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Vice Thinks We’re Racist for Saying “Black Preborn Lives Matter”

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Brenna Lewis - 18 Sep 2020

 

This week, Vice took notice of pro-life efforts (Students for Life in particular) to draw attention to the racial implications of abortion given our country’s current climate. The critique is truly delicious. In essence, the thesis is that we are racist for promoting our “Black Preborn Lives Matter” campaign.

From the word go, Vice doesn’t like us. That’s definitely worth noting. Like many youth-focused, trendy news outlets, they’re all for abortion. So regardless of what we do, they aren’t going to be on board. That said, this is still a tough critique to sell. We are racist for saying that Black babies matter, too?

Oh, but it’s not simply the message that is driving abortion supporters crazy. It’s the timing. See, we aren’t allowed to address current social issues as they relate to our organization’s mission. There are a lot of extra rules that apply to the pro-life movement and no one else. Nevermind that the pro-life movement has been decrying abortion and Planned Parenthood as racist institutions for literal decades. Students for Life’s Michele Hendrickson said it best after our painting event in Washington, D.C.:

Mission-based organizations ebb and flow with current issues. When it came out in 2015 that Planned Parenthood was trafficking baby parts, we spent ALL our time working to expose that as well as every other thing we hate about them. When an election rolls around, we spend a lot of time talking about abortion and politics. When the ACLU was trying to remove safety regulations from chemical abortion, we poured tons of energy into spreading the word about how harmful chemical abortion is.

Why would it make any sense for us to fully ignore this issue right now while EVERYONE is talking about it?

Maybe, just maybe, if the pro-life movement had NEVER talked about abortion and the Black community before, the Vice article might have half a point. Only half a point because abortion still disproportionately harms non-white women. But it’s just not the case. Look at someone like Mildred Jefferson. She was born in 1927 and died in 2010. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, and she fully rejected abortion. She is credited with changing Ronald Reagan himself’s mind on the issue, and spent years as a leader in the pro-life movement.

And look at someone like Dr. Dolores Bernadette Grier, who graduated from Fordham University, passed away in 2018, and spent much of her life as a pro-life advocate.

Plus, it is real rich of the abortion movement to accuse anyone of hijacking an issue. The abortion movement wouldn’t even exist without its parasitic, toxic attachment to feminism that it secured during the Sexual Revolution of the 60s. Author Sue Ellen Browder does an excellent job explaining how abortion hijacked feminism in her book Subverted

We’re not sorry that this message is uncomfortable for people. And we’re not going to apologize that this completely accurate message is timely with our nation’s current climate. Planned Parenthood kills about 360 Black babies every day, and that should bother Americans.

In fact, all of this should deeply bother Americans:

*Arrived at by multiplying an estimated population total of 325,719,178 by 13.4%: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217 

But sure. We’re the racist ones.

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