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Misrepresenting Reproductive Justice: A Black Feminist Critique of “Protecting Black Life”
Signs ( IF 2.614 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 , DOI: 10.1086/712080
Carolette Norwood

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.

中文翻译:

歪曲生殖正义:黑人女权主义者对“保护黑人生命”的批评

自 2014 年 8 月以来,辛辛那提十个黑人社区的城市景观中出现了广告牌,上面写着“堕胎,非洲裔美国人的第一杀手”,由生命问题研究所的外展子公司保护黑人生命赞助。该市的其他广告牌上写着“18 Days Real Men Love Babies”,由 ProLife Across America 赞助。根据保护黑人生命的说法,这些广告的既定意图是“告知社区”并“特别警告女性”一个“悲惨的事实”,即“堕胎是美国黑人的头号杀手”。生殖正义和黑人生活问题的女权主义言论被反选择、反女权主义运动歪曲,将堕胎视为人口问题(如成功的优生学和种族灭绝未遂),民权问题(促进胎儿和奴隶之间比较的话语),计划生育“针对”黑人社区的方式,以及黑人问题(对黑人父权制的威胁)。在这个重构中,黑人妇女被描绘成计划生育的不知情的受害者和/或被统一描绘成利用国家寻求支持的对性不负责任的福利女王。
更新日期:2021-03-01
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