It looks to me as if the Republican Party is in a panic to get abortion banned. Almost hysterical about it.
Some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s I remember demographic predictions that by 2030 or so white people would be a minority and the dominant majority would be Hispanic.
During the Reagan administration the push to overturn Roe V. Wade began.
I can't help but link these two facts into an hypothesis that there are those among white people who are afraid of becoming a minority group. Hence the push to force white women to give birth.
Your theory may well be valid, yet, women of color and women of mixed ethnicity also are being forced to give birth in many states. Slight miscalculation on the part of antiabortion forces?
Of course, I am unable to prove my theory, and I know that Black people and POC are also forced to give birth. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the highest rate of abortions have been among Black women, followed by Hispanic women and POC women that are no Hispanic. At the bottom of the graphic is white women.
While I don't know what the people against abortion are thinking or not thinking, I speculate that the data fuels their cognitive dissonance and they think that since Hispanics etc have had the most abortions that makes them think that white women can continue to keep us in the majority.
Once again I emphasize that this is just an idea, speculation, and/or theory. I have no real evidence, merely my idea.
It looks to me as if the Republican Party is in a panic to get abortion banned. Almost hysterical about it.
Some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s I remember demographic predictions that by 2030 or so white people would be a minority and the dominant majority would be Hispanic.
During the Reagan administration the push to overturn Roe V. Wade began.
I can't help but link these two facts into an hypothesis that there are those among white people who are afraid of becoming a minority group. Hence the push to force white women to give birth.
Your theory may well be valid, yet, women of color and women of mixed ethnicity also are being forced to give birth in many states. Slight miscalculation on the part of antiabortion forces?
Of course, I am unable to prove my theory, and I know that Black people and POC are also forced to give birth. According to the Guttmacher Institute, the highest rate of abortions have been among Black women, followed by Hispanic women and POC women that are no Hispanic. At the bottom of the graphic is white women.
While I don't know what the people against abortion are thinking or not thinking, I speculate that the data fuels their cognitive dissonance and they think that since Hispanics etc have had the most abortions that makes them think that white women can continue to keep us in the majority.
Once again I emphasize that this is just an idea, speculation, and/or theory. I have no real evidence, merely my idea.
Yep, that's the phrase: "cognitive dissonance"!