Home > Gender Issues, Politics, Religion > More on Race and Abortion…

More on Race and Abortion…

Sigh.

I’d particularly draw your attention to the comments made by Spellman College women’s history Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall:

“To use racist arguments to try to bait black people to get them to be anti-abortion is just disgusting…These one-issue approaches that are not about saving the black family or black children, it’s just a big distraction…Many black people don’t know who Margaret Sanger is and could care less.”

At least somebody has some sense.

Feministing also covered this. A writer on the community board noted that this billboard is especially insulting to black women and children because it “animalizes them” and “assert[s] that black women have no control over our own bodies and that we’re somehow intellectually weak enough to be controlled by the so-called eugenics-crazed poor-black-baby-eaters, aka Planned Parenthood.”

And here is another interesting piece on the Abortion/Eugenics thing.

Advertisement
  1. No comments yet.
  1. No trackbacks yet.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.