This ish offends me to no end!!! Are you serious? You know when I buy this? When those same so-called Christians start amply providing dollars for the services needed by single parents! And I don't mean 'welfare', I mean health care, sufficient maternity leave without job loss, safe and not cost prohibitive childcare, well funded and supported public schools etc.... How dare you suggest that black women, and its the women because it is ALWAYS Mama's baby, Daddy's maybe, who in most cases are carrying an unplanned pregnancy, and already KNOW they don't have the resources to properly care for the child, are somehow betraying their race by exercising their right to choose? Will we ever stop being "da mule of da worl'"?
As someone whose first child was unplanned, I FREAKED out, and I had a job offer in hand, and accepted, making 6 figures, with excellent healthcare of my own, not to mention the availability and resources of my now husband! And I still had to stop and think about whether I could do this. And thank God I had a CHOICE.
Tell ya what, you don't like abortion, don't have one, and stay out of the uteruses of those who choose to make the best decision for them in the situation.... Don't try to make Black women feel worse than they already probably do (an assumption yes, but if abortion is in their thoughts, something isn't quite right) by suggesting that abortion is genocide. Its not. It is each woman's individual decision about the pregnancy she finds herself in, because I can tell you, she is not likely thinking about the state of Black America...more likely she is wondering if she can do her job, have sufficient time off to heal and nurture her child, and find safe, affordable childcare!
To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case - NYTimes.com
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