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Katy Backes Kozhimannil
Rachel Hardema
Well, you were correct about one of them. 🙂
Posted on 09/12/2022 10:26:58 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Two professors and one graduate researcher at the University of Minnesota have called the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson — which overturned the constitutional right to an abortion — a “direct assault on efforts to improve racial equity in health care.”
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, the article, titled “Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue,” argues that lawmakers and health care workers ought to treat restrictions on legal abortion as “fundamentally a racial justice issue,” the Star Tribune first reported.
The two professors, Rachel Hardeman and Katy Backes Kozhimannil, are the director and senior advisor of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, respectively, while Asha Hassan is a graduate student and public health researcher who specializes in “structural racism and health inequities.”
Their article traces what they perceive as the United States’ longstanding history of “reproductive injustice” against minorities, from the behavior of slaveowners to forced sterilization.
“Decisions regarding the legal status of abortion and other reproductive health services reflect the status of civil rights for anyone with the capacity for pregnancy, but they have a particular resonance for Black and Indigenous people living in the United States, who have experienced reproductive oppression for centuries,” the article reads.
The U of M researchers further argue that “inequities” in health care access explain why minority women, particularly black and Native American women, are ostensibly more likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth than white women.
“As restrictions on abortion increase, racial injustice in health will persist and worsen,” the article says. “The adverse health effects of the Dobbs decision will fall hardest on patients, clinicians, clinics, health care systems, and communities in states with the highest maternal mortality and the biggest racial inequities in maternal and reproductive health.”
Though Dobbs v. Jackson overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, the court’s decision upheld Mississippi’s abortion restrictions and enabled other states to enact similar laws as they see fit. The June ruling did not per se ban or restrict abortion anywhere in the U.S.
Just two weeks after the Dobbs decision, a Ramsey County judge tossed out several abortion restrictions as “unconstitutional.” Per the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Doe v. Gomez decision in 1995, abortion is recognized as a “right” in the state constitution.
Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, was founded by a woman named Margaret Sanger, who believed in eugenics, as the abortion giant has admitted.
“Margaret Sanger was so intent on her mission to advocate for birth control that she chose to align herself with ideologies and organizations that were explicitly ableist and white supremacist,” Planned Parenthood said in a 2021 flier in which it denounced Sanger’s views.
According to a report from LifeNews, nearly 80% of Planned Parenthoods are located in black and Hispanic communities.
Some have argued that Sanger’s views — she believed in the “sterilization of the feeble-minded” — “contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in thirty U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people.”
While nonsense, this is a legislative not constitutional argument.
It is amazing to me that POC are content to be considered victims of their own inadequacies in order to get piddling handouts from democrats rather than excel on their own merit.
Other minorities did not, and still don't, experience such "reproductive oppression". Why is that?
Only blacks assaulting infant blacks, nobody making them but mom and dad.
is it just me or has anyone else noticed anything from academia reads like something out of a 70's national lampoon magazine? Evil is hard working but it's also very stupid!
Excelling on your own merit requires effort, gaining marketable skills, discipline to show up and commitment to improve.
Yeah I guess it is impossible. Someone could be accused of acting White.
Since most HC has been downgraded to a zoom call everyone must accept crap HC.
I can see Margaret Sanger speaking to the Klan back in the 1920’s and it really happened no one denies it.
They don’t know the difference.
Analysis
TRAGIC: Black women abort at almost four times the rate of white women
https://www.liveaction.org/news/black-women-abort-four-times-rate-white/
Black folks are in the minority as it is, and abortion increases the speed at which they become even more in the minority numbers- Banning abortions means more black people to increase their presence in America- and these professors are screaming about inequality?
They obviously failed Math! They get paid to be that dumb?
So, they admit that they intend to wipe out POCs.
Crazy. All races are equally prohibited from killing their unborn.
What could be more equal than that?
Dems keep killing black & brown babies.
Old Margaret would be so proud.
When Margaret Sanger created Planned Parenthood to mostly murder little Black babies???? - they are clueless!!
Rachel Hardema
Well, you were correct about one of them. 🙂
I think that to protest, every pregnant black woman should go out and get an abortion right now, and keep doing that for the next 50 years. That will teach us.
How do the Minnesota Social Equity Warriors rectify this?
MS succeeded in getting blacks to exterminate their own population..The KKK must be sooooooo jealous....
Democrats have always tried to help Blacks. As slave owners they cared for their people. Democrats still try to care for Blacks, through abortion, family-busting welfare, low quality government schools, releasing violent offenders to their community, etc. Democrats care for Blacks.
Democrats never cared for the Irish, Jews, Italians, Poles and others.
There’s an old joke, probably misremembered by me. A Jew talking with God contemplated Jewish history. He thanked God for choosing the Jewish people. He humbly suggested that God choose someone else for change.
Democrats chose to take care of Blacks. Black Americans would be wise to ask Democrats to stop caring so much.
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