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January 23, 2006

Anti-abortion protestors are 'bigots'??

The 33 year fallout from the flawed Roe v Wade is evident in the bizarre parade of activists on both sides of the issue. But this has me scratching my head:

Thousands of abortion opponents shouldering signs with slogans such as "Peace Begins in the Womb" marched in protest of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, while abortion rights supporters along the march route waved clothes hangers and shouted "Bigots go home."
Bigots? Bigots??? How? Considering that elective abortion for birth control was first advocated from an eugenics premise aimed at poor, non-white women and, even today, it falls disproportionately on non-white women. Sounds more like a case of projection from the pro-abortion street theater gang.

Posted by Darleen at January 23, 2006 12:52 PM

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Interesting thing I found out the other day; eugenics is being practiced today.

Women with fetuses with Downs Syndrome are aborting them.

The pro-lifers don't seem all that upset about that.

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at January 23, 2006 05:23 PM

- The left/Liberals/Democrats is not so much a political party anymore, as it is a cult and political car wreck....

Posted by: Big Bang Hunter at January 23, 2006 06:51 PM

Nice try, Carl, but no cigar.

Not only are women aborting Downs babies, they are aborting thousands of other babies every day, most with no defect other than inconvenience. Most pro-life folks that I know don't make a differentiation between aborting a Downs baby and aborting any other baby.

Bark up some other tree.

Posted by: Dave at January 23, 2006 07:07 PM

Carl

Do the numbers. The vast majority of abortions are done in the first trimester, long before any "defect" in the fetus itself is known. The 'push' for women to do abortion for reasons of "convenience" is the raison d'etre of NARAL and its fellow travelers -- and it disproportionately effects non-white women.

Fact

Posted by: Darleen at January 23, 2006 07:19 PM

Carl was trying to make a clever point---but I think he accidentally hit on something right.

The Eugenics movement did, indeed, support birth control---especially birth control for---ahem---those races it considered less than wonderfully white and Anglo-Saxon. Margaret Sanger, hailed today as a champion of womens' rights, was very much in favor of getting rid of "human weeds", and establishing birth control clinics in black neighborhoods. Eugenists were quite open about wanting to get rid of not only the handicapped, but blacks, Jews, Southern Italians and other "undesirables."

The effect of abortion on America's black population has been truly horrific---old-style eugenists would be very pleased by it today.

Posted by: TalkinKamel at January 24, 2006 08:40 AM

. . . Checking out Catholic, and Orthodox Christians websites, I'd also have to say that Carl's wrong about pro-lifers not being upset by aborting of "imperfect" fetuses. Many of them are.

(And, just to show I can be snarky too, I'd like to point out that feminists do not seem overly troubled by the vast number of sex-selection abortions in India and China, where unwanted girls are aborted.)

Posted by: TalkinKamel at January 24, 2006 08:42 AM