Jan 31 2012 - 5:20am
This author failed to talk about the documented health risks to women who don't have any children [IE: increased risk of breast & ovarian cancer]. Plus we're not talking about the 1800's nor the first half of the 1900s- this is 2012! So even if that study's data is actually legit [more on that below] we should be asking the question why & how in this age of 21st century medicine USA- is having an abortion in the US 14Xs safer than giving birth?
But if you read the Reuters Health article referenced by Ms Marcotte about abortion being 14Xs safer than child-birth one sees that the GUTTMACHER Institute was a major player in this study [from the article: 'The researchers of the new study combined government data on live births and pregnancy- with ESTIMATES of abortion-related deaths for legal abortions performed in the US from the Guttmacher Institute...']. It just so happens that the GUTTMACHER Institute is closely associated w the Planned Parenthood Association of America {PPFA} whose founder actually sat on PPFA’s board. Thus one might suspect that they used cherry-picked the data [such a large disparity in risks {@ 14 to 1} between giving birth & abortions- indicates that’s likely so]. But how could they cherry-pick data to get these results? Potentially by comparing child-birth death rates from medical facilities that specialize in handling hi-risk pregnancies &/or service primarily Black, Brown & poor pregnant women w ESTIMATED {IE: extrapolated} abortion risks from abortion clinics w the safest tract-records!
Then there's this quote from the article; } 'An induced abortion- Requires INFORMED Consent from the Woman, said Dr. Bryna Harwood, an ob-gyn from the Univ of IL @ Chicago. What makes it complicated, Harwood added, is when the law interferes and requires doctors to state information that isn't always balanced or medically sound- usually exaggerating the risk of abortion...' { - IMO: This is the hidden purpose of this study [& why Ms Marcotte referenced it]- to fight against laws requiring doctors to fully inform women {AND GIRLS often without parental consent} of associated risks before performing an abortion.
But if you read the Reuters Health article referenced by Ms Marcotte about abortion being 14Xs safer than child-birth one sees that the GUTTMACHER Institute was a major player in this study [from the article: 'The researchers of the new study combined government data on live births and pregnancy- with ESTIMATES of abortion-related deaths for legal abortions performed in the US from the Guttmacher Institute...']. It just so happens that the GUTTMACHER Institute is closely associated w the Planned Parenthood Association of America {PPFA} whose founder actually sat on PPFA’s board. Thus one might suspect that they used cherry-picked the data [such a large disparity in risks {@ 14 to 1} between giving birth & abortions- indicates that’s likely so]. But how could they cherry-pick data to get these results? Potentially by comparing child-birth death rates from medical facilities that specialize in handling hi-risk pregnancies &/or service primarily Black, Brown & poor pregnant women w ESTIMATED {IE: extrapolated} abortion risks from abortion clinics w the safest tract-records!
Then there's this quote from the article; } 'An induced abortion- Requires INFORMED Consent from the Woman, said Dr. Bryna Harwood, an ob-gyn from the Univ of IL @ Chicago. What makes it complicated, Harwood added, is when the law interferes and requires doctors to state information that isn't always balanced or medically sound- usually exaggerating the risk of abortion...' { - IMO: This is the hidden purpose of this study [& why Ms Marcotte referenced it]- to fight against laws requiring doctors to fully inform women {AND GIRLS often without parental consent} of associated risks before performing an abortion.
IMO: The over-population meme is over-hyped- BUT You Are Correct that massive industrial pollution & accidents [IE: the BP Gulf oil spill & Fukushima] is threatening the eco-sphere & extinction for various flora & fauna [& potentially even man himself].
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Dec 2 2011 - 10:52pm
I'm against the so-called 'Dream' Act because it has pro military provisions [it's been said that the DoD actually helped to write it] but I'm not against fair / equitable / intelligent - immigration reform [how many folks who want to militarize {Berlin Wall Style} the US' southern border also are against NAFTA style trade agreements which exacerbated the immigration issue]. And I resent using MLK in trying to create an unnecessary wedge issue between Blacks & Browns. This author talked very extensively how the Aristocrats of the Ole & even New Dixie convinced so many working-class / working-poor whites - most of whom weren't even slave owners- to help oppress Blacks based on racism- even against their best interests. FYI: MLK & Cesar Chavez were contemporaries & allies w great respect for each other!
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http://www.voxunion.com/hating-black-people-is-still-the-favorite-american-past-time/
http://newsone.com/2019764/terry-jones-obama-lynched/
http://newsone.com/2019764/terry-jones-obama-lynched/
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DavidApril 30, 2012
A very truthful post Mr.Doucet. The first step when Whites kill blacks is always criminalization. If you don’t have a prison record in your over policed community they’ll find an old teacher to say you were no good. The point is genocide is as American as apple pie and the sooner people realize that no one will protect Us, you, me, mine and Yours, will always find ourselves at the wrong end of the barrel of the gun. However the state knows we as a people fear them. They even boldly wrote about it in the Cointelpro files about the Black Panthers and the community in general. They write us off as punks and non-men like it’s gospel. The number one rule of genocide is that you must make the target population worthless in the eyes of the society. If you accomplish that, genocide is the natural conclusion. Now just put the pieces together as to what has and is transpiring to the non-citizen groups here in America (including Africans in America, some might get confused). Look at the white-out on African history, Demeaning caricatures, Stereotypes and Judgments on Value and Character. Whats been going on is nothing but a slow march to a final conclusion. It’s time as a people that we came to our own conclusion. We need to be clear on what’s what and who’s who and make a move on history, before we find it’s too late and time moves on us instead.
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NixaklielMay 1, 2012
To flesh out a few points made by this article:
It’s important that Blacks [& other people of color] remember that historically the primary on-going function of so-called ‘Law Enforcement’ Authorities in the US [& by extension all of the western hemisphere]- Is Keeping N____ [often includes other non-whites {IE: indigenous peoples & ‘Latinos’} as is designated by the color-caste system] In Their Place- by Hook or by Crook, -&- to protect the property & interests of the {white}Power / Corporate Elites & the Affluent vis-a-vis the working-class & the poor. All other Police functions are secondary [if not incidental- IE: serving & protecting the general public] to these 2 primary functions- period. Though currently this is seldom acknowledged openly- Nearly every act of the Criminalized {in}Justice system / Prison Industrial Complex can be properly diagnosed, analyzed explained, etc by keeping that foremost in mind.
Trayvon’s murder by Zimmerman- With his subsequent demonization has been bought into by many whites- & not all of them are ‘Real Whitey Good Ole Boy FOX Noise types either. Even at so-called ‘Liberal-Progressive’ sites IE: Common Dreams- though most CD commentors are sympathetic toward Trayvon & support Z-man’s arrest [though it’s note-worthy that many even in this group seem uneasy at the obvious racial implications of Z-man gunning Trayvon down]- a significant vocal minority of commentors @ CD have seemingly bought into the demonization of Trayvon. I’ve even been accused of ‘Playing the so-called “Race-Card” ‘[by a self described very ‘liberal’ staunch gun-rights advocate] for objecting to someone insisting on Blaming Trayvon for Z-man shooting him!
IF Zimmerman is convicted- maybe he gets 20 -25 yrs Max. At 411.SeeingBlack.com they recently reported on 2 other separate cases in FL where 2 people [likely a Black man & a Black woman] have been sentenced to 20yrs mandatory for NOT SHOOTING someone [IE: firing a warning shot] when threatened them IN THEIR OWN HOMES [what happened to ‘Stand Your Ground’ in these cases]! And in MN a Black Woman is also charged w 2nd degree murder for defending herself w some scissors, after being attacked by 3 racists w a beer-mug in which she [unlike Z-man’s phantom injuries] is documented to have suffered lacerations to her throat & face! This is in far up-north ‘liberal’ MN, Not ‘Ole Dixieland’!
IMO: The best examples of whites’ hypocritical attitudes RE: Black Sports stars- are OJ & the William Sisters. OJ was the epitome of the ‘All American Negro’ Success Story- that white America seemed to love. BUT- All that changed when his white ex-wife turned up dead. When he was acquitted most white folks were & remain{ed} out-raged! – Compared to their Ho-Hum reaction to Robert Blake’s acquittal for killing his wife- when both the evidence & motive against Blake was stronger. And it was OJ’s white Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘Race-Card’ against fellow OJ ‘Dream-Team’ colleague, the Late Johnnie Cochran- when Cochran showed that a lying racist rouge cop like Mark Furhman was [is] quite capable of planting incriminating evidence against OJ [seems that most whites & the MSNM Media are no-longer that out-raged about Furhman].
The Hate-Her-Aide that so many whites have displayed for Williams Sisters [including their father & even their mother] for their entire careers, shows that it ain’t just about being accused of murder ala OJ! The fact that Venus & Serena have kept US tennis from going into oblivion for the past decade apparently ain’t good enough! So many white US tennis fans seem to forget all about their ‘patriotism’ when it comes to Venus & Serena, by openly rooting for their European opponents- even when playing in the US! AND- Few US fans, or even US sports commentators, seem out-raged that since the Williams era, 3 different times in women’s tennis someone who has NEVER-Ever won a major has been ranked number one- which has NEVER Happened in men’s tennis, nor had happened in women’s tennis before Venus & Serena started dominating the court!
Such is the state of affairs in so-called ‘post-racial’ USA!
Trayvon’s murder by Zimmerman- With his subsequent demonization has been bought into by many whites- & not all of them are ‘Real Whitey Good Ole Boy FOX Noise types either. Even at so-called ‘Liberal-Progressive’ sites IE: Common Dreams- though most CD commentors are sympathetic toward Trayvon & support Z-man’s arrest [though it’s note-worthy that many even in this group seem uneasy at the obvious racial implications of Z-man gunning Trayvon down]- a significant vocal minority of commentors @ CD have seemingly bought into the demonization of Trayvon. I’ve even been accused of ‘Playing the so-called “Race-Card” ‘[by a self described very ‘liberal’ staunch gun-rights advocate] for objecting to someone insisting on Blaming Trayvon for Z-man shooting him!
IF Zimmerman is convicted- maybe he gets 20 -25 yrs Max. At 411.SeeingBlack.com they recently reported on 2 other separate cases in FL where 2 people [likely a Black man & a Black woman] have been sentenced to 20yrs mandatory for NOT SHOOTING someone [IE: firing a warning shot] when threatened them IN THEIR OWN HOMES [what happened to ‘Stand Your Ground’ in these cases]! And in MN a Black Woman is also charged w 2nd degree murder for defending herself w some scissors, after being attacked by 3 racists w a beer-mug in which she [unlike Z-man’s phantom injuries] is documented to have suffered lacerations to her throat & face! This is in far up-north ‘liberal’ MN, Not ‘Ole Dixieland’!
IMO: The best examples of whites’ hypocritical attitudes RE: Black Sports stars- are OJ & the William Sisters. OJ was the epitome of the ‘All American Negro’ Success Story- that white America seemed to love. BUT- All that changed when his white ex-wife turned up dead. When he was acquitted most white folks were & remain{ed} out-raged! – Compared to their Ho-Hum reaction to Robert Blake’s acquittal for killing his wife- when both the evidence & motive against Blake was stronger. And it was OJ’s white Jewish lawyer who coined the term ‘Race-Card’ against fellow OJ ‘Dream-Team’ colleague, the Late Johnnie Cochran- when Cochran showed that a lying racist rouge cop like Mark Furhman was [is] quite capable of planting incriminating evidence against OJ [seems that most whites & the MSNM Media are no-longer that out-raged about Furhman].
The Hate-Her-Aide that so many whites have displayed for Williams Sisters [including their father & even their mother] for their entire careers, shows that it ain’t just about being accused of murder ala OJ! The fact that Venus & Serena have kept US tennis from going into oblivion for the past decade apparently ain’t good enough! So many white US tennis fans seem to forget all about their ‘patriotism’ when it comes to Venus & Serena, by openly rooting for their European opponents- even when playing in the US! AND- Few US fans, or even US sports commentators, seem out-raged that since the Williams era, 3 different times in women’s tennis someone who has NEVER-Ever won a major has been ranked number one- which has NEVER Happened in men’s tennis, nor had happened in women’s tennis before Venus & Serena started dominating the court!
Such is the state of affairs in so-called ‘post-racial’ USA!
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PEASEHEADMay 2, 2012
I don’t waste a lot of time pretending that when it comes to issues of race, labels such as “liberal”, “conservative”, “libertarian”, etc. which White people apply to themselves have much meaning. The United States was conceived as a racist, White supremacist nation by its pro-slavery founders nearly three centuries ago, and in spite of the passage of time and much over heated rhetoric to the contrary, it remains true to its roots. America will become a post racial nation the same day that Chinese cease to speak Mandarin.
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YusefMay 3, 2012
First of all, thank you all for your interest, your engagement, and your insights. Your comments add critical context and extension to my commentary. The world remains the Manichaean world described by Fanon. The settlers continue to practice extermination programs in various forms, official and unofficial, private and institutional. We continue to believe we deserve it. We continue to hate ourselves and kill ourselves with more frequency than the settlers, having learned the lessons of our degradation well. We continue to fear because we did see what white power has down around the globe to crush or tame the Black Revolution that was re-shaping the world. We said Black is Beautiful, but not enough of us in the world everywhere really believed it. The official discrediting of openly malicious racism has done nothing to change the basically assumed western/white superiority. The West has represented itself as the end of history instead of just the end. So we need another kind of self defense equal to defense of life and limb. We need to defend our minds. Culture workers? Culture jammers? We also need to remeber Gil Scott-Heron admonition: “there ain’t no such thing as superman.”
