Better in their words…

BLM’s official statement on the Supreme Court’s Dobbs opinion, overturning Roe, includes an interesting label for black Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who adopted black children, and the other justices who concurred in the opinion not because of their views on abortion but because they viewed Roe as “an abuse of judicial authority,” based on a “plainly incorrect” survey of history.

According to BLM, though, anyone who supports this decision is supporting a decision that is racist by “design.”

Today, the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, opening the door to statewide bans and subsequent rulings that will harm Black people disproportionately. This decision is one of several this week designed to limit freedom in service of a white supremacist and patriarchal agenda. [Emphases added].

SCOTUS empowered black voters 

In removing the federal government from involvement in the abortion debate, the justices returned the authority to determine its legality to each state’s representatives, representatives that face voters of every ethnicity:

The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives. [Emphases added].

As  self-described “liberal” constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley explains, the justices did not take a stand on abortion itself, but on giving more freedom to individuals, of every ethnicity, to act through their legislators.  

Others falsely claim that the justices wrote an opinion opposing abortion. The decision focuses on who must decide this question, not what should be decided. The issue of abortion will now return to the states where abortion is expected to remain legal for most women in the country. [Emphases added].

Still free to decide

In addition to the freedom to vote on abortion in their home states, women in states without abortion services will be free to travel to states that do have them. So women gain the freedom to vote on abortion in their own state while retaining the ability to have one in either their state or another one – the only issue being how far they may need to travel for the procedure.

White supremacists want more black babies?

Interestingly, two-thirds of abortions in the US are carried out on minority mothers. According to BLM, a goal of white supremacists is thus to ensure the births of two minority babies for every white baby that would otherwise be aborted and, somehow, this will advance the creation of a white ethnostate. Specifically,

Although black Americans comprise 13.4% of the U.S. population, they accounted for 36.0% of the abortions in 2015 … In New York City in 2015, more black children were aborted than were born alive.

BLM claims that white supremacists want to make sure all of those babies are born alive.

Planned Parenthood’s racist founder

Ironically, a history of the abortion movement in America paints the exact opposite picture. White supremacists did not aim to allow states to limit abortion. Rather, they targeted black communities to push birth control and, later, abortions, to limit their population!

Planned Parenthood Founder and proud eugenicist, Margaret Sanger, used extremely racist language to explain why she wanted black doctors and black clergymen to run birth control clinics in black neighborhoods:

. . . while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. . . .

The ministers’ work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Emphases added].

While legacy media outlets have defended Sanger to some extent, Reuters includes this caveat:

The NYU’s Margaret Sanger Papers Project acknowledged that Sanger was a supporter of eugenics, a now-discredited practice of selective breeding with specific characteristics, and described [Sanger’s] “Negro Project” as controversial from the onset and “constructed in terms and with perceptions that today smack of racism.” [Emphases added].

Planned Parenthood targeting black neighborhoods

It may then come as no surprise that, according to the Life Issues Institute,

. . . 88 percent of Planned Parenthood’s 25 mega abortion facilities are located within walking distance of black and/or Latino neighborhoods.

Fact checkers like PolitiFact do not deny this minority targeting claim outright, but rather point out that,

Data on this matter is in dispute, with advocates on each side of the abortion debate arriving at separate conclusions based on different methodology …

What is incontrovertible is that Sanger located her first two clinics in Brownsville, Brooklyn and Harlem, Manhattan, two neighborhoods in New York City with large populations of black Americans.

BLM aligning with KKK?

Page 366 of Sanger’s Autobiography includes a detail which exposes Sanger’s lack of embarrassment in her racist affiliations:

I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar [white supremacist] groups were proffered.

Sterilization?

Sanger’s bragging of her alliances with white supremacists provide context as to whom she is referring as having “objectionable traits” in this quote from an article she penned supporting not just voluntary abortions but involuntary sterilizations:

a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. [Emphases added].

Donations earmarked for black fetuses?

An investigation by Live Action revealed that Planned Parenthood representatives agreed to receive donations even if they were earmarked specifically to perform abortions on black women as part of a racist agenda. Fortunately, the calls in that investigation were staged and the race based funds were never delivered.

Black “white supremacists”

Despite the clear connection between the abortion industry and racist eugenics, BLM is not alone in labeling Justice Thomas and like minded black people white supremacists.

Dissension

Some black leaders who disagree with BLM’s accusations have shared their views on Twitter: