Through numerous scientific studies and reports, scholarly America has proven time and time again that the Black thought pattern and the white thought pattern are on two different plains. In fact, they claim that the white thought pattern is a bit more developed and possibly more civilized than the Black thought pattern. Sometimes it's good to hear these type theories because some white technological advancements and scientific breakthroughs are results of the demented thinking of the white mind. Abortion, for example:

Do not allow anyone-body (who tries to relate every advancement of civilization to Afro-centric history), or scientific study fool you into believing that abortion originated from Africa. Though it is sometimes honorable and deserving that the fathers of Africa take credit for some of he world's discoveries, there are a few that are wholly contraptions of the Euro-psyche.

Abortion was never a concept or practice in history until the time of the Euro-American. There were legitimate miscarriages and excisions of the female body and even the male body in biblical and ancient times, but never in time has a civilization intentionally cut the child from a woman's stomach for the sake of personal choice, unless they were cultic in nature. Need anymore be said?

The idea of abortion is essentially to relieve the mother of an unwanted pregnancy. In all reason and logic, anyone or any being from any other planet would ask, well, why would the woman get pregnant in the first place if she never intended to have the baby? But this is too easy of a question for the philosophical minds of today's pseudo-liberal socialites. The simplicity of the question takes complicated turns on the road of common sense and ends up in some demented twist of logic that soon no one has the energy to argue anymore.

This is where American society is today; no one wants to confront the question. This is sad, especially for the Black race, which has always had to adjust and adapt to the culture and ways of American society or be flushed from the system all together.

The Africans brought here did think differently than the taskmasters who brought and bear them. The slaves of America did think differently than the slave owners and brutalizers that raised them; the hunted Blacks of the Jim Crow era did think differently from the hunters beneath the sheets of blood. This is no doubt.

Thank God that scholarly Americans have distinguished a difference in Black thinking and white thinking. Amen? This leads us into our discussion of abortion and the Black soul. There are also differences in what we feel collectively as a people than what whites feel. For example, when it comes to abortion, many Black women believe and know that abortion is not right (within the depths of their Black soul). However, during the trends of sexual freedom in the late 70s to mid 80s, the feeling was not the same.

Blacks followed - as they always do - the trends and beliefs of white America. We packed abortion clinics as much as white Americans. In fact, scholars can, of course, prove that in their theories of race difference, in an attempt to demean the behaviors and actions of Black America, that Black women may have somewhere down the line had way more abortions than white women. The study below, however, from today's opinion polls say different.

Most abortions were obtained by white women, unmarried women, and women under 25 years of age.
Source from: http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/surv_abort99.htm

There is no denying that abortion is a "white thing." Blacks have no business aborting their children. But one theory - taken from the psyche of the Afro think tank - is that whites encourage the Black community on abortion by speaking of it as though it were a normal and natural procedure, and if possible, they will create a Black person to promote abortion among the Black community by claiming that it originated in Africa. Sad to say, many Black people ignorantly accept this as true based on an abnormal sense of pride: What a pathetic perception.

Something for Black Women to Think About

Taken from an article in a scholarly journal, the following work describes how the feelings of a woman play a large part in the abortion of a child. It talks about what women think before deciding to abort, some of the reasons they abort, and how they feel afterward.

Emotion arises from the political controversy surrounding abortion. The pro-life movement defines abortion as a personal tragedy: the "killing of an unborn child." Given this definition, women who terminate a pregnancy through abortion are doing something wrong and can expect to feel significant grief, guilt, and regret. Indeed, so intense are these feelings, according to advocates of this position that such women often suffer from "post-abortion syndrome."

Advocates of the pro-choice position have an opposing view of abortion. From this point of view, the woman's problem is the unwanted pregnancy; abortion is a medical solution. Therefore, the emotion common to women who terminate a pregnancy is not guilt but relief.

Medical personnel also play a part in this process of reality construction by using specific terms. Nurses and doctors who talk about "the baby" encourage the pro-life framing of abortion and provoke grief and guilt. On the other hand, those who use language such as "pregnancy tissue," "fetus," or "the contents of the uterus" encourage the pro-choice framing of abortion as a simple medical procedure leading to relief. Some even refer to an abortion as "taking the extra cells out of the body." (Macionis, 2004)

Political correct jargon is used to manipulate the thinking process of the gullible and susceptible mind. Many people, Black and white, sometimes fall victim to this thought pattern. However, as Black people in this country, we should never forget that we have our own way of thinking and a totally different and unique way of reasoning about life in general. We come from a powerfully spiritual background that has never left our souls. We lived among the gods that Europeans never knew and were obviously afraid to understand.

Blacks have a natural yearning and knowledge of what life is actually about and should never be led astray by any destructive form of moral thinking and behavior. People wonder why more Blacks do not ski, mountain climb, bungee-jump, attempt death-defying feats of strength and bravery, as some would call it. That is because we value life in more humanitarian ways than whites do.

They have no regard for human life; look at how they treated our forefathers during slavery, like animals. They have no inner conscience and cannot perceive what the soul is capable of achieving. They can easily dismiss their conscience, suppress their emotions and conjure up many forms of death and destruction, but the Black mind and soul is different, because we know that life is more precious than money. And don't you ever forget it.

Source from: Society: Macionis, 2004

Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

• 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing


• 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby


• 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child


• 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)


• 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career


• 7.9% of women want no (more) children


• 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health


• 2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

Abortion Statistics - Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice

"According to a USA Today, CNN Gallup Poll in May, 1999 - 16% of Americans believe abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during pregnancy and 55% of American believes abortion should be legal only to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest."

"According to a Gallup Poll in January, 2001 - People who considered themselves to be pro-life rose from 33% to 43% in the past 5 years, and people who considered themselves to be pro-choice declined from 56% to 48%."

"Most abortions were obtained by white women, unmarried women, and women under 25 years of age. As in previous years, about one-fifth of women who had abortions were 19 years old or younger. Of the women who had an abortion, 41 percent were known to have had no previous live births."

© 2004 by AfroStaff