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The “prolife” ppl want to think they could save 1M babies a yr by eliminating #RoeVsWade but no one ever says what they would do w those add’l babies! MS & TX rank dead last & fifth from the bottom, respectively, in the Annie E. Casey measure of childhood welfare.
2/Of the anti-abortion states, 15 ranked among the 25 states with the largest share of children living in poverty as of 2019.

The high childhood poverty rate in 13 anti-abortion states is far above the nat’l average of 14.4%. TX alone has 1.4M 👧 living in poverty.
3/16 also rank in the top half of states for largest share of 👧 living in "extreme" poverty (w incomes half or less of nat’l poverty level or roughly $13,000 for a fam of 4).14 fall in the top half of states for the biggest share of 👦 reporting that they have experienced hunger
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Thread for my white #feminist friends (of all genders)

Content: Sexual violence, racism

There is a racial divide on social media regarding #SurvivingRKelly
Most black folks I know have posted about the docuseries in the last few days (thankfully black people in my networks are expressing support of the victims of sexual abuse & coercion though their posts suggest to me that is not the case with their entire friends network)
In contrast, nearly all white folks I know are not even acknowledging the docuseries, the #RKelly conversation, nothing. This divide/contrast reminds me that white people are not required to know what’s happening to and among black folks.
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