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.
The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
And there came a point in my treatment where I couldn't see that end in sight. And that was the most challenging, I think, to know how to kind of anchor yourself when you're swimming in a sea of uncertainty.
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