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Jodi Girard's avatar

I grew up in (and still live in) a very homogenous white culture in the Midwest. I am biracial but was raised with two white parents. I am very used to being the only one that looks like me in a room. The first time in my entire life where I was in a room filled with people who look like me was when I was 20 years old, scared and pregnant and sitting in a Planned Parenthood waiting room. That moment is seared in my brain and will forever haunt me. My first time sitting in a room full of black people was in an abortion clinic. I am forever scarred by the lie that it's a quick procedure that you'll never think about again. Margaret Sanger had no idea how successful she would be in controlling the reproduction of the "unfit". While I know there are arguments that she didn't mean "black or minority" populations and that she was simply arguing for the " 'racial health' of the human race rather than one particular race" (https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/the-feeble-minded-and-the-fit-what-sanger-meant-when-she-talked-about-dysgenics/), one still has to look at the outcome of her philosophy, unintended or not, and I believe it was. When African Americans make up 13% of the population but 38% of the abortions (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/ss7009a1.htm) even unintended consequences are disastrous. I wish I could understand why there are so few outspoken black voices on the pro-life side. Where are they? The numbers don't lie. 2016 Census has the native born Black population at 13.7%, by 2060 it will be 15.3%. While that's an increase, it pales in comparison to the growth in the native born Hispanic population (13.5% to 25.1%). (https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p25-1144.pdf) I hear black politicians calling for "getting out the vote" and "making your voice heard" and then in the next breath, calling for expanded "abortion rights". I don't see how they don't understand they are literally killing off their future electorate. I wish someone could help me understand. Thank you Delano for being one of the few black voices on this issue! And thank you Glenn for all that you do! God bless you both!

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Thomas DeGruccio's avatar

I would like to hear much more from this outstanding thinker. I’m embarrassed to admit that this is the first time I’ve heard him.

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