{"id":59380,"date":"2015-02-28T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=59380"},"modified":"2015-03-07T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T00:29:18","slug":"in-the-womb-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/in-the-womb-black-lives-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, in the womb, black lives matter!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prejudice invokes a\u00a0dehumanizing invisibility. \u00a0As Civil Rights leaders today rightly assert, all \u00a0black lives matter and should never be treated as expendable. \u00a0True justice demands recognizing black lives matter– not just when we can see them readily– but in the womb as well.<\/p>\n

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A 2010 study<\/a> found the \u00a0percentage\u00a0of African Americans living in neighborhoods near Planned Parenthood higher than either the city or state average<\/a>. More Black babies are aborted than born in New York city<\/a>, a fact that recently led Dr. Freda Bush, an African American OBGYN, to urge recognition that abortion is reproductive injustice to the women involved and to the black community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Civil Rights Begin When Life Begins<\/strong><\/p>\n

While higher abortion numbers among minorities is\u00a0assumed<\/a>\u00a0to reflect higher rates of unintended pregnancies, more frequent life changes and resulting failure to correctly use contraception, \u00a0these may all be ways to skirt what abortion accomplishes: the disproportionate elimination of minority people. Of course, black lives matter–but when do they start to matter?<\/p>\n

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Those supporting abortion often do so from a desire to liberate minority women from economic oppression. For African American women, who have not generally identified with the economic opportunities\u00a0historically afforded to others, abortion may appear to promise escape from poverty. \u00a0As this Abort 73 video suggests, however, if abortion is extended to Black women as affirmative action, equality is accomplished at devastating cost to the African American community.<\/p>\n