1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

The Inherent Racism Of Population Control

Discussion in 'Free-For-All Archives' started by poncho, Nov 13, 2004.

  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 30, 2004
    Messages:
    19,657
    Likes Received:
    128
    Rest of article at SOURCE
     
  2. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 30, 2004
    Messages:
    19,657
    Likes Received:
    128
    I always wondered how abortion came to be viewed the way it is in the United States. We can protest the doctors that perform them all we want and it will come to nothing. It isn't only the action thats offensive to me but also the ideology that drives the action. I never did quite understand till I read this document.

    Anyone else have the same feeling?
     
  3. Dr. Bob

    Dr. Bob Administrator
    Administrator

    Joined:
    Jun 30, 2000
    Messages:
    30,285
    Likes Received:
    507
    Faith:
    Baptist
    A local Planned Parenthood worker used the phrase "stopping cows from breeding" in a veiled reference to Black women having babies. Racism is inherent in population control in the USA.

    Sadly.
     
  4. JesusandGeorge04

    JesusandGeorge04 New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 31, 2004
    Messages:
    130
    Likes Received:
    0
    That is an unfair label to attach to those of us who care about others enough to want them to be reproductively empowered.
     
  5. NaasPreacher (C4K)

    NaasPreacher (C4K) Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2003
    Messages:
    26,806
    Likes Received:
    80
    They are repoductively empowered - just use their empowerment before a child is conceived.

    The topic of this thread is clear - lets stay on it.

    It certainly does appear that pre-birth murder in racist.
     
  6. JesusandGeorge04

    JesusandGeorge04 New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 31, 2004
    Messages:
    130
    Likes Received:
    0
    Without proper information, access to birth control, or basic human rights, most women simply do not choose whether or not to conceive.

    According to anecdotes from the far-right. Not very convincing, methinks.
    :rolleyes:
     
  7. The Galatian

    The Galatian New Member

    Joined:
    Aug 18, 2001
    Messages:
    9,687
    Likes Received:
    1
    It might be considered that those backing eugenics most strongly were those most opposed to abortion.

    It was a crime, for example, to have an abortion in Nazi Germany, the epitome of a state endorsing eugenics.
     
  8. North Carolina Tentmaker

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2003
    Messages:
    2,355
    Likes Received:
    1
    JesusandGeorge04 said
    This may be true in the case of rape, but I don’t think many women today are ignorant as to the cause of pregnancy. Women and the men always have a choice it is called abstinence.
     
  9. JesusandGeorge04

    JesusandGeorge04 New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 31, 2004
    Messages:
    130
    Likes Received:
    0
    Tell that to a poor woman in an abusive relationship.
     
  10. ScottEmerson

    ScottEmerson Active Member

    Joined:
    Jun 3, 2002
    Messages:
    3,417
    Likes Received:
    0
    Did you not see, "This may be true in the case of rape?"
     
  11. Daisy

    Daisy New Member

    Joined:
    Apr 1, 2003
    Messages:
    7,751
    Likes Received:
    0
    An abusive relationship isn't exactly rape usually, although it may be coersive.
     
  12. Johnv

    Johnv New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 24, 2001
    Messages:
    21,321
    Likes Received:
    0
    Actually, yes. I think that when we protest the doctors, etc, we're barking up the wrong tree. We as a society need to empower the population (both religious and not) with the ability to avoid the circumstances that lead to pregnancy in the first place.
     
  13. billwald

    billwald New Member

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2000
    Messages:
    11,414
    Likes Received:
    2
    On the other hand, why has the crime rate in the USofA declined for the last 10 years? Roe v. Wade.
     
  14. NaasPreacher (C4K)

    NaasPreacher (C4K) Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2003
    Messages:
    26,806
    Likes Received:
    80
     
  15. North Carolina Tentmaker

    Joined:
    Sep 19, 2003
    Messages:
    2,355
    Likes Received:
    1
    I think Johnv is on the right track when he says
    We will never stop abortion by going after the doctors. We have to go after the real murderers, those who hire the doctors, the women. The only way to really change behavior is to change the heart. Many years ago we tried to outlaw liquor in this country, that did not work out so well because despite the law people wanted to drink. If we could outlaw abortion tomorrow it would not stop and go away. We need to change the hearts of people in our society. We need to stop the unwanted pregnancies from occurring to start with and we need to make women aware of the value that those lives within them have.
     
Loading...