Black Churches! Beware Whitey "Christian" muslim lovers!
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Detroit Free Press: Demon-KKK-Rats' Genocide of Black Babies
The Detroit Free Press. Eye on Politics: Blacks' abortions tragically
ignored. September 13, 2004.
By Dawson Bell (Detroit Free Press Staff Writer)
One of the familiar features of a political rally in any urban area in
Michigan is the recitation of ills and injustice that befall many black
citizens.
They are, of course, legion. Dysfunctional schools. [Blame
Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and incompetent teachers unions. Ed.] High crime.
[Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges. Ed.] Low employment. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' high
taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions. Ed.] More African-American
men in prison than college. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and
incompetent teachers unions + liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges + high taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions.
Ed.]
But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians
black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an
injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a
tragedy.
It is the shockingly high number of African-American women who have had
abortions. In Michigan last year alone, black women had 10,911
abortions. (For the sake of comparison, 1,283 Michiganders of all ages
and races died in traffic accidents in 2003).
The numbers are highlighted in a new report produced by Right to Life of
Michigan from state Department of Community Health data, which is broken
down by race for the first time this year.
The report shows that African-American women of childbearing age were
three times as likely to have had an abortion last year as were women of
other races. Black women, who comprise less than 16 percent of the
female population in Michigan, obtained more than 38 percent of all
abortions.
According to the RTLM report, if African Americans in Michigan had
abortions at a rate comparable to women of other races, the number of
abortions overall in Michigan would be 25 percent lower.
One can argue that the high rate of abortion among African Americans is
not an ill unto itself, but a symptom of underlying problems like
poverty and family breakdown.
Thus, if young, black, pregnant women had the kind of financial and
family support available to women of other races, they would be no more
likely to terminate their pregnancies.
In its report, Right to Life, the state's leading abortion opponent,
cites economic pressures as the likely culprit for a slight but steady
rise in the overall number of abortions since 1999, and its officials
concede that those pressures are more acute for urban blacks.
But we can cite the same underlying causes for high rates of violence or
illiteracy among urban African Americans. No one uses that as an excuse
to ignore either (that we seem to make so little progress with remedies
is a separate issue).
One explanation is the increasingly partisan nature of the abortion
debate.
As it stands now, Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to limits on
abortion. African Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic. [Gam zeh
ya'avor - This too shall pass. Ed.]
Hence, the people most likely to share Right to Life's view that there
is an "abortion crisis in the black community" don't speak at political
rallies in the inner city.
Maybe that will change over time. [Vote for Black Christian Family
Values! Vote for the Party of Lincoln! Vote Bush/Cheney! Ed.] Right to
Life is scheduled to open its first Detroit office soon.
More and more young people describe themselves as pro-life.
In the meantime, the number of unborn black babies speaks for itself.
[Black Churches, get on the GOP bus! Ed.]
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