Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice

A Black Feminist Critique of 'Protecting Black Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2228025
AutoresCarolette Norwood (0009-0004-6676-9004, Gender Studies, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen46
Número3
Páginas715-741
Fecha de publicación2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/712080
OpenAlexW3152565580
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas14

Since August 2014 there have been billboards dotting the Cincinnati urban landscape of ten Black neighborhoods that read “Abortion, the #1 Killer of African Americans,” sponsored by Protecting Black Life, an outreach subsidiary of the Life Issues Institute. Other billboards in the city read “18 Days Real Men Love Babies,” sponsored by ProLife Across America. The stated intent of these advertisements, according to Protecting Black Life, is to “inform the community” and “warn women in particular” of a “tragic truth” that “abortion is the number one killer of Black Americans.” The feminist rhetoric of reproductive justice and Black Lives Matter is misrepresented by antichoice, antifeminist movements that present abortions as a population issue (as successful eugenics and attempted genocide), a civil rights issue (a discourse that promotes comparisons between the fetus and the slave), a way in which Planned Parenthood “targets” the Black community, and a Black man’s issue (a threat to Black patriarchy). In this reframing, Black women are portrayed as unwitting victims of Planned Parenthood and/or uniformly presented as sexually irresponsible welfare queens who exploit the state for support

Abortion · Cognitive reframing · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Population · Reproductive justice · Rhetoric · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Reproductive Health and Technologies