I'd say denial of Black women's right to abortion is a human rights violation, but it is not genocidal or a violation of the UN Convention against genocide.
This ignores the role of abortion in racist genocide, as for example when Margaret Sanger, the white feminist, joined the eugenics movement. The UN Convention against genocide specifically makes it genocide to try to prevent a racial or national group from having children.
It is too much of a loop to try to turn birth prevention methods into anti-genocidal measures. The right to safe, economically supported births is just as much a reproductive right as the right to abortion. "Birth control" means the control to have babies as well as the control not to have babies.
Charles Brown
>>> Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
I did raise the concern of how masculinist black nationalists may fight
universal access to birth control on the grounds that it was a form of
black genocide. Even in the recent book the Killing of the Black
Body--which discusses the discourse of black genocide in our culture--the
law professor Dorothy Roberts raises this same concern
for the negative implications towards minority's women autonomy and
reproductive freedom.