Author: Joshua Rivera

Writing: The authors are Nicquel Terry Ellis and Nicole Chavez. Nicquel Terry Ellis is an award-winning journalist who serves as the senior writer for CNN’s Race & Equality team. Nicole Chavez is an award-winning writer and journalist who has spent her career covering the aftermath of traumatic events and the life through the lens of multicultural communities. Both of these journalists speak on the topic of women of all color living in poverty most of the times abort the fetus as the best decision since they can not financially support the baby. As soon as Roe was overturned many public leaders of colored groups have condemned the courts decision. These women of color take the hardest blow as they are the higher percentage of abortion rates. These are constitutional rights that only exist to a few now. Many few this midterm as the most important midterm in history as things need to be changed.

Quotes: “We are not surprised. The courts have never served our communities,” said Lupe M. Rodríguez, executive director of the National Latina Institute For Reproductive Justice. “Once again, the Supreme Court has gone against the will of the people.””

““They’ve stripped away our right to vote, and now women have lost their right to their own body. What’s next?” White said. “We cannot allow our future to rest in the hands of those determined to crush every bit of it. We need to fight back.””

Write: This article focuses on the struggles of colored women will now face with the overturning of Roe. This was more focused on the financial side of things. Women in general living in poverty will struggle even more with this ruling. They do not have the money to support a child and make the hardest decision which is to abort it.  75% of poor or low income woman are abortion parents. The medical care and all will add up to a huge amount if the parent kept the baby.

Another point made in this article is the simple constitutional rights are being altered against these women. First it was voting and now it is Roe v Wade. Women are starting to fight back by protesting and making their voices heard. The tone of these authors sound strong as they want to bring awareness and want things to change in this country. This is a very important topic not just for women care but for some native communities. It comes to life or death in some of these communities and with this overturning some women might die due to this choice.

WRITING: The source is by DeArbea Walker whose work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fox Business, Yahoo, NBC News and Deadspin. She explains how women of color are less accessible to contraceptive care or reproductive services. Latina/African America women are also at higher risks of pregnancy related deaths than a white woman. Also the incarcerated percentage of colored woman is higher leading to denied maternal care. Many politicians, who are democrats, have fought and will continue to fight for the codification of Roe which means the right to have an abortion without undue interference. Many big name politicians have came out and mentioned that democrats should do everything necessary to make the right to an abortion become law. Many woman of color led organizations have made it important to make the right to choose legislated to law. 

QUOTES: “Black and Hispanic women are, respectively, three and two times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than white women. Nationally, Black women had 37% of abortions, white women had 34%, and Hispanic women had 22%”

“This freedom—to choose and to exercise our choices is what we’ve fought and died for. Brought here in chains, and worked like mules, bred like beasts, whipped one day sold the next for 244 years were held in bondage … Now once again somebody is trying to say that we can’t handle freedom of choice. Only this time they are saying African American women can’t think for themselves and therefore can’t be allowed to make serious decisions.”

WRITE: The article has many great points about Roe. She uses the words of politicians that are huge names in our country , Bernie Sanders and AOC which are big democrat politicians. These words have big impact as they are somewhat leaders in the country. I believe that by using those people will listen one way or another as it is their jobs as politicians to change things. Also the urgency to at least try and make it happen plays a big role. The target audience will also use this article as a way to try and convince people to support and help make a change.

The author’s tone in this article seems very serious and also concerning as Roe got overturned. The article came out when it was overturned as it seems to bring awareness to the biggest change that can effect women of color especially. Pregnancy related deaths are higher risks in a colored woman than the white woman. This makes it worse for the colored and unfortunate because they already didn’t have much contraceptive care and reproductive services. The article is to inform the reader about Roe being overturned and what it is like for colored women now. They feel like they do not have freedom of their choices just like how it was back then. The country is moving backwards and not forward.