ATLANTA — In a column written by Anita Chabria published by LA Times, titled “It’s not about babies. Abortion restrictions are about power,” Georgia State University, Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies; and Transcultural Conflict and Violence Faculty Member, Dr. Mia Bloom discusses abortion, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade and what these policies mean for women.
“This kind of confusion and fear is, in addition to obviously making it close to impossible to get an abortion, definitely a purposeful intention,” said Mia Bloom.
Bloom points out that wealthy women will find ways to travel for an abortion. That makes poor women, especially Black and brown ones who may live hundreds of miles from a state where abortion is still legal, the true targets of this court ruling and the slew of new laws restricting abortions in Republican-controlled states.
Women, in particular women of color, have grown politically and economically powerful, a circumstance that threatens the patriarchal norms that have dominated our power structures since the founding fathers conveniently forgot about the potential rights of the founding mothers.