No More Bin Laden

[kandrathe]

The other factor that makes me suspicious of abortion policy in the US is that it has been disproportionately targeting the black population.

I love how you worded that. Abortion policy targets blacks.

Well, I didn't try to say that. I said (or meant to say) I was suspicious of abortion policy in the US, because of the results tend to disproportionately target young black women. It might be that it's been with the best of intentions, where due to socioeconomic factors they are the recipients of this "aid". But, I would also say that police and criminal justice policy disproportionately targets the black population. Overall in the US, 1 in 100 adults is imprisoned, but for black adults, that is 1 in 15.

I'm careful not to draw causality from correlations. If you look at the demographic statistics, you'd think that one group were being targeted. Maybe they target themselves, but I tend to look at things systemically. Somewhere, the system is broken, and maintaining the status-quo will only result in more of the same.