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For Black Women in Texas, Juneteenth’s Promise of Freedom Remains Unrealized

Black women in Texas earn 58 cents for every dollar earned by white men. Over the course of a typical 40-year career, then, Black women in the state will make, on average, nearly $1.3 million less than white men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Restricting reproductive choices all but guarantees that racial and gender wage gaps will not only persist, but also widen. Evidence clearly shows that a person who can’t control the timing of their pregnancies is less likely to pursue education past high school, advance in their career, or achieve economic stability. This isn’t an unintended consequence of denying people their reproductive freedoms—it’s the point.