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'Speak up. Show up. Don't give up.'
White men in the Alabama Senate have caught their share of ire for passing the state's controversial bill outlawing most abortions.
Co-host Joy Behar of "The View" went so far as to suggest that the 25 male senators who voted for the bill should be sterilized in order to "solve" the abortion issue.
But actress Anne Hathaway has gotten into the battle and called out two Alabama white women who helped make the measure a reality: Rep. Terri Collins, who sponsored the bill in the state house, and Gov. Kay Ivey, who signed the bill into law last week. Both women also are Republicans.
"Yes the anti-abortion movement is primarily about controlling women's bodies under the premise (for many, sincere) of saving lives, and yes this law is primarily the work of white men HOWEVER a white woman sponsored the bill and a white woman signed it into law," Hathaway posted Friday on Instagram.
She added: "As we're resisting, let us also call out the complicity of the white women who made this awful moment possible, and which — make no mistake — WILL lead to the unnecessary and avoidable deaths of women, a disproportionate number of whom will be poor and/or black. Speak up. Show up. Don't give up."
Hathaway's post — which has attracted over 432,000 likes as of Tuesday afternoon — certainly garnered kudos.
"Thank u for using your platform to stand up for women's rights!!" one person wrote, while another said, "You're doing amazing Anne. Thank you for acknowledging and supporting people in poverty and WOC who will be affected hugely because of this."
But not everyone sang Hathaway's praises.
A self-professed "pro-choice" commenter replied, "I don't see what being a white person has to do with being pro-life. And according to polling data on Gallup, it seems gender is also unrelated to abortion position."
Others called out the actress for hypocrisy and race baiting: