{"id":200077,"date":"2019-04-11T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=200077"},"modified":"2019-04-12T00:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T05:10:47","slug":"oh-lawmaker-preborn-black-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oh-lawmaker-preborn-black-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did an OH lawmaker want preborn Black babies treated as disposable property?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Wednesday, the Ohio House and Senate each voted<\/a> to pass Senate Bill 23<\/a> known as The Heartbeat Bill. Today, Governor Mike DeWine signed the bill, which will ban abortions once a preborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks gestation. In a shocking move this week, Rep. Janine Boyd (D) proposed an amendment<\/a> that would have allowed the bill to protect all children older than six weeks from abortion except for African-American children<\/strong>. (Her full remarks can be found here<\/a> at the 51:45 mark – HT: Created Equal<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“I consider the slave trade and how black slaves were once treated like cattle and put out to stud in order to create generations of more slaves,” she said. “I consider how many masters raped their slaves. I consider how many masters forced their slaves to have abortions and I consider how many pregnant slaves self-induced abortions so that they would not contribute children they had to the slave system that was the foundational economic system of our country – our younger country.”<\/p>\n

Stating that the United States is still a young country “trying to find ourselves almost like teenagers,” she said the U.S. “is not far enough beyond our history to legislate as if it is.”<\/p>\n

But what Boyd proposed with this amendment is that preborn African-Americans should continue to be treated like disposable property, just as slaves were. She notes that slaves were treated like cattle, an expression we have heard countless times from post-abortive women in regards to how the abortion facilities have treated them. Oppression has simply been passed down to the most innocent among us: human beings in the womb, who are treated as non-persons.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Margaret Sanger\u2019s eugenic mentality is disturbingly still alive and well<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

See Boyd’s remarks after 50:00 in the video below:<\/p>\n