The Lesson of Our Legacy: Planned Parenthood at #100YearsStrong - Planned Parenthood Action Voices - Medium
On the contrary, at the core of Planned Parenthood’s mission is the fundamental belief that all individuals have the right to make their own reproductive health care decisions. And as such, Planned Parenthood has been and will continue to be committed to providing high-quality health care, including abortion, with dignity and respect to all people, including Black women.
Anti-abortion groups, often led by white males, have gone to extraordinary lengths to shame Black women about their reproductive health care decisions, especially when it comes to their right to seek and choose abortion, taking away agency and autonomy that Black women have been fighting for since the days of slavery. This shaming is public and brutal. It has included running demeaning billboard campaigns designed to make women of color feel ashamed about exercising their legal right to have an abortion. These attacks have even gone as far as accusing women of participating in genocide of their own race. What is most clear is that these individuals don’t believe that Black women can be trusted with their own health care decisions.