In order for capitalism to work, you need a permanent underclass of who people work shitty jobs for no or little pay and live shorter, shitty lives, and you need them to pop out babies—babies you've forced them to create and birth—trapped in the same circumstance.
Like slavery.
This is why you cannot overlook that the unenumerated right to privacy, and thus, the right to abortion, is enshrined in the Reconstruction Amendments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/03/reconstruction-amendments-matter-when-considering-abortion-rights/
Especially after the US banned import of slaves in 1808, it became even more important to cultivate a slave-breeding industry—rape and forced birth, specifically to make more slaves, since you weren't supposed to import anymore, tho it still happened (see: Clotilda, 1859)
This is why the pursuit of bodily autonomy, particularly within enslavement, is so important, and regarded by slavers as subversive.
You couldn't get your hands on an abortifacient like pennyroyal, so you wind up with women like Margaret Gardner, whose story inspired BELOVED
There are all sorts of lies that come out of this interest in capitalistic reproductive churn, one being that Black women are unrapeable, that we have some innate desire to kill our children, that we are bad mothers, etc.
They are all in service of domination.
White women, who also experienced gendered oppression, find financial security from legal doctrine of coverture (everything you own is your husband's once you marry) within slavery.
Slaves are a source of wealth that can be deeded solely to them.
https://andscape.com/features/in-they-were-her-property-a-historian-shows-that-white-women-were-deeply-involved-in-the-slave-economy/
So these women, who own slaves and use them as financial security from irresponsible husbands (drunks, gamblers, abusers, etc) are also responsible for a great deal of rape and forced birth as they seek to increase their own wealth.
Abortion has always been a Black women's issue because our existence in this country is defined by being robbed of bodily autonomy from the moment we're stolen and brought here.
If people can control when they give birth and how many children they have, especially poor people, that creates a threat to the economic beast that runs on people being trapped in poverty and stuck in an unjust hamster wheel of wage slavery
Keeping people in poverty is a choice.
Forcing people to give birth is a choice.
No, it's not mere coincidence that the cruelest and most punitive of these abortion laws are in states that were part of the Confederacy.
If you ghettoize and criminalize them and their children, and keep them poor, you can arrest them for bullshit and force them to work
Convict leasing—> mass incarceration—> soaring private prison profits from labor that legally, you don't even have to pay minimum wage
You see how class and race are integral to understanding how we got here, and why it didn't become an emergency until Christofascists made plain their intent to treat everyone like Black women.
Even tho they told us for 40 years, to our faces, what they were doing.
Lot of reasons why these people want to control how the history of slavery is taught if they can't outright ban it.
It's not really about making sure little white children don't feel and it's about how the unconscionable continues to permeate every facet of American life.
So no, it is not a coincidence that these laws seeking to criminalize a resident leaving a state to have an abortion bear so much resemblance to the Fugitive Slave Act.
It is, in many layered ways, the blueprint!
An (incomplete) reading list, for those who want it:
Women, Race, and Class (Davis)
The Half Has Never Been Told (Baptiste)
The American Slave Coast (Sublette)
They Were Her Property (Jones-Rogers)
Killing the Black Body (Roberts)
Out of the House of Bondage (Glymph)
Two more (and then I will shut up and go back to work, I promise):
Ain't I a Woman and Too Heavy a Load, both by Deborah Gray White
Anna Julia Cooper, 1892, in A Voice From the South:
"only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
I'm glad this information is resonating with people but I feel awfully squicky because I didn't think anything I'm saying is all that novel?
Please read and engage more with Black women scholars; they know infinitely more than I do.