The Arizona House has passed a bill that would prohibit abortions performed on the basis of race or sex. Its sponsor, Rep. Steve Montenegro, “was adamant that the bill had less to do with a woman’s legal right to have an abortion and, instead, was a measure to prohibit bigotry and discrimination,” according to the Arizona Capitol Times.
Republicans defending the bill from Democrats who called it a bill “in search of a problem” claimed this refuted any suggestion that “we are not here to protect the minority population.” In other words, we’re not racist, we just think only women carrying non-white babies — presumably many of which are women of color themselves? — should have their choices legislated extra-hard. Is sex or race-selective abortion actually an issue in the United States? Who cares about the facts again, including the very limited evidence of the existence of sex selective abortion in the United States (most abortions take place before the sex can even be detected) or the underlying socioeconomic factors that lead to the high abortion rate among African-American women?
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