In Overturning Roe, the Supreme Court Has Endangered Black Women | Opinion

Scrolling through Twitter, I felt the tangible rage of my fellow reproductive justice colleagues and thought about all the people (read: men) who told us for years that abortion would never be taken away from American women, and we were all just being "hysterical.".

In fact, it's the core argument of my book, The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women, in which I urge women to redefine the term.

While the reversal of Roe will impact all American women one way or the other, it will be Black and brown women who will feel the loss of Roe way harsher than white women, many of whom will still be able to get their abortions.

More than half of the America's Black population lives in the South, where women of color, including Hispanic women, make up a significant part of the population.

For example, in Mississippi, people of color make up 44 percent of the population but 81 percent of women receiving abortions.

In Texas, people of color make up 59 percent of the population and 74 percent of people receiving abortions.

And in Louisiana, minorities represent 42 percent of the population, according to the state Health Department, and about 72 percent of those receiving abortions.

With Friday's SCOTUS decision, I find myself again trying to understand how a country that I as a little girl in Bangladesh in the 1980s watched champion women's health and rights around the world could be denying American women that very right to bodily autonomy.