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Question on abortion clinics (Original Post) bluestarone Jul 2019 OP
What makes you believe Native Americans would want them? jberryhill Jul 2019 #1
Guess i did not know this bluestarone Jul 2019 #2
that's one tribe, and mopinko Jul 2019 #3
So? jberryhill Jul 2019 #5
The idea of going to tribes for help, especially on reproductive issues, is breathtakingly bad. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2019 #4
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. What makes you believe Native Americans would want them?
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:08 AM
Jul 2019

Which group of Native Americans do you believe is favorably disposed to abortion?

The last time someone came up with this idea among the Oglala Sioux...

https://www.nrlc.org/archive/news/2006/NRL07/SouthDakotaIndians.html

South Dakota Indians Unanimously Vote to Ban Abortions on Reservation, Impeach Council President

On June 30, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council voted 9-5 to impeach tribal President Cecilia Fire Thunder for proposing an abortion clinic on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation without Council approval.

The impeachment complaint was filed by tribal council member Will Peters, who told the Associated Press (AP) that Fire Thunder didn't have the tribal council's approval to pursue the project.

"The bottom line is the Lakota people were adamantly opposed to abortion on our homelands," he said. "The president was involved in unauthorized political actions.
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
5. So?
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 09:51 AM
Jul 2019

Show me the tribe run by women that supports abortion.

The OP is of the familiar form "Why doesn't (some group of people) do (what I want them to do)?"

If you read DU enough, you'll see that form of question quite often.

It is normally based on some assumption that (some group of people) would be motivated to do (what I want them to do).

Native Americans are convenient for this purpose, because they are fetishized as having whatever principles are popular among liberals at any given time.

I don't know which tribes might be excited, given all of the other issues that they are dealing with, by this idea. Nor do I presume to know.

That's why I asked a question. You can tell it is a question by the curvy punctuation mark at the end of it.

Among quite a number of Native American groups, various sorts of Christian missionaries have been quite busy, and quite successful, at inculcating their beliefs among the inhabitants.

Let's take Oklahoma, for example. Oklahoma is the home to a sizeable population of Cherokee and Creek bands. In fact, Oklahoma has elected two Native Americans to Congress - Tom Cole, a member of the Chickasaw; and Markwayne Mullen, a member of the Cherokee.

They are both die-hard Republicans and Trump supporters.

It is disappointing when minorities fail to live up to our entirely unfounded assumptions about them.

Why don't you provide a counter-example?

Or, why don't you explain why people with insufficient access to health care generally, are going to think this is what they need.

I won't hold my breath.

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