Antiabortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the injustices faced by marginalized women due to antiabortion laws, emphasizing the importance of awareness and action.
Stacey Abrams underscores the critical impact that antiabortion laws have on women of color and those from low-income backgrounds. These regulations not only threaten their health and safety but also hinder their economic opportunities, revealing broader systemic inequalities in society that disproportionately affect these vulnerable groups.
In practice
Referencing this quote during a women's rights rally to highlight systemic inequalities.
I grew up one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked in a shipyard. I never saw them balance a checkbook, but they kept a roof over our heads and got all six of us into college.
I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.
My being a black woman is not a deficit. It is a strength. Because I could not be where I am had I not overcome so many other barriers. Which means you know I'm relentless, you know I'm persistent, and you know I'm smart.
The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in an awareness of how identity has been used to deny opportunity.
I like to solve problems. I know it is a skill set, but it's also an obligation. I grew up with parents who believe that you don't simply complain: you try to find solutions and fix what's in front of you.
Here in Georgia, we continue to grapple with our own vestiges of hate. The image carved into Stone Mountain, like Confederate monuments across this state, stand as constant reminders of racism, intolerance, and division.
No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.
It hurts my head, but it's fine because it's something I do every day. You can't avoid the gymnastics questions.
The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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