Because why would they care about black fetuses being killed if they never believed fetuses have a right to life in general?
You can’t expect a person who’s pro choice to suddenly care about abortion once you throw in a racial element to it. Like I always said, you gotta always start at the root of the problem. Is a fetus human? If so, do they have a right to life? Leave the race out of it.
Many people claim they are personally pro life but support pro choice policies. You could look at the inconsistencies there. This goes beyond race as well obviously.
I was referring to black people who are pro-life in the first place.
Yes, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, to vote against your own self-interests in the name of a higher principle. Most of the time, I vote for pro-life Republicans, even though aside from abortion (and Second Amendment issues), my sympathies are
far more with the Democrats. The most rabidly conservative and libertarian of the Republicans, if they could absolutely have their way about everything, would ratchet back (if not outright do away with) the Affordable Care Act, Social Security, Medicare — all either actual or future issues for me. Yet I vote the way I do, because as long as there’s a
ghost of a chance that even
some abortion “rights” could be overturned, I have to put the lives of the unborn above any other consideration.
You’re assuming Republicans would want to do this. For starters, republicans are generally against social programs and the black vote are usually in favour of it. The Republican party won’t switch like that. The Republicans also have a PR problem with youths and POC, because actual racists usually support the party and the RP aren’t keen on completing getting rid of them. This isn’t to say there are no racist democrats, because there are, but white nationalists, your crazy uncle etc tend to vote for a party that is more traditional.
The Republicans are going to have to reach out to more demographics, and address their concerns proactively and more vigorously than the Democrats, or it’s all over. I predict that, within a decade, the Democrats will pretty much take over everything, aside from state governments in a few very conservative states, and a new party will have to emerge from libertarians, free-market advocates, and those who want government not to be so much a part of their lives.
African Americans that are seriously pro-life that I know often stop voting entirely. Pure anecdote, not sure how much this happens, but the opposition to Republicans is very real, often because of how their supporters act too. So if one is convinced that voting for a pro-choice candidate is immoral, they will stop voting for president at least of governer
I don’t advocate refusing to vote — the Catechism reminds us of our obligation in that regard — but I’d rather see votes withheld entirely from the pro-choice party, than to see them get those votes.
