Alabama's recent near-total ban on abortion is a craven attempt to deny all women's rights by setting up a very possible scenario where Roe v. Wade is overturned by a largely anti-choice Supreme Court. It's time for us all to get on the same page about this, and stop blaming the disenfranchised people of Alabama. This is a state that has been gerrymandered by Republicans and bullied into submission by right-wing Christian extremists. There are many Southern people who are, and have been, fighting desperately for a woman's right to choose for years, so to discount the entire state when a relatively small group of hypocritical, power-hungry politicians and Christians are gaming the system is morally repugnant.
Check out this thread from the brilliant Zoé Samudzi on why your jokes about disavowing the entire state of Alabama aren't very funny:
Yah, no idea is more progressive or humorous than the idea of completely abandoning vulnerable people and leaving them to the mercy of a clearly hostile state government ha ha ha ha https://t.co/9C1HT4kKIJ
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
Some of you, even in your attempt to “challenge” or argue against bad state police, truly believe that some people are disposable and it shows
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
I honestly can’t help but think some of you feel like these horrific anti-abortion policies in the south are a reckoning for the southerners/poor people/rural residents you still believe are singlehandedly responsible for Trump’s election
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
A humongous proportion of black America lives in the states passing monstrous policies that disenfranchise voters, deny people of their bodily autonomy, and otherwise wage wars on poor racialized communities...and all you got are tongue in cheek Confederacy jokes about secession.
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
Have you considered these policies aren’t necessarily a reflection of broad political will? Have you considered people *been* organizing against these draconian anti-abortion policies but state fascism has coalesced in a way that makes it particularly powerful right now?
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
I can’t tell if some of you think “these horrible southerners’ chickens are coming home to roost” or if you believe these broad attacks against reproductive autonomy are unequivocally bad regardless of where they are. pic.twitter.com/4w1YiMBYI7
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
Because if, say, California shocked us and passed the same criminalizing legislation, would you be “joking” about how it should secede?
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
https://t.co/KIjh4Uma0J
— inorganic african feminist (@ztsamudzi) May 16, 2019
WHAT SHE SAID.
