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Personhood: Beyond Roe and Doe
Personhood: Beyond Roe and Doe
Conflict Of Interest
A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II
In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest" within the Black community and among her leaders?
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Roe v. Wade was a controversial landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. The Court decided that a right to privacy under the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends to a woman's decision to have an abortion. 1 Doe v. Bolton, was another landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court overturning the abortion law of Georgia. 2 Here the Court's opinion in Doe v. Bolton stated that a woman may obtain an abortion after viability, if necessary to protect her health. Both Supreme Justice Harry Blackmun Court decisions were released on January 22, 1973. Sitting United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and is the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Here are her comments regarding the United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision: "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of." 3 Eliminating minority populations is what abortion is all about. However, overturning Roe v. Wade is not an effort
Since 1973 we have suffered the death of over 55 million babies, over 20 million of those Black American and counting. Black America is the abortion industries #1 target and #1 customer. 4 As Black American's we abort our children at such staggering rates that our future is at risk. Black American's consistently and with no end in sight, elect abortion supporters at every level of 2003 Roe v. Wade Rally government. Black American's overwhelmingly support our President who is willing to shut down the entire government to protect the funding of Planned Parenthood (the largest abortion provider in the country) with tax-payer dollars and stand ready to reelect him in 2012. It is Black America's support for Roe v. Wade that lends Planned Parenthood an illegitimate air of credibility as an organization that understands and meets the needs of minority women facing a difficult decision. This is the reason why it is so hard to defund Planned Parenthood. Any politician who votes to defund Planned Parenthood will be viewed as racist and misogynistic and in turn face serious reelection issues. So why doesn't Black America support the efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that's easily one of the worst decisions the Court has ever made? 5
Today, it's been almost 155 years since the Dred Scott decision and yet America still hasn't nailed down personhood for all.
United States of American, changed the game. However, even after Lincoln's victory and his now famous campaign debates and speeches that opposed the expansion of slavery in the United States, southern slave states declared secession.
Like slavery this strategy redefined the definition of personhood of Black Americans guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.
In the mind of Black America, Roe v. Wade, is at best America's way of providing a "socioeconomic safety net" for the poor or those vulnerable to poverty from falling below a certain status level or deeper into a tax-payer padded pit that's both legal and my right to choose when I can't see my way out of a bad situation. At worst Roe v. Wade is just the latest weapon America is using to oppress the personhood of communities of color for her own personal profit. The bottom line is Black America has no faith in America and no hope of ever participating in the American Dream. Roe v. Wade can be overturned today and Black America, Planned Parenthood's #1 target and #1 customer, will still struggle with a perpetual pain and an incurable wound which refuses to be healed. Black America, which in addition to having the highest abortion rates in the country, also has the highest STD rates, the highest percentage of unwed mothers and the highest percentage of unemployed, is like Jeremiah (Jeremiah 15:18), asking God "wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?" 7
Black America cares more about "Equality" and "Justice" than about overturning Roe v. Wade. Because "nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care," we care more about being included in the best-known sentence in the English language, ("We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.") than we do about overturning Roe v. Wade. Because the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, the framework for the organization of our government and the final arbiter in the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States, we care more about installing a definition of personhood that applies to everyone regardless of the means by which they were procreated, method of reproduction, age, race, sex, gender, physical well-being, function, or condition of physical or mental dependency and/or disability or previous condition of servitude than we do about overturning Roe v. Wade. It's not about overturning Roe v. Wade. It's about people. It's about helping hurting people. So shouldn't we, as the Body of Christ, leave the results to God, give Him the glory for the great things He has done and work together to help hurting people? Brothers, we really need to talk.
Reference(s): 1. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1972). Findlaw.com. Retrieved 2007-01-26. It should be noted that Roe herself opposes Roe. In 1995, Norma L. McCorvey revealed that she became pro-life and is now a vocal opponent to abortion. 2. Sandra Cano, a 22-year-old mother of three who was nine weeks pregnant at the time the lawsuit was filed, describes herself as pro-life and claims her attorney, Margie Pitts Hames, lied to her in order to have a plaintiff. (White, Gayle. "Roe v. Wade Role Just a Page in Rocky Life Story"). 3. "The Place of Women on the Court", The New York Times, July 12, 2009, Emily Bazelon (http://bit.ly/eRam4I). 4. "Racial Targeting and Population Control", Mark Crutcher, President, Life Dynamics Incorporated. "The numbers make it clear that the African-American and Hispanic communities have been targeted and logic makes it clear that this did not happen coincidentally or unintentionally." (http://bit.ly/nFyUrU). 5. "Seven Supreme Court Decision", Conflict of Interest, Walter B. Hoye II (http://bit.ly/kjmo2J). 6. "Report on the Commission of Education". 1959. (http://bit.ly/tMtKQ5), Heinemann, Ronald L. (1962). Harry Byrd of Virginia, p. 350. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia. 7. Jeremiah 15:18 (KJV): "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you be altogether unto me as a deceitful brook, and as waters that fail?"
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