Abortion
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A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.
—Vann Newkirk
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Choice is the essence of freedom
This is what a post-Roe abortion looks like
The racist history of abortion and midwifery bans
The long history of the anti-abortion movement’s links to white supremacists
The anti-choice agenda has always been fueled by white supremacy
The link between opposition to abortion and denying structural racism
Racism, birth control and reproductive rights
The blatant racism behind the GOP's anti-abortion rhetoric
The Religious Right and the abortion myth
The deep ties between the Catholic anti-abortion movement and racial segregation
Anti-abortion politics have always been the right-wing’s trojan horse for racism
The quiet racism of abortion bans
The Texas abortion ban is reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Acts
Policing and surveillance: how Texas’s abortion law will perpetuate systemic racism
Texas’s new abortion law will further entrench racist policies
Racist voter suppression made Alabama’s abortion ban possible
Abortion bans pose a danger to all mothers; for Black women, they’re especially damaging
The SCOTUS abortion ruling will endanger Black women in particular
How Black women will be especially affected by the loss of Roe
Why abortion restrictions disproportionately impact people of color
Abortion rights and the eugenic and racist origins of having it all
The war on abortion drugs will be just as racist and classist
Anti-abortion extremists are ready to go after journalists
CPAC chief boasts US abortion ban could be part of solution to ‘great replacement’
HBCU students are being disproportionately affected by Roe’s reversal
Abortion is also about racial justice
Reproductive rights as resistance
Abortion is not a ‘choice’ without racial justice
The coming rise of abortion as a crime