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<DIV>I've noticed (through my activism and reading) that the anti-abortion
movement is basically a white-led movement with overwhelmingly white activists
(with a teensy-weensy sprinkling of black preachers and their followers). To
my knowledge, all the known anti-abortion terrorists have been white as well.
If anyone doubts this, go do clinic defense work. At the same time, about one
third of the abortion clinic patients are women of color. This racial
demographics of anti-abortion activists and clinic patients give rise to
racialized sexual brutalization, reminiscent of slave owners' desire to make
black women breeders and to otherwise deny them agency in reproduction.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>mbs: this accurately describes the scene in front of
clinics involving pro-life activists</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>and clinic patients, but its broader applicability to race
is something else again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>There's some romanticization of the leftward sympathies of
minorities implied here.</FONT></DIV>It's easy to gloss over the cultural and
social conservatism of minorities, especially</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>African-Americans and Hispanics, since the more overt racism
of the Right tends</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>to drive them left, but opposition to abortion among
minorities is much deeper than</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>a "sprinkling."</FONT></DIV>
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