For such a proud group of people, pro-abortion activists sure do seem reluctant to take ownership of the American abortion movement’s history. But they’ll sure as hell dig as deep as they need to to unearth something sinister in the pro-life movement. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Jewish Currents culture editor Marissa Brostoff tries to argue that the pro-life movement is white supremacist at heart:
i wrote about the white nationalism deep in the heart of the anti-abortion movement https://t.co/MkLKOwsx28
— Marissa Brostoff (@MarissaBrostoff) August 27, 2019
Ah, yes. There it is.
Thank you for such a deep dive into something so important.
— Rose (@WildScreaminBit) August 27, 2019
Never mind that that “deep dive” was into a steaming pile of BS.
This is the fakest news.
— Mich (@gopprincess123) August 27, 2019
One of the most mindbogglingly dumb things to ever appear in Washington Fishwrap. https://t.co/bEowCvUqtf
— Dead Agent (@Recursion_Agent) August 27, 2019
Your article is rife with blatant bias and ignorance of facts concerning the nature of abortion.
— masterpastor (@masterpastor) August 27, 2019
Your article is so biased it is almost sickening. For instance, you talk about the El Paso shooting but not the Dayton shooting…because that doesn't fit your narrative. You ignore the facts about targeted placement of #PP facilities in black areas too.
— masterpastor (@masterpastor) August 27, 2019
.@MarissaBrostoff "abortion access itself is in no way an expression of eugenic ideology"…Margaret Sanger – "We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…" (Letter to Dr. Clarence J. Gamble, December 10, 1939, p. 2)
— masterpastor (@masterpastor) August 27, 2019
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This is a terrible piece, that ignores the core history of how racist progressives were the ones that first advocated for abortion.
Convenient. https://t.co/piJbcWChCS
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) August 27, 2019
White Supremacists are actually against abortion…when it is their own race.
Because they value those lives. They don't value the lives of minorities.
So the question is…how much do the rest of us value those lives? Of all colors?
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) August 27, 2019
"Well over a century ago in the United States and elsewhere, fears about immigration and other forms of racial “contamination” became the explicit basis for the curtailing of reproductive freedoms."
How does one write this and ignore the eugenicist progressives like Sanger? https://t.co/dLJXsDB1S3
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
How does one ignore the fact that 36% of abortions are black babies? Or that more black babies in NYC are aborted than born?
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
I know how: because her goal is to smear pro-lifers in guilt-by-association with white supremacists. She apparently does not actually care about anything but that.
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
All she says about early 20 c. eugenicists is basically that it's complicated and people need abortion access: "But those developments are just one part of the story…
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
…The reproductive justice movement led by women of color has long argued that the struggle for abortion rights should not be framed as one side of a metaphysical battle between the values of “life” and “choice.”"
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
This is gobbledygook. The premise of the piece is that anti-abortion is part of white supremacy. She offers basically no direct evidence of this–just that Steve King is anti-abortion–and tosses aside direct evidence of what abortion actually does to minority communities.
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
If she wants to make a case that minority women should support abortion, fine. Do that. What is she doing pretending as if progressive eugenicists were not directly doing what she's claiming pro-lifers are doing by having more babies to avoid replacement?
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
At bottom, she's ascribing beliefs to some anti-abortion people that she's provided no evidence they hold, while downplaying or excusing the express beliefs of pro-abortion people because they complicate her narrative. It's crap.
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
During the 2016 election, every time I wrote a disapproving tweet about abortion, I'd get an article or two tweeted back at me by alt-right types telling me I was stupid.
Abortion you see, is why America wasn't full of minorities. It was some pretty disgusting stuff
☹️— Persnickety (@Dawnsfire) August 27, 2019
I should have brought this up earlier, but it's bizarre that her contorted theory with no evidence is viable, while Spencer-ites who are expressly pro abortion for this very reason are not worth the time of day. https://t.co/zaYYNB4pSl
— Molly Ratty (@molratty) August 27, 2019
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.