Opinion by Karen Attiah: As abortion rights collapse, Black and Brown women will suffer most
Now, many Black women facing high-risk pregnancies — and who don’t have the resources to easily travel out-of-state — will have no choice to carry them out. All of this will lead to physical and economic hardships that will serve to keep many Black women and their families in the social underclass.
Churches in Texas, including the one I was part of, claim to thread the needle of compassion on abortion, not by vociferously advocating for better statewide health care but by pointing to church-funded crisis pregnancy centers and training programs for those who wish to become foster parents. To many people, this is the way to show Christ’s love. I once believed this, too.
But the foster system and adoption is far from a panacea. This is the United States, remember: Since slavery, we have a long, racist history of Black women’s children being legally taken from them by White state systems.Indeed, white supremacy believes it is right to force birth on Black women while also being far quicker to conclude that Black parents are incapable of taking care of their children.
There is nothing Christ-like in expanding Texas’s ability to surveil and persecute Black and Latina women. There is nothing loving about threatening them with the tyranny of incarceration.. But there is much to grieve. Black women and children will surely suffer. There is the sadness — and guilt, even — for those of us ex-evangelicals who once were a part of the religious movement that helped bring this moment to pass.
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