The Policing of Native American Pregnancies Has To Stop

Jezebel.com ^ | November 24, 2021 | Kylie Cheung

[dccomix]

“I didn’t drink because I’m Native," said Melissa Rose, an Akwesasne Mohawk midwife. "I drank to survive colonialism."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If she had gone to Planned Abortionhood it would have been fine.

[Don W]

I am sorry.

I am sorry we white folks dragged your stone age culture into the modern world.

I am sorry we reduced your childhood death rate from 1 in 3 to 1 in 500 and lower.

I am sorry we brought you sanitary practices.

I am sorry we brought you reliable food sources.

I am sorry. Perhaps you would have preferred us to just do what you did to the Beothuk? Or treated you like the K’wa k’wa kutl did to the other westcoast tribes on a regular basis?

[ladyjane]

“I didn’t drink because I’m Native," said Melissa Rose, an Akwesasne Mohawk midwife.

No, you drank because drugs are available on your reservations. Indian reservations are under indian rules, not our government rules. If you want good drugs, just go to an indian reservation. Check out her Akwesasne Mohawk reservation on the St. Lawrence River. The fastest speed boats are up there. The border patrol can't catch them. Their boats aren't fast enough and they can't go on the reservations.

[Rollee]

I drank because I liked the effect alcohol produced in me. My Irish DNA or anything else has nothing to do with it. I pray this woman finds AA and a higher power of her choosing. I’m grateful for my sobriety and thank God for it every day.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Article has many references to pregnant people. It has become offensive to refer to pregnant women, to just assume that someone who is pregnant is a woman. We have to be sensitive to the rare pregnancies involving a transsexual who is biologically female but does not identify as a woman.

[leaning conservative]

I am seriously sick of victimhood & excuses. Just own up to your problems & get help.

There was an interview with Brooke Shields recently. Her alcoholic mom did a lot of questionable things regarding her career when Brooke was young. She was asked how she came out on top. She answered, “I wasn’t raised to be a victim.”

[genetic homophobe]

I drink because...oh man. This is bs. I need a drink. Happy Thanksgiving!

[Paal Gulli]

There are NO “native” Americans.

We all came from somewhere else. Some of us had ancestors who arrived sooner s’all.

[LegendHasIt]

I drink, and I know things.

I drink BECAUSE I know things.

[Qui is]

“All of the United States infrastructure was founded on stolen land, the genocide of Native people, the enslavement of Black people,”

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Oh my goodness. Appear this squaw conveniently forgot that Native Americans were fighting each other and stealing each other’s lands centuries before the evil white man arrived, as well as practiced slavery, too. As a matter of fact, they would sometimes raid white settlements for the sole purpose of capturing slaves

Personally, t has come to the point where I just don’t give 2 sh!ts about how evil white people are. If you look closely at any / every culture you are voundto find to horrid and unspeakable crimes in their past.

So this squaw and her entire tribe can have a Coke & a smile, sit down and STFU and then kiss my lilly white butt.

[mcshot]

Although I agree I think Squatch was here first.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Don’t leave out endless torture and slavery…

[WilliamOrby]

I find it confusing how some medical professionals and places like Planned Parenthood often encourage pregnant women carrying a baby with congenital deformities like Downs syndrome to abort the child yet if the woman does something that causes a miscarriage they can be sent to prison. It just makes no sense to me how it’s acceptable for a doctor performing an abortion to chop the fetus in pieces, crush its tiny skull, then pull out the large parts and vaccum out the rest but if the mother can’t stop taking very addictive drugs causing the fetus to miscarriage, the woman is considered a murderer while then doctor is a hero, at least to them feminazi crowd.

[econjack]

“All of the United States infrastructure was founded on stolen land, the genocide of Native people, the enslavement of Black people,” Martin told Jezebel. “And those are two of the groups who face the highest rates of criminalization, maternal mortality, infant mortality — that’s the way that the system was intended to work.”

Yep, let's blame it on events from two centuries ago and abdicate all responsibility today.

[\/\/ayne]

What America does to Native Americans is awful - giving them stuff. John Stossel pointed out the tribe that couldn’t get registered - and prospered. How about a hand up instead of a handout? Haven’t we tortured them enough?

[dfwgator]

[Norski]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4015360/posts

Invitational ping. Pray against this with others if desired.

Freegards.

[captain_dave]

They were not “native Americans” or “indians” until European settlers arrived and saw them as all the same, and called them savages and indians. The tribes saw themselves as tribes or nations, and fought each other. The Europeans moved in and took over. But this was a century after an unknown disease is believed to have killed 90% of indians in eastern north America.

[Egon]

"I drank to survive colonialism."

Holy crap! How old is she??

At her advanced age of 409 years, she shouldn't be having kids.