For years the anti-abortion movement has co-opted and cherry picked Fannie Lou Hamer's words and legacy to fit their anti-Black propaganda. She was forcibly sterilized by our government—exactly what is happening in ICE jails by the "most pro-life administration".

Now? Silence. https://twitter.com/RBraceySherman/status/1305871832827006977

She was against reproductive coercion because she was forcibly sterilized, as many Black and Brown, poor, immigrant, and disabled people were and still are. It is happening at the behest of the white supremacist president. They are silent in the face of reproductive injustice.

None of this is new. ICE's dehumanizing and violent conditions have led to women miscarrying.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/nearly-30-women-miscarried-while-detained-by-ice-since-2017.html

They've been caught trying to push dangerous ( https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/12/05/785262221/safety-problems-lead-to-early-end-for-study-of-abortion-pill-reversal) anti-abortion medical experiment on undocumented young women. ( https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/yw5a5g/exclusive-trump-officials-discussed-reversing-abortion-for-undocumented-teen)

The silence of the anti-abortion movement in this moment shows how disingenuous their commitment to making sure Black and Brown people have healthy pregnancies, deliveries, and freedoms is.

The anti-abortion movement only exists to subjugate & criminalize Black and Brown people.