Posted on 05/04/2022 6:36:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one.
And if the U.S. Supreme court allows states to further restrict or even ban abortions, minority women will bear the brunt of it, according to statistics analyzed by The Associated Press.
The potential impact on minority women became all the more clear on Monday with the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion suggesting the court’s conservative majority is poised to overturn the landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. The draft decision is not yet final but it sent shockwaves through the country. Overturning the Roe v. Wade decision would give states authority to decide abortion’s legality. Roughly half, largely in the South and Midwest, are likely to quickly ban abortion.
When it comes to the effect on minority women, the numbers are unambiguous. In Mississippi, people of color comprise 44% of the population but 81% of women receiving abortions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which tracks health statistics.
In Texas, they’re 59% of the population and 74% of those receiving abortions. The numbers in Alabama are 35% and 69%. In Louisiana, minorities represent 42% of the population, according to the state Health Department, and about 72% of those receiving abortions.
“Abortion restrictions are racist,” said Cathy Torres, an organizing manager with Frontera Fund, a Texas organization that helps women pay for abortions. “They directly impact people of color, Black, brown, Indigenous people ... people who are trying to make ends meet.”
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Rather, minority babies have the most to gain. Life.
“Women and minorities worst hit!”
Incredible. Personal responsibility in the form of taking even simple precautions to avoid pregnancy are nowhere to be found.
Has anyone thought to tell these women to keep their legs closed?
The pill is free at PP, so are condoms.
Apparently swallowing a pill, or whatever, is too hard for minorities.
Minorities always have “most to lose” when the decision goes against the left.
Things that make it harder for black women to kill black babies are racist, says this demon-possessed harpy.
maybe they should consider sterilization.
What’s hilarious is over at DU.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216656645
“Close your legs to men” thread. To protest the possible loss of abortion rights, they’re refusing sex.
You mean... ABSTINENCE!?!?!?!?
World Ends Tomorrow!
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.
Does that apply to their gay male members?
You got it back asswards there AP
Those horrible Supremes making it difficult for minorities to participate in the eugenics program.
Visit the bad part of town and realize what LBJ hath wrought: Inter-generational welfarism.
I really try to not delve too deep into the liberal mind. Not healthy.
White liberal racists have the most to lose as Negro babies are not killed in huge numbers and the Negro population begins to rise in percentage. This was the goal of the feminists from Sanger on, the killing off of what the left regards as inferior people.
Fine, keep it legal for minorities.
No abortions for Mayor Pete in the future. Trump took all but 5 Districts in Indiana. And the media is saying they are also going to make homosexuality illegal before the end of the world happens due to this.
A lot of these assclowns moms failed to take advantage when they had the chance.
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