Not a picture of a dismembered fetus.
Abortion is the killing of an unborn child, legal from coast to coast in the US from 1973 to 2022.
Terminology:
- embryo: an unborn child before the 11th week since a woman’s last period.
- fetus: an unborn child after the 11th week.
- pro-life: against abortion rights
- pro-choice: for abortion rights, as in the catchphrase, “a woman’s right to choose”.
- abortion-on-demand: abortion given when the woman wants it, even without being a dire case (rape, incest, threat her life, etc).
Where abortion is legal: Abortion-on-demand was legal in 2022 in the blue and dark purple regions, at least for the first 17 weeks, limited elsewhere to dire cases:
Roe v Wade: It was on January 22nd 1973 – or 50 years ago on Sunday – that the US Supreme Court in Roe v Wade (1973) ruled that having an abortion was a right across the land. And it was on June 24th 2022 – or seven months ago next Tuesday – that the Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson (2022) ruled that it was no longer a right: each state could make its own laws.
The Southern Strategy is where the Republican Party in the US uses issues of race and religion, like abortion, to get “hard-working Americans” to vote against their class interests. It gave us Trump. It also gave us a Supreme Court stacked with anti-abortion judges from the Federalist Society. Abortion allows Republicans to paint the Democrats as being without morals. How could any honest, God-fearing person possibly vote for them?
The South Side of Chicago in 2011: the poster says: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” (Jill Stanek).
Black genocide: From time to time, from the Black Panthers to White Evangelicals, the claim is sometimes made that abortion is a form of Black genocide. In 1978, for example, Mildred Fay Jefferson, the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, said:
“abortionists have done more to get rid of generations and cripple others than all of the years of slavery and lynching.”
The Hippocratic Oath in 275 AD said:
“Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.”
The 1964 AD update says nothing about abortion.
The Bible: Exodus 21:22:
“If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child, and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman’s husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.”
An unborn child is simply called a “child” (yeled in Hebrew) not a “fetus” (nephel or golem). And causing its death is seen as wrong.
In Luke 1:41,44 the personhood of John the Baptist in the womb is clear.
Religion: Where different religious groups officially stand on abortion as of 2016 according to Pew Research:
Note that this does not always match what the rank and file think. For example, the Catholic Church sees abortion as the taking of an innocent life, yet in May 2022 about 56% of US Catholics, including President Biden, thought abortion should be legal in most cases – almost the same as the US as a whole: 61%. Even among Catholics who attend Mass at least once a week it was 30% (see Pew Research).
– Abagond, 2023.
See also:
- The Southern strategy
- genocide
- Black genocide
- eugenics
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Abagond 
abagond,
This reads like something you quickly penned to assuage a guilty conscience, hence all the figures for “Catholics” to try to show you aren’t in the minority, as if Jesus promised His followers that going against the World and following God would be the easy way.
First, the tone of this piece is not neutral. For instance, “against abortion rights” frames the issue as a “rights’ issue, instead of a life or death issue.
You seemingly dismiss “black genocide” without pointing out how abortion disproportionately kills black babies. For instance, in New York where you live, most black babies are aborted (i.e., there are more abortions than live births), which is sickening.
“The Southern Strategy is where the Republican Party in the US uses issues of race and religion, like abortion, to get “hard-working Americans” to vote against their class interests.” This is a provable lie. It might have been true to some extent 30 years ago, but the Democrat party no longer pretends to care about the middle or working classes. They are the party run by White coastal elites with handouts for minorities to keep their support. They support open borders that crush middle class wages and an anti-family and anti-faith agenda. It’s more accurate to say that the Democrat Party has used racial grievances to get blacks to vote against their class interests–they are also hurt tremendously by massive immigration lowering wages, the destruction of the nuclear family and increased crime and corruption in Democrat controlled cities.
The chart is misleading. Conservative Presbyterians and Baptists, and any other denomination that follows the scriptures literally, will not support abortion. You should also understand that surveys are often (almost always actually) biased depending on who is surveyed and how questions are asked (mainstream surveys are tied to the MSM and almost always lean left). Put another way, large majorities of the US have shown they favor some restrictions on abortion, i.e., no abortion on demand for a full 9 months. We’ve seen relatively rare exceptions, rape, incest and health of the mother, used to push through unlimited abortion for convenience, which most people do not support, time and time again.
Anyway, abortion is not illegal in the US now. States are just allowed to make their own decisions, which is the correct protocol. Whatever you think about abortion, saying it was something the founders intended to safeguard when writing the Constitution is ridiculous. If unrestricted abortion on demand is to be the law of the land, the legislatures accountable to the people should decide that–not unelected judges, whose job is to fairly interpret the existing laws, not to create new ones.
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A few years ago, Afrofem wrote a detailed comment addressing Planned Parenthood and Black genocide, which I think is worth considering:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/eugenics/#comment-312442
High rates of abortion within any given community or cohort is frequently correlated to a lack of easy access to affordable, reliable birth control.
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Imagine murdering your own unborn child because you’d rather spend your life making PowerPoints for a middling salary.
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If there was less inequality and a better social safety net that enabled people to access affordable housing, good healthcare, and jobs that paid a living wage with paid time off and maternity leave there would be less abortion. Nevertheless in the end women have sex and are raped, they have chronic illnesses or things go awry and abortion is needed and should be legal and safe. The arguments against it are philosophical and religious and there’s no real consensus. It’s a medical procedure on a woman and therefore should be a choice between her, her God and her physician not of government.
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