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In American politics, cognitive dissonance is a regular illness from which there does not appear to be a cure. It affects millions, regardless of party, race, sex, religious background, and income level.

It does appear, however, to be especially common among abortion advocates. In May, it struck Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards particularly hard, when she said, “the answer to life is yes.” And now it appears that TheNation.com author Dani McClain is not immune to its effect.

In an opinion piece published earlier today, McClain asked: “What would it take for the organizations and commentators who beat the drum for policies related to reproductive health and rights to use their platforms to advocate for black parents who lose their children to violent attacks on those young people’s lives?”

Do young black Americans face violent attacks? Yes, they do. Sometimes, as McClain notes, those attacks come from police officers. More often, as I wrote in USA TODAY, they come from each other. 

But most often, as one Louisiana Democrat recently pointed out, the violence is coming from abortionists and their supporters. In supporting abortion, McClain is actually supporting violence against blacks. The Christian Post reports:

“The No. 1 genocide in the African-American community, and why we're becoming a minority of minorities, is because most of our babies are dying in the womb from abortions,” Jackson said during the committee meeting.

Jackson told CP that some of those who testified claimed that abortion is a solution to socioeconomic problems within the black community.

“The comments regarding African-American women were that abortion helped them make a choice when they couldn't take care of their child. And I told them that wasn't a cure. If you want to really cure the situation that's going on socioeconomically with everyone, you do that by supporting measures that give people a hand up, and not a handout,” she asserted.

“I'm very passionate, especially when you're looking at the African-American community, because those in the pro-choice community have been attempting to sell us on abortion being a way out for women who can't afford to have their baby,” Jackson said.

Black Americans make up approximately 13 percent of the nation's population, but make up around one-third of abortion victims. As one Chicago schoolteacher told me at the March for Life, the contraception culture — which culminates in abortion — is “destroying the dignity of life in our community.”

Can abortionists comfort black Americans when their innocent children are killed? Absolutely. But it would mean more if they weren't causing so much of the grief themselves.