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Where the rubbers meet the road
Dan Fitzpatrick
Issue date: 8/13/08 Section: Forum
This is true, naturally, because Whites are the majority of the population. The truly relevant figure is that in 2003, despite being about 17 percent of the national population, Blacks made up 37 percent of abortions. That translates to about 314,668 Black children having their lives ended early.
Numbers like that are sometimes too abstract for me to understand, so here's a helpful comparison: the number of Black abortions in 2003 was roughly equivalent to the population of the city of Pittsburgh.
The numbers and facts are out there for anybody to find, and that's why Gwin and Planned Parenthood continue to close ranks and run interference for each other. It's why they categorize abortion as a "woman's right to choose" while neglecting to say that they are "choosing" whether or not to end a baby's life - it just doesn't sound as nice when you put it that way.
It's why they simply presume that people can't take responsibility for their actions, and so they need contraception and abortion to protect them from the effects of their dangerous behavior.
Fortunately, our president, the Roman Catholic Church and our African brethren all know the truth. They know that only by encouraging young people like us to take control of ourselves - our sexuality, our behavior, our values - and resist the absurd "consequence-free sex" crud we've been force-fed at OSU and elsewhere.
Gwin and Planned Parenthood treat sex like a buffet, where you can have all your body can possibly handle and the consequences are about as bad as a stomach ache. Most of us students already know - many from personal experience - that that's all a bunch of shinola.
Frankly, I think it's past time we let them know we're not going to be led around by the crotch, and that we are far more capable of being responsible with our lives and bodies than they can even imagine.
We're not going to be left singing along with the Scarecrow, "if I only had a brain…"
Numbers like that are sometimes too abstract for me to understand, so here's a helpful comparison: the number of Black abortions in 2003 was roughly equivalent to the population of the city of Pittsburgh.
The numbers and facts are out there for anybody to find, and that's why Gwin and Planned Parenthood continue to close ranks and run interference for each other. It's why they categorize abortion as a "woman's right to choose" while neglecting to say that they are "choosing" whether or not to end a baby's life - it just doesn't sound as nice when you put it that way.
It's why they simply presume that people can't take responsibility for their actions, and so they need contraception and abortion to protect them from the effects of their dangerous behavior.
Fortunately, our president, the Roman Catholic Church and our African brethren all know the truth. They know that only by encouraging young people like us to take control of ourselves - our sexuality, our behavior, our values - and resist the absurd "consequence-free sex" crud we've been force-fed at OSU and elsewhere.
Gwin and Planned Parenthood treat sex like a buffet, where you can have all your body can possibly handle and the consequences are about as bad as a stomach ache. Most of us students already know - many from personal experience - that that's all a bunch of shinola.
Frankly, I think it's past time we let them know we're not going to be led around by the crotch, and that we are far more capable of being responsible with our lives and bodies than they can even imagine.
We're not going to be left singing along with the Scarecrow, "if I only had a brain…"
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Vanessa
posted 8/26/08 @ 7:54 PM PST
About the Facts:
I found your long quote from Dr. Mulcaire-Jones, which seems to have been cut and pasted directly from an article authored by the The Catholic Education Resource center. (Continued…)
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