Speaking at the Women’s March on Saturday in Las Vegas, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards reached the height of hypocrisy when she lectured white women in the crowd by saying admiringly, “It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That’s on all of us.”
Richards pontificated:
All across the country, the Women’s March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office, and from Virginia to Alabama and to last week in Wisconsin, women have beaten the odds to elect our own to office. That’s right, women of color, transgender women, rural and urban women, and these victories were led and made possible by women of color, so, white women, listen up, we’ve got to do better, we’ve got to do better. It is not up to women of color to save this country from itself. That’s on all of us. That’s on all of us. The good news is, the good news is, when we are in full on sisterhood, women are the most powerful political force in America. And when we recognize that no one is free until everyone is free. Right? And that means no matter what country you come from, or who you love, no matter what you look like, no matter what, we are unstoppable.
Hmm, if Richards has such admiration for women of color, you would think she would want more of them. Yet as the group Protecting Black Life pointed out in 2012, 79% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities were located within walking distance of African American and/or Hispanic/Latino communities. Those easy-to-find baby murder factories surely couldn’t bode well for promoting more births to colored women.
Protecting Black Life wrote:
2010 Census results reveal that Planned Parenthood is targeting minority neighborhoods. It has located 79% of its 165 surgical abortion facilities within walking distance of African American or Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods. Planned Parenthood located 62% of its abortion facilities within 2 miles of African American neighborhoods, and 64% near Hispanic or Latino neighborhoods, thus establishing them as “targeted neighborhoods.” Sadly, Black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than White women, and Hispanic or Latino women are nearly twice as likely.
In addition, Richards asserted on Saturday, “No one is free until everyone is free.” Free to be born without being slaughtered in the womb apparently is not on Richards’ list of freedoms.
Richards feels free to praise women of color who make it past the abortionist’s bloody knife, but how about the hundreds of thousands of female babies of color who didn’t?
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