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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
Black and Hispanic women have much higher rates of abortion than white women. If white supremacists were worried about white birth rates, they'd surely be encouraging it, at least in certain communities.
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It’s true that declining populations are an issue and if domestic birth rates are low then the only solution is increased immigration but yes the maths in what you’re saying here is also true; to believe that this law change would have any effect beyond “net zero” for white supremacists, you’d have to believe that white people are having abortions at HIGHER rates than non-white people.
Beyond that, you’d have to believe that abortion rates are so high that it makes any real difference either way (which they aren’t; declining population rates are down to people choosing not to get pregnant in the first place, not people aborting pregnancies).
If they move to ban contraception then I think some major red flags go up. Again it’s difficult to draw a racial line on that one though. It would simply increase birth rates across the board, not just for white people.
I suppose there could be an argument that it works out for white supremacists because it’ll only be implemented in certain states? I honestly don’t think the maths work out there though. Again, abortions are not being carried out at such a rate that it would have any impact at all on population demographics.