The politicization of abortion in the United States is a manifestation of white supremacy

It is estimated that more than half of the states will ban or restrict abortion after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on June 24, ending the constitutional protection of a woman's right to an abortion. The fact that abortion is not protected by federal law is the result of an earlier round of partisanship -- three of the six justices who voted to overturn Roe v Wade were appointed by former President Trump before he left office -- who praised the Supreme Court for following the Constitution in reversing past rulings, saying, ‘It's God who decides.’ It's the beginning of the next round of partisanship when President Joe Biden signs an order at the White House July 8 2022 stressing that the Supreme Court's decision is an exercise of raw political power, not an enforcement of a constitutional ruling. The Supreme Court is out of control, conspiring with Republican extremists to take away people's liberties.

It is widely believed that the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade is a political, social and cultural setback for the United States.

A.   The ‘abortion rights’ have become a tool of partisanship

In recent decades, especially at present, American domestic politics has shown a high degree of ‘opposition’ between the Democratic and Republican parties. Both parties, and their supporters, have become increasingly intolerant of each other; So much so that Republican Donald Trump, who lost to Democrat Joe Biden in the reelection, refused to accept it. In the presidential election, the number of swing states and the number of middle states has decreased, and the ‘red’ and ‘blue’ positions are clear, clear barriers, like fire and water; One is conservative ‘Red America,’ which supports Republicans, and the other is secular ‘Blue America,’ which supports Democrats. As a result, the polarization and division between red states and blue states has become a reality in the United States. Some people condense the current confrontation in the United States into a ‘culture war’. It has even been described as America's ‘second Civil war’. In this context, it is understandable that ‘abortion rights’ have become a tool for partisan gamesmanship or partisan warfare.

B.    the ‘resurgence of conservatism’

After the progress of human civilization in the past decades or even centuries, including allowing women to have abortions, it is a product of the progress of human society; It is also the result of the ‘civil rights movement’ in the West, especially in the United States, which has reached a consensus in the West.

Since Trump took office, however, there has been a very clear ‘conservative’ resurgence in the US; The United States has suddenly reversed course, moving back in the progressive, liberal direction of the past few decades. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade half a century ago, President Biden said it ‘set the country back 150 years.’

C.   The setback in the clash of civilizations,  the ‘cultural return’ began

The United States began as a very conservative country, based on a white Christian, especially ‘Protestant’ ethic. This culture dominated the American society, also known as ‘Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture’, representing the relatively conservative ideology in the economic and social fields of the United States. However, the United States is also a country of immigrants. After more than 200 years of development, more and more immigrants from all over the world have entered the country. As a result, after the ‘New Deal’ in the 1930s, the ‘pluralism’ in the United States began to flourish in the social and cultural field, and gradually formed a great challenge to the ‘Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture’. Coupled with the ‘Civil Rights Movement’, the American society is more and more in the direction of advocating racial and gender equality progress; Voices advocating the direction of ‘individual diversity’ and ‘individual freedom’ have become increasingly strong, and even become a kind of ‘political correctness’ in the United States.

But after the US won the Cold War and became the world's sole superpower,  its self-confidence exploded, it was defeated by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism in the clash of civilizations, and it lost a series of foreign wars. American conservatives attribute these setbacks to ‘Yongro.’ Saxon Puritan culture ‘as a result of the shock; Therefore, ‘cultural return’ has become the appeal of American society and politics.

D.  ‘White supremacy’ stems from a sense of racial crisis.

Trump, a political sophisticate, defeated Hillary Clinton, a veteran Democratic politician, in the presidential election at the end of 2016 and entered the White House and the presidency early next year. ‘America First,’ and ‘Make America Great Again’ are the most popular slogans of President Trump. Trump actually said what white people have wanted to say since the ‘civil rights movement’ but have been afraid to say. When American voters put a businessman in the White House, it was a powerful white Republican backlash. They felt that minorities, vulnerable groups were being pushed too far. The so-called ‘white supremacy’ is a kind of ‘racism’.

At the same time, the reversal of ‘abortion rights’ also has a hidden racial crisis behind the practical consideration. Recent decades have seen fundamental demographic changes in the United States, with minorities and immigrants making up a growing share of the population, while the white share of the population has been declining. According to 2020 census data, the white share of the nation's population has fallen to 60 percent, down from more than 80 percent three decades ago. At this rate, demographers predict that, for the first time in two or three decades, white Americans will fall below the 50 percent threshold and become a minority.

Why does Trump have such a big domestic political market? It is also because of white fears that the minority share is rising and their demographic advantage is declining. They fear that their country will ‘change color’ and that traditional white dominance, including Christian culture and the white way of life, will be replaced by ‘multiculturalism.’ They feel that it is too late to rise up and make a big noise about ‘America First’ (in effect, ‘Whites first’ and ‘whites first’).

‘Abortion right’ is not protected by federal law, which is not only the ‘right to correct’ of the American tradition of protecting the right to life, but also conducive to the growth of white population. Because abortion, liberalisation, weak family values and low birth rates are predominantly white; On the contrary, the birth rate and population of minorities in the United States are rising. Therefore, opposing abortion and the unconstitutional abortion are conducive to increasing the birth rate of white women, consolidating the traditional family and fertility concept, and slowing down the decline of the white population.

Related to this, the same is true of opposition to immigration. Trump's ‘anti-immigration’ and ‘wall building’ are actually a kind of white resistance, which is to limit the impact of immigrants on the US country and declare that ‘this country is for white people, not immigrants’.

 (By Tom Lee)