“Pro-life must be cancelled because it’s racist,” says Rolling Stone writer
A senior writer of Rolling Stone magazine has argued that the word pro-life should be cancelled because he believes it's rife with racism. "The moniker 'pro-life,' so often used in the service of not just misogyny but also racism, should be retired", Rolling Stone senior writer Jamil Smith wrote on Twitter Wednesday, replying to a post by the Rev. William J. Barber II, a progressive Protestant minister and political activist.
“Ironically, the governors most willing to watch their citizens die are the ones who have used ‘pro-life’ rhetoric to compel people of faith to support the narrow interests of corporate greed & white political power,” Barber had tweeted. “COVID has revealed how the ‘pro-life’ movement is killing us.”
In July, Brian Fisher, the president of Human Coalition and Human Coalition Action, wrote in an op-ed for The Christian Post, “We need to talk about the systemic racism of the abortion industry and its devastation of the Black family unit in America.”
“Abortion terminates a pre-born child in the womb — the deliberate killing of a human life,” Fisher wrote. “Abortion has devastating consequences for everyone involved; not only does abortion directly slaughter an innocent, pre-born life, but it also harms and exploits vulnerable women and leaves lasting mental, emotional and familial scars. Abortion is an evil that, like racism, attacks the dignity of the human being. And abortion, like segregation, disproportionately impacts black communities.”
Fisher shared that black women experience the highest abortion rate in the country, with 474 abortions of Black babies for every 1,000 live births. “Despite making up only 13% of the female population, black women receive 36% of all abortions. As even the pro-abortion Guttmacher institute reports, black women are five times more likely than White women to get an abortion.”
Source: christianpost.com
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