A False Moral Equivalency: Pro-Life Groups Targeted, Compared to White Supremacists After Charlottesville Violence

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Following the wounds of Charlottesville protests, some took the opportunity to further their agenda, including to malign their opponents.

NARAL Pro-Choice America spoke at length about the violence, going so far as to equate pro-lifers with violent white supremacists.

NARAL also found a platform on abortion, from the Traditionalist Worker Party, which they pointed to as “racist and anti-choice.”

In their tweet, NARAL failed to mention the white supremacists who do support abortion, and for the reasons of racism and eugenics.

Writing for the Daily Caller, Ben Johnson provided a litany of historical examples. While from three years ago, the article remains relevant today. This goes back even before the Nazis invaded Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and included in those examples is Margaret Sanger, a believer in racism and eugenics, who founded Planned Parenthood.

Johnson had more contemporary examples as well. A November 1995 edition of the Instauration not only supported China’s One-Child Policy, which operated by forced abortions, but argued for its adoption. “Much as the West hates to face it, the Chinese are absolutely correct in their compulsory population control measures,” one article read.

In 2012, Greg Johnson gave an interview in which he expressed support for certain kinds of abortions. This includes children with Down Syndrome:

“I think any miscegenated baby … yeah, Hell yeah, I would make that mandatory,” he said. “And in cases where the child has severe birth defects,” such as Down syndrome, because demanding child care may prevent parents from “having other children who could be normal.”

READ: Sick: Iceland Boasts About ‘Eradicating’ Those With Down Syndrome.

Jared Taylor, of American Resistance, with regards to lower-classes, at public schools, wrote that “students should get sex education, free contraceptives, and free abortions.”

A blog post from Secular Pro-Life Perspectives focused on Richard Spencer:

In a video defending political commentator Tomi Lahren’s pro-choice views, alt-right icon and self-described “Identitarian” Richard Spencer states that “People who are having abortions generally are very often black or Hispanic and very often in very poor circumstances to be honest,” highlighting that abortion mainly affects populations that the alt-right considers not worth reproducing.

Spencer adds, tellingly, “and so the anti-abortion crusade becomes this human rights crusade…that every being that’s human has a right to life and so on and that’s not how we think as Identitarians.”

An article from Aylmer Fisher published in April 2016 for Radix could hardly be clearer on supporting abortion. “Being pro-life flies in the face both of these [alt-right] principles,” Radix wrote.

Much of the article included a focus on African-Americans and Hispanics:

In a world with reliable birth control, it is quite easy to avoid an unwanted pregnancy; the only ones who can’t are the least intelligent and responsible members of society: women who are disproportionately Black, Hispanic, and poor.

Not only statements like those above, but statistics suggest that Margaret Sanger may have gotten her wish about how “want[ing] to exterminate the Negro population.” African-Americans and Hispanics make up an overwhelming percentage of abortions, which is disproportionate to their percentage of the overall population.

In some areas of New York City, which has been dubbed the “late-term abortion capital,” more babies have been aborted than born. Black and Hispanic babies make up a high percentage of that.

Today, Planned Parenthood is a leader in performing abortions not just on a national level, but a global one as well.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, addressed the racist connection with a Facebook graphic quoting both Spencer and Cecile Richards, the current CEO and president of Planned Parenthood.

Like NARAL, Planned Parenthood couldn’t resist tying the race relations over the weekend to their abortion crusade.

Those words from Richards are contrasted with her article for Medium, “Why Charlottesville is our fight too,” which also connects race relations to abortion.

Despite these efforts to save unborn children of any and all race, or perhaps because of it, many pro-life groups are dubbed hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has also targeted Christian groups.

READ: CNN Perpetuates Progressive Group’s Lie That Bible Believing Christians are a Hate Group

Abortion advocacy groups are so beholden to abortion, however, that they would rather protect the procedure over unborn children and their mothers who may be targeted for nefarious reasons. This includes opposition from NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and even the NAACP for state and federal legislation making it a crime to abort babies based on race or sex.