Well, first you have to think of aborted fetuses as babies, but at the very least I think we can all agree that what was killed were the biological conditions and materials that, left to their own devices would, in most cases, result in the completion of a human baby. Which, I grant, is a minor nitpick.
Beyond that, I don’t have much to write on the subject — mostly because the majority of those tethered to a political position on the abortion issue don’t bother to read anything that doesn’t confirm their biases, unless it’s with the goal in mind to seize a particular out of context phrase (eg., women “harboring” 5-month-old viable children, which evidently is a monstrous formation for a term of art that I suspect the feminist pro-choice absolutists will claim they own, their having uteri and whatnot, and those women with uteri who don’t happen to adopt their same viewpoints being nothing more than closet self-haters, or sufferers of false consciousness).
So instead, I figured I’d do what all the cool kids are doing today. Just create a hashtag and send it out into the world laden with as many implications as I can stuff into a tiny phrase. And for this purpose I’ve settled on the following: #HandsUpCocksDown
You can thank me later.
The only deaths that are worthy of condemnation and protest are when black people are killed by white cops. Haven’t you been paying attention?
women “harboring” 5-month-old viable children, which evidently is a monstrous formation for a term of art
Nature values anything that “harbors” life. You know, like a rainforest or a thermal vent.
Nature does not value hipsters.
That’s all you need to know on the subject.
>@HandsUpCocksDown<
#HandsUpCocksDown
does Michael Brown count for the purposes of this analysis
ax peter singer
#BabyIt’sColdOutside
“Abortion Killed 19 Times as Many Blacks as Murder”
What’s the ratio for whites?
“What’s the ratio for whites?”
The number there should probably be broken down a bit to make sense of it.
I reckon there is a decently higher rate of black abortion and still a far higher rate of black death by murder.
So, the ratio might well be far less for white folks but mainly because of a far lower rate of violent death.
Let’s posit something more like 50 to 1? Just a quick guess.
That’s what I was thinking. The abortion rate and murder rate are both lower for whites, so the ratio might not be much different, possibly even higher.
Lee,
I’m looking at CDC Table 12. But only 27 reporting areas (NY reports as a state and NYC reports on its own) report on the racial breakdown, 25 don’t.
with that in mind, 150,942 abortions to whites, 146,856 to blacks…
That alone is startling – blacks make up only 13% of the population and the number of abortions almost equals whites??
for 2013, 5,537 white murder victims, 6,261 black murder victims.
“So, the ratio might well be far less for white folks but mainly because of a far lower rate of violent death.”
I sorta inverted this ratio by language but I’m wondering about the same thing that Lee brought up.
If white abortion rates are medium-ish and our murder rates are very low compared to black folk then the rather obvious consequence is that white abortion to murder ratios are probably far higher.
So that works out to 23 times more for blacks and 27 times more for whites, no?
Working with those incomplete numbers anyway…
This might well be the world’s most depressing area of statistics.
Abortion to murder ratios. Jesus.
Let’s all just draw a warm bath and open our wrists.
I teach high school history. I regularly tell my students about facts like this. They were stunned to hear that more Black children were aborted than born alive in NY in 2012. No one has ever told them that there would be twice as many Black people in the U.S. today without abortion. Then I throw in gang violence. I gurantee you I am the only teacher on campus that tells them the whole story on Margaret Sanger.
Huh bh, I was just thinking, better not bring up the Asians, probably make the rest of us look
badworse again….Looking at the numbers that Darleen offers we would then see some initial evidence that Lee was correct and white abortions to murder would be even higher yet.
I wonder what the abortion/murder/suicide ratios are?
;-P (for my friend bh)
Certainly you’re right here as well.
(who I know loves emoticons and wishes we would all use them more)
Heh, good times, Lee.
Anyway, it seems perfectly clear we don’t need gun control, we need forceps control…
Personally I like #UnbornLivesMatter better.
Once the school board hears about what you’re teaching, gahrie, you’ll be out of a job.
How dare you tell the truth!
Here’s an economic study that’s open for anyone who wants to be hounded out of the academy: how well does abortion track economic decline?
I bet it follows pretty damn well.
It starts out tracking — then it begins to lead and reinforce.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess gahrie doesn’t teach at a
publicgubmit school.Hey look, Dicentra was right again!
Gahrie’s doing his students a better service than my 10th grade history teacher (probably my favorite high school teacher) did me and my peers.
Instead of the unvarnished truth, we got an ABC afterschool special, the lesson of which is that only beautiful people can have safe sex. Normal looking people get the back ally abortionist.
Hey look, Dicentra was right again!
Dicentra is always right about everything all the time.
So she’s not outright albino, maybe “leucistic”?
If a mars rover came across a fetus would it be called life?
Imagine if abortion was legal in Hawaii in 1961. Of course, it would have probably been legal in California as well and I might not have been around to appreciate it.