Harris-Lacewell On "A Right to Life for the Living"

Melissa Harris-Lacewell shares her views on Georgia Right to Life's posting of billboards and efforts to encourage black women not to exercise their legal right to an abortion. The author notes that this effort "taps into the troubling legacy of eugenics-inspired efforts to broaden birth control access and legalize abortion" and that "[f]amily planning pioneer Margaret Sanger was a eugenics proponent who sought to reduce birthrates among the poor, the disabled and racial and ethnic minorities." Harris-Lacewell proposes additional billboards: "Poverty Is Genocide." "Inadequate Education Is Genocide." "Racism Is Genocide."