Rep. Pressley: Abortion Bans Are White Supremacists Targeting LGBT Americans

‘These bans are rooted in a patriarchy and white supremacy’

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PRESSLEY: “Let me make it plain: Abortion care is a constitutional right and this pro-choice Democratic majority House, Senate and White House can and must do everything possible to protect and guarantee it as such. We find ourselves in the midst of an unprecedented wave of coordinated attacks on our reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy. And Texas’ horrendous and extreme SB8 abortion ban underscores the urgency of this moment. The year 2021 has been the most devastating for abortion rights in American history. In the midst of an ongoing global pandemic that robbed us of more than 690,000 lives and disproportionately impacted our most vulnerable and black and brown communities, anti-abortion legislators in 47 focused on legislating hurt and harm to push this critical health care out of reach. These misguided bans will not actually prevent all abortions. They simply put safe and necessary abortion care out of reach for our most vulnerable, specifically our lowest income sisters, our queer, trans and non-binary siblings, black, LatinX, AAPI immigrants, disabled and indigenous indigenous folks. And none of this is happenstance. It is precise. Like the roots of the antiabortion movement, these bans are rooted in patriarchy and white supremacy. They perpetuate cycles of poverty and economic inequality and exacerbate many of our starkest health disparities. Enough.”

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