Abortion In The Black Community Debated On "Tell Me More"

I have a net positive view of "Tell Me More" host Michelle Martin. There are times, however, where her instinctive left-wing bias shows through. Please recall a few months ago when Black, Progressive and Gay activist Rich Benjamin appeared on her show to express his intention to boycott traditional marriage until he was given the "right" to marry as a gay man. I reported at that time that Ms Martin had a jolly old time with this leftist radical as he attempted to make an assault upon the institutions of marriage at a time in which the Black community is most misaligned from the function of this institution in support of our order and progression.

Fast forward to today's interview. A man who is opposed to the relatively high rates of abortion is on her show. He ties "Planned Parenthood" and Margaret Sanger to the effort to target Black communities where a number of their clinics reside. For some reason the words of Ryan Bomberger from the anti-abortion group drew the ire of Ms Martin more than anything that Reverend Carlton Veazey might have said.

Tactically Mr Bomberger made a mistake attempting to link Black abortions with Margaret Sanger. The issue of reproduction and rearing of our children stands alone and needs not be linked to "racism chasing" as a means of spurring outrage among Blacks.

It was quite interesting to listen to the verbal tap dance made by Rev Veazey. He says that it is a "moral choice" of a woman to keep or abort the baby she is carrying. He blamed the unintended pregnancy on the lack of ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND INFORMATION.

Funny - I thought that it took a PENIS, duly inserted into a VAGINA to transfer reproductive "body fluid" for the initiation of the gestation process?

I don't do "MORALS" because they merely apply someone's judgment upon another.

Let's talk FUNCTIONALITY instead.
Rev Veazey said NOTHING about the "MORALITY" of the RELATIONSHIPS that the Black women that he claims to be "helping". The fact is that a Black woman in a committed, long term relationship is far, far, far more likely to carry the child that she has in common with her mate to term than those who are in less formalized relationships.

While Rev Veazey (and no doubt Michelle Martin) worry about the politics of "Rowe v Wade" that are the hidden hand behind this movement - the truth is that the monster paw that has been striking at the Black community for a long time is the failure to erect and enforce our own behavior standards in support of our DESIRED OUTCOMES for our communities.

We hear Rev Veazey attempt to do a GRAND TRANSFERENCE as part of his indictment:

• Those who care so much about the "Black Fetuses" drop their concern once a Black child seeks health care and quality education

I seriously doubt that Rev Veazey "gets it".   The fact is that the REVERSE is true.

Just as educated women are increasingly delaying child birth in pursuit of career and educational options - SO TOO must the Black community's messages seek to influence our people toward reproduction inside of more favorable conditions.

Of course birth control and the right to choose to abort (WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT STEPPING IN) is a part of that extended conversation.  Rev Veazey pulled a fast one as he tacitly indicted Bomberger for being an agent of government enforcement.

The grand void in Rev Veazey's agenda is in fact the system by which the "Progressive" Black community, seeking better DIRECTED OUTCOMES - acknowledges that the culture that is in place BEFORE THE BODY FLUID EXCHANGE must serve as the strongest guide on what happens next.  This to a greater extent than:

• A condom to catch the body fluid, stopping it from doing what it instinctively does in pursuit of an egg
• The vacuum action contraption in the abortionists offices that also does what it is created to do

In effect - the best thing that Rev Veazey can do is to get Black women and men to BUY INTO his desire for HIGH ORDER LIVING through:

• Quality Health Care
• Financing Of Social Justice
• Quality Education for Black Kids

but FIRST making the case that THEIR ACTIONS and their RESPECT for this God-given process is the foundation of the "high rise" they seek to build.

I ask Rev Veazey - what happens when your flock is "all alone by itself" and THEY have to be the force that provides quality health care as evidence that THEY value both the fetus and the form that it takes after delivery?   After years of projecting indictments upon the greater society I am not sure that he has the consciousness to have our people channel their actions through a pattern which increases the chances of success.

(For the record - I am technically "Pro Choice" because I do not believe that government sanction should extend into the intimate affairs of our lives such as this issue.  I am 100% for culturally based admonition and channeling of our people toward a greater end by enforcing certain community based standards of behavior.
Worse than government sanction, however, are the people who implicitly indicate the inferiority of Black people in our ability to withhold our instinctive will for sexual pleasure as the body of consequences are tossed out of the window where only a government issued condom can protect us from the "body fluids" that our sex partner 'threatens' us with)