emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
Opinion | The Right to (Black) Life
Now here's another interesting perspective.
I've heard people protest against prochoice advocates as indirectly pushing genocide against poor minorities especially black populations. More and more prolife black activists were taking this stance and getting more vocal about it.
Now here's another person coming at it from a black woman's perspective on reproductive freedom in general without being targeted as a "poor black single mother."
While people fight discrimination against blacks as racism, and against women as sexism, remember that Black Women have to fight both battles. And the discrimination, violence, abuse, and criminal targeting by Black Men against Black Women is some of the WORST.
If we can address that, can't we resolve causes of all these abuses at the same time?
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"Many American women live under a fog of critique about our choices when it comes to our reproductive health and motherhood. But this is especially true for black women.
If we choose to have an abortion, we are cast as villains by anti-abortion campaigns that tap into the trauma of our country’s racial history. Outside of clinics, I often hear protesters shout racial slurs and say things like “unborn black lives matter” when black people walk past them.
This isn’t new. Anti-abortion activists have long saidthat the most dangerous place for a black child is in the womb. They believe that abortion, not police brutality, is the civil rights issue of our time.
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Now here's another interesting perspective.
I've heard people protest against prochoice advocates as indirectly pushing genocide against poor minorities especially black populations. More and more prolife black activists were taking this stance and getting more vocal about it.
Now here's another person coming at it from a black woman's perspective on reproductive freedom in general without being targeted as a "poor black single mother."
While people fight discrimination against blacks as racism, and against women as sexism, remember that Black Women have to fight both battles. And the discrimination, violence, abuse, and criminal targeting by Black Men against Black Women is some of the WORST.
If we can address that, can't we resolve causes of all these abuses at the same time?
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"Many American women live under a fog of critique about our choices when it comes to our reproductive health and motherhood. But this is especially true for black women.
If we choose to have an abortion, we are cast as villains by anti-abortion campaigns that tap into the trauma of our country’s racial history. Outside of clinics, I often hear protesters shout racial slurs and say things like “unborn black lives matter” when black people walk past them.
This isn’t new. Anti-abortion activists have long saidthat the most dangerous place for a black child is in the womb. They believe that abortion, not police brutality, is the civil rights issue of our time.
"
