Posted on 04/13/2018 9:40:55 AM PDT by Morgana
Abortion activists with Planned Parenthood complained that two new laws signed by Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam this week will “hurt women of color.”
Implying a possible racist motivation, the abortion chain’s Tennessee branch slammed the governor Wednesday because he signed two laws to defund Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups of state taxpayer dollars.
“This hurts patients. It prevents them from seeing a healthcare provider they choose. Specifically, in our area, reproductive healthcare is difficult to access for some people,” said Sarah Wallet, the medical director for Planned Parenthood of Greater Memphis. “There’s a lot of stigma surrounding reproductive healthcare. This will especially hurt women of color.”
At best, the claim is far-fetched. Women still have plenty of places to go in Tennessee to seek health care, and neither law reduces funding; they merely redirect it to groups that offer comprehensive healthcare but not abortions.
Federally-qualified community health centers vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities in Tennessee and provide much more comprehensive health care. A 2015 comparison showed 187 service sites in Tennessee compared to just four Planned Parenthoods.
SIGN THE PETITION! Attention Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube: Stop Censoring Pro-Lifers
At worst, Wallet’s statement is hypocritical. Planned Parenthood targets minority women and their unborn babies for abortions. One analysis found that Planned Parenthood placed 79 percent of its abortion facilities within walking distance of minority neighborhoods. Many believe its founder, Margaret Sanger, also targeted blacks as part of her eugenic beliefs.
The abortion rate is disproportionately high in the black American community. Even though black Americans make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, 35 percent of the babies killed in abortions are black, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The black genocide of abortion is disturbingly evident in New York City, where state data shows more black babies are aborted than are born.
This move by Tennessee to prioritize funding to comprehensive health clinics – which offer mammograms, prenatal care and other services that Planned Parenthood does not – actually will help women and unborn babies by supporting programs that do not promote the killing of a family member as a method of “reproductive healthcare.”
What race is PP?
Guy is racist for defunding group that murders black unborn babies.
Group that murders black unborn babies doesnt think they are racist, calls guy shutting off their money, racist.
No one ever g-d tell me slippery slope isn’t real.
It’s “racist” to allow Black babies to live? Who knew?
Yes, Margaret was the racist who wanted to “stem the brown tide.”
>>Oh, and whoever brings up race first is the racist.<<
I’ve always enjoyed hearing people attempt to define just what the words “racism” and “racist” actually mean, because most who are asked to do so flounder around stuttering and stammering and contradicting themselves, and usually end up demonstrating their own sorrowful biases and prejudices.
>> as if it is the brainchild of KKK leadership. The stats don’t lie.<<
Actually it was (and still is) the brainchild of the Democrats who have used the KKK and other organizations to obscure the fact of their own institutional hatred for blacks. Since the 2016 beat-down of their Queen, many blacks are beginning to see the Democrats for what they really are: BIGOTS of the worst kind.
I’d rather be called a racist than a murderer.
Unborn Black Lives Matter.
That is precisely it. And you are right. It is very entertaining.
They constitute 10 to 12 percent of Americans, but represent 30 percent of the babies murdered.
Do these plantation fools not do the math?
PP exists to kill black babies.
Yep, Margaret Sanger would be proud.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.