Often times there is shame and stigma attached to a woman’s decision to have an abortion. Many do not understand making the decision to have or not have an abortion is done while facing many different factors that can potentially turn a woman’s life upside down, but yet she still makes the personal decision she believes is best. For her, this decision is a critical act of resistance towards her liberation. 

Our freedoms or lack thereof have always been directly connected to our reproductive choices. Historically, true reproductive freedom has always eluded Black womxn. During slavery there were often promises of freedom or things for the more children Black womxn had, yet those promises were never fulfilled. 

Today, Black womxn's reproductive freedoms are still being denied and we continue to be forced into birthing children, but not provided with the resources needed to take care of those children. Reproductive oppression is directly connected to poverty and poverty is connected to not having the ability to decide what is best for our lives. As long as people are poor, the systems in place will always control them, even their reproductive choices.  

We must reimagine what liberation looks like when Black womxn have access to decide if and when they want to parent. We must reimagine the opportunities Black women can have if there were no barriers to accessing resources. True reproductive justice not only means having the freedom to decide what is best for our bodies, but it also means ending political disenfranchisement and divesting funds from systems of oppression to investing in people for opportunities of freedom.