Talk to me about abortion
Only if you also talk to me about:
13 million children going hungry.
More than 9 million children with no health insurance.
Almost a million and a half homeless kids.
More than a fourth of all households headed by women living under the poverty line.
Talk to me about abortion
Only if you also talk to me about:
2 million inmates in the prison industry, with 65% of them black.
Poor and minority families provided with inferior education, inferior housing, inferior health care.
Black youth criminalized and controlled in a phony drug war.
Poor people, many of them black, left to die in
Talk to me about abortion
Only if you also talk to me about:
Women still treated as inferior to men.
The continuous battering and sexual abuse of women.
Sexual assault in the family.
Women demeaned, objectified, and exploited daily in the media.
Lower wages and less opportunity for women.
Talk to me about abortion
Only if you also talk to me about:
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered in the Iraq War, including many thousands of children.
Millions of children impoverished and dying of hunger and disease worldwide.
Corporations poisoning out water, food, and air while exploiting and impoverishing
Women and children enslaved in sweat shops so that corporations can make huge profits.
The
The existence of nuclear weapons, giving human beings the power to wipe out entire nations, and even the entire human race.
Addiction to oil causing catastrophic climate change threatening millions of lives, while politicians deny the problem.
Talk to me about abortion
Only if you also talk to me about
Sexism, white supremacy, hate crimes, homophobia, religious bigotry, corruption, misogyny, racism, fascism, election fraud, death squads, treason, imperialism, and genocide.
Talk to me about abortion
Only if you talk to me about all these other things.
Otherwise, don’t talk to me.
4 comments:
So, about abortion...
Thanks so much for this link. Yours is a powerful story.
That wasn't my story, but it is powerful.
Great post.
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