Originally posted by jaden_2.0
A quarter of abortion clinics have closed in the US due to state and local anti-abortion legislation since 2010TRAP laws (targeted regulation of abortion providers) have been used locally for decades to close down or prevent the opening of abortion clinics by implementing overly burdensome regulations.
Some states implemented that abortions could only be provided at ambulatory surgical centers. Then when Planned Parenthood tried to move into those centers the states changed their zoning laws again specifically to prevent them from doing so
If their locations were purely about targeting black people and not about conservative/republican vs progressive/democrat then why does Memphis rate so low on the reproductive freedoms index despite being 63% black yet Los Angeles rates at the top despite being only 10% black?
The "protecting black life" organization feels like they've already addressed your point because they've used a specific control to determine where these surgical facilities get placed:
Where black and/or Latino minorities make the majority of the population or represent 1.5x higher than the white population. In LA, the areas where these surgical facilities are located quite easily meet the criteria set by the "protecting black life" using census and address data.
However, you do bring up another point: Atlanta George is well known to be a very black city: ~52% black. Yet not a single PP surgical facility is located there. In the entire state.
What you bring up is correct however, it is possible for both of us to be right without either of us taking away from what the other pointed out.
Conservatives likely have blocked surgical abortion centers from being setup in Georgia. However, if they were allowed, they would definitely target black people and Latinos.
It's 79% targeted towards black people and Latinos. Almost 80%. That means 8 out of 10 PP surgical centers are in areas that are mostly black, Latino, or both.
How is that not systematic targeting of black people and Latinos? By the raw numbers, there are more "white majority" cities with more poor white people than either black or Latino. There are more poor white metropolitan areas than there are black and by quite a comfortable number.
Side-note: white and Latino Socio-economic mobility continues to far-outpace black SEM. When controlling for factors such as employment consistency, education, criminal history, and marriage, SEM parity is nearly reached. The best take away advice, if you are a young black man or young black woman, is:
1. Stay away from crime.
2. Stay away from drugs.
3. Maintain consistent employment history (do not job hop)
4. Do not have babies until you get married.
5. Get married.
6. Finish high school and acquire post-secondary education by any means possible.
If you do this, there is almost no difference compared to your white peers when comparing the same variables.
Also, because of the opportunities that exist for black people that do not exist for white people, I am willing to bet that if all those items are checked off, a black person will see better SEM than a white person, on average.
How do we know all of this? Second generation Asians. 😐 The children of Asian immigrants are better in almost every single category compared to any other race demographic. Health, education, income, etc.