It is no coincidence that the states with the highest maternal mortality rates also lead the nation in anti-abortion legislation.
, the bounty provision incentivizes private individuals to spy upon, surveil and interfere with others who are asserting fundamental human and constitutional rights such as bodily autonomy, privacy and freedom.
Similar to Texas’s S.B. 8 law, Mississippi’s ban provides no exceptions for cases of rape or incest. Stripping away these exceptions and forcing abortion providers to close their doors exposes the illogic and cruel political nature of these bans, which showcase the dismantling of democratic norms and principles. Two dozen states will likely respond with bans, some that “trigger” ifis overturned, that will gut reproductive freedoms in those states entirely or by significant degree.
There is a cruel irony to this, buttressed on one end by the abolition of human slavery in the U.S., and on the other end, the repeal of draft laws that forced young men to surrender their bodies to the state in order to protect our nation. Today, Texas, Mississippi and other states withmake clear that the essences of chattel bondage and the draft have returned—but only for women, girls and pregnant-capable people.
Since 1865, the Congress of the United States has considered the question of Black women’s freedom from coercion and condemned bodily exploitation. Lawmakers were neither naïve to the sexual exploitation and forced pregnancies of Black women, nor intended that only Black men would become freed from the bowels of slavery. In short, the originalist meaning of the 13th Amendment applied equally to Black women as Black men.
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