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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to figure out how many nights and weekends I need to devote to flipping the house and keeping abortion legal (not some 15 or worse 6 week ban).[/quote]

So…question.
Are you one of the folks who believe that  disparity of outcome by race indicates that racism must be the root cause of said outcome? If so, given that over 56% of abortions in Virginia in 2020 were performed on black and brown women (source: statista), how do you justify your support of abortion in VA as anything other than a structural or systemic racist effort to limit the birth (and therefor specifically target restricting the growth in population) of unborn black and brown children?

I’m not even positing that this is necessarily a strong argument, because I actually don’t happen to be someone who believes that an outcome disparity along racial lines points to racism as its cause. (IMO there are usually many causes—but the current trend in health education, from CDC, Harvard, Scientific American, is to push the narrative that health inequities/outcomes by race are structurally racist)…and I was just curious about the cognitive dissonance among those who generally hold this view, and yet make exceptions for situations that are inconvenient to this viewpoint.

Not sure whether anyone is even interested in thoughtful consideration of this question, especially as abortion is always a hot-button issue that is framed by strategic rhetoric on both sides of the issue, but it’s a message board, so why not put it out there…….

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