Alabama: Invoking civil rights to attack Black women and families
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Alabama: Invoking civil rights to attack Black women and families
Alabama's right-wing House invoked Brown v. Board of Education in passing extreme, unconstitutional legislation forcing women to keep pregnancies that result from rape.
Black Alabamians need real civil rights protections and investments in the social safety net, not mockery and attacks from their own representatives. Tell the state Senate and Gov. Bentley to reject the House's repugnant and costly overreach now.
Here’s the letter we’ll send to Alabama's governor and Senate decisionmakers on your behalf. You can add a personal comment using the box provided.
Dear Gov. Robert Bentley,
Senate President Del Marsh,
Senate Majority Leader J.T. Waggoner, and
Members of the Alabama Senate:
I urge you to reject the package of House bills from Rep. Mary McClurkin, who outrageously compared herself to civil rights champions fighting for school desegregation in pushing the state's latest attack on Black women and families.
HB 489, HB 490, HB 493, HB 494, and HB 31 amount to a total ban on abortion — including in cases of rape. McClurkin herself admits the legislation won't work as intended, but it will endanger women's physical and mental health — and cost the state millions to unsuccessfully defend in court.
Why would Alabama spend money it claims it doesn't have for basic healthcare services and other social safety net programs on an entirely avoidable, ideological court fight — when abortion rates are already at a record low?
More importantly, why would Alabama's political leadership think it can get away with brazenly invoking the civil rights struggle to sell this boondoggle — when it openly relies on massive violations of Black Alabamians' civil rights to win and hold office?
Hypocrisy at this level can only succeed when nobody's looking.
The state's political leadership is crossing a critical line — and I urge you to take this opportunity to step back. Your job is to represent all Alabamians, not to mock and vilify your Black constituents while finding new ways to victimize our families and communities.
Sincerely,
Carmen