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In an article<\/a> published Friday,\u00a0HuffPost\u00a0interviews Jasmine Sherman, an African-American pro-abortion activist with Pro Choice Charlotte. As the article’s title — “A Black Abortion Rights Activist On White Women And The Myth Of \u2018Black Genocide<\/span>\u2019 “–<\/span><\/em>\u00a0implies, the piece is apparently intended, at least in part, to\u00a0dismiss the notion\u00a0that big business abortion\u00a0targets black individuals and communities.<\/p>\n

On this endeavor, the article falls\u00a0embarrassingly short.\u00a0The interviewer\u00a0asks Sherman the following question:<\/p>\n

A lot of what I heard you deal with [outside the clinic] is the concept that abortion is \u201cblack genocide.\u201d Celebrities like Nick Cannon\u00a0have also brought this up. How do you feel about that argument?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For context, in 2016 Cannon publicly criticized<\/a> Planned Parenthood for targeting minorities for abortion, including a statement that\u00a0the abortion giant’s founder, Margaret Sanger, “wanted to exterminate the negro race.\u201d<\/p>\n

To this question, Sherman replies:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s B.S. The problem with that is that black women are more than baby-makers. We are so much more than that. To say it\u2019s black genocide is just B.S. Nobody cares about the fact that in our community, we\u2019re struggling to create safe spaces. Segregation is supposedly over, but you try putting a whole bunch of black kids into a \u201cgood school\u201d in [a nice neighborhood]. They don\u2019t even want to send their kids to charter schools with ours. So I don\u2019t want to hear anybody tell me about black genocide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Am I the only one\u00a0having a hard time following the logic here?\u00a0Who is arguing that black women are no more than baby-makers? And how does the\u00a0claim that a certain group of white people\u00a0want segregated schools\u00a0lead to the conclusion that black people\u00a0are not\u00a0and have not been targeted for abortion?<\/p>\n

How does any of this\u00a0relate to\u00a0the fact that in 2012, more black babies were aborted<\/a> in New York City than were born? Or that\u00a0the estimated number of aborted black babies from 1967 through June 2016 is equal to 48.45%<\/a> of the current total African American population? Or the fact that\u00a0a 2012 study found that 79%<\/a> of Planned Parenthood\u2019s surgical abortion facilities were located within walking distance of a\u00a0minority neighborhood?\u00a0Or the fact that the abortion\u00a0business has been caught on tape<\/a> accepting donations to specifically target black preborn babies for elimination? Or the fact that Sanger admitted to accepting an invitation to speak to a KKK group<\/a> (who apparently loved her message, as Sanger claimed “a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups\u201d followed)?<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of actual facts being ignored here.<\/p>\n

As is typical, the pro-abortion side talks big (such as labeling black genocide a “myth” in the article title), and utterly fails to back up that talk with relevant facts or even basic logic. The article’s\u00a0writer and interviewer, Jenavieve Hatch, also makes other equally\u00a0unsubstantiated\u00a0assertions, such as the claim that pro-lifers pointing out that “Black Lives Matter” should include all black lives, including preborn children, constitutes “harassment.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly though,\u00a0in the same article, Hatch admits: “…recognizing the role of racism\u00a0in the abortion rights and contraceptive movements is essential \u2015 Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist, and the side effects of birth control pills would not be known without the pill having been tested on black and brown women in Puerto Rico…”<\/p>\n

As Walter B. Hoye II<\/a>, a former Michigan State football player who is also black, explained:<\/p>\n

Keeping the Black American community smaller and less powerful reflects the racist, eugenic and genocidal mindset behind the abortion policies advanced by Planned Parenthood\u2026under the guise of helping Black Americans. If \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d then the life of the human being inside the womb of his or her Black mother matters too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Watch out Walter, according to Hatch, your closing sentence\u00a0could count as\u00a0“harassment!”)<\/p>\n

While the HuffPost article touches on both racism and sexism (and Sherman does make some interesting points on how men and women of different races can work together), the article sadly fails to advance the eradication of either sexism or racism.<\/p>\n

For example, in two pictures displayed in the HuffPost article, Sherman can be seen holding a sign which reads, “NO UTERUS? NO OPINION!”<\/p>\n

\"Jenevieve<\/a>

Photo credit: Jenavieve Hatch<\/p><\/div>\n

This is inarguably a sexist message. Ironically, in one of these photos, Sherman is seen\u00a0protesting alongside a man, who is holding\u00a0what appears to be\u00a0a pro-abortion sign. We can presume that\u00a0this man does not have a uterus, and yet he is expressing an opinion.\u00a0Sherman and Hatch seem to have missed the\u00a0logical problem here. Both — and the pro-abortion side at large — would do well to put a little more thought into their words (and pictures) before attempting to simply dismiss pro-life notions that are rooted in fact and logic.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: For more on why men\u00a0<\/em>can have an\u00a0opinion on abortion, even though they lack a uterus, see this article<\/a>.\u00a0All op-eds are the opinion of the writer, and not necessarily the official position of Live Action.<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an article published Friday,\u00a0HuffPost\u00a0interviews Jasmine Sherman, an African-American pro-abortion activist with Pro Choice Charlotte. As the article’s title — “A Black Abortion Rights Activist On White Women And The Myth Of \u2018Black Genocide\u2019 “–\u00a0implies, the piece is apparently intended, at least in part, to\u00a0dismiss the notion\u00a0that big business abortion\u00a0targets black individuals and communities. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":168291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy does the pro-abortion side ignore basic logic?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sherman protests alongside a man, holding\u00a0"no uterus, no opinion." 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