{"id":53020,"date":"2022-09-22T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=53020"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:56:10","slug":"abortion-is-sacred-native-perspectives-on-the-overturning-of-roe-vs-wade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/abortion-is-sacred-native-perspectives-on-the-overturning-of-roe-vs-wade\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is Sacred: Native perspectives on the overturning of Roe vs. Wade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[Story by Mara Cavallaro &amp; Olivia Cruz Mayeda; Featured illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/soni_artist\">Sonia L\u00f3pez-Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> &#8212; Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote&#8217;s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:<\/strong> When El Tecolote learned in May via a leaked memo that the extremist right-wing Supreme Court of the United States intended to overturn Roe v. Wade, a decision that would threaten the safety of many, we knew we couldn\u2019t stay silent. As a community newspaper rooted in social justice, we identified this as a crucial moment to share the thoughts and lived experiences of our diverse communities, which we have served for over 50 years. To do that, we present this special issue, dedicated to amplifying the voices and the unique challenges that our diverse Latinx communities have faced and will continue to face in the fight for reproductive justice. This special issue is supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwmf.org\/\">International Women\u2019s Media Foundation<\/a>\u2019s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. We\u2019d like to extend a sincere thank you to IWMF and our contributors.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July, after <em>Roe<\/em> was overturned, the Indigenous Women Rising abortion fund, a Native-led project for reproductive justice, reached its limit for the month in just three weeks. About a third of their requests come in from Oklahoma, where over 40 percent of the state is reservation land and abortion is now banned at fertilization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with <em>Roe<\/em>\u2019s protections, Native women in the U.S. were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2019\/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html\">two to three times<\/a> more likely to die as a result of pregnancy than white women. Now, the likelihood of unsafe \u2014 and unwanted \u2014 pregnancies is even higher. And though Native communities are disproportionately affected by reproductive health policies, Indigenous perspectives are often ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project to reverse <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> began almost as soon as the ruling was announced. Around 1980, the rise of evangelicalism and the religious right advanced oppressive regimes of \u201cmorality\u201d that decried abortion and LGBTQ rights, and gained massive political power. Now, four decades later, anti-choice conservative Christians dominate religious politics, despite a majority of religious Americans opposing abortion bans. \u201cOftentimes when we talk about \u2018religious\u2019 communities\u2026[and] abortion, we only hear about Christians and contemporary \u2014 often white \u2014 understandings of Christianity,\u201d Abaki Beck, a Blackfeet and Red River M\u00e9tis public health researcher told <em>El Tecolote<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Pew Research Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/religion\/2013\/01\/16\/roe-v-wade-at-40\/\">poll<\/a> from 2013 indicated that white evangelical Protestants were \u201cthe only major religious group\u201d with majority support for overturning <em>Roe<\/em>. A majority of white (non-evangelical) Protestants (76 percent), Black Protestants (65 percent), and white Catholics (63 percent) believed <em>Roe<\/em> should not be overturned. Overall, then, the majority of polled Christians supported maintaining the 1973 decision. Just as revealing is the poll\u2019s sample, which classified responders as either Christian or \u201cunaffiliated,\u201d leaving out major belief systems for which abortion is a crucial issue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some Indigenous communities, for instance, the right to abortion is not only protected but sacred. Moniqu\u00e9 Mercurio, who is Ohlone and Din\u00e9, lives in Haskell, Kansas, where she is the community coordinator of the local Indigenous Community Center (ICC). The day <em>Roe<\/em> was overturned, the center released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IndigenousCommunityCenterLawrenceKS\/photos\/pcb.436464238487031\/436464198487035\">statement<\/a> condemning the decision as an act of white supremacy. Later that week, the ICC hosted a panel on reproductive justice and colonialism. \u201cWe have a very big inter-tribal community here, and \u2026 the one thing that has come up time and time again, no matter what region our tribe is from, is that abortion is sacred,\u201d Mercurio told<em> El Tecolote<\/em>. \u201cAbortion is ceremony. We\u2019ve always known that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Rachael Lorenzo, co-founder of Indigenous Women Rising, abortion care is part of the reason we exist. \u201cI am here because of abortion \u2014 someone down the line of my ancestors knew when it was and wasn\u2019t time for expanding their family,\u201d they wrote for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/planned-parenthood-illinois\/blog\/abortion-is-sacred-and-the-supreme-court-cant-take-that-away-from-us\">Planned Parenthood\u2019s blog<\/a>. \u201cMy own children are here <em>because<\/em> of abortion.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of what makes abortion sacred is how intertwined it is with intergenerational care practices, land, and inherited knowledge of plant remedies. Beck, for instance, recalls summers spent outside picking medicinal and food plants with her grandmother, aunts, mothers, and cousins. Every plant had a purpose and would be carefully cleaned and processed for teas and tinctures. \u201cMany members of my family \u2026 continue to use plant medicine on a daily basis for pain relief or anti-inflammation for arthritis,\u201d Beck explained. And plants, too, have played a role in Blackfeet reproductive care, from menstruation to pregnancy to abortion. \u201cGlobally, abortion has been a normal part of many Indigenous healthcare traditions. It is not a new or \u2018modern\u2019 medical process,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both federal policies and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples guarantee the right of Native tribes to practice their religious and cultural traditions. \u201c[That] includes Indigenous peoples\u2019 right to use plant-based medicines for reproductive health,\u201d Rosalyn LaPier, an Indigenous ethnobotanist and environmental historian, explained. The overturning of <em>Roe<\/em>, then, encompasses not just a violation of bodily autonomy, but of cultural practices and land sovereignty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, a Tucson city councilmember suggested funding an abortion clinic on tribal land in response to the reversal of <em>Roe<\/em>. The councilmember later retracted his statement, but he wasn\u2019t alone in his proposal. \u201cIt was the Umqua tribes that brought our county our first life-saving Covid vaccines, so yes they will save lives again!!!!!\u201d one non-Native woman tweeted, misspelling Umpqua. \u201cNative Americans could become refugees for women\u2019s healthcare!\u201d another chimed in. \u201cHow about you don\u2019t turn to us to solve your problems after hundreds of years of causing our problems?\u201d a Native user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoingItForPS4U1\/status\/1541131923505815552\">replied<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expectation that tribal communities can and should provide a solution to the reversal of <em>Roe<\/em> points to a deep flaw in the framing of mainstream conversations about abortion rights and access \u2014 they lack a meaningful reflection on centuries of settler colonialism. What\u2019s missing is an understanding that transcends the 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision and its overturning in 2022. \u201cThese American women have been fighting \u2026 but we&#8217;ve literally been fighting since 1492,\u201d Mercurio told <em>El Tecolote<\/em>. \u201cWe&#8217;re in this situation because of colonization, because of a settler mindset \u2026 I would definitely say [non-Native feminists] are getting their dates wrong.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his remarks on the day of <em>Roe<\/em>\u2019s reversal, President Biden said that the Supreme Court\u2019s decision was \u201ctaking America back 150 years.\u201d But as recently as five years ago, the Indian Health Service (IHS) was denying Native people their reproductive rights, not only by preventing access to abortion but also by forcibly sterilizing them. Thousands of Native people were sterilized without their consent by the Indian Health Service in the years following 1973, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/airc.ucsc.edu\/resources\/suggested-lawrence.pdf\">report<\/a> by historian Jane Lawrence. In 1955, The IHS, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, became the sole health care provider for many Native communities. Yet the agency has been notorious for poor care since its inception, including chronic underfunding and multiple assaults of Native patients by its health care providers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1976, three years after <em>Roe<\/em>, the Hyde amendment passed, preventing the use of federal funds for abortion \u2014 meaning for anyone who depends on the IHS for health care, abortion is not covered. \u201c<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> has never been a reality for Native people since so many of us, whether we live on a reservation or in the city, rely on the Indian Health Service,\u201d Lorenzo said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/a41032856\/indigenous-women-rising-abortion\/\">interview<\/a> with <em>Elle<\/em>. That there were calls made by non-Native people to build abortion centers on reservations at all reveals a continued disrespect for tribal sovereignty, and ignorance surrounding the lack of access to reproductive care in Native communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?resize=384%2C480&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?resize=384%2C480&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 384w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?resize=200%2C250&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?resize=400%2C500&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Liberation_Blancas_web.jpg?w=960&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">El Tecolote&#8217;s cover illustration for this special issue by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ishouldbepainting\">Elizabeth Blancas. <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>More broadly, \u2018mainstream\u2019 feminist movements also continue to neglect Native voices and demands. For instance, support for missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is often lacking. At the Indigenous Community Center where she works, Mercurio began a missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirit, and trans chapter, but, she said, \u201cwe&#8217;re not getting any outside help.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think [people] don\u2019t realize how much those two things [MMIW and reproductive rights] are correlated,\u201d Mercurio told <em>El Tecolote<\/em>. Conversations about both are rooted in the right to bodily autonomy, safety, and equality. Solidarity means understanding how all these things connect. \u201cOnce people can realize the totality of it, you know, maybe some bigger movements will be made,\u201d Mercurio said. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking for allies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Donate to Indigenous Women Rising here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwrising.org\/donate\"><strong>iwrising.org\/donate<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Story by Mara Cavallaro &amp; Olivia Cruz Mayeda; Featured illustration by Sonia L\u00f3pez-Ch\u00e1vez &#8212; Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote&#8217;s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community.] EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: When El Tecolote learned in May via a leaked memo that the extremist right-wing Supreme Court of 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