Reproductive Rights Compared To Women Of Color

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I agree with your statement that white middle class women have more advantage when it comes to reproductive rights compared to women of color. Angela Davis mentions that women of color have little participation in abortion rights campaigns. According to her, white abortion right activists fail to see that their movement supports the idea of genocide that is why many Black people have linked birth control to genocide. For instance, Davis discusses that the birth control movement supports involuntary sterilization, which is seen as “racist form of mass birth control.” As what you said, many women of color have been victims of sterilization abuse and those affected were Puerto Rican, Black, Chicana and Native American Women (Davis, p. 221).

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