“If you’re so pro-life, why don’t you care about the 400,000 kids in foster care?”

Jasmine Wali, a social worker based in California, noticed this pro-choice talking point that magnified anti-choice movement’s hypocrisy circulating in the liberal media that implicated her work after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

Wali is the director of advocacy at JMacForFamilies, a nonprofit that provides political education for parents and children who have been impacted by the foster care or child welfare system, also known as the family policing system, and organizes them toward abolishing this system. She said asking anti-choice activists about the foster care system perpetuates an “inherent notion that overturning Roe v. Wade will lead to a spike in maltreatment, abuse, and neglect” of children of unwanted pregnancies.

“There’s an inherent assumption that parents who are unable to access an abortion will go on and abuse their child,” Wali said. “Most of these parents want and love their kids; they want to be with their children—they’re not going to inherently abuse their children.”

Read the full Rewire piece here.