As voters head to the polls in November, supporting those who deny this human right also supports oppression
The recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson erased the constitutional right to an abortion, immediately putting reproductive freedom in jeopardy for millions across the country. This unprecedented stripping of a legal and human right that people have relied on for 50 years intensified what was already a burgeoning reality on the ground for many.
Communities of color deal with barriers to health care and insurance and face racism and discrimination when they seek care, including narratives that blame people for social conditions that were created by the system. Worse yet, Black pregnant people face alarmingly high rates of pregnancy-related deaths in the hands of our health care system.
Throughout our country’s history, people of color’s fertility and reproduction have always been unjustly manipulated to benefit a white, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic nationalist system.
This is not to say that if these social conditions didn’t exist, people wouldn’t seek abortion. Abortion is normal and necessary and should always be an unburdened option for people to choose for themselves. Rather it’s reckoning with the reality that reproductive decisions do not occur in isolation of the structural injustices that significantly influence people’s health and livelihood. They are making these decisions while gripped by the stranglehold of white supremacy.
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