>>> "Wendy Lyon"
On 04/09/2008, Charles Brown 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.
^^^ CB: Then Malthus. Is there a thesis on religion as main propaganda frame for population control ? Opium of the people, verses for making women make people, or not.
In the US today , the white powers that be are counting on the working class white Catholic women. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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