'I Can't Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying'

Like many young Americans, Brea Baker experienced her first moment of political outrage after the killing of a Black man. She was 18 when Trayvon Martin was shot. When she saw his photo on the news, she thought of her younger brother, and the boundary between her politics and her sense of survival collapsed.In college she volunteered for the NAACP and as a national organizer for the Women's March. But when conversations among campus activists turned to abortion access, she did not feel the same