Georgia Right to Life has now adopted a new campaign strategy: convince minorities that they are under attack from groups like Planned Parenthood. Georgia Right to Life has been targeting minority schools and churches to try to persuade the largely black community of Atlanta that abortion is actually "genocide." Using evidence that states a large percentage of the number of abortions done in the country are on minority women, they try to make the claim that pro-choice groups are specifically enticing black women to get the procedure as part of a larger conspiracy against the black community of the United States. Unfortunately, their plan seems to be working. The articles quotes a sophomore from Atlanta who states that she was pro-choice until she saw Georgia Right to Life's film. Now, she says that she would keep her child, even if she does not want to, to fight against the conspiracy. If she were to get pregnant in high school, this girl states that she would keep the child to support the higher cause of protecting the black population of America against Genocide. She would have to support this child, while also trying do well in school, and one of the two responsibilities would suffer. Planned Parenthood was created to give women a second chance at living the life they want. If the pregnancy was planned, then the woman would have no reason to abort the child, and no pro-choice group would tell her to do so. It seems to me that all this talk of genocide by pro-life groups is created by the current pro-choice government. But really, would Obama actively try to kill off the African American community?
2 comments:
I think its ridiculous to say that Planned Parenthood is targeting minotiry women. It's one thing to be against abortion, but it's crazy to think that Planned Parenthood is going out there trying to find minority women to make have an abortion. No one wants to make another women have an abortion, its a choice! And groups like Planned Parenthood are simply out there to help those women who make that choice on their own.
It bothers me when people claiming a moral high ground commit a moral atrocity, like convincing minorities that abortion is a tool of oppression.
I'll admit that occasionally the ends do justify the means, and perhaps to these people, this is one of those occasions. I disagree; distributing false information and convincing people of a conspiracy theory could have long reaching consequences, possibly beyond the scope of the debate, although I admit that that statement sounds a bit conspiracy theory-like.
Regardless, by committing such a blatantly immoral act, Georgia Right to Life has effectively undermined their own (supposed) moral high ground. And the "ends justify the means" argument is not something everyone will sympathize with. It might not turn anyone away from the anti-abortion stance, but it could cause disunity among pro-life groups.
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