West Virginia delegate Danielle Walker is suing a local anti-abortion group after it targeted her with a racist KKK graphic over her pro-choice stance.

Walker, who is the only Black woman serving in the state Legislature, filed the civil suit against West Virginians for Life on Tuesday in Kanawha County Circuit Court, in response to a violent, racist and intimidating email and Facebook post, her attorney said in a news release.

On Feb. 1, the first day of Black History Month, the anti-abortion group emailed Walker and posted on Facebook an image of a Ku Klux Klan member giving a Nazi salute , with a message to Walker, including: Be pro-life as if your race depended on it.

Tuesdays complaint alleged that the image was meant to harass and intimidate West Virginias only Black female lawmaker from supporting a pro-choice bill.

Walker, a Democrat, had recently introduced legislation to roll back West Virginias abortion restrictions.

The lawsuit describes the message and post as a modern-day equivalent of burning a cross in Delegate Walkers front yard.

It is impossible to comprehend the astonishment that I felt when targeted with an image of a hooded Ku Klux Klansman throwing a Nazi salute directed at me, Walker said in the release, adding that the email and post were meant to strike me with fear of violence if I continue my support of a womans right to choose.