Abortion: the biggest human rights issue of the 21st century

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On October 29, a federal court blocked an Alabama law (challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union) that would have banned abortion in many instances. The law would have gone into effect on November 15. But, unfortunately, because it was blocked, abortion is still legal in all 50 states. Thousands of unborn Americans are killed each day and, for reasons I don’t understand, people are flat out ignoring the biggest human rights issue of the 21st century.

“I just see it as a life. Everyone has different reasons as to why they are pro-choice.” Elizabeth Paloyan, 12, said. “Why does the baby get the short end of the stick?”

“I just see it as a life. Everyone has different reasons as to why they are pro-choice. Why does the baby get the short end of the stick?”

Many different sources and organizations have different estimates of Americans killed by abortion since 1973, when the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, was passed, but all sources report roughly around 60 million. The present-day giant media corporations have, in my opinion, convinced men and women into believing that if you are not pro-choice, you are not pro-women. I don’t agree with that. Instead, I believe a true feminist does not trample over weaker individuals, and he or she does not discard human lives to push a political agenda they clearly don’t know much about.

I believe that Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States, was designed to destroy the African American population. Edwin Black, a New York Times best-selling author that has written about the eugenics movement in America, said this about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood: “Sanger was an ardent, self-confessed eugenicist, and she would turn her otherwise noble birth control organizations into a tool for eugenics, which advocated for mass sterilization for so-called defectives, mass incarceration of the unfit, and draconian immigration restriction.”

Black also stated that Sanger, “repeatedly referred to the lower classes and the unfit as ‘human waste’ not worthy of assistance, and proudly quoted the extreme eugenic view that human ‘weeds’ should be exterminated.” Planned Parenthood admits she spoke to the Klu Klux Klan in 1926. According to the 2010 Census, almost 80% of Planned Parenthood’s facilities are located in minority areas and neighborhoods.

Sanger states in an official letter, available on Smith College Libraries, dated December 10, 1939, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the negro population.” Because of this, I believe she was a disgusting human being whose goal was not to help women, but control the populations of minorities and the abortion movement in America was built up by racist and inhumane ideas. 

Planned Parenthood still aims to eliminate the offspring of people that find themselves in complicated situations. While the poverty rate in the United States in 2018 was 11.8%, according to the Guttmacher Institute, 49% of abortion patients are below the poverty line. While African Americans make up 13% of the United States, they make 30 % of all abortions.

Clinics hunt for vulnerable, poor, and minority people and convince them they are not strong enough to have a child. Dr. Aleveda King says it best: “Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”

Women can do whatever they set their minds to. So I’d appreciate it if pro-choicers would stop telling women that they are not physically, mentally, or economically strong enough to care for a child.  

I understand the pro-choice point-of-view in the United States. And I can also understand the arguments of the two-thirds of the American public that say they don’t want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, according to a Kaiser Family Fund Health Tracking Poll. I acknowledge that some pro-abortion citizens see the baby in the womb as an intrusive parasite. I can see how people believe that abortion is a reproductive right, but I still hold true the idea that abortion undermines our great and diverse country.