[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

[Wendy Lyon]

On 04/09/2008, Charles Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
>
>  I guess I'll say something controversial. In my opinion, abortion and
>  sex regulation in the US of the last 50 years, and longer, is ultimately
>  rooted in racism ( in the rightwing sector of the ruling class) and the
>  fear of the loss of the white " race" ( their concept; not ours).  They
>  want to control women's bodies, but more specifically they want to
>  control white women's bodies to make sure that they keep having babies.
>  They don't like the trend in Europe and America of falling birth rates
>  _of whites_.

That's not so controversial. Anti-abortionists used this argument
pretty openly in the late 19th century, when the first laws against
the procedure were introduced. Wasn't just on "racial" grounds either,
they also had a problem with the lower-class ethnic white Catholics
outbreeding them.