{"id":238921,"date":"2021-02-12T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=238921"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:57:51","slug":"reproductive-injustice-eliminating-minorities-poor-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/reproductive-injustice-eliminating-minorities-poor-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Reproductive injustice: Eliminating minorities and the poor through abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Under the guise of assisting poor women, abortion proponents are suggesting<\/a> that it is unfair and racist not to force American taxpayers to fund abortions for low-income women. Abortion is painted as a solution to poverty, or as a stepping stone out of a life of poverty. But this idea has little to do with helping the poor \u2014 instead, it eliminates<\/em> them. With many in Congress pushing to force taxpayers to fund all abortions for low-income women in the US under the guise of racial and female equality and justice, it is important to understand the truth.<\/p>\n

For decades, societal elites have labeled low-income people a “strain” on society for having children whom some say are likely to receive welfare benefits. We’ve likely all read or heard comments to the effect of, “To all those opposing taxpayer funding for abortion, repeat after me: an abortion I pay for today is welfare I don’t pay tomorrow!”<\/p>\n

Attacking poverty by killing the poor<\/strong><\/p>\n

As seen in the image below, it was once openly admitted that Planned Parenthood’s birth control agenda was “aimed at cutting welfare cost” and “attacking poverty.”<\/p>\n

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Planned Parenthood clinics aimed at cutting welfare costs for poor women (Image: Maafa21)<\/p><\/div>\n

In the 1977 Supreme Court\u00a0Beal v. Doe<\/i><\/a>\u00a0case, which held that states could exclude nontherapeutic abortions from coverage under their Medicaid programs, Justice Harry Blackmun \u2014 who had written the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 suggested<\/a> abortion was cheaper than welfare.\u00a0“The cost of a non therapeutic abortion is far less than the cost of maternity care and delivery and holds no comparison whatever with the welfare cost that will burden the state for the new indigents and their support and the long long years ahead,”\u00a0he wrote in part.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around the same time, Democrat\u00a0Ellen McCormack,<\/a>\u00a0who ran in the 1976 presidential primary, expressed concerns<\/a> over taxpayer funded abortions\u00a0“[p]ut forth as a solution for the poor.”\u00a0In the video<\/a> below, McCormack was joined by Dr. Mildred Jefferson,\u00a0the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and the\u00a0first woman<\/a>\u00a0to be a surgical intern at Boston City Hospital.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jefferson once\u00a0referred<\/a>\u00a0to abortion as \u201cclass war against the poor,\u201d and emphasized that there is \u201cno benefit to use the money to help the poor to get rid of the babies of the poor,\u201d adding that “we must find better means of solving the social problems than getting rid of the people that caused the problems.”<\/p>\n