Why Benson Can't Face the Black Abortion Crisis

To hear Benson and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tell it, Black Moms Matter. They die at higher rates while giving birth, and their children suffer worse health outcomes.

What they don’t say is that black women are 14% of Michigan’s female population but have 50% of the abortions.

Black babies don’t matter to them, because they can’t matter, not when you’ve portrayed abortion as healthcare and a “civil right.” Every year, 15,000 black babies are killed in Michigan—more than opioid deaths, car crashes, and homicides combined and doubled.

Benson travels to Selma, Alabama, and portrays herself as a descendant of the Civil Rights Movement.

Whitmer marched shoulder-to-shoulder with Black Lives Matter during a pandemic, without regard for social distancing.

And after all that lip service, neither of them has the courage or any interest in the black community to say the thing: In Michigan, abortion is a black woman’s burden.

You wouldn’t know this, because Democrats portray abortion as a right. Abortion is presented with a white woman’s face, even as black women get them at incredibly high rates.

When Michigan voters approved a limitless abortion amendment in 2022, Whitmer said this could turn the state into a haven for women who want to kill their offspring.

This puts Democrats like Benson in an uncomfortable position, where they love the tree—black women—but see the death of its fruit as worthy of celebration.

The most dangerous place for a black child in Michigan is not “the hood,” it’s the womb. But they’re not allowed to say that.

The Democrat focus on “black maternal health,” and the specific exclusion of abortion, is politically useful. This allows doctors—white male doctors, in particular—to be portrayed as the bad guy.

These “disparities” are then furnished as proof of why medical professionals need implicit bias training. The outcomes of black pregnant women have nothing to do with the social determinants of health and cannot ever be connected to why they have abortions at such high rates.

So the NGO Industrial Complex gets fed, as hundreds of thousands of medical professionals are forced into implicit bias training.

On the back end, other nonprofits, such as Make Your Date, get government money to help black women stay healthy throughout their pregnancy.

So taken was then Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan with the cause that he routed taxpayer money to Make Your Date, left his wife of 30 years to marry the woman who ran it (Dr. Sonia Hassan), and had Jocelyn Benson’s husband, Ryan Friedrichs, delete the incriminating emails.

As the Detroit Free Press reported at the time: “Duggan worked with Wayne State University officials to create the program, handpicked Hassan to lead the initiative and ordered city staff to raise money for Make Your Date. The city also directed more than $358,000 in federal grants to the program.”

If there are results to show for it, one presumes we would be hearing those stories on black maternal health week. And not the same tale of woe about “gaps in care” and “bias in the system.”

Without mass abortion in the black community, Democrats would have easily won the 2024 election. What they think of as good politics is actually costing them power at this point. But nothing will change, because nothing can.

Don’t ever expect to hear Jocelyn Benson say that black babies matter. She’s not allowed.