As abortion foes court blacks, will they also support babies?
A good article that summarizes the craziness behind the “Abortion=Black Genocide” anti-choice crowd, and the attacks on Planned Parenthood.
Hunter is among Roe v. Wade’s die-hard opponents - single-minded activists for whom nothing is more important than repealing a woman’s right to choose. While other voters worry about jobs, health insurance, and college loans, Hunter and like-minded reactionaries focus on reproductive rights.
They have support in Congress, too. Recent budget negotiations were prolonged by a cadre of Republicans who tried to wipe out all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which they wrongly claim is mostly in the business of providing abortions.
They lost that battle, but they never give up. (They won restrictions on abortions in Washington.)
The use of race as a wedge is the latest tactic for reactionaries who see an opportunity to cultivate support among black Americans, especially churchgoers with a conservative streak on social issues. While opponents of abortion rights have long derided Margaret Sanger, considered the mother of modern family planning, for her support of eugenics, their campaign to portray Planned Parenthood as a hotbed of bigots is a more recent development. Hunter, a purveyor of conspiracy theories (he says President Obama is “an Arab”), insists that Sanger started her birth-control campaign “to wipe out the black race.”