What happens when a group of masked white supremacists shows up at a March for Life rally?
This happened over the weekend in Chicago. The pro-lifers attending the event did not want the white nationalist group hijacking the cause, according to many reports. Pro-lifers heckled the group, Patriot Front, and one person even told Patriot Front that the group is “an embarrassment.”
Patriot Front is an organization that supports America having a pan-European (white) identity, according to its website. It’s not surprising that the group wasn’t well-received because being pro-life in the United States is an anti-racist position.
While disingenuous politicians such as Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, try to brand pro-life beliefs as white supremacy, the opposite is true in this country.
Abortion kills human beings before they’re born. And most of those humans killed in abortion in the U.S. are racial minorities. Only 39% of the unborn killed via abortion each year in the U.S. are white; that means 61% of them are nonwhite.
This is also why prominent white nationalists in the U.S. support legal abortion. Richard Spencer, widely seen as a leader of the alt-right, is pro-choice specifically because he understands the demographic reality of the issue. The same is true of American Renaissance publisher Jared Taylor, who thinks that abortion “on balance, prevents unwanted children from coming into the world.” He added, “I think that’s a good thing.”
For pro-lifers in the U.S., opposition to abortion isn’t about skin color. It’s a recognition that abortion is a horrific act of violence against a vulnerable member of the population. Being pro-life is also an understanding that human life begins at conception and not the absurd “first breath” standard that liberals such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claim to believe. Sadly, a lot of liberal politicians don’t even believe that, otherwise they’d support born-alive bills.
Whether it’s happening to someone who is white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, or of another group, abortion is legalized homicide.
That’s not to say that supporting legal abortion makes someone racist. However, some people in the U.S. support it for racist and eugenic reasons. Those people want fewer racial minorities born so America can remain majority-white for a longer time.
The pro-life movement, on the other hand, wants to give people a chance at life, and it recognizes that society shouldn’t base a human being’s worth on whether or not their biological mother wants to carry a pregnancy to term.
Tom Joyce (@TomJoyceSports) is a political reporter for the New Boston Post in Massachusetts. He is also a freelance writer who has been published in USA Today, the Boston Globe, Newsday, ESPN, the Detroit Free Press, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Federalist, and a number of other outlets.
