty, how am i infertile?
anti t
March 17th, 2010
10:35 am
Good grief….blame white conservatives if it makes you happy.It was God that said he knew you before you were in the womb.I don’t wanna explain to god that i was inconvenienced by the baby in my womb…so i murdered it.Pro-choice means not spreading my legs if i can’t handle the outcome…that’s the real choice…the baby in the womb doesn’t have a choice does it…so i guess white conservatives care about pro choice for the one being murdered.how many babys have been aborted because of their color?More than you would think….it is racist also..
HDB
March 17th, 2010
10:36 am
Strait Road
March 17th, 2010
9:33 am
“It’s both sexist and racist to suggest that black women don’t have the intellectual and emotional firepower to make their own decisions.”
By the same token, is it not equally sexist and racist to suggest that black women don’t have the intellectual firepower to succeed in education and professionally without the help of laws that provide them with quotas? I suppose, after reading a few of your columns, one might conclude that these laws have enabled you to keep gainful employment. I guess that’s worth something.
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Where you’ve made your mistake is to think that black women don’t have the intellectual firepower to succeed….period!! Statistics show that there are more black women pursuing higher education than black MEN!! The greatest beneficiary of the Affirmative Action statutes is WHITE WOMEN!!! Who needs more protection via Affirmative Action are BLACK MEN!!
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Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
9:41 am
“1. Are there no black Republicans? – Yes, there are….but white conservatives use them to denigrate those that don’t think as they do, therefore creating a wedge in the black community!! White conservatives team with black conservatives in the elimination of programs that allow black people to progress…but those same black conservatives used those programs to gain their successes!!
2. To some people racism doesn’t exist. Sad to say some people like Cynthia keep it alive.
The problem is that racism STILL exists…..some people wish to IGNORE that fact!!
ctucker
March 17th, 2010
10:37 am
HDB, I don’t know what time warp you’re stuck in, but there are NO QUOTAS anywhere. There never have been actually, but there was enough talk of “goals” for affirmative action opponents to define them as “quotas.” There is no longer even any affirmative action. Come out of the ’70s
I hate kids
March 17th, 2010
10:38 am
There ARE people out there who are actually pro-abortion but few will admit to it. I, however, am admitting to it. People, a fetus is not a child. It is a clump of cells. It’s not a person until it can live independently of the mother. If abortion is murder, where does it stop? Are we murdering babies every moment we’re not in bed procreating? The world is so over-populated anyway, & as time goes on, I see more & more (repulsive) pregnant bellies, on ALL races & ethnicities but they all have one thing in common…most are poor. Poor people should have NO right to have babies! Babies are not a joy & a blessing & all the rest of that sentimental slop, they’re a burden. Especially to us taxpayers who must BEAR the burden thrust upon us by the selfish poor. Of course we can’t stop the poor from having sex; they’re like animals, just dropping their pants & lifting their skirts for anything that comes along. Gee, they can use their welfare checks to buy condoms but no, when they pop their crack & AIDS filth out, they can be assured of a lifelong free ride. I, for one, am sick & tired of subsidizing that “human” waste with my hard-earned dollars & please don’t tell me all human life has value. That, too, is a load of sentimental bilge. A 10-year old, pants-on-the-floor gangbanger with a loaded gun is NOT precious. A baby born horribly sick & deformed should not be allowed to be born, not only because it’s unfair to make taxpayers subsidize its useless, pain-wracked life but to prevent the child itself from living a life of dreadful suffering. Google “Juliana Wetmore” & you’ll see what I mean. I can’t understand why anyone would want to sleep with poor people anyway; they’re dirty & they stink. But, if one gets pregnant, they should at least do the decent thing & get rid of the piece of waste
Keep up the good fight!
March 17th, 2010
10:38 am
Wow Bob….I am glad you acknowledge the poor parenting skills of Sarah Palin. If she had taught her daughter right and wrong and morals, maybe even some sex ed, then things would have been different.
Why even have schools at all? Education and teaching morales should be the duty of parents. People without children should not have to bear this cost of teaching your children. You had the child now accept the responsibility for that child and the cost. Philosophy, literature, history are all just matters which include morales and social justice.
Beaves
March 17th, 2010
10:38 am
If abortion was legal back in 1960 maybe we would not have to endure the Obozonomics that we have today. Just think what a great place this country would be without a whole generation of liberal/progressive/communist.
ctucker
March 17th, 2010
10:38 am
At it again, please don’t comment here if you cannot be bothered to read the post.
To Catherine Davis
March 17th, 2010
10:42 am
To Catherine Davis -
I just wanted you to know that I think that the billboard stating that Black children are an endangered species is both inaccurate and disgusting. The state of Georgia/the Nation, etc. cannot even balance its budget, so I surely have zero confidence in some bureaucrat’s stats on abortion and who’s having them. Additionally, I’ve grown very tired of the demonization of the Black women and I certainly don’t appreciate it when the truth is this is NOT motivated by a real concern for our community. This is just a new and provactive way to promote GRTL’s agenda, just like perpetuation of the “link” between abortion and breast cancer when studies have shown and experts agree that there isn’t a link. GRTL could care less about the Black community, in my humble opinion, they just want support.
Further, I am disappointed that you are allowing GRTL to use you (as a Black woman) in this manner. If you see abortion THE MAIN social ill in our community, then you really are not paying attention.
Also, in your last point during the CNN interview you totally disregarded the statement that was made by the host. NO ONE said that abortion was the remedy or solution to some of the probelms within the Black community. What was said (which you chose to disregard because it was a great point) was that abortion is often a RESULT of some of the ills within the community such as lack of education and job opportunities – both ESSENTIAL to one’s ability to CARE FOR a child properly.
And the assertion, without any supporting facts, that abortion clinics target African-American women is a bit irresponsible. You have absolutely no proof of that at all.
I’m pro-choice and always will be, but I am very disgusted that RTL has chosen to make this a racial issue when it is simply about civil rights.
HDB
March 17th, 2010
10:42 am
Peadawg — I can understand that many want to limit the number of abortions; no problem with that here…but I don’t desire to make it illegal….as many here desire. Specifically, in the case of rape or incest, no one should be FORCED to carry that type of pregnancy to full term.
I understand that the child was not at fault…..but the decision as to how such a situation is handled should NOT be made by those OUTSIDE of it….IMHO….
Tommy Lee Maddox
March 17th, 2010
10:43 am
Yep – evil white Republicans are responsible for all these pregnancies [well, John Edwards too but he does not count - wrong party].
Peadawg
March 17th, 2010
10:43 am
“The problem is that racism STILL exists…..some people wish to IGNORE that fact!!”
You mean the people who don’t see black or white? The people who just sees others as equal human beings? Sad to say not many exist.
Bright Idea
March 17th, 2010
10:44 am
If you have a problem with abortion, don’t have one.
What’s it to you anyways? Seriously. Why do you care? Whether people use it as birth control or not, how does it seriously affect you? And DO NOT say tax payer dollars because it has been LONG STANDING federal regulations that prohibit that. Medicaid/Medicare is NOT funding abortions, so really why are you concerned???
Again, if you are against abortion, don’t have one.