When Jasmine Sherman pulls up at her local Charlotte abortion clinic to volunteer, everyone knows that shes arrived: her windows are down and her music is blasting as she drives full-speed into her preferred parking space at the corner of the clinics lot.

Sherman has learned to take up her rightful space in an arena thats dominated by white voices and white bodies.

As a leading participant of local activist group Pro Choice Charlotte, and the only black member, she helps to oversee the clinic defenders those who counter-protest the far-right anti-abortion demonstrations that have become a regular presence outside the clinic. Every Saturday, protestors flock to A Preferred Womens Health Center Charlotte with sound equipment and Bibles in tow to harass patients and Pro Choice Charlotte members.

Sherman told HuffPost last week, after a 600-man protest outside APWHC , that she got involved with Pro Choice Charlotte because the issue of reproductive health care access isnt just a white feminist issue. In a debate that often leaves out women of color, and in a city that enables clinic harassment, she feels its her responsibility as a black woman to help [her] sisters in need.

Sherman is often victim to a specific breed of harassment the anti-abortion community has attempted to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement, and the antis often use the phrase to bolster their argument that abortion (a procedure that women of all colors depend on but black women face more barriers to accessing ) is black genocide.

While recognizing the role of racism in the abortion rights and contraceptive movements is essential Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood , was a eugenicist , and the side effects of birth control pills would not be known without the pill having been tested on black and brown women in Puerto Rico black women in the present are tokenized by anti-abortion groups, and targeted for contributing to the genocide of their own community.

The antis outside APWHC hurl questions at Sherman regularly: What about all those brown babies? they ask, or Do black lives not matter? Sherman responds with finesse, asking them in turn if theyll be partaking in demonstrations against issues that actually affect black lives, like police brutality a particularly relevant issue in Charlotte after the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by a member of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police last fall.

HuffPost talked to Sherman about her devotion to abortion rights activism, and how she feels about the hypocrisy of the anti-abortion community and their co-opting of racial justice movements to push their far-right agenda.