Just Sayin' ... we're here to help ... we can 'splain it to ya but we can't unnerstan it for yo.
Posted on 01/13/2015 8:10:39 PM PST by Morgana
In a recent article on Ebony online, Tasha Fierce openly shared that she had an abortion last month. Fierce describes herself as an African American feminist who writes on race, sex, politics and pop culture.
In her piece, titled I Just Had an Abortion, she says she doesn’t regret her abortion and alleges that abortion “stigma” is more pronounced in the lives of Black women than White. She believes this because when she was walking into the abortion facility, a picketer asked, “Did you know abortion is the number one cause of death in the African-American community?”
That question didn’t sit too well with Fierce and she responded by cursing at the pro-lifer. She writes, “In my mental and physical state, I really was not prepared to quietly accept a bunch of non-Black people using my race to guilt me out of getting an abortion. I snapped. How I was able to scream “F*** you!” with as much force as I did being as weak as I was, I don’t know. That rage was strong. My boyfriend restrained me from responding any further and rushed me inside.”
She continues, “Black women are blamed for a litany of ills that plague our community, and we’re constantly disrespected for the choices we make regarding our bodies. On the one hand, a Black woman who goes through with an unwanted pregnancy and ends up having to use social services is shamed for being irresponsible and “leeching” off the system. On the other, a Black woman who makes the decision to terminate a pregnancy when they know having a child isn’t the best idea can be shamed for endangering the future of her race. I’m concerned for Black women that seek abortion who aren’t as comfortable with their individual decision as I am, and who may be shamed into changing their mind by anti-choice campaigns targeted at the Black community. As with too many other experiences I’ve had that should be strictly personal, my abortion ended up being one more reminder that Black women are so often damned if we do, damned if we don’t.”
Even though earlier in her article Fierce acknowledges that Black women’s abortion rate is five-times higher than that of White women, she believes that pro-lifers use race to shame women. However, the fact of the matter is the pro-life community is using mathematical statistics to reveal the massive genocide of black babies through abortion.
Our intention isn’t to shame anyone; we’re just trying to share the truth.
And in Fierce’s case, the truth is that abortion has ended the life of more of her African American brothers and sisters than all other causes of death combined, including accidents, cancer, AIDS and violent crimes. In 2008 alone, abortion killed 363,705 African American babies; and while Black Americans only represent 12.6% of the U.S. population, they account for over 30% of all abortions.
Abortion has also ended the lives of black women, like Tonya Reaves and Lakisha Wilson.
Pierce should consider the words of pro-life, African American Representative, Katrina Jackson on abortion.
In 2014, she said, “The No. 1 genocide in the African-American community is abortion, and why we’re becoming a minority of minorities, is because most of our babies are dying in the womb from abortions. The comments regarding African-American women were that abortion helped them make a choice when they couldn’t take care of their child. And I told them that wasn’t a cure. If you want to really cure the situation that’s going on socioeconomically with everyone, you do that by supporting measures that give people a hand up, and not a handout.”
Jackson concluded, “I’m very passionate, especially when you’re looking at the African-American community, because those in the pro-choice community have been attempting to sell us on abortion being a way out for women who can’t afford to have their baby.”
Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr., also addressed abortion and racism. King said, “Right now in America almost half of our babies are being killed in the womb, and in certain parts of America more of our babies are being aborted than being born. While we were marching in the sixties, a place was being prepared for us at Planned Parenthood. We were trying to get off the back of the bus, and they were going to have a space for us in the front of the abortion mill.”
It’s a tragedy that rather than admit that her own race is being destroyed by the pro-abortion movement, Fierce uses race to attack pro-lifers. Of course, there are racist people in our world today; but what Fierce doesn’t realize is that the abortion industry and businesses like Planned Parenthood are among them.
Notice she never says anything about a black woman waiting till marriage to have a baby? That is not even an option to her?
May your eternal stint in hell be memorable.
since about 80% of them are having them unmarried like ping pong balls bouncing out, yeah, funny she doesn’t think about that option.
Black lives matter!
You beat me to it!
Damn straight Tasha’s boyfriend rushed her into the abortion mill, he just saved 21 years of payments,Thanks for sharing the fact your to lazy,stupid and irresponsible3 to be accountable as a thinking adult! Bet her boyfriend dumps her shortly. Sure would like to ask both of them from what perspective crisis was averted!
And me.
Black lives matter.
Black lives madder.
Black guys madder.
Black eye smatter.
Nevermind
... to get himself out of 18 years of child support. Don't kid yourself, sister. This abortion was all about him, not you.
She killed an unarmed black baby?
Bully for her, yawn. Try telling someone who cares.
Just Sayin' ... we're here to help ... we can 'splain it to ya but we can't unnerstan it for yo.
QUOTE: I live in California, a state that has fully implemented the Affordable Care Act. The ACA mandates that insurance companies must cover contraception with no cost sharing. It doesn’t govern how health care providers decide to run their practices, however. Due to rising insurance deductibles, many doctors now require that patients pay for services up front to ensure they get paid. It’s up to the patient to wait for reimbursement from insurance companies. Women who purchase insurance through ACA exchanges or who have to use Medicaid often have difficulty finding a doctor that will even accept the reduced-cost polices, because they pay out less to health care providers. I had insurance through my employer, but I still ran into the up front cost issue with most of my doctors, whether I was trying to get reproductive care or just general lab tests done.
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You can see her faulty thinking right there.
Having a child might, indeed, not be the best idea. But having an abortion is certainly not the only solution.
Regards,
Sick sick sick. Selfish detestible woman.
Marriage is a “white thing” that is shamed and ridiculed in most of the younger black community........
An attitude from the pits of hell to destroy a whole race......that is succeeding.........
One less criminal, one less unfortunate spirit
Imagine if all black women did likewise for merely a single generation.
Exclusive relationships are viewed as a “white thing” as well; in fact, any semblance to a nuclear family is viewed as “white” - yet whites are assumed to “start off life at third base” because of the benefits of those nuclear families...
Tasha Fierce just made many racists’ day with the announcement of the murder of another black child; the fact that Dems convinced them that this is positive is a testament to their influence over blacks.
I guess choosing to close her legs never crossed her mind..
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