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Those of us involved with pro-life blogging have all stumbled upon a particular \u201cpro-choicer\u201d online: the one who has designated himself the ultimate judge of who should be allowed to have children.<\/p>\n

You know the type. It\u2019s gay activist Dan Savage<\/a>, who said in November that women should be forced to have abortions as he sees fit: \u201cThere\u2019s too many goddamn people on the planet. You know, I\u2019m pro-choice, I believe that women should have a right to control their bodies. Sometimes in my darker moments, I\u2019m anti-choice. I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.\u201d This type of pro-choicer is scolding and self-righteous, castigating parents for being \u201cselfish\u201d and bringing children into less-than-perfect circumstances – instead of choosing their preferred option, abortion.<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s always been a part of the pro-abortion mentality. This type of pro-choicer often singles out young women, poor people, and people of color as the ones who shouldn\u2019t be having children. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, described poor immigrants<\/a>\u00a0as \u201chuman weeds,” “reckless breeders,” “spawning … human beings who never should have been born.\u201d<\/p>\n

This mentality rears its ugly head when the topic is abortion, of course. But it pops up in subtler ways. Consider what happened to Doyin Richards, a proud black father and blogger at Good Men Project, when he posted a picture of himself doing his daughter\u2019s hair<\/a> while carrying his other daughter in a frontpack:<\/p>\n

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The reactions, comments, and emails I received ranged from the overwhelmingly positive to the downright nasty. Here\u2019s a sampling of some of the private messages and comments I received from them after I posted this picture:<\/p>\n

– \u201cHe probably rented those kids. They don\u2019t even look like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

– \u201cI would bet anything that you\u2019re a deadbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

– \u201cOK buddy, cute picture. Now why don\u2019t you hand the children back to their mom so you can go back to selling drugs or your bootleg rap CDs?\u201d<\/p>\n

– \u201cSo do you do this for all of your illegitimate kids?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, these critics have no idea whether Richards makes \u201crap CDs\u201d (he doesn\u2019t) or whether his daughters are \u201cillegitimate\u201d (they\u2019re not). They saw a picture of a black man in camo shorts with his kids and made hateful assumptions about his morals and parenting skills. That led Richards to respond with a post entitled \u201cI Have a Dream: That People Will View a Picture Like This and Not Think It\u2019s a Big Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019re not seeing how the two are connected. Richards labels most of his critics \u201cinsecure\u201d men who haven\u2019t stepped up to the plate for their own kids. But those of us who frequent pro-life blogs have heard the same screeching from certain pro-choicers about people who \u201cshouldn\u2019t\u201d be having children. Both rely on stereotypes, assumptions, and sometimes flat-out racism to make their case.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s call it what it is. Pro-choicers who rant about how we need abortion to fix the problem of \u201cillegitimate kids\u201d and \u201cdeadbeats\u201d are not at all different from Margaret Sanger plotting to exterminate \u201chuman weeds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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