{"id":203748,"date":"2019-06-06T12:51:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203748"},"modified":"2019-06-05T00:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T05:28:35","slug":"black-female-democrat-abortion-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/black-female-democrat-abortion-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Black female Democratic lawmaker says abortion is ‘modern-day genocide’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, Louisiana\u2019s Governor John Bel Edwards, a pro-life Democrat, signed a \u201cheartbeat bill<\/a>,\u201d passed by bipartisan majorities in both chambers of the Louisiana legislature.<\/p>\n

One the Democrats who voted for the bill is speaking out<\/a> about the disproportionate effect of abortion on Black communities. State Rep. Katrina Jackson, a Black female Democrat, told NBC<\/a>, \u201cI think it mitigates our race’s voting power, it hurts our race’s power in the census. I really consider it to be modern-day genocide.”<\/p>\n

In addition to supporting the heartbeat bill, Jackson has sponsored the Love Life Amendment<\/a>, a bill that would put a referendum on the 2020 ballot in Louisiana to amend the state constitution to say there is no constitutional right to abortion. Her pro-life position led VICE News<\/a> to refer to Jackson condescendingly as \u201cthe perfect message unicorn\u201d for the pro-life movement because she is \u201cblack, female, Democrat.\u201d But even VICE had to acknowledge Jackson is far from the only Black female Democrat who is pro-life in Louisiana.<\/p>\n