This abortion topic needs to be nipped in the bud. No pun intended. My insensitivity and ignorance towards abortion has only confounded me further after reading Smith’s essay. I like some bloggers here have been raised to follow good Christian values: all life is sacred, treat others the way you want to be treated, and never give less than $5 dollars when the offering basket is circulating. In truth, Smith’s essay only reminded me about our money-wasting prisons. I could spend this entire blog explaining how neo-liberalistic strategies in sustaining penitentiaries deepen the line between the wealthy and poor, but then again I’m a fan of Mister Marx.
Criminalization of abortion is just another tool the white man is pulling out his knapsack. Smith referenced Davis who argued that, “’racisms…congeal and combine’; they exist to maintain the capitalist and white supremacist underpinning of US society.” In just the same way this system singles out people of color as criminals and demonstrates no improvement in reducing crime this effectively rules that criminalizing abortion will paint colored people the same way. However, this is only one issue Smith speaks about. The author’s argument on how pro-choice agendas are as harming as pro-life made me erase my preconceived notion that the fight for reproductive rights was the same battle for ALL women. It’s cruel how even in issues involving the nature of having a baby or not—something ONLY biologically mandated for most women—is another form of oppression for colored women.What control does a brown sister have? Is it not enough that she has to carry a parasite for 9 months?
I really hope I don't get graded down for not writing a more interesting title...
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