This country claims to be democratic but 9 unelected people who’s values and opinions formed decades prior, who can get into this position without strong or even any valid credentials, can decide to negatively impact or even destroy millions of lives and they cannot be held accountable for it. They can’t be impeached or voted out. It’s only the most convoluted combination of election-year voting, voter suppression/lack thereof, and idk fucking cowardice from both sides that got any of them to where they are now. 9 people who are cemented in their beliefs and then use the law and constitution to justify their moral opinions that they insist don’t influence their rulings at all. We can’t vote then out. We just have to hope they retire or die under the presidency of someone who doesn’t want to actively kill everything, and eve then we have to contend with any given republican or spineless Democrat in the Senate.
And even then, we cannot get rid of them. Nine people make decisions for 300+ million, affecting their ability to defend themselves, to live peacefully, to lead healthy and happy and safe lives. Nine people can ruin lives for decades to come.
With the right to abortion officially desecrated, it is more important than ever to organize and assist in mutual aid and community action. Please donate at abortionfunds.org if you have the financial means. If you do not, do not worry, there are plenty of other ways you can help. It is yet another dark day in the U.S. If you don’t live here and you know someone that does, please reach out to them and ask them if they’re alright. Community is all we have now. It’s all we’ve ever had, really. Help each other and love each other.
the supreme court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is not official yet. someone leaked a draft of the opinion that the members of the court have been circulating and revising (the draft was created by justice samuel alito).
which is insane by the way. it’s the first time that a draft of a supreme court decision has ever been leaked in the entire history of this country.
it makes perfect sense to feel grief or panic or dread or sadness or anger or whatever you’re feeling right now. this is fucking terrible and scary. just for the sake of avoiding misinformation, i wanted to clarify this because i think a lot of the headlines have been misleading, and the info gets even more misconstrued when it’s rephrased on social media and stuff
the strategic political moves happening right now are intentional and important. we WANT backlash. we NEED backlash. the anger of the people changes the direction of the country – our fury, our organization, and our blood in the streets are the ONLY things that have ever won us anything. so please freak out. call your reps. stand in front of your reps houses and yell at them so they can’t sleep tonight. help abortion activists in any way they ask. we have a short window to be fucking terrifying enough to scare these motherfuckers to change. don’t waste it.
the best thing that we can do right now to fight for abortion rights is donating to your local abortion fund, especially in states with “trigger laws” or laws that will immediately take harsh measures to shut down abortion rights as soon as roe is overturned. If you don’t know your local abortion fund or states with trigger laws, here’s one in Texas, one in Louisiana, one in Georgia, one in West Virginia and one in Mississippi (all states with such “trigger laws”). There’s so many more beyond the handful i just listed here but times like these are the time to donate and support the incredible work that these organizations do for their communities.
Wouldn’t it be awful, awful, awful if people flooded this website with fake information? Some people are already doing it, snitching on Greg Abbott himself in in some cases, and obviously I TOTALLY condemn them and DEFINITELY don’t think it’s hilarious that some people are outright sending porn as well. Oh and while we’re at it don’t sign this petition and DEFINITELY don’t donate to Planned Parenthood!
May the Lord open. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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There is a feminist awakening happening right now in Poland, and I am very moved. Polish women threatened by the project of scandalous antiabortion law gather together to protest. In our country feminism is finally becoming a common movement, and not only a subject thought at the univeristy. See more: http://www.krakowpost.com/13508/2016/09/black-protest-against-abortion-ban-poland
Next week we are going on strike. We are inspired by what has happened in Iceland 40 years ago, when 90% of women had shown what a disaster would be the country without them. See more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1659773451018196/
I just got back from the protest march! I’m totally thrilled by how many people there was: women, men, old people as well as young. And it was happening in the whole Poland, it’s so uplifting.
There’s going to be a new “pro-life” anti-abortion law in Poland. And it’s horrible. It’s disgusting, it treats women in a horrible way and there have already been protests. Please read this post about it. Please. What follows is my translation of a Facebook post that now has over 23k shares and which very clearly explains the whole thing. Please spend 5 minutes of your time reading it to know what might happen to your Polish followers or friends.
“A conceived child is a human being in a prenatal state, from the moment the female gamete and male gamete connect” – this is what the project of a new legal act states. So far it has been approved by the episcopate, the prime minister [who is a woman by the way] and the leader of the current ruling political party. (…)
It doesn’t affect only women. Everyone single one of us has a sister, a cousin, a mother, a colleague from work, a neighbour, a teacher, an employer or an employee – and all of these women will be affected by this new law. Women get pregnant. And sooner or later, you or a woman you know, might get pregnant and suffer because of this new law. (…)
The Criminal Code will get a new section: “the prenatal murder”, for which one will get from 3 months up to 5 years of prison. And for this crime, everyone could be convicted: the mother, the doctor, and every person who helped – your friend who brought you emergency contraceptives bought in another country or your friend who let you stay in her house while you were getting an abortion in Czech Republic.
If the crime is involuntary, the punishment is up to 3 years of prison. The judge will be able to refrain from jail punishment. By “involuntary” the law means a miscarriage. A miscarriage in a situation where a woman didn’t actively want to lose the baby, but “by her unwise actions she lead to her child’s death”.
