It's the first abortion case to cross the court's desk since Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were confirmed. Activist and musician A.J. Haynes explains its significance.
As Haynes points out, abortion restrictions disproportionally affect women of color and low-income women. Aby the Guttmacher Institute reveals that 75 percent of U.S. abortion patients are poor or low-income, and 62 percent identify as non-white. “The people, who are the most vulnerable and the most marginalized, are going to suffer the most,” she says. “This case is about stopping cycles of poverty in states like Louisiana, which has the third-highest poverty rate in the country.
Having volunteered at Hope Medical Center since her senior year at Centenary College of Louisiana in 2009, Haynes has become all too acquainted with the threats that abortion rights have long faced. Though it would be easy to chalk the affront on abortion access up to the rule of the Trump presidency and the Republican-majority senate, the reality is this has been going on far longer than the last four years.
Throughout her time as a counselor, Haynes’s music career has bloomed. She went from playing in a college cover band to make money for textbooks to founding the Seratones with three other musicians in 2013. Two years later, they were featured inand between it all, they toured internationally, playing festivals with the likes of South by Southwest and Hangout Fest Stateside, and Reading and Leeds in the United Kingdom.
The album’s title track has become an anthem of sorts for fighting for change in the face of adversity. “We take two steps forward / They take one step backward / We take each step to lift us up higher,” sings Haynes, later adding, “We take each step / ’Cause we have the power.” Fittingly, Seratones performed the track at the Center for Reproductive Rights’ 2019 gala held in New York City’s Lincoln Center.
“That was like, man, that’s what I’m supposed to do as an artist. I’m supposed to take something, this frustration and anxiety, and figure out how to position it as power and create something that we need to hear,” says Haynes. “No matter what happens [with this case], we’re going to move forward and make sure we have access to the things that we need. I have that hell-or-high-water mentality, because what else is there? We need this win, and it needs to happen. The end.
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