White supremacists play role in abortion debate

I’ve been following newspaper articles— in the Orlando Sentinel as well as other publications — about abortion for several years. Not just in Florida, but throughout the country, there is a concerted effort to overturn Roe v. Wade. The fact that the far right is anti-abortion isn’t news.

What the Sentinel editorial piece (“Florida’s war of deception on women’s freedom,” April 14) failed to mention was the role white supremacists are playing to overturn Roe v. Wade. White nationalists are obsessed with protecting white population growth. Their theory: Immigrants and Black people are diluting the white gene pool.

Statistics show that women of color are more likely to live in poverty or on the edge of poverty, while white women, to a greater extent, are more likely to financially afford the cost of abortion — and I might add, contraception. Consequently, the concern is more brown or Black babies; fewer white babies.

It’s time white nationalists are exposed for their contribution to a movement that will not only risk women’s lives, but it could very well be the undoing of all that women have worked to achieve since women’s suffrage.

Violet Irminger Mount Dora