The document summarizes opposition to New York City's new abortion law passed in 1970. It argues that the law will be used by the oppressive ruling class to eliminate Black people and other oppressed groups before they are born. The abortion law hides under the guise of helping women but will actually attempt to destroy the Black community. The solution lies not in eliminating pregnancies but in overthrowing the capitalist system through revolution.
The document summarizes opposition to New York City's new abortion law passed in 1970. It argues that the law will be used by the oppressive ruling class to eliminate Black people and other oppressed groups before they are born. The abortion law hides under the guise of helping women but will actually attempt to destroy the Black community. The solution lies not in eliminating pregnancies but in overthrowing the capitalist system through revolution.
The document summarizes opposition to New York City's new abortion law passed in 1970. It argues that the law will be used by the oppressive ruling class to eliminate Black people and other oppressed groups before they are born. The abortion law hides under the guise of helping women but will actually attempt to destroy the Black community. The solution lies not in eliminating pregnancies but in overthrowing the capitalist system through revolution.
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1970 BLACK PEOPLE KNOW THAT PART Of OUR REVOLUTIONARY STRENGTH LIES IN THE FACT THAT WE OUT NUMBER THE PIGS- AND THE PIGS REALIZE THIS TOO. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY REACH THEIR iNEVITABLE DOOM! In New York City as of July 1~ 1970 it will be legal for women to receive an abortion up to 2-4 months pregnant. The decision will be based on feelings of the woman and her doctor. The struggle for "women,s liberation" via a womans' prerogative to eliminate an unwanted child(?) has won a victory? But a victory for whom? Perhaps it is a victory for the White middle class mother who wants to have a smaller family, thereby enabling her to have more material goods or more time to participate in whatever fancies her at the moment. But most of all it is a victory for the oppressive ruling class who will use this law to kill off Black and other oppressed people before they are born.. To the Black woman,J the welfare mothers, it is an announcement of death before birth .. Black worn en love children, and now in order to see to it that they do not starve, that they do not have to be ashamed of having to wear improper clothing, that they do not have to suffer all the degradation of this racist, capitalist society}) they will kill them before they are born. Black women love large families and the only reason that they would want to elin1inate them is to rid them of the pain and the agony of crying to survive. Why in a country where farmers like Eastland, who are given large sums of public funds to not grow food; where food is actually burnedmust Black mothers kill their unborn children. So they won't go hungry? Absurd I Eliminating ourselves is not the solution to the hunger problem in America nor any other problem that could exist from a so~called unwanted pregnancy in the context of this capitalistic society. The solution lies in overthrowing this system and returning the means of production back to the eople---REVOLUTION .. As long as the
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this very moment a plan which calls for a definite sealing on the num ~er of additional children a welfare mother can receive financial assistance for~ has already been made into a lavJ in s orne states and will soon exist inN ..Y .. C, This will create a situation where a welfare mother is told that she will r..ow receive additional financial assistance for the child she is expecting; and the solution provided by the government is a genocidal abortiono In order to solve the problem of no means to take care of her child, the law will allow a mother to "legallyH mJrder her unborn child.. Black women will reject this "legalized rnurder" just as they rejected the attempt to force family planning i11 the guise of pills and coils .. And for those w!1o say that it will : revent useless deaths and perm anent injury to those women driven to self-~ inflicted abortion, based on capitalistic morality 1 or even for those who have legitimate physical and psychological reasons; we say that an abortion I aw doesn't insure good llo~pital tTe(nn1.~nt or faci.lities. Black people know that they receive the poorest services possible at hospitals; this is why they have correctly labeled rhetn as slaughter houseso So we say Black people are not ab()Ut to trust these slaughters houses to perfor1n such delicate operationso Black people know that part of our revolutionary strength lies in the fact that we out-number the pigs - and the pigs realize this tooo This is why they are trying to eliminate as many people as possible before they reach their inevitable OOOM! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
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communities will eat! \V e will see to that. The abortion lawll hides behind the guise of helping women, when in reality it will attempt to destroy our people. How long do you think it will take for voluntary abortion to turn into involuntary abortion into compulsory sterilization? Black people are aware that 1aws made supposedly to ensure our well .being are often put into practice in such a way that they ensure our deaths .. The current wel{are laws are one of the classic ex21nples. Families, mothers and children are given just enough money to be hungry or starve; Brenda Hyson just enough money to live in death Black Community Information Center traps known as houses; ju~t enough N ..Y .. Chapter
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