Gender and Women's Studies Colloquium

Zakiya Luna, Mellon Sawyer Fellow. The 2010 “Black Children are an Endangered Species” anti-abortion billboards brought a new twist to the abortion wars. Pro-life African Americans claimed higher abortion rates were genocidal intentions of abortion providers. Reproductive health and other rights organizations formed coalitions to challenge the campaign. The efforts on both sides reflect changing opportunities to explicitly invoke race and gender in progressive and conservative social movements.