Asian tropes in sex-selective abortion bans have advocates worried about what's to come

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“We call it a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing,’” Becca Asaki, the New York organizing manager for the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, a rights advocacy group, told NBC Asian America. “It’s just a really awful attempt to chip away at our rights and to try and leverage stereotypes about our communities that are not actually true and are just deeply steeped in racism.”

Lisa Ikemoto, a professor who specializes in reproductive rights and health care law and policy at the University of California Davis School of Law, said that though race is not explicitly invoked in the legislation, the support for the ban relies on rhetoric that perpetuates archaic and harmful stereotypes about immigrant families while co-opting rhetoric of gender equality.

Seri Lee is the national campaign and membership director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and is based in Illinois, where lawmakers continued their since-failed attempts to pass the ban in 2019 even though it had been blocked by a court order. She said such policies put Asian American women at the discretion of health care providers, and allow practitioners to act on racist biases and stereotypes.

“If we take that into account, it’s even more likely that any type of bias or discrimination that a patient may experience doesn’t get reported,” Lee said.

ABORTION HAS NO CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL RIGHT TO KILL A LIFE IN THE WOMB . Thou shalt not kill a life in the womb . ABORTION HAS NO JUSTIFIED RIGHT TO KILL A LIFE OR SACRIFICE A LIFE .

What the fuck are you even talking about? Letting states decide abortion laws somehow will cause some sort of backlash on Asians Or letting everyone kill their children on demand will have backlash on Asians? Or both?🙄

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