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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Speaks to a large gap in morality, much the same as the gap in murders committed compared to the proportions of the population.
The argument seems to be that men don’t have to take precautions to avoid pregnancy in themselves so women should not have to take precautions either, women being exactly the same as men.
What a racist article.
“I want an abortion.”
“Uhh, you’re a male.”
“Don’t you oppress me!”
Interesting that some of them are beginning to “threaten’ abstinence when their argument before was that abstinence was an unacceptable discrimination against women.
Liberal racists are worse than any KKK grand wizard.
So she says. But what she thinks is
"Oh, my G*d! We got black women to abort half of all the children they conceive and were well on the way towards convincing them to abort all the children they conceive. And then this! It means more of those black animals will be coming into my gated, guarded neighborhood and committing crimes. My daughter will be raped and we'll be robbed and murdered! G*d d**n that Donald Trump!"
In life, many of the things that are the hardest are, in many ways, what is best for you. It helps you grow.
It’s astonishing what is being written here and I find it incredibly racist. Apparently, minorities are incapable of being responsible. Rubbish. Maybe this behavior is *encouraged* by having abortion on demand. How about the possibility that, instead of just having a bunch of abortions, becoming a mother can actually be a positive? How about highlighting the importance of fathers in the lives of children?
The true racist here is the low expectations of minorities.
The Kaiser Family Foundation.
Again.
Quelle suprise.
KeEp YouR lEgs CloSEd
I know this sounds crude but there used to be a pregnancy defense called “keeping your legs crossed”. Maybe women need to be taught this again.
Imagine being this racist, thinking that black and hispanic women want to murder their children more than white, suburban wammen?!?!
… minority women have most to lose …
Was this verified by a qualified biologist?
“You have to have abortion, Bob! What if your daughter came home pregnant by a black guy?” — Nancy Pelosi to Bob Dornan
Very few want to have sex with DU women, they’re fugly.
The idea that young women don’t want it as much as guys is comical.
Whether it’s technology or the generation, but women are worse now.
I’ve had women flirting via text, and then unsolicited a close up no underwear pic. from multiple women. These are college educated, decent looking women with good jobs. They’re not large hoop earring wearing hoodrats.
I think social media really messed up women’s brains even more.
“Does that apply to their gay male members?”
In any arrangement, opening the butt cheeks doesn’t lead to babies.
LOL - Silly illiterate liberal zillennials.
Welfare is the Demonrat version of the plantation, and they are fighting a very unCIVIL WAR to maintain the harvest of votes it consistently provides them.
Even worse, they seem to view the black blood spilled in this war as merely fertilizer for their harvest.
If that is an actual quote, it MUST be used in a Republican campaign ad!!
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