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The issue was titled the Negro Number and called on prominent African-Americans to display why birth control was beneficial to the African-American community. Authors such as W.E.B Du Bois and George Schuyler contributed to the magazine, each stating different reasons why they believed contraception was an asset for the Black community. [11]
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
Florida reformed its abortion law based on the American Law Institute Model Penal Code. [citation needed] Maryland: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be abridged or denied because of sex." [151] [non-primary source needed] Texas: "Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national ...
In the absence of reproductive freedom, Black women historically went to great lengths to be self-determining.
Donations to abortion funds and clinics have helped enable travel for people like Nekia. Last year, abortion funds provided more than $36 million in aid to those seeking abortions, according to ...
One in three women in America lives in a state with a Trump Abortion Ban. And these hypocrites want to start talking about how this is in the best interest of women and children.
The bill characterized sex-based abortions as sex-based infanticide, and abortions based on the race of the fetus, or the race of the parent of the fetus, were seen as a practice that reinforces aspects of racial discrimination. [114] Laws like these can be seen as heightening the racialization of certain issues surrounding abortion. [114]
One of the key problems addressed by reproductive justice is the isolation of abortion from other social justice issues that concern communities of color: issues of economic justice, the environment, immigrants' rights, disability rights, discrimination based on race and sexual orientation, and a host of other community-centered concerns.