The movement to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides critical health care to many poor women of color, has nothing to do with the desire of white men on the right for Black and Latina women to have more babies. Rather, these men seek to control reproduction itself because they want to control the life possibilities of all women. So much of right-leaning social policy in the 1980s and 1990s was predicated on white men controlling white women’s bodies by uplifting the purity and sanctity of white femininity and simultaneously maligning Black womanhood and Black femininity.
