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Fuck. Just saw a tweet reminding us that Alabama is making abortion a felony & felons can’t vote so soon enough massive amount of people, mostly poor & black women, will be labeled as felons & unable to vote. Further expansion of the prison industrial complex & the new Jim Crow.
We often think of the PIC as targeting men of color, particularly black men, but these new laws in states with large poor black populations are clearly intended to disenfranchise & legally enslave more black people.
THIS is why we need coalitional thinking. THIS is why we need a #reproductivejustice framework that sees prison abolition & abortion rights & voting laws as all interconnected. Reproductive justice & racial justice will always be inherent intertwined.
If there are any black folks out there who still claim to be pro-life, who still think Planned Parenthood & abortion rights are aimed at black genocide, look at the realities of these abortion bans. Look at their ties to whiteness, to wealth, to the prison industrial complex.
It’s time to wake up folks. We are on the brink of actual race-class warfare. How many black folks have to go to jail for petty drug crimes or for having a fucking miscarriage before we see all of these battles as connected. We cannot fight one & not the other.
This is the time for truly radical intersectional thinking, organizing & activism. Stop listening to celebrities & politicians on these issues and start following on the ground activists who have been doing this work for decades. We need new leaders, new tactics.
