Could Private Prisons Be Behind Alabama’s Abortion Law?

[Will Ross]

Poor people are more religious meaning they are less likely to even get abortions.
If they do they still will end up having a kid that is born into poverty

 

[Prodyson]

Breh, imagine if women didn't have access to birth control. Matter fact, according to the link below contraceptives prevent 112 million abortions a year globally. Contraceptives limit population growth far more than abortions. That said, if this Alabama legislation were really about increasing the prison population, or increasing white birth rates, contraceptives would have been their target.

Again, I think folks on here underestimate religious zealotry and then by extension entertain conspiracy theories. Its like Nipsey all over again. We're talking about the Bible Belt, evangelicals, etc.. The Olympics in 96 were targeted by a terrorist over abortion. Every now and then I drive by people holding signs with pictures of dead fetus bodies. They're not thinking that far ahead about incarcerating Black people. Y'all giving these folks more credit than they deserve. Like Michelle Obama said, they're not that smart.

Opinion | The Birth Control Solution

All you need is a couple smart people with money. Furthermore, on what grounds would anyone be able to stop the distribution/use of contraceptives. That’s an impossible task. What’s more likely is that some corporation is using religious zealotry to fulfill their own agenda. Just like what has been proven to have happened dozens of times in the past. We have legislation signed by lawmakers where they didn’t even bother to remove the letter from the documents provided by the lobbyists.

This isn’t conspiracy. It’s logic

 

[Child_Of_God]

Alabama.

 

[SheWantTheD]

Very interesting how these white men in powerful groups control the media ie pushing casual sex, sexual freedom etc.. but they wanna turn around and make abortion illegal.

shyt makes no sense, and it impacts people of color the most.. not wypipol.

Why are Opioids still legal?

 

[George's Dilemma]

All you need is a couple smart people with money. Furthermore, on what grounds would anyone be able to stop the distribution/use of contraceptives. That’s an impossible task. What’s more likely is that some corporation is using religious zealotry to fulfill their own agenda. Just like what has been proven to have happened dozens of times in the past. We have legislation signed by lawmakers where they didn’t even bother to remove the letter from the documents provided by the lobbyists.

This isn’t conspiracy. It’s logic

The biggest lobbyist group is an organized constituency, which in Alabama and is true of much of the South, are evangelical Christians. They vote, and they donate. You want to talk about being on code? Look at them. You dont win office down there without their votes. They've been in their feelings about abortion since Roe vs Wade. That animosity has been building for years and conservatives have been organizing since then to fill the bench with conservative leaning judges. This has been years in the making and they're getting ready to make their play. A corporation interested in incarceration will stand to benefit from their efforts, but its plain ignorant to entertain thoughts of it being the primary reason. Correlation does not mean causation.

Regarding contraception, in Ohio there is an anti-abortion bill in the works that includes language forbidding insurance companies from covering birth control.

New Ohio Bill Would Ban Most Private Insurance Coverage Of Abortion

That’s not all, Miracle says. She argues it will ban insurance from covering many popular methods of birth control.

“Birth control pills, IUDs and other methods of birth control like that – the bill states that any birth control that could act to stop a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus is considered an abortion under this bill," Miracle says.


Btw, Roe vs Wade was decided in 1973. Less than 10 years prior, in 1965 the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to prohibit married couples from using birth control. When you look into why those cases were even necessary, it's due to the efforts of religious folks who believe contraception and abortion are both equally immoral and unnatural. This has nothing to do with prisons.

 

[get these nets]

That may be true. But is that rate fast enough to satisfy private prisons and their investors. Are the numbers stable? Is the rate fast enough to “supply” the amount of prisons that are being built while they have people in office that support the idea of largely privatizing the prison system? Nobody has ever said “we have enough profit.”

Skyrocketing incarceration rate coincides with when the crack era started. Breakdown of the nuclear family as the norm started before that though. Again, dependence on social services stopped being a temporary helping hand, and became a family pattern.

Never examined the numbers, but the eye test and reading incarceration rates tells me that there will be need for new prisons for years to come. People are individuals and circumstance of birth doesn't dictate how your life will turn out. I think that with so many things stacked against groups of people, that it follows logic that a certain % of them will turn to a life of crime.

The private prison system, as I understand it......is a cheaper alternative for the govt. than operating a prison. They contract out the work to a company.Don't have to pay adminstrators or corrections officers state salaries (or pensions)