Ga. Senate’s new concern for black children
WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, says Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, it’s difficult to discuss women’s health “below the waist.” It’s no easier in the Georgia General Assembly, where annual attempts to restrict reproductive rights lead to ugly sermonizing, outrageous distortions and vile legislation. This year has proved no different.
Georgia’s social conservatives have come up with a new twist on their old tendency to insult women and restrict their choices: They’ve added race to the controversy — the subject isn’t inflammatory enough? — seeking to draw black supporters with the charge that abortion is tantamount to genocide.
Dutifully taking up the new tack, the Georgia Senate has passed a bill which would outlaw any abortion “with the intent to prevent any unborn child from being born based upon the race, color or gender of the unborn child . .” Are you kidding me? Black women bear black children, so the bill reads like an indictment of any black woman who seeks to terminate a pregnancy.
The bill is patently unconstitutional. It’s also incredibly foolish.
It “sends a strong signal to women that it is okay to set up categories of discrimination against women who seek abortions,” said Loretta Ross, executive director of the Atlanta-based SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective, a coalition of reproductive rights organizations.
Any review of the history of the Georgia General Assembly shows its harsh — even abusive — treatment of the less fortunate, including children. That tendency has come in to sharper relief with the rise of Republicans, who indulge businesses and the wealthy at the expense of the less affluent.
Their attempts to restrict abortions would force women to bear children, but they have no concern for those children once they leave the womb. Nor do they care about the health of their mothers. Indeed, Georgia’s elected officials can be downright mean to those children and their mothers.
The struggle over the health care reform is just one example. Gov. Sonny Perdue has rushed to get at the head of the line of partisans who want to repeal the law, which would offer universal access to health care for the first time in U.S. history.
Not only would it benefit working class families who cannot afford health insurance, even though they have jobs, but it would also prohibit the worst abuses of health insurance companies. As just one example, the law prevents insurers from banning children because of pre-existing conditions.
If the GOP-dominated Georgia Senate cared about children, it would surely approve of a law which prevents health insurers from restricting their access. It would also approve of health insurance for their mothers, who need access to good medical care to take care of their families.
The new conservative campaign to woo black support draws its inspiration from data showing black women account for about 37 percent of abortions nationally, while they make up less than seven percent of the population. But, as Ross and others point out, black women, especially those without health insurance, are less likely to have access to contraception and, therefore, more likely to have unintended pregnancies. (As for the notion that black children are “endangered,” there’s no reason to fear: Asian, black and Latino children make up nearly half the population under 5, according to federal statistics.)
If conservatives wanted to curb the abortion rate, they would join with reproductive rights activists to promote access to contraception. Indeed, the would support the new health care law, which will increase women’s access to birth control pills and devices.
But they haven’t done so. Says Ross, anti-abortion legislators’ motives are “about controlling the behavior of women. If women had more access to contraceptives, they’d have more control over their bodies sand more control over their lives.”
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T-Town
March 31st, 2010
12:32 pm
I do remember many stating the Bush was not their president, one Dixie chick as I recall (and before you roast me on that one I don’t know what party she supported and I’m an Independent). Now, I didn’t vote for Obama and I don’t support the health care plan he is still the president. Maybe not OUR president but certainly THE president and he has my respect for his position.
Bat Boy
March 31st, 2010
12:41 pm
Of Course Tucker has absolutely nothing to say about the racist and arrogant behavior of Dekalb country in a federal case. If it were predominately white or republican, it would be oh so different. They are lying and hiding evidence, wasting massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, to cover up racist actions at senior levels in the county.
Next time Tucker opines about someone else, remember her hypocricy.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
2:13 pm
@Please consider:
An egg is alive. A sperm is alive. When they meet up, it is alive. However, it is not a human. It is an embryo.
Cells divide. Your liver cells divide. It doesn’t make your live a human being. A dog’s cells divide. It doesn’t make the dog a human being. An embryo’s cells divide. That doesn’t make it a human being. It is an embryo.
The embryo of which I speak has no initial feature of a human being. It is a clump of cells. Over time, it develops. Over time, there is a resemblence of humanoid appearance – that doesn’t make it a human being.
Sometimes, an embryo is naturally aborted – called miscarrage. Do you define miscarrage as the mother murdering a human being? I hope not.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
2:16 pm
@Libby: Take your prozac today?
soulfinger
March 31st, 2010
2:27 pm
I also hate to see young women of ANY race with a bunch of kids. Especially when at the grocery store they whip out that EBT card! If someone wants to have abortions for any reason….its their business. Less kids for my tax dollars to support.
AT
March 31st, 2010
2:34 pm
Reality,
So when is it ok to kill the embryo? When does that clump of cells “become” human? What event occurs? And when that event occurs, is it now immoral to kill it? Please explain.
FultonRighty
March 31st, 2010
3:13 pm
Poor Reality. No embryology learnin’ for you. Heartbeat at 21 days, brain waves at under 5 weeks, tiny fingers and toes at weeks or earlier. If it ain’t a human being, what is it? Certainly not a “clump of cells.” It just needs time, nutrition, warmth, protection and it becomes an adult. I like AT’s questions too. When does your “clump” become a human being? Have any of them ever become something other than a human being? Google “human development photos” for us, ok?
Reality
March 31st, 2010
3:14 pm
@AT,
I’ll not get dragged into that debate. I simply want to clarify the facts and clear up misconceptions.
However, in my opinion, what differentiates humans from others is our ability to think more deeply. I’m not sure how deeply any unborn fetus can think – I just don’t see them pondering String Theory. Again, that is just my opinion.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
3:18 pm
@FultonRighty,
Your demeaning comments are not needed (unless you are really that insecure with your position).
Are you saying that anything developing with tiny fingers is a human? If so, have you seen pictures of developing apes? How about fetus brain waves – try developing dogs or most all mammals?
jamala
March 31st, 2010
3:44 pm
Abortion is a very serious issue for conservative; it is one of the last frontiers for battles around biological dominance. The declining birth rates of white and the increasing birth rates of people of color is pushing these folks to the extreme. These are the same people who don’t want big government in their bizness but demand it when it comes to women’s bodies and the lives of people of color. Such hypocrisy!
AT
March 31st, 2010
3:58 pm
reality,
you really need to think that one over. The ability to think is a very small piece of humanity. Those with mental problems, the invalid, Alzheimer’s victims, infants, small children would fall out of your category of ability to think deeply. If the answer to my question can’t be defined, maybe we shouldn’t be so careless with wielding death via abortion.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
4:06 pm
@AT:
Every species has diseases, conditions, problems. That doesn’t make them not part of that species. The same is true for humans.
You seem to have such a very hard and emotional stance regarding abortion. All that I have done is try to share the medical/biological terms to help dispell misconceptions. And, you take it with such a defensive response it is obvious that you don’t realize it.
In addition, your word choice shows your extreme emotions regarding this issue. I’ve not heard anyone use the term “wielding death” except for in gladiator movies.
If it is possible, try to remove your emotions and simply look at the biology that is going on. That is all that I ask.
AT
March 31st, 2010
4:31 pm
That’s part of what pro-choice people don’t get: abortion ends life, human life. It’s not like cutting your fingernails, removing your spleen, donating blood. There is a separate human being that is being destroyed. Science has at least demonstrated that there is unique DNA from the moment of conception. There’s a heartbeat before most women even know they are pregnant.
Since I think you probably don’t approve of killing humans, I try to understand how you have justified that what abortion does is not taking of a human life. Have you even thought about it, do you have any argument or evidence? Or do you just feel that abortion must be ok because it seems so easy.
Your arguments so far have some deep flaws in them. If you understand that I think that abortion at any stage is destroying a human life, you understand the emotion involved.
Patrice
March 31st, 2010
4:47 pm
Cynthia,
Thank you so very much for shedding light on this issue. I am saddened but not surprised by the previously posted comments. We have a fundamental bias in this country toward working class, working poor women and women of color that is deeply entrenched in the way we think about just and fair treatment for every human being. Many of those who have commented on this post are probably from the relatively same communities but yet speak of their counterparts as leeches with no regard to the fact that some conservative politicians and corporations have been the real culprits exhausting tax payer dollars and unjustly straining the rest of the country. Anytime we speak of improving social services, expanding access and affordability to healthcare and improving our educational system, is for the benefit of everyone, not just a “handout”. The fact of the matter is if the have-nots continue to go without sooner, rather than later, the pool of “poor people”, particularly poor women will continue to increase–that means half the population.
African American women are one of the most marginalized members of our society and to legislatively suggest that the ability for us to decide what’s best for our future should be not only denied, but stigmatized is just plain wrong! I have a daughter and I want her to have the right to choose for herself if her potential pregnancy compromised her future. We need to stop diminishing the conversation around abortion to just merely demonizing a woman’s sexual behavior. Rather, let’s educate and make readily available comprehensive sex education and reproductive health services for all women to make informed decisions about their bodies and their lives.
If those who have commented here believe that the federal government has too much control and is forcing every American to be covered by health insurance (which I think is a pretty good idea), then tell Georgia politicians to stop trying to control women’s wombs, particularly Black women’s wombs. These are not the plantation days, it’s 2010. Stay OFF OUR BODIES!
FultonRighty
March 31st, 2010
5:09 pm
Patrice, the bill does not target women of color. It targets those who exploit them, and protects unborn babies of all colors if they are to be aborted because of their race. I would expect most women affected by that issue would be white women carrying mixed-race babies.
Of course, if you see abortion as a positive good, a right, and HEALTHcare, you are probably not going to see the value of the bill. But abortion is not healthcare. What does it heal? Pregnancy is not a disease. Abortion is the destruction of a human being and can leave the woman with physical, emotional and spiritual scars. Those impacts are not usually discussed in “comprehensive sex education or reproductive health services,” are they? Not so comprehensive.
Please consider
March 31st, 2010
5:12 pm
@Reality. Please think about what you said and consider the difference between eggs, sperm, liver cells, and embryo cells. I did not say that eggs and sperm are not alive. My liver’s cells have my exact DNA, and will not become another human being if unaltered. An embryo does not have it’s mother’s exaxt DNA, it’s DNA is composed from both mother and father. An embyo cell is different than a liver cell. It will grow into a new human being if left unaltered.
And of course neither of us base our views on abortion on the fact that sometimes tragic miscarriages happen, so why even bring that up?
I ask you again to please step away from your emotions and consider the biology that’s at work (primarily, the embryo is a different life than the mother or father, not just something akin to liver cells, and certainly not just a parasite in a woman’s body).
Reality
March 31st, 2010
5:31 pm
@Please consider: To me, I find it humorous that you continue to plead a case for me to personally “change” my views on abortion when all that I have done is to clarify medical/biological terms. Those are not “my” views. Those are reality.
If you cannot accept reality, that is one thing. But, it is what it is.
By the way, a fetus CAN be considered a parasite. If you look up the definition of a parasite, it is a fetus. However, I do understand why you are unable to bring yourself to accept that reality.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
5:34 pm
@AT:
So then, I guess that you DO believe what I said….
You must think that when a woman has a miscarrage, then that woman is a murderer. After all, she ended a life, right?
So by your logic, that women must stand trial, be found guilty, and be sent to jail per our law.
How very backwards can you get?
Kelly
March 31st, 2010
5:35 pm
I personally find it interesting that some on this feed keep talking about condoms as if they are the foolproof way to prevent pregnancy. Hello! Condoms do fail! Even if 2 people were being responsible, pregnancy can result. There is also rape. “Excuse me Sir, before you rape me could you please go to the local drug store and purchase a condom”? As I read through the threads, its seems blaming the woman is a common theme. If more men took responsibility for unintended pregnancies (throughout the entire life of the child, not just showing up to a few doctor’s appointments), there would, most likely, be less of a call for abortion. To our legislators, do not count out the pro-choice voters. We will no longer sit-down and shut-up. We vote and we will make our votes count!
Reality
March 31st, 2010
5:46 pm
@AT:
Before you even attempt to understand my own perspective, you must stop trying to put words in my mouth and stop assumming that you know what I think or will say. “That’s what you anti-abortion people don’t get.”
Yes, abortion often ends life (not always, sometimes the fetus is already dead). But, so does cutting off a small piece of skin – that skin was alive and you killed it. Removing your appendix kills the appendix. Picking a tomatoe from a plant kills the tomatoe. Slaughtering a cow for beef to eat kills a cow. Yes, death is around us – I agree!
The DNA and the beating heart stuff you say is meaningless. There is DNA in your hair – so what? There is DNA in your spit – so what? You can make a heart beat outside of a human body with electricity – so what? All you do is try to pull at the emotion strings to justify your position. It doesn’t work.
NONE of your logic is really logic at all. It is all taken from phamplets of the anti-abortion groups designed to pull at emotional strings. That’s all it is.
The bottom line for me is that I have no right at all to tell another what to do with their reproductive organs or their body. The last I knew, America had a few personal freedoms left and that was one of them. And, I will fight to keep that personal freedom for every adult American citizen, even women. Whatever personal decision an adult makes, they have to deal with it themselves – that includes the joy, the guilt, the happiness, the sadness, etc.
AT
March 31st, 2010
5:49 pm
Reality? Really? No, a miscarriage isn’t murder (please!), it isn’t intentional, but a life is lost. Can you address my arguments? When do you consider the embryo a life? When is it ok to kill it and when does it become immoral? Is there any rational, logical thought to it or am I at the usual end of the argument here, with questions pro-choice people can’t/won’t answer?
Please consider
March 31st, 2010
6:07 pm
@Reality. No need to be defensive, I’m not trying to attack you. But again, I think we can agree that DNA in the embryo is different from DNA in hair, spit, liver, eggs, & sperm. DNA in an embryo is made from two different sets of DNA that has combined to form a new set of DNA. And that new life will grow into a new human, barring an abortion or a tragic miscarriage.
Think about this. The fact that you define an embryo as a parasite seems to indicate that it is not a part of the woman’s body. Therefore killing it is not the same as exercising reproductive rights, since it is new and different and not part of her body (i.e. a parasite).
You’ve stated in your last response to me that I refuse or am unable to believe facts. Please reread and think about the things I’ve said. What facts am I missing? I really would be willing to can my entire argument, but I just don’t see ferilized embryos the same as cells like liver, hair, spit, sperm, egg, etc (again, because it’s made up of different DNA that is a code for this new, and now growing life).
Atlanta Native
March 31st, 2010
6:11 pm
Cynthia, thanks for the reply!
Why is there no access? In high school, in the 80’s. my girlfriend went to the county and got the pill. I had condoms. I got them at drugstores or convenience stores my family did not frequent. That was back when there was a thing called “shame” and I had never heard the phrase “my baby daddy”. Neither one of us had money. We thought through our dilemma and used our brains. Our thoughts went something like this “Hmmm . . sex can lead to pregnancy.” I guess that is too much to expect for some people to figure out?”
So it is the poor, in your view, not just the black poor, who have no wisdom, and are such sub-humans that they cannot figure out to use contraception, or engage on various forms of enjoyable foreplay until they get some contraception. I apologize for the bigoted remark, you are merely a classist on this issue.
Beverly Kurtin
March 31st, 2010
6:13 pm
Gee, I don’t know where those folks put their heads but it sounds like it is where they can get methane poisoning easily and cheaply. Article 6 paragraph 2 of the Constitution, states: This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” Abortion is a United States LAW it cannot be overridden by any state. The same is true of the new Health Care LAW. Once something is a LAW is it no longer a bill, thus cannot be repealed. Methinks that it is beyond time that state and federal legislators be forced to take a college level course in the Constitution and take and pass a test before they will be able to run for public office. They are attempting to usurp powers that are reserved for the Federal Government whether or not they like it.
Atlanta Native
March 31st, 2010
6:34 pm
Beverly, it is not a LAW. It comes from judicial interpretations.
I am for a test to be able to vote. If you cannot read proficiently and do not understand the powers of the three branches of government, you should not be able to post a ballot of ignorance.
Atlanta Native
March 31st, 2010
6:37 pm
PS Laws, as well as Amendments to the Constitution, can be repealed. Have a glass of wine and mull it over, I promise Eliott Ness will not chase you down for violating Prohibition.
FultonRighty
March 31st, 2010
6:43 pm
And Supreme Court cases can be overturned–Dred Scott for example.
AT
March 31st, 2010
9:04 pm
Reality,
The whole point I’m trying to make is that there are two bodies involved here, not one. You keep saying that parts of your body are yours: your skin, your heart, your DNA. A fetus has unique DNA, a unique heart, it’s own skin, it’s own brain activity. At some point, the baby is born and after that we all consider it murder to kill that baby. I’m asking you to define that magic moment where it goes from cells to a distinct human being and you won’t answer it. How can this not be important? On one side of this moment, it is just discarding cells. On the other, it’s taking another human life. I have never once heard a pro-choice advocate even try to answer this question. It is probably the most important question about abortion.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
9:17 pm
@AT:
The questions you pose are bait. I have already explained that. Get it through your head. The reason NO ONE responds to them is because they are transparent as bait. No, it isn’t important – no baiting question is important.
YOU are the one that wants to define that magical moment – not me.
However, it is my personal opinion that a baby isn’t a baby until it is born. Once born, it can eat and digest food by itself (as opposed to getting nutrients through the mother’s blood). It can breathe air by itself. It can see (although not focus its eyes). And, so on.
Again, you bring up irrelavent things such as brain activity, DNA, etc. Those don’t matter. You and anti-abortion folks ONLY bring those up to evoke emotion. It doesn’t work. They don’t matter.
The baby in fact, isn’t even considered a citizen with all rights in the US until it becomes an adult. That is the law.
Reality
March 31st, 2010
9:21 pm
@Please Consider,
So your only arguement for this fetus is that it has unique DNA? And so anything with unique DNA is somehow a complete life and has all rights? Is that your thought process?
What if the fetus is one of twins? The twins have identical DNA. The DNA is not unique. According to your logic, is it then okay to abort one of the two?
If you are true to your logic, your answer must be yes. Otherwise, you are a hypocrit.
Please consider
April 1st, 2010
9:11 am
@Reality. No I don’t think it ok to abort one of twins, and I don’t think that makes me a hypocrite. My point about DNA is that the embryo is not part of a woman’s body. It’s genetically different than her, or the father for that matter. And because of that, they don’t have ‘reproductive rights’ over that embryo. It’s not one of their body parts, it’s something new and different. (I would say you couldn’t justify killing one of a twin fetuses on the basis that there’s another just like it on the same basis that you couldn’t justify killing a twin adult on the basis that there’s another genetically identical to it)
But I’ve explained these ideas at length in my previous responses.
I know there is a lot of heat in this debate and I’ve certainly seen disgusting behavior from both sides, particularly the prolife side you could say. But please ty to separate yourself from that or any emotional repsonse, or even any response to attack me personally. Please consider whether or not these things are true. Do you really believe that an embryo is just a part of a woman’s body or even a parasite that she has the right to discard? Even when you consider that it has its own unique genetic makeup (not just part of the mother’s body), and that if left unaltered it would grow eventually to an adult like you or me (a unique living organism)?
Reality
April 1st, 2010
10:53 am
@Please consider:
One cannot say that an embryo is totally separate from a woman’s body. One cannot say that it is entirely a part of the woman’s body. It does depend upon the woman for all of its nutrients. That is why it does fit the definition of a parasite (and it really does).
In my opinion, every adult has the right over their own body. It isn’t my business and I do not have the authority to tell anyone what to do or even what I think that they should do. And, nor should you.
You cannot state (as you did in your last post) that an embryo… “if left unaltered…” would “…grow eventually to an adult like you or me.” There is no way for you to KNOW that. Possibly that woman might have a miscarrage later. Possibly that baby would be still born. Possibly that baby would…. whatever.
Again, YOU cannot play God and YOU have no right or authority to make decisions for any other adult. Each adult must make their own decisions and they must live with their decisions and they must own up to their decisions in the end.
By the way, your answer DOES make you a hypocrite. And, because you try to wiggle your way around your answer doesn’t make you any less of one.
Please consider
April 1st, 2010
11:22 am
@Reality. Again, I’m sorry we don’t agree, but no need to become aggressive or make personal attacks.
In response to your statements:
The baby is just as dependent 2 months after it’s birth, but that doesn’t make it any less of an independent person, and it certainly doesn’t make it part of someone else’s body.
Miscarriages and stillborn babies happen, but I think we can agree that the result of those is death. And not just death of a woman’s own body cells (I’ve known women who’ve had miscarriages, and they were not that upset because a few of their “own cells” or “body parts” had died). Also, it is possible that a baby could die two weeks after birth, is that a just reason to terminate it’s life before birth, as your argument about miscarriages seems to propose?
Finally, I have no problem with people making their own decisions. It’s just when their decisions effect someone else’s life, which I think my previous arguments (which you seem to not actually address) imply that abortion does.
Finally, it seems to me that you have been wiggling around each point that I’ve made, and also including personal insults. Re-read our debate and see if that’s the case. I’ve not been attacking you or your ideas/opinions. Just please consider what I’ve been saying.
Ryan
April 1st, 2010
11:54 am
it says nationally black women make up 7% of the population but 37% of abortions. Prime example of using an irrelevant statistic to support an argument. The majority of abortions occur in the teenage demographic. What percentage of teenage pregnancies do black teenagers make up. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say at least 37%
PearlJam
April 1st, 2010
11:54 am
I love little babies of all color, they are cute regardless. Why anybody would want to kill them to save a few dollars is crazy to me. I understand the US courts have given them the right but it still sad.
Reality
April 1st, 2010
12:24 pm
@Please consider:
I’ve made no personal attacks. I only stated truths.
What you said is totally wrong. Babies at 2 months of age are NOT the same as a fetus. Babies at 2 months breathe on their own. They chew/gum food and swallow on their own. They have vision (although unfocused). No one can rationally compare a 2 month old to a fetus.
I have never attempted to “justify” termination of a pregnancy. I have said repeatedly that I feel it is up to the adult(s) that are involved and up to them alone. It isn’t my business and it is not your business.
You try to use some weak arguement that a fetus is equal to an adult in terms of rights – it is not. Not equal in the eyes of the law and not equal in biology and not equal through any lens at all. Again, let’s be clear – I am not attacking at all. I am just stating reality.
I just do not understand why you feel like you have a right to tell another adult what to do. It has nothing to do with YOU.
Reality
April 1st, 2010
12:36 pm
@Please consider:
And also, if you consider yourself a conservative republican, this is where your logic totally falls apart (as if it hadn’t already)….
A conservative republican prides themselves on wanting less government and less intervention in our personal lives. And yet, you want the GOVERNMENT to step in to make more laws to regulate or outlaw this. And yet, you want to step right in to adults PERSONAL LIVES and tell them what to do and what they cannot do.
That is also defined as hypocrasy….. making two statements that are logically opposites of each other – and believing in both!
Please consider
April 1st, 2010
1:21 pm
@Reality. Ok, I apologize if I mistakenly took some of your comments as personal attacks. No hard feelings.
I think we’ve probably exhausted this debate. You don’t see a fetus as equal enough to a human to warrant protective rights, and I don’t see it as different enough from a human (it DOES grow into one, after all, and it IS genetically independent from either parent) to warrant killing it. So I’ll make this my last post since we don’t seem to be making any new ground or discoveries here (feel free to make a final rebuttle’ if you’d like, which I promise to ready, but I also promise not to respond again).
Thanks for the debate though, and I do encourage you and others to continue to challenge yourself and others to think about this heated more deeply.
And for the record, I don’t consider myself conservative (certainl not fiscally) or republican (I vote based on the canidate’s stances on various issues in elections and not based on party lines, and have no tie financially to any political party).
Reality
April 1st, 2010
2:24 pm
@Please Consider:
Thank you as well for a great exchange of ideas.
One last point…. although I totally disagree that you have the right to tell any other adult what they can and cannot do with their body, I will defend to my death YOUR right to do with your body as you see fit.
When the government steps in to tell adult citizens what they do with their body – that level of intervention cannot be tolerated.
jovan
April 1st, 2010
5:50 pm
Loretta Ross is 100% correct in her remarks. This is ALL about controlling black women. Nothing else. If you can’t see that, then you TRULY are ignorant.
Anti-choice activists’ primary goal is very simple. They want to make ALL women — black, white, Puerto Rican, etc. — as slaves to the government, just like what they were until 1865.
Not only is forced pregnancy slavery. Forced pregnancy is also sexual assault and it should be treated as such.
There is no debate about what the true motives of the Georgia State government. The Georgia State government wants to control every woman’s womb. The Georgia Right to Life wants to control women’s wombs as well.
Mrs. Tucker is spot on in her article. The conservatives are racist towards black mothers and their children once the child is born. I’ve seen it, heard it, and read about it first hand here in South Carolina.
Mrs. Tucker and Ms. Ross speaks the truth in the article.
And sadly, they are the victims of a vicious smear campaign by the misogynists on this forum.
And if you ever wondered why Nepalese women have more freedom than women here in the United States of America, then the actions of the Georgia State government can be used as a prime example.
And if we don’t shut up and start listening to the facts that Loretta Ross and other people in the pro-choice movement are giving us really soon, then don’t be surprised in the near future to know that Iranian women have MORE RIGHTS than women in the United States of America.
jim in Jackson
April 2nd, 2010
4:02 am
In my opinion the best part of most of the ultra-conservatives on this blog ran down their daddy’s leg.
Scout needs to go back to counseling; he still has many unresolved issues from Vietnam. And dixie-pixie is going to be depressed to find that she is tri-racial; because if you have indian genes you almost positively possess black ones due to the run away slaves co-mingling with the tribes.In the apalachians they are referred to as Melungeons.Some declare that they are Black Irish or Black Dutch.In truth many southerners are decendants of African Americans because before the Antebellum period there was no segregation and inter-marriage was common.Most southerners claim Indian blood because that is much more agreeable to their covert prejudices than the other possibility.There was a man in GA who came down with a semite disease and research found that a group of Turkish sailors had assimilated into the population in the 18th century.
A wise philosopher was once asked by a purported ‘Blue Blood’, “Sir, who are your ancestors?” to which he replied, “Maam! I AM my ancestors.”
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April 5th, 2010
11:02 am
[...] and nationally syndicated columnist Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution has also weighed in on the abortion bills, calling them “patently unconstitutional” and “incredibly foolish” for [...]
LoveWisdom247
April 5th, 2010
2:14 pm
God I pray that as people are writing these comments to this blog post that you would awaken their hearts to the tragedy that is taking place everyday. Black children and black women are being harmed every day in Georgia by the practice of abortion. God would you awaken their hearts to the truth. God would you give us compassion for children and a heart for adoption. God would you cause the political rhetoric to be silenced and allow people to see the humanity of these children. God would you let every one on here see that killing a child does not uplift a woman out of poverty. God would you cause the shedding of innocent blood to be stopped. In Jesus Name, Amen.
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