Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Whack Jobs Since when does abortion have anything to do with slavery?
Posted by Mishall Rehman on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:01 AM
According to the Radiance Foundation, abortion and slavery have a lot more in common than you might have thought. And to make sure you see the link between the two, the Alpharetta-based foundation has started a campaign to prop up nearly 50 billboards across metro Atlanta.
The billboards feature such slogans as "The 13th Amendment Freed us. Abortion Enslaved Us" and "Abortion makes three-fifths human seem overly generous." The billboards popped up across metro Atlanta on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
The billboards are part of a campaign targeted at persuading black women from resorting to abortions. Black women account for 30 percent of abortions but are only 12 percent of the population.
The campaign has raised many eyebrows from organizations like the NAACP who told the Huffington Post that likening slavery to abortion is slightly offensive:
"Comparing abortion to slavery certainly raises major concerns," Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington bureau of the NAACP, told HuffPost in an interview. "Women are not forced to have abortions the way they were in servitude. Slavery was about not having the right to make any decisions. Women were actually bred to produce children for the purposes of profit. This is so far removed from that, that if it weren't such a serious issue, it would almost be laughable."
The foundation also launched other similar campaigns across the country in the past to target black women from contributing to the so called abortion "epidemic." Here is a link to their campaign.
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I just love it when history-oblivious idiots make reference to 3/5s as if it were the pro-slavery side that wanted to treat slaves as "3/5s of a man". Of course, it was actually the anti-slavery movement that wanted 3/5s instead of a full 1 because it diminished the electoral power of the slave-owning states. Get your history straight before you hang billboards! (For the record, in that era, women were 0/5!)
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3/5 was a compromise on both sides.
Anti-slavery wanted to argue you cannot count people without rights. You know, citizens.
Pro-slavery wanted more votes but didn't want to concede citizenship to their property.
But whatever, this is just some more stupid shit from the anti-choice movement trying to shove their agenda down women's throats.
Anyone who can be swayed by a billboard to make a serious choice should not be allowed to have children.
"Wow is it a good thing I saw that billboard on my way to get an abortion."
"I need to find out who this Jesus guy is."
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