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Abortion rights advocates believe something worse than racist
David French, a white man, writing that Ben Carson was right to compare abortion to slavery: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426081/abortion-slavery-comparison-Ben-Carson-is-right
The city council of Waskom, Texas – made up of five white men – voted to ban abortion.
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), a white man, speaks in favor of a 20 week abortion ban on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. In this photo, three additional white men, also Republican, wait to share their support.
Later in the proceeding, Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), the white man visible over Huelskamp’s left shoulder, shared his opposition to abortion rights. “You want to talk about women’s rights, it’s a little girl, who will someday grow up to be a woman,” he said.
A white man carries a sign that claims “abortion hurts women” while he waits in line to attend a public meeting regarding the stringent regulation of abortion clinics in Virginia.
After passing a bill to require additional regulations for abortion clinics in 2011, Virginia State Senators Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover), William M. Stanley (R-Pittsylvania), and Jeff McWaters (R-Virginia Beach) celebrate in a photograph by Bob Brown for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The full article features three pictures showing only white men – a total of eight or nine depending on whether you count a portrait of a white man on the wall of the Senate chamber. Tip courtesy of maehemsez.
Missouri state Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger ®, a white man, is sponsoring a bill that would require women to wait 72 hours before having an abortion. In promoting his bill he claimed getting an abortion is like buying a car or carpeting. There is no mandatory waiting period to make those purchases.
Charles Camosy, a white man who supports restrictions on abortion, suggests a definition of liberal that excludes the right to abortion. Tip courtesy of Pamela Merritt.
There’s not as much concern about maintaining gender and racial balance among the anchors.
Craig M. Allen, a white man and journalism professor, commenting in “Anchors away: How much does ‘diversity’ on local TV news still matter?,” an article in The Washington Post covering the decision of the largest late night local newscast to employ two white anchors
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), a white man, stands flanked by two additional white men as he signs a bill into law that bans insurance companies from covering abortions except in the case of life-threatening emergencies. Tip courtesy of Alexandra.