Race hustler, tax cheat and former MSNBC host Al Sharpton has issued a response to the draft opinion leaked this week showing the Supreme Court is considering overturning Roe v. Wade and returning the regulation of abortion to the states.
“The history of reproductive politics in the U.S. is rooted in structural forms of gendered, sexualized, and racialized acts of discrimination violating a women’s right to privacy. The leaked draft opinion might not be the final order of the Court, but it is yet another reminder that abortion restrictions and bans disproportionately burden Black women, low-income people, and others marginalized members of our community. They already face intersecting discriminatory barriers to accessing health care existing in law and fact and will now confront yet another challenge. Safe abortion access is as much a racial and an economic justice issue as the right to vote is the root of all civil rights issues," Sharpton and the Black women leadership of the National Action Network released in a statement Wednesday.
REV. SHARPTON, BLACK WOMEN LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK CONDEMN DRAFT SCOTUS ROE V. WADE OPINION THAT WOULD ADD MORE HEALTHCARE BARRIERS FOR BLACK COMMUNITIES
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) May 4, 2022
Urge U.S. Senate to Pass the Women’s Health Protection Act https://t.co/NL8J5fCmS6 pic.twitter.com/ZcPrw9Z2Bu
"If this draft is indeed passed as the majority opinion, the federally protected constitutional right to an abortion, the rule of law for almost 50 years, would be overturned. The Supreme Court would have neglected its responsibility to respect the precedent in Roe v. Wade. The authority to implement abortion laws would be turned over to individual states," they continued.
But does Sharpton know the facts about abortion? For example, that more black babies in New York City were aborted last year than born?
This isn't some fringe argument, it's literally true. In NYC, more black babies are aborted each year than born alive. Abortion rate there among black mothers is 3x that of their white counterparts. Like, not only does the draft argue this, but it is *also* factually correct. pic.twitter.com/cYLfTcFfUW
— Liz Wolfe (@lizzywol) May 4, 2022
Or that Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood with a goal of ridding the U.S. of the black population?
Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted.
— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2022
Alveda King: "Margaret Sanger thought Blacks were inferior and wanted to prevent them from ever being conceived .Today Planned Parenthood still carries on with its genocide of the Black community through abortion."
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) April 27, 2022
Maybe these issues will come up at Sharpton's event tonight.
JOIN NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK LIVE TONIGHT AS WE DISCUSS THE RECENT SCOTUS LEAK OF ROE V. WADE AND ITS IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES OF COLOR!
— Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) May 4, 2022
You can join us LIVE on FACEBOOK: NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK
or via live stream at https://t.co/syJZwqRf1G
Time: 6:30pm (ET) pic.twitter.com/Vhpc4ZTiEI