"This Sheriff Wants More ‘Outrage’ Over Abortion of Black Babies" - Kate Scanlon / @scanlon_kate / January 02, 2015 /http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/02/sheriff-outrage-abortion-black-babies/
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (Photo: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)
According to this sheriff, black lives matter—even the ones in the womb.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has been a vocal critic of anti-police demonstrations in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. So when Clarke saw New York Times reporter Mitch Smith covering a “die-in” protest on Twitter, he responded. Clarke tweeted:
@MitchKSmith - "If only these faux protestors were asked by media about all the black on black killing or black babies aborted in US every year ."
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In an interview with CNN, Poppy Harlow asked Clarke if he sent the tweet, and if so, what he meant by it. “Yes I did,” he replied: “When I hear these things that black lives matter, the only people who really believe that statement are American police officers who go into American ghettos every day to keep people from killing each other. Alright, so, yes I did say that and I meant it. Look, the abortions? If black lives—if they really mattered, that’s where the outrage would be. That’s where we’d see protests.”
Clarke continued:“When you see the black-on-black homicide that happens on a very frequent basis, we don’t see protests, we don’t see marches, and we don’t see demands for change. So this has been a one-way conversation. So I’m just trying to present a counter-narrative to balance this thing and so we can have that discussion.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36.2 percent of abortions in the United States are performed on African-Americans, who make up 12.6 percent of the population.
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Kate Scanlon is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
"Nicki Minaj: My Abortion Has ‘Haunted Me All My Life’ " - Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / December 31, 2014 / http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/31/nicki-minaj-abortion-haunted-life/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolua%2FPZKXonjHpfsX56eguXa%2B3lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FSsFrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxX0TD7slJfbfYRPf6Ba2Jw1q%2FE%3D
Nicki Manaj (Photo: Lia Toby/Newscom)
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, rapper Nicki Minaj openly discussed her decision to have an abortion, a choice that she says has “haunted me all my life.”
While attending the prestigious LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York and dating an older man from Queens, Minaj discovered she was pregnant. “I was a teenager,” Minaj says. “I thought I was going to die.”
Now a multi-platinum superstar, Minaj says her decision to abort “was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.” She’s still pro-choice, though, explaining that at the time: “I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.”
In “The Pinkprint,” an album critics have called her most personal work yet, Minaj raps about the decision. On the track “All Things Go,” she mourns that “my child with Aaron would’ve been 16 any minute.”
In a more raw mix-tape released before she signed with Cash Money Records, Minaj lyrically poured out her anguish and apologized to her unborn child. Through emotion-driven rhymes, she raps, “Please baby forgive me, mommy was young, mommy was too busy trying to have fun,” and sings, “Wish I could touch your little face or just hold your little hand; if it’s part of God’s plan, maybe we can meet again.”
Georgette Forney, founder of the group Silent No More, identifies with Minaj and applauds “her vulnerability in sharing her pain.” “I wish I could say that Nicki’s response was unique,” Forney tells The Daily Signal. “But many of us who have had abortions feel haunted by the loss and grief experienced afterward.”
Forney says she prays that Minaj finds peace and hopes that the star’s fans “heed her warning that some choices, like abortion, lead to a lifetime of pain.”
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Philip Wegmann is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (Photo: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)
According to this sheriff, black lives matter—even the ones in the womb.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has been a vocal critic of anti-police demonstrations in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. So when Clarke saw New York Times reporter Mitch Smith covering a “die-in” protest on Twitter, he responded. Clarke tweeted:
@MitchKSmith - "If only these faux protestors were asked by media about all the black on black killing or black babies aborted in US every year ."
"
In an interview with CNN, Poppy Harlow asked Clarke if he sent the tweet, and if so, what he meant by it. “Yes I did,” he replied: “When I hear these things that black lives matter, the only people who really believe that statement are American police officers who go into American ghettos every day to keep people from killing each other. Alright, so, yes I did say that and I meant it. Look, the abortions? If black lives—if they really mattered, that’s where the outrage would be. That’s where we’d see protests.”
Clarke continued:“When you see the black-on-black homicide that happens on a very frequent basis, we don’t see protests, we don’t see marches, and we don’t see demands for change. So this has been a one-way conversation. So I’m just trying to present a counter-narrative to balance this thing and so we can have that discussion.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36.2 percent of abortions in the United States are performed on African-Americans, who make up 12.6 percent of the population.
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Kate Scanlon is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
"Nicki Minaj: My Abortion Has ‘Haunted Me All My Life’ " - Philip Wegmann / @PhilipWegmann / December 31, 2014 / http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/31/nicki-minaj-abortion-haunted-life/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolua%2FPZKXonjHpfsX56eguXa%2B3lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FSsFrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxX0TD7slJfbfYRPf6Ba2Jw1q%2FE%3D
Nicki Manaj (Photo: Lia Toby/Newscom)
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, rapper Nicki Minaj openly discussed her decision to have an abortion, a choice that she says has “haunted me all my life.”
While attending the prestigious LaGuardia Performing Arts High School in New York and dating an older man from Queens, Minaj discovered she was pregnant. “I was a teenager,” Minaj says. “I thought I was going to die.”
Now a multi-platinum superstar, Minaj says her decision to abort “was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.” She’s still pro-choice, though, explaining that at the time: “I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.”
In “The Pinkprint,” an album critics have called her most personal work yet, Minaj raps about the decision. On the track “All Things Go,” she mourns that “my child with Aaron would’ve been 16 any minute.”
In a more raw mix-tape released before she signed with Cash Money Records, Minaj lyrically poured out her anguish and apologized to her unborn child. Through emotion-driven rhymes, she raps, “Please baby forgive me, mommy was young, mommy was too busy trying to have fun,” and sings, “Wish I could touch your little face or just hold your little hand; if it’s part of God’s plan, maybe we can meet again.”
Georgette Forney, founder of the group Silent No More, identifies with Minaj and applauds “her vulnerability in sharing her pain.” “I wish I could say that Nicki’s response was unique,” Forney tells The Daily Signal. “But many of us who have had abortions feel haunted by the loss and grief experienced afterward.”
Forney says she prays that Minaj finds peace and hopes that the star’s fans “heed her warning that some choices, like abortion, lead to a lifetime of pain.”
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Philip Wegmann is a news reporter for The Daily Signal and graduate of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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