Oklahoma's governor is warning tribes about 'setting up abortion clinics' on their sovereign land.
Abortion bans and pregnancy criminalization are essentially modern forms of colonization, Lorenzo tells Jezebel, and Stitt’s threats to subject sovereign Indigenous communities to his laws of forced birth are entirely illegal. But some liberal reproductive rights advocates’ responses to Gov. Stitt’s threats—namely,for non-Indigenous people—have also prompted IWR to warn against white and non-Indigenous Americans turning to Indigenous communities to save them.
They also note that there are a number of risks involved with increased presence of non-Indigenous people on tribal land. “One of the factors that contributes to the many, many is that many of our abusers and predators are non-Native people, who know and take advantage of how tribes often don’t have the legal standing to charge them or to prosecute them.”Then, of course, there are cultural differences that are disrespected when non-Indigenous reproductive rights advocates try to use tribal land as a “quick fix” for abortion access.
Lorenzo is right: Indigenous communities can’t be subjected to greater state surveillance, persecution, and criminalization so that non-Indigenous people can come to their land to get abortion care. Due to a lack of economic investments in tribal land, as well as the, which bans the Indian Health Services from funding most abortion services, access to tribal health care including abortion has long been severely strained.
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